Way back in college and before I
started miniature wargaming, I joined a small group of like-minded
fellows and went adventuring in the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons,
first in Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms and then Athas, the world of the
Dark Sun.
I bought the Dark Sun set and really
liked the campaign setting, even setting up as a dungeon master a few
times with my illustrations and game aids.
The world is more primitive and more
brutal than ordinary run of the mill medieval fantasy worlds, thus
requiring a hardier, more rugged form of life. Depicted is an
Athasian Elf. Known as ferocious desert warriors, the Athasian elf is
fiercely clannish and territorial. The elf depicted above bears the
hair beads and the bone hilt crystal longsword of a war leader.
Pencil sketch colored in Painter Classic.