Please view full size for Atmospherics; they just don't show in a small image. Liz (zil2008) and I had been discussing if it was at all possible to turn Petra's new ultra cute elf girl, Arawen, to the darkside. Before I knew what had hit me Liz had posted this picture "Arawen 2" of Arawen as a dark sorceress and challenged me to make her into a dark warrior. Never one to turn down a gauntlet tossed I accepted her challenge and here is my response - "The Challenge." It is my effort to turn the cute little Arawen into a dark warrior. Is she dark enough for you Liz? Petra, I trust you do not mind a couple of us having some fun with your baby and perhaps pushing her limits a bit. Thank you Liz for issuing the challenge, for a challenge it was indeed. And Petra, thank you for gifting Arawen to both Liz and myself to play with. This one took an aweful lot of material room work and many hours of postwork to get the mood and affects I wanted. It was a lot of fun. I hope you like it. Please follow the link above to see the image by Liz that started this off! --------------------------------------------- Arawen had grown tired. Not physically mind you, but weary in the sense of being constantly challenged by miscreants. She was THE Dark Queen and had been so for eons. No one had ever dared deny her total control of the darklands. Until now. At first the Knights of Darkness had been but a minor irritant, cutting a bit into her trade of souls, but overall doing no real damage to her. In fact she had been rather charmed and amused by their rituals of sacrificial headhunting. As long as they stayed away from her, and gave her due respect, who really cared if a few peasants got bushwacked now and then? But then word got back to her that her three best dark demons that she had sent to the Knight's court as emissaries had not simply been lost in the journey as they had told her. Rather they had been executed by the Knights and their now varnished skulls were being displayed as prized trophies in the Knight's sacred temple. That was the final straw - no one dared harm Arawen's beloved dark demon viziers, let alone kill them! So Arawan summoned her own dark army and with her mighty red charger, Balzar, had struck directly into the heartland of the Knights domain. At the height of her attack the weather had turned to pure hell. A mighty windstorm blew in and with it a steady downpour. Was it some dark spell cast by the Knights? Maybe. But misery mattered not to Arawen, she was used to it, in fact she thrived on it; it would not deter her. Arawen was determined to lay waste to these miserable upstart skely bastards once and for all! No one would forget this day; no one would challenge the Dark Queen again! ------------------------------- My Lightworker version of Arawen

"Bliss"