Inspired by TSR's campaign setting of
Athas, the world of the Dark Sun. 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 a Mul
gladiator, a crossbreed of a dwarf and a human. Bred for gladiator
combat, the mul inherited the dwarven characteristics of incredible
strength, stamina and grim ferocity as well as the taller and more
supple physique of humans. Muls are normally hairless and sterile.
The Mul depicted is wearing chitinous armor and bears ownership
tatoos on his face. Scanned pencil sketch.
Filipino National Artist for Literature Edith Tiempo. Ballpen and markers. Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.