I made this when I finished gtn for the first time and I liked it at the time and then I didn’t like it for awhile which is why I hadn’t posted it here but now I look at it with fondness because i just adore her so (resisting the urge to do a quick paintover…there is so much i would do differently now) and so in my moment of weakness i bestow to you gideon nav, loml
The House of the Fifth always skinned itself over with such airs of civilization, with so many manners and niceties, but they were spirit-talkers, and speakers to the dead. And the dead were savage.
“Ninth was my name,” said the new arrival. “Ninth was my hearth, and my homeland. Here have I come at your calling. None may return from the River unless he be bidden by blood-rite; tell me, why have I been drawn here?”
[ID: a stock image of two arms shaking hands. the left arm is labelled ‘jason mendoza’ and the right is labelled 'gideon nav’. the point where they are shaking hands is labelled 'faking a vow of silence to hide how much they are not a monk’.]