What is going on here?

I think one of the last survivors of an attack, as I saw on a previous pic of him he seems to have lost his shield and battle axt which lets me think they shattered in the try to slay his enemys. The arrow in the back are signs for a possible ambushl due that barbarians many times dont retreat (retreat would show fear, there was a folk ealier who wounded prisoners at the back and then let them go so their own people would banish him cause running away).

But I dont fully get this little ghost like appearance after which he raises his hand.

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Very nice picture, like it much.

Thanks for your thoughts, you're pretty close to the money there.

The sprite isn't real at all. :)

He's been trough an ambush, got shot by 2 arrows and fell down a cliff, probably left for death and now is trying to get help...?
Look like an arrow got broken on his upper right shoulder probably when he fell down the rocky cliff.
That's what I think is going on here.

bye

Thanks for your comment, it's nice to hear your thoughts. I thought he'd broken the arrow himself, so I put some blood on his other hand trying to indicate that. :)

"Sprite, tell them I'll be on time for supper."

:D

"All is well good spirit, tis but a mere scratch *cough, splutter*

-SR

Tough guys don't have time to bleed. :D

"arch, no more drunken nights at the Frisky Hamster"

The Frisky Hamster has the best bar fights this side of Asgard.

I think he and his men fought against a bigger enemy force and lost, and now he is retreating as the only survivor. He has lost his honor because he was defeated and left the battlefield.

Thanks for the comment, and yeah, he's the only one who could walk away.

But what makes you think he has men serving under him?

That, or the option that I left unsaid, he was serving under someone else. I just thought that he seems more like the leader type

Yeah. :) Just wondered, I too do think he's more of leader, largely because he seems like he's gotten through plenty.

it's his cloak, i say. foot soldiers or non-leader types usually don't wear cloaks like that to a battle [assuming he wasn't ambushed]. people wearing gold and white feathers/fur may actually expect to stay relatively clean... few officers back in the day really looked forward to getting knocked off their horse and having to fight in the mud, yanno?

He died valliantly in a battle, yet he is not fully aware of it, so now this is his soul being guided by his guardian angel to heaven.

kind of like land before time.

This one's my favorite. ^-^

Pretty close. :)

If he's dead then it would stand to reason that the sprite is an angel, but if he's not then the sprite might have more sinister motives. :)

like... hes Is going to die, and the sprite is just making it all happen a little faster, by guiding him to his doom

am i on the money?

Yeah, that's what sprites do, don't they. :) Although in my mind the sprite isn't probably real, just some piece of cloth or a white feather being carried by the wind. The poor guy has sustained serious head trauma after all. :)

that sounds even better :o

Wow... So weird to see this picture after ya gave me permission to use this character to represent one of my own. Granted I haven't really gotten around to DOING that yet, but... I honestly couldn't say what happened to him unless I asked him, y'know? :)

I guess. :)

Thats just pretty awesome work, gives pretty good atmosphere! :P

Thanks. :D

Monday Morning.

You have mondays like this? :D

Wait, you dont?

Of course not, that's definitely a sunday morning right there.

Maybe he was on a mission to find someone or something but he had to fight against one or more persons who wouldn´t let him finish his mission. But after a long and hard fight he won the fight but he got really bad wounded but his mission isn´t done and he wouldn´t allow himself to die until the mission is done and the sprite maybe shows him where he has to go to finish his mission.

Easy and successful missions aren't worth much in entertainment business. :D

Haha, I guess it might look a bit like the former. :D

Deviating from what others are saying. I think he survived an attack, but got away unharmed from running. Though to show that he is not a coward by running, he stabs an cuts himself in multiple places. So/so people back at the village/city-state? think he's just the lone survivor.

And I totally did not notice the floating person. Maybe that be a sign of bravery leaving his personality?

/guess.

Haha, now you're just overthinking it. :D

:{D

Storytelling, huh? Well, you asked for it~

The wolf warrior stumbled in the deep snow. The drying blood on his forehead was pulling his fur in mildly painful directions, but it was nothing compared to how much the would had hurt when he received it in the skirmish. Despite a valiant effort, he was forced to retreat after his compatriots all fell to the band attacking them. Alone, lost in enemy territory, he saw little hope of returning with his honor intact.

He paused a moment, leaning against a great, snow-covered boulder, his ruined ear twitching at the odd sound. It was light, almost playful, like ice shards lightly clinking together. He looked around, ready to draw his axe when he saw the source. Flitting into view was a sprite, shades of cool ice and snow and glittering ever so slightly. He raised a hand toward it and it maneuvered just out of reach, seeming to giggle and beckon him onward. Bereft of any other guide, he followed, the sound of his paws crunching through the drifts muted in the gray winder day.

kind of makes me think of what might come next after the trailing scene of The Grey