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This started out as a simple background prop for the comic, but it took on a life of it's own, and went through about four revisions and "Can you draw X...?" requests. Sorry, Merlin!
This is the prospectus for Illiath's 'Cubi school, or in other words, a large, thick brochure that is sent on request to prospective students. These days they seem to be mostly done as PDFs, but since Furrae contains a mixture of high-tech, magical, and a fair few medieval backwaters, they are going to print them out as well.
I might post the picture of Illiath and Daryil separately because it had to be cropped to fit.
As mentioned, this went through a lot of revisions. The original one just had Daryil embarrassing Illiath on the cover, and a crappy version of the school building drawn by me.
sofox pointed out that the Dublin Trinity College prospectus had a montage of various scenes, and that that might be a better approach. So I went back to Merlin, who kindly drew a better version of the background, and also the group of students with Professor Jevex.
The school backdrop still looked deserted and abandoned so I went back to Merlin yet again and asked her to add some students. After that it was just a matter of sticking it all together nicely.
Originally I'd intended to cross-fade the images, but it didn't really work out since I lost important details like the blue guy's clan mark, or the smiling mouse. So I went for hard edges.
There is a slight problem that the book was intended to be landscape, but appears as portrait in the comic. After flailing around trying to get a portrait version of the book to work, I decided it couldn't be done and went with landscape anyway.
This means that when the comic does go out, Syd and Dorcan will be holding it the wrong way around. Which isn't a disaster since they're just carrying them, not actually reading. Still annoying, though.
So. In the top-left panel we have a bunch of random students, plus Professor Jevex (wearing very un-professorly gloves), and a blue jackal named Jason who should hopefully be turning up in a new comic sometime next month.
Below that we have Daryil hugging Illiath, who is Not Pleased, and finally, in the main panel we have a blackbird 'cubi, a happy mouse, and a Daryil succubus who may become important later.
In front of the door are Professor Olaf Taun (Love child of Jakob the wolf and Quill, the fox-giraffe), and also Professor Dymkarra.
Lines and design by
merlin-the-bruce, colour and assembly by me. Dymkarra belongs to 
thunderlizard.
(For those who are wondering, the school got it's name before ISIS was a thing. All the same I've tended to refer to it as "Illiath's" in the comic to avoid confusion)
This is the prospectus for Illiath's 'Cubi school, or in other words, a large, thick brochure that is sent on request to prospective students. These days they seem to be mostly done as PDFs, but since Furrae contains a mixture of high-tech, magical, and a fair few medieval backwaters, they are going to print them out as well.
I might post the picture of Illiath and Daryil separately because it had to be cropped to fit.
As mentioned, this went through a lot of revisions. The original one just had Daryil embarrassing Illiath on the cover, and a crappy version of the school building drawn by me.
sofox pointed out that the Dublin Trinity College prospectus had a montage of various scenes, and that that might be a better approach. So I went back to Merlin, who kindly drew a better version of the background, and also the group of students with Professor Jevex.The school backdrop still looked deserted and abandoned so I went back to Merlin yet again and asked her to add some students. After that it was just a matter of sticking it all together nicely.
Originally I'd intended to cross-fade the images, but it didn't really work out since I lost important details like the blue guy's clan mark, or the smiling mouse. So I went for hard edges.
There is a slight problem that the book was intended to be landscape, but appears as portrait in the comic. After flailing around trying to get a portrait version of the book to work, I decided it couldn't be done and went with landscape anyway.
This means that when the comic does go out, Syd and Dorcan will be holding it the wrong way around. Which isn't a disaster since they're just carrying them, not actually reading. Still annoying, though.
So. In the top-left panel we have a bunch of random students, plus Professor Jevex (wearing very un-professorly gloves), and a blue jackal named Jason who should hopefully be turning up in a new comic sometime next month.
Below that we have Daryil hugging Illiath, who is Not Pleased, and finally, in the main panel we have a blackbird 'cubi, a happy mouse, and a Daryil succubus who may become important later.
In front of the door are Professor Olaf Taun (Love child of Jakob the wolf and Quill, the fox-giraffe), and also Professor Dymkarra.
Lines and design by
merlin-the-bruce, colour and assembly by me. Dymkarra belongs to 
thunderlizard.(For those who are wondering, the school got it's name before ISIS was a thing. All the same I've tended to refer to it as "Illiath's" in the comic to avoid confusion)
Category Cel Shading / Comics
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 1441 x 1029px
File Size 661.5 kB
Quite small native ducks actually - they're smaller than most normal-sized chickens. mean little cusses though http://canberrabirds.org.au/our-bir.....ian-wood-duck/
So it's true that everything tries to kill you in Australia?
