#milta

It’s the start of the OcKissWeek! I’m going to post a drawing every day of my mushy, romantic babies, you have been warned.

Today I’m introducing Miltiades, or Milta (the tall woman in red sleevless) and Notus.

Miltiades is the daughter of a traveling merchant tribe. Sometimes they trade goods from the ports in the east, sometimes they act as hired guards.

Milta is a strong, tall woman - long dark braid, dark skin of the eastern shores. She wields a spear and works mostly as a bodyguard for the various Capital fat and rich merchants.

One day she finds the Sky People’s edge of the wood - a steep canyon, where the forest suddenly ends and a sharp drop to the river below begins. She only heard stories about them, but never witnessed their huge span of wings, their graceful ascent into the skies.

There, while she marvels at the flight of the groundless people - she meets Notus.

Cruciform (Cross) Tomb at Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Period/Culture : Zapotec. Photograph Date: c. 1920s.