heroineimages:Woo! New commission of my main girl, Captain Vola! Huge thanks to the lovely @9musesan
heroineimages:Woo! New commission of my main girl, Captain Vola! Huge thanks to the lovely @9musesandanoldmind for the terrific portrait. As I based Vola’s native people (Verleki) on the ancient Scythians, yet she’s living among a Greek people (Tollesians), I let Telênia have fun with mixing the aesthetics. So she’s got Greek helmet, cuirass, kopis, and greaves, mixed with Scythian tats, cavalry bow and quiver, shoes, saddle, and pants! Yes, she wears pants, gods dammit; despite that her adopted countrymen consider them an effeminate, barbarian garment, she makes her cavalry squadrons wear them. Vola is convinced that riding barelegged is why most city-states field such mediocre cavalry. Telênia does such wonderful ancient-world aesthetics, tbh. Totally check out her wonderful amazons comic, Amazonomachy! -- source link
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