We used to have ducks that nested in the pond at the office. Then someone new took over the building and filled it in. The next few years the ducks would come and stand in the car park looking confused and trying to find the pond. It was kind of sad...
We used to have ducks that nested in the pond at the office. Then someone new took over the building and filled it in. The next few years the ducks would come and stand in the car park looking confused and trying to find the pond. It was kind of sad...
Well, it's really aimed at teaching the students how to use their powers and how not to get themselves killed. e.g.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17940847/
These creatures have very long lives, and the course tends to last around a century. If the alien race has a similar life expectancy they might be happy to let them try, although it's hard to say how well they'd benefit without a few more specifics.
(It is also worth mentioning that the DMFA world that my comics are set in is listed under TV Tropes as 'Crapsaccharine world' )
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17940847/
These creatures have very long lives, and the course tends to last around a century. If the alien race has a similar life expectancy they might be happy to let them try, although it's hard to say how well they'd benefit without a few more specifics.
(It is also worth mentioning that the DMFA world that my comics are set in is listed under TV Tropes as 'Crapsaccharine world' )
Okay, so the way things are headed in DMFA right now, it is likely that Fa'Lina will not survive the outcome - Amber has strongly hinted at this. My personal theory is that whatever Destania does to make the dragons go away also affects her as collateral damage since she's abnormally powerful (the whole local omniscience thing).
While SAIA itself is likely to survive it won't be the same. And in any case, if the existential threat against the 'cubi race is lifted it has served its purpose to some degree. They won't need an extradimensional safe haven to protect them from Hizell, so between that and Fa'Lina, SAIA loses two of its unique selling points.
At the same time, as Illiath said in 'The Axeman Cometh', SAIA had to make a lot of compromises to try and get as many clans as they could on board. Illiath is free to try new approaches that Fa'Lina could not, in the knowledge that Krishnov's and the SAIA-under-new-management are there for clans who prefer other options.
While SAIA itself is likely to survive it won't be the same. And in any case, if the existential threat against the 'cubi race is lifted it has served its purpose to some degree. They won't need an extradimensional safe haven to protect them from Hizell, so between that and Fa'Lina, SAIA loses two of its unique selling points.
At the same time, as Illiath said in 'The Axeman Cometh', SAIA had to make a lot of compromises to try and get as many clans as they could on board. Illiath is free to try new approaches that Fa'Lina could not, in the knowledge that Krishnov's and the SAIA-under-new-management are there for clans who prefer other options.
AFAIK it doesn't work that way - they child belongs to the stronger clan at the time of conception, and we don't know which one that would be. Taun might be stronger because she has more members and ascended when magic was far more powerful. Or Cyra might be more powerful because her power is split between exactly two members meaning they get a bigger share each.
It would also have a say in their appearance. Taun members always have the leathery wings - Cyra members are probably feathered because there are no surviving bat-winged Cyras. Cyra clan members do always have green eyes.
It would also have a say in their appearance. Taun members always have the leathery wings - Cyra members are probably feathered because there are no surviving bat-winged Cyras. Cyra clan members do always have green eyes.
Good point. I was trying to think of a way that would make her unique but at the same time make her the oddball among cubi. Not to mention she'll be picked on because of that unique characteristic. Not to mention she'll have trouble figuring out what clan to follow as well as struggle with identity issues.
But at the same time as mentioned by Amber cubi children take after the clan that's the stronger of the two. So that pretty much voids my dual clan idea. Oh fiddlesticks!
Also now that you mentioned it, it's possible that Cyra cubi might actually have feathered wings only along with their green eyes. I mean look at the Taun clan: I've never seen any feathered winged Taun cubi before.
Even without the dual clan characteristic, I could still give her the unique feature of having different paired wings: she has one feathered wing and one leathery batlike wing (the same goes for her headwings too).
But at the same time as mentioned by Amber cubi children take after the clan that's the stronger of the two. So that pretty much voids my dual clan idea. Oh fiddlesticks!
Also now that you mentioned it, it's possible that Cyra cubi might actually have feathered wings only along with their green eyes. I mean look at the Taun clan: I've never seen any feathered winged Taun cubi before.
Even without the dual clan characteristic, I could still give her the unique feature of having different paired wings: she has one feathered wing and one leathery batlike wing (the same goes for her headwings too).
It does actually state that Tauns always have bat-wings, actually: http://missmab.com/Demo/Leader05.php
The safest approach might be to do TWO children, one for each eventuality...
The safest approach might be to do TWO children, one for each eventuality...
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