The top illustration is of course the dog that Erik killed when finding out that Istvan was killed. The left flowers are carnations which mean love, distinction, and motherly affection. The flowers were common in medieval manuscripts. I have them blooming healthily on the left and the right they are withered - aka Erik's mental state after Istvan's death.

Then I have Erik on his horse during the horse race with Godwin - I thought about putting Godwin too but decided not to. Then on the right I have when Istvan gave Erik the message for Sigismund since that's the last scene they had together.

Bottom left I had a house burning and a small Erik standing in front of it and mirroring it to the right we have a fully grown Erik standing in front of the burned remains of a house he's burned no doubt with Istvan. Bottom picture of course is Istvan's grave. The yellow all around is Ivy, a very common plant in manuscript work as well.

I hope that a KCD fan can see that Henry is on the left in his outfit stolen from a guard that he's in when he kills Istvan and on the right is Istvan - his face in shadow of course because he died. The green bit above Istvan is a bloody footprint in grass - it doesn't quite come across but I kept it in cause it was fun.

This is a 6in hoop rather than an 8in so this is smaller than my previous piece. I wanted to do a small quick tribute to Erik but it got away from me. Here is a picture comparison to the previous Henry embroidery is below (no matter what I did I couldn't get the lighting right whoops). You can see how he's a nice foil to Henry - blue background and yellow filigree to Henry's yellow background and blue filigree.

alt version during its sketching phase :3