#rote malta

[silverdragon12]

Some liveship traders ladies!! Because I love them.

[sideralee]

Malta Vestrit in the Elderlings city 🤍

[mellowthorn]

Malta & Tintaglia for @roostercrowned's Bingtown Homeward Bound -zine

[brbarou]

saviours of dragons

[the-one-someone]

I present to you the Vestrit family :) I don't think I will ever finish this. It's like an old family painting or something.

[izzi-illustrates]

My latest RotE obsession: I finally re-read the Liveship Traders after 10+ years.

Design choices and mild series spoilers below the cut!

I had fun making this one! Particularly with playing with family resemblances that are mentioned in the book, like Wintrow looking a lot like Althea. I chose to make them both look like Ronica, but to also give Keffria Ronica's black eyes - and Wintrow Keffria's worried brows. I also wanted Althea to look a lot like her father - she's the only one with his nose and almost exact colouring.

Selden and Reyn were harder to draw - both have basically no description other than Reyn's eyes glowing through his veil, and Selden starting to scale after meeting Tintaglia, so I made Selden look most like his father in colouring, but more like his mother in the eyes and nose. Reyn I just decided to have fun with and ignored Grag describing him as "able to walk among Bingtowners unremarked" and instead went nuts with the sort of scaling he probably has in the Rainwild quartet later on.

Brashen Trell accidentally came out looking an awful lot like a friend of mine, but I like it.

Malta, my beloathed, my beloved, was one of the hardest to draw; I wanted her to look young, but also overly made up and dressed more maturely than her years. I also wanted to give her some of her father's colouring - since he favours her most of his children - but also her mother's nose and those Vestrit brows, since she's so much Ronica's granddaughter/heir by the end of the series.

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

i feel so bad for everyone who read the liveship traders and just immediately filed malta away as an annoying girl. she's literally so fun to read about if you invest in her from her introduction. i'm not saying she's not annoying but it's part of what makes her so compelling.

[starling-illu]

my beloved Vestrit women

[wretchedbroth]

Revisiting some liveship traders designs

[thee-rat-king]

the thing about little malta haven in ship of magic is that she’s the sort of the worst. but she’s also TWELVE and her PARENTS SUCK so we can’t hold it against her.

[wobubling]

Rote needs more nosy bitches too many of these characters mind their own business. At least half of Fitz’s job is to know shit and listen in on conversations and yet he’s still terminally incurious about the people around him

[heyitsrink]

Queen of the Elderlings

[evidently-endless]

every time i think about ‘give me a face you could love’

[scaery-faery]

The bitchiest 13 year old you've ever met

May add some waves to her outfit because boats and I'm not 100% on her hair but she's an icon

[brbarou]

too late for her. wide wings hang above her

[prophet-and-catalyst]

just got to the chapter in magic ship where Malta decides to sneak out to the harvest ball and oh my god did it nail the feeling of being a 13 year old girl