Long long ago, in the days of dialup and Blockbuster, there was a teenager that was obsessed with Escaflowne, The Legend of Dragoon, Final Fantasy, and dragons. She developed a love of writing, even though she was quite awful at it. That, of course, didn’t deter her from spending much of her free time writing and drawing. The characters and story have changed much over the years. But the four friends that started it all, still remain. Ryiena, the young woman that finds herself in a strange land gripped by war and plagued with death. Landiss, the wandering stoic soldier seeking his lost sister and unwittingly thrown into the crosshairs of a manhunt for the last of the Blood. Fel, the charismatic and devious pirate that does his best to aggravate Lan whatever chance he gets. And Yen, the daughter of a disgraced dragon king and informant for his rebellion, who spends far too much time reprimanding her dear fiancée and not enough scouting enemy camps. I’ve drawn these characters for over twenty years. Wrote about them. And finally rendered a scene with all of them. I have some other renders of the characters from when I first started using Daz. I didn’t have a lot of assets then. Or experience with the software. They’ve obviously changed, much closer to the image I’ve always had of them. It’s hard to believe I started this story about 22 years ago. I’ve come up with so many others since, and my attention is always pulled away from the one story I always wanted to write. Someday I’ll finish writing the story that was the first to have a place in my heart.