#raisha

And then you reincarnate in one of your enemies jail cells because your bonded is somehow a criminal (AT 12.) that got caught and was a bad enough person to land in the worst prison out there.

SLAPS THIS DOWN ALMOST 2 WEEKS OF WORK <3 DONE this is my first time doing tweening with a fully rendered animation! so happy with how it came out JKSJHJF

Takoda and Dawson have supporting roles in the third arc, which is cool. But what about the others? Why did they vanish?

What happened to Tasha, who was a major player in the second arc -- to the point of having her own POV chapters? Not only was she the summoner of Ninani, she was the first Greencloak out of Stetriol. So many signs that positive change was coming to Erdas, all wrapped up in one person. Rollan and Abeke loved her dearly, I know. But after all they shared, she just drops off the face of the planet and is never heard from again? Make it make sense.

What about Anda, whose spirit animal is the greatest of the Great Beasts to the Greencloaks? I think worse than him not showing up in the series again is the fact he was present in The Burning Tide, after a two-book absence, and didn't interact with Abeke and Rollan in any way. Rollan notices he's there, remarks on it for two seconds, and then forgets about it. What a horrific bit of lost potential. Imagine if he was resentful towards them for taking him from his home, letting Tellun be infected and practically abandoning him when he needed them most. Imagine if they tried to reconnect with him, but he shunned them. Imagine if Abeke and Rollan realized where they went wrong and apologized to him, comforted him, sat and talked with him. Imagine if he and Abeke saw their pain reflected in each other's eyes. He was introduced to Tasha and Kirat, and Rollan trained him along with the others, and when the battle finally came to them, Rollan shielded him with his own body to save his life. And throughout all of this, Anda came to forgive them. They had tried their best. They didn't want to leave. They cared about him, and proved it was for more than Tellun. God. If only.

Niri? Her powers are incredible. She could have lent invaluable help to our protagonists once more, if the authors remembered she existed. Can you imagine if she and Mulop linked minds with Conor and Briggan, two other powerful visionaries? That would change the world, I bet.

And how about Raisha, who remains one of the most interesting and tragic characters to me? She was obviously in bad shape when we last saw her. Did she live or die? Did Gerathon return to her? Where are they now? We'll never know.

I must even protest the exclusion of Kirat, the bane of my existence. He and Cabaro are a nightmare, but with how much the authors hyped him up for being Tarik's kin, it's baffling that he didn't make another appearance. He's the nephew of our protagonists' old mentor, is he not? He couldn't have joined the Four on one adventure?

And all the others -- they all have interesting stories. So many of them have potential that was never fully realized. It's such a shame they were forgotten.

So my friend @greyfen was reblogging old art which is both sweet AND makes me wanna throw my eyes into the sea, but it he made me realize I never uploaded this updated version of the Raisha portrait I did 2 years ago on tumblr for some reason???

Some various twitter drawings/wips. Wips everywhere. I’ll finish an art one of these days.