Hello again kiddos!

so... since theoretically 2022 has already started over here, i decided to just... do my best to get the last chapters of jade out there, before setting up malachite >w<"

either way, you maybe remember, that I decided to draw deluech again in november!

well... as i said in that chapter, i desperately wanted to get around to give some other members of the rebellion some new illustrations!

after i then had deluech and the twins done, i desperately wanted to go back to my girl dawen. funnily enough, dawen was the first character i had designed... her character has been chilling as a concept in one of my sketchbooks, before i even first got the idea for dessie, crook, stutts... and defiance in general, to be honest.

so yeah.... dawen is very close to my heart >w<

she used to be some sort of goddess of the night sky in the universe of Anderra/Éscilia, but after slapping her into the rebellion, because her concept would be so much cooler there, this is what i came up with:

dawen was born in the northern continent oskari, as a reincarnation of ynali, the ancient god of reality in itself. basically since infancy, she has been unwillingly warping reality around her, making things vanish, creating portals, teleporting to entirely different planes of existence, creating a wormhole to the void (thus crashing the connection that lead from the spirit to the mortal realm), influencing time, making solids suddenly liquid, turning off gravity a few times... you get the deal.

her parents rather quickly figured that they were not equipped to raise their child.... and whilst they did try their very best, they had to acknowledge (after dawen accidentally killed the neighbours pet dragon) that she needed to learn how to control those powers. she then was admitted to the grand academy of arcane sciences, in the runewhisper clan of the southern continent Ikôr'esk.

and whilst she did indeed learn quite a lot about herself, her abilities and the history of them, she hated every waking second of being at the academy.
the language was different, the culture and gastronomy was different, the clothing was different.

she also became more and more anxious, as the professor she was working with mistook her genetically amplified magical ability, as traces of the god of space, ilshan, as space and reality warping seem rather similar, from pure observation.
that professor was... to put if quite frank... a strict asshole. he didn't teach any lessons at the academy, since he was known for making several students drop out of their degree with severe mental issues. an also not-so-fun fact is, that that very man just so happens to be the father of tegilborchanar (just for the tegil-fandom to know uwu).

either way, he wasn't the nicest guy around. he was indeed a good teacher and helped dawen learn quite a bit, but he also decided to use his "private source" of ancient arcane magic to further his own research topic, which was the evolution of magic... so next to dreadful study sessions, she also had to endure a number of illegally executed experiments.

this is also where she got her tattoos from, and also how she became blind. the tattoos were a test, to see if ink charged with ancient magic behaved the same as regular magical tattoos... which went horribly wrong, when the ink instead started to penetrate far further into the skin than it should, dyeing whole parts of her body, disrupting some joints and even damaging vital organs of hers, including the brain.
she luckily survived, since her first stroke happened in the cafeteria... a place currently filled with the elite of magical sciences, including magical biology, psychology, biochemistry, technology and medicine.
she didn't see her teacher ever since she recovered from the mechanical transplants.

for a few more years she stayed at the academy, slowly recovering from those traumatic experiences, before some rather intense night terrors lead to her abilities causing larger scale destruction in the area.

out of shame and fear of the consequences, she then left the academy behind, dead set on returning to the north again, before meeting deluech.
as the first person who seemed somewhat similar to her, she became curious. and when deluech offered to get her a job, a ticket back to the north, and most importantly: the power to perform revenge, dawen didn't even consider the idea of denying.

and this is when she became a herald of the rebellion. through esgaron and osbel she then learnt how to utilize her godly genetics in warfare, also finding out that she actually was the rebirth of ynali, quickly rising up to become one of the most powerful assets the rebellion had in their belt.

so! that's all for her main story before defiance >w<

dawen is a character i love a lot... her design is cool, she has the sweetest personality out there and she's the type of person to snap your neck in two without batting an eye, whilst softly giggling about a joke someone just made.

now, when i decided to go and draw her, i went back into the folders of 2019 to dig out this artifact:

yeah... i looked at her design at that point, and decided to take the essence of it, and then make her look as badass as she actually is.

Now, in the novel dessie describes her as a skinny, athletic woman, with a rather masculine build and a face that reminded her of the dragons she's seen in the city with an arrogant, confident, yet somewhat friendly look in her eyes.

I tried my very best to give her that broader build, with wide shoulders and a slim hip, keeping her chest small as well, and making her appear more down-to-earth and rough than deluech.

in retrospect i set her eyes and eyebrows wayy to high on her face..... but other than that i am really happy with the more current design she now has ^-^

definitely expect more to come from her, on that note, because holy-
for a side-character, she sure is one of my favourites, by far.

so yeah! that's all i got for that then...

hope you guys like the drawing as much as i do! those tattoos are always so fun to draw, hehe...

um.... i guess that's goodbye for now then, eh?
remember to take good care of yourselves, to feel extremely cuddled and patted, and to tell a person who is important to you, that they're valuable ^-^