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Ilea

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This is a small little picture of a lesser known character of mine, Ilea the lynx.

Ilea comes from a small village with her kind; a group of lynxes who are special because they have actually developed wings.

The village was small and out of the way so they had no real contact with other areas except for a paladin order that had built their order in a nearby citadel. The village had an alliance with the paladins where they watched over the village and helped protect it where and when they could while the village helped provide for them.
The village lived in peace for a good many years until the paladins started to behave strangely and before long they were no longer the caring and protective knights they once were; they had become cruel, demanding and vicious creatures.

And it was all because of one man: Zeleme.

Finally, without warning, the corrupted paladins attacked the village, pillaging it and killing those who tried to stand up against them; the villagers could defend themselves, but were not equipped to handle an entire order of knights.
Ilea tried to escape but in the end she was captured and imprisoned. It was there that she learned what Zeleme really was and her life would never be the same.

The demon lord took an interest in the creature and so he enslaved her, putting a silver collar on her and took her back to his realm of Dys.
Ilea would not give in, she would try and find ways to escape when she could, but each attempt was met with failure and so she was punished.
Zeleme grew tired of her disobedience and decided to punish her in what he thought was the worst way possible: he had her wings torn off.

Despite this devastating loss, she continued on trying to escape. Her last attempt actually seemed like it would succeed, but she was ultimately betrayed by the ones she was trying to escape with and she was captured yet again.
This time Zeleme decided to punish her even worse; if she was to keep running he would simple make her stop, and so for what seemed like months Ilea had to undergo some of the worst torture imaginable: her legs were constantly beaten and broken, and after so long her legs could no longer support her to even stand or walk.
To make it even worse, Zeleme had placed a curse on her so that if anyone tried to heal her through any magical means, she would experience unbearable pain.
For her to be able to move at all now, she needs to wear braces on her legs to provide he extra support, but even then her movement is severely limited.

After all that Ilea could no longer try and escape and she had to accept the knowledge that she was trapped here, but instead of letting herself succumb to the grief, she instead decided to work with the healers down in the chambers; while they were all slaves still, healers were needed and quite valuable. She committed herself to the art so she could help where she can, especially so no one would go through what she had.

Eventually though, she would manage to escape with many of the other slaves and she would end up escaping to a small little paradise known as the City of the Tree.

I had fun with this one, though it took me a while to get her muzzle to look right. I kept the image simple so I didn't add in as much detail a I probably should have, but still I'm happy with the final result.


Photoshop 7.

Ilea and artwork are mine.
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BondoFox's avatar
I thought the Ilea unit no longer functioned.