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The Serpent's Court

[...] That night we were taken to a large dining room to dine with the rest of the Serpent Society Council. If I thought about it it was a bit surrealist: 'I'm going to dine with the Serpent Society's Council in order to collaborate with them'. As of lately I'm going into odd things...

The Council was composed of five members. The one with higher rank was a man of fifty-something years, Lord Haleth, and was one of the Regent Houses noblemen. He was the spokesman generally talking. Lord Menes represented the only eight Tattooed People who remained alive, counting Dreiden and himself. Lord Tyber, a stiffed man who still wasn't forty years old, represented the noblemen among the Regent Houses in Narsith. Lord Davos, the unpleasant man, was the one in charge of the spies network and mercenaries. And the last one, Lord Dreiden, representing the Knights of the Serpent.

Ok, wait a bit, situation was becoming more and more funny: 'I'm going to dine with the Serpent Society's Council in order to collaborate with them and one of their members is my husband Dreiden. Ok, Lord Dreiden. Now it was perfectly accurate and surrealist. He did had told me he had an important position because he was well known, but I didn't imagine this... [...]

Extract from Shaliara's Journal


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La Corte de las Serpientes

[...] Cuando cayó la noche nos llevaron a una sala para cenar con el resto de miembros del Consejo de la Sociedad Serpiente. Si lo pienso me resultaba un tanto surrealista: voy a cenar con el consejo de la Sociedad Serpiente, para colaborar. Últimamente me meto en unas cosas…

El Consejo se componía de cinco miembros. El de más rango de todos era un hombre de unos cincuenta y tantos años, Lord Haleth, un noble de las Casas Regentes, caballero de la Serpiente. Era el portavoz en general. Lord Menes, representaba a los pocos Tatuados que quedaban, ocho contando a Dreiden, al llevar él mismo la Serpiente. Lord Tyber, un hombre estirado que no llegaba a los cuarenta años, representaba a los nobles de las Casas Regentes en Narsith. Lord Davos, el hombre desagradable, era el que se encargaba de la red de espías y mercenarios. Y por último Lord Dreiden, representando a de los Caballeros de la Serpiente.

Ah, espera, que la situación era incluso más surrealista: estoy cenando con el consejo de la Sociedad Serpiente para colaborar y uno de sus miembros es mi marido Dreiden. Bueno, Lord Dreiden. Ahora sí era del todo correcto y surrealista. Me había comentado que tenía un cargo importante, puesto que era conocido, pero no me había imaginado esto…[...]

Extracto del Diario de Shaliara


Don't know why, but the tittle fits better in Spanish

Dreiden and Shaliara, my character at Cyrene's RPG campaign (as if you didn't know yet... ). If eight years ago (real time) somebody would have told Shaliara that she will be married to Dreiden and that he would be at the council of the Serpent Society she would have laughed... a lot, really. Lol, and that...

I was asked by my boyfriend about drawing some new outfit that looked ok with the new place I was going to be, that is, Narsith, a kind of decadent city-state, more like Ancient Rome, with slaves and the such. And where the Serpent Society headquarters were (with yuan-ti misteriously gone, one of the things to investigate).

I have been reading a lot of Conan comics lately ( ), so I got influenced *a bit* by the Conan-king thing, so I started drawing this who would act as my new portrait while designing a better outfit. Was fun to do When I showed it to my boyfriend he told me I really got the mood he pretended

I'm not that good into design so I took the idea of her dress of Alphonse Mucha's girls and portraits, as I love the way he draws. If you don't know who he is... go and google it now! What are you waiting for?

If you see the sketch you can see I corrected her right eye, it was a bit too far of her nose happens me a lot that mistake, I'm trying to get it right in the pencil sketch now

For once I did it everything on Opencanvas, like always... and then turned to Photoshop and gave lots of touches, just to test. Used textures, brushes and effects on layers. A lot, just to try them. Even toned again with new brushes to give shadows a kind of texture-like.

Got fire more or less better than the last time for it Not very satisfied with light though But I specially like how her dress and details of his armor turned out

Below you can see the list of credits for textures and brushes I used. Reference for bodies: me in front of a mirror (I am getting used to it of lately... )

Credits for pattern pencils (cushions, dress, standard and carpet) goes to: *redheadstock
Credits for flames pencils goes to: `spiritsighs
Credits for leather textures goes to: [link]
Credits for curtains textures goes to: ~RockStock
Credits for golden chair and jewelry textures goes to: ~mrhobo87

Sketch can be found on this [link]

And yeah, rant rant rant...