This picture was “viewer’s choice”. On DeviantArt I held a poll of some of anthro species that arean’t drawn nearly enough in my mind and “hyena” had the most votes at the time that I closed the poll. Can’t say that I’m surprised in the least bit as hyenas were the only canine species on the list and I know how much you people love your canines. LOL. Some of the other species that didn’t make it will be saved for later calender ideas.
For the next two or three months, I’m going to try to avoid using mammals for the calender (**the artist thinks that she hears a resounding “awwwww…” among her viewers**). Mammals are very overpopulated in the furry world and you know the old saying “variety is the spice of life”.
I may go back on this idea if there is a certain species that I’m feeling particularly inspired by a certain species at the time I make the calender (I‘ve been wanting to draw more bats so that‘s a definite maybe).
As for this calender…
The last two calenders that I have done have featured “battlemage” characters (what a battlemage is will be explained below). They are a fun class to draw so I decided to continue the trend. Part of me would like to continue this trend until I have used each of the nine elements as the theme but I probably won’t because by the time I’ve done all nine elements I’ll probably be tired of drawing battlemages… and my viewers will probably be tired of looking at them.
The gal in this calender is a random ’yena girl. She doesn’t have a name or backstory. She was just a one-time character for the calender. All I can say is that she practices the nature school of magik… which is not the same as earth magik. The green color of the spell in her hand and the tattoos on her arm give that away.
BattleMages:
There are nine elements in Theran culture; fire, wind, water, earth, energy, nature, soul, life, and death.
Each element has a school of magik associated with it and a different deity that represents it. Theran spell casters tend to be very religious as their magical energy is drawn from both their god and from the life stream. There are several varieties of spell casters including the mighty battlemage.
As their name suggests, battlemages are paladins who are experts of both physical and ethereal combat. They are champions for their god and live to smite evil wherever it is found. Battlemages practice one and only one of the seven schools of magik besides life and death (Only Theran priests practice life magik while only verin priests practice death magik. I’ll explain why this is when I finally get off my butt and do my “Theran Gods” series of character sheets.)
They master one weapon of their choice. More often then not, it is a bladed weapon. Most (but not all) battlemages have a series of intricate designs tattooed on one, or both, of their arms. These tattoos span from the hand to the elbow and are in the colors and symbols of the element chosen by the individual battlemage.
Yeah. There’s a lot of detail in the Theran spell casting system. I’ll hopefully get around to doing the Theran gods series soon and all should be explained then. But meh, I have too many things to work on already so I don’t know when I’ll get around to it.
As usual, this calender series is meant specifically for you, my fans. Therefore I have left the big watermarks off for the enjoyment of the viewer. If this is abused then I will start putting watermarks on my calenders. You have my permission to download my calenders to use as wallpaper or print them to hang in your room/locker/wherever. Just do not reupload/peopst it to anyplace online, copy/alter/trace this image, or claim it as your own.
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