#wandercrest

Finally, my submission for @sparkbirdmusic's After The Ball art contest! This is Florence, a peafowl avian who was forced into a life of being entertainment for the vampyre court of Erret, something pretty to be chained up and paraded around.

But one day, in an act of defiance during a formal gathering, they smashed a wine bottle and cut off their tail feathers in front of the king.

Nobody knows if they were killed or if they managed to escape, but tales of Florence's acts reached the avian capital of Roostridge, where there has now been a statue of them erected in the outer city as hope of breaking free from forced subjugation under Telo, the current ruler of the kingdom.

Textless version + close-ups below