a beautifully atmospheric realised commission idea by the great and very nice artist  Tommyzz123

My Friesian stallion character roams a gorge covered in ice at night - equipped only with a torch and wrapped in leather waistcoat, shirt, trousers and tunic
I don't deny light Skyrim vibes while exploring large ice-caverns ^^

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"Wild and powerful, in summer the raging stream runs through this deep gorge, cut by water over eons into the solid rock.
In winter, when the water already freezes into ice high up in the mountain's glaciers, the torrent's course ebbs as expected... but even the elderly have never seen the water level so low.

Concern in the villages grew a few days ago when a group of young men were sent to follow the course of the stream through the gorge to see if rocks and dead trees might have piled up to form a natural dam that could have altered the course of the torrent... but they did not return....
A few residents claim to have heard inhuman sounds in the night from the depths of the gorge .... roars and shrieks that reminded them of the legends of ice dragons that supposedly existed here thousands of years ago.

I don't believe in the existence of dragons... but for hours I have been struggling through the icy ravine, and under the glint of ice in the moonlight I begin to doubt whether the deep scratches and furrows in the rock and ice were really formed by water and debris... or by the claws of a beast.

My two followers preferred to wait by a campfire for the sunrise.... Cowards... if something happened to the scouting party, every minute might count in this cold...

Meanwhile, the icy wind blows mercilessly over the gorge... even makes me look up here and there... Was that a dark shadow in the firmament or are my senses just playing tricks on me down here?
Be that as it may... I must move on!"
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