From the preface of "The Jewels of Aptor": Fate brought them together to serve the will of the Goddess Argo incarnate: SNAKE: (far right) A little four-armed thief, mute and telepathic, who understands the secret of the mystic jewels they seek. URSON: (middle) Huge, bear-like, cursed, a sailor accused of murder and worse. Chosen for a terrible purpose. GEO: (left) Poet, scholar and decipherer of ancient mysteries, whose part in the quest alters him forever. Shipmates on a voyage through fog-bound seas, through treacherous jungles, abandoned cities and decaying temples filled with half-human creatures, they seek the prize in an age-old war between a primal god and goddess, the legacy of an earlier age before the Great Fire. Samuel R. Delany's first novel. First render in a series of renders based the novel "The Jewels of Aptor" (1962). Characters created using Michael 4 w/morphs. Character veins; Vascualrity for M4 from Renderosity. Palm trees and tropical plant by 1032 TRIS, available as a free download from ShareCG.com. Row boat and oars also from ShareCG.com. Geo hair; Digital Curls from Neftis. Snake hair; Mon Chevalier Hair also from Neftis. Urson hair and beard modeled in Hexagon 2.5. Clothing, props, foreground grass, structures and set modeled in Hexagon 2.5, rendered in DAZ Studio 4.5.