An alpha of house Hoary and companion sentinel, who is dressed much more casually. Usually they match but I didn’t have the energy left to add his saddle bags, armor, the alpha’s weapon, and ornamentation.

No one:

I forgot to even post this on my last blog but there IS a house in the hive called Hoary, and while there’s no documentation, Gordon is obviously from that house. I thought it was insane that this was in my notes before I even met @chaosprinceundivided

I should really do a post about how Retchen arousal/mating behaviors work because there is STILL very little sexual dimorphism, and social constructs around it gets very interesting with undesirable rats (mutts, infertile, runts) vs desirable rats (known bloodlines, high fertility, successful in career) and is more dominance, size, and hierarchy based than male vs female. Males and females are the same size aside sentinels.

Also fun fact. Unicorn horns are used to make anxiety medication for Retchen. Their digestive system kills the magic, they’re unaffected. As well as the fact Retchen process toxins so efficiently, any medication usable has to be extremely concentrated and potent, like, kill almost any other animal once licked. Because anxiety medication is typically used for sentinel stallions.

Extra bit before bed: