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Glory is the first big collaboration between  foxenawolf and myself. She does the linework, and I make it a comic. Basically I draw the panels and do the toning and shading and tweak and move and wiggle people around and just comic it up. I also write the script.

And you get a peek of Samuel in his carriage twisting shadow and spinning his web of blood magic. And yes, 'Fenn' DOES in fact mean HECTOR Fenn. And if you follow the Aukate webcomic you might be interested in being reminded that Glory is an Aukate AU. Rusty here is the son of Darius Steele. And yes, Silver and his wife 'Aesha' are here too, as well as many other familiar Aukate faces. Samuel and Verse though do not have Aukate counterparts. Vex just really wanted to have a vampire character and I'd had that idea for a bard stuck in my head. It sounds crazy but we made it stick. We even have a pretty awesome map!

I feel you need to find ways to 'introduce' the characters without them instantly giving you a dossier on the first page, so I'll eventually come up with excuses for someone to say someone else's name such as Sam mentioning Verse's name on the previous page, and Samuel getting a proper introduction as to who exactly he is on this one from Captain Stating-The-Obvious (his parents were expecting a girl.) Unfortunately this news just translates to the mooks as a more valuable target.

For the people interested in my worldbuilding, the wolves are dark and shadowed because of the wards they wear and because they are 'Lily Wolves', which are werewolves produced through a secret ritual by the enforcement branch of the government, The Order of the Lily. Somehow they're able to grant animal forms and lycanthrope abilities to people who should not be able to be transformed as such. As you grow in rank so does the wolf form which is why some wolves are bipedal and some are quadrupedal. Eventually you will be able to transform from fully human to fully something very much NOT human if you gain enough power within The Order. It also gives you, the reader, a quick way of telling how important someone is in the order by how human their wolf form is. Of course it could also be a really powerful one capable of transforming and pretending to be a low level mook. It's why Lily Wolves usually attack in big groups like this because in smaller ones the ones in charge are pointed out and picked off pretty quick. And even in large groups the rule is pretty consistent: When you have to choose, shoot the one on two legs.

I was still finding my groove with the toning in Clipstudio here. In hindsight the bottom panel looks muddy to me but not so bad I don't mind signing off on it. The hard part is making myself stick to the gray palate when I want to attack those shadows with color to REALLY give them depth...

And if you made it this far, know that the derpy fellow in the lower bottom right of the page is named 'Pug' and his mother told him he's very handsome so sticks and stones will break his bones but words will never hurt him and I wonder if bullets count as stones...