Quel Plays Elfcraft

Seven illustrations I’ve done for the story of how Adrianal and Felo’thore’s relationship first developed. These have become really fantastic illustration exercises and I look forward to filling in the gaps with more in future installments and including these in an art book project later this year.

A collaboration with @ocarina-of-what

Of Faith & Will: 1

Of Faith & Will: 2

Of Faith & Will: 3

Of Faith & Will: 4

Of Faith & Will: 5

Of Faith & Will: 6

Felore, my silver fox of an elezen, made a great subject to practice some value composition in painting today.

PSD up on patreon.

Having status certainly helps, but Pracis relies on intelligence more than power or status. You can have all the fancy jewelry in the world, but if you have no brains or originality then you are useless to the Empire. There is a school for alchemy that turns out general alchemists, scientists, engineers, etc every day. 

To become one of the Empress or Emperor’s Alchemists though one must attend a special training program for the Emperor and Empress Alchemists of Pracis. It’s a group where everyone knows everyone and what you make is measured every day by your colleagues. You don’t even have to be Pracian to join it! You just have to have the knowledge, the drive, and the pure moxy to stand up to some of the world’s best and brightest. 

Adrian and Valerie always knew they would be alchemists one day. Their mother Olleria herself is an alchemist and a close friend to the Empress herself. They were raised as playmates to the Heir-in-Right to Pracis and therefore were given access to some of the best tutors of the land. Valerie’s skills were always intense and single focused, bent purely on big-brain ideas and her own fascinations. Adrian, always being Valerie’s shadow, at first tried to follow her path. But soon enough he realized his fascinations weren’t focused upon his own ideas, but the ideas of the world. He wanted to help people and become a doctor and surgeon with mind to improve surgery so it was no longer a death sentence. How they got to be where they are and the things they did to get there, is to be discovered in the story.