#arae cruelshade

[chimaeray]

Don’t weep for the lost, for Death sits among you, wielding Life in his hand

Okay I’ve been working on this for weeks, and it’s finally done!! It’s my first digital painting and I just had to do something, huge obviously.

This is my necromancer, Tymreos. While he isn’t the commander in my canon, he spends a lot of time working closely with the various commanders and Trahearne. He and his twin fought against and killed Mordremoth, as their dream foresaw. While Tam lien delivered the final blow in the dream of dreams, Tymreos was the only one that managed to kill his own lover to defeat the dragon for good. After the fall of Mordremoth, Tymreos spirals and starts to believe he’s cursed to kill his friends and loved ones. This is only reinforced when he later has to kill his own sapling-hood friend, Khasiana, and a Charr that she raised to become her strongest minion. While he’s long been on the road to recovery by the time he finishes mending Caladbolg, the guilt of all the friends he’s had to kill still weights heavily on him. He wonders if Mordremoth is truly dead, and if the things he has done were really worth it.