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[oc-training] Wrath

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My belated 8th task for OC-training - showing our characters pissed right the hell off. Trying to redraw this theme didn't work, so I decided to more-or-less finish (as much as I can without taking it into Photoshop) a sketch I did in July. 

Othallon is a powerful wizard. :P His first school of magic taught him elemental mastery, and he has an affinity for fire. He has a habit of throwing fireballs at annoying people. He also has a jerkass sort of temper. He gets annoyed really, really easily.

The thing is, though, Othallon is in general actually not dangerous. He doesn't use his magic as a weapon (fire is better more for scaring people away than hurting them - his fireballs don't have any fuel, so they look impressive but dissipate quickly and it would be a very unlucky person who was actually hurt by one). It doesn't really occur to him to use any of his brands of magic as a weapon. He could be terrifying if he did - he could destroy people's minds, freeze the water in their body's cells, levitate them off a cliff, and many more things in those veins, never mind the damage he could wreak with area spells - but to him magic isn't a weapon, it's knowledge and craft. He's a fairly harmless curmudgeon.

(I also for some reason have developed a theme of purity with him. Vegetarian, virgin, fire-wielder, has never knowing harmed or killed a person or animal, rides a unicorn... It was an accident but I kind of like it.)

Also, his first school of magic was also a government-priesthood, and they make all of their members take a Vow of Forgiveness - exacting revenge causes them debilitating pain. It was pretty much to keep their government as just and fair as possible and keep priests from abusing their power. (I'm sure that whoever's on the other end of this conflagration will take a lot of comfort in knowing that it hurts Othallon too :P )

Speaking of which, we were supposed to show what made them angry, but the only thing I can think of to make Othallon this dangerous is more of abstract... Injustice born of ignorance. See, he's extremely intelligent, and probably his biggest flaw is that he lacks patience with people less smart than he is (i.e.: everyone). Normally he just gets annoyed and drives them away or ignores them, but when that ignorance or stupidity is causing harm - places where magic is reviled, for instance, and magic users put to death for it, or fanatics carrying out genocidal prejudice - he will take a stand against it. And if it should impact someone he knows directly, he will destroy it. See? He looks Lawful Evil, but he's actually Neutral Good :P 

(The way I came up with to make him this angry is his eventual wife being killed by just such genocidal fanatics for the "demon" power she wields. I'm considering making it canon. Poor Moriha.)

((...Obviously I have no clue about coloring fire. I might be able to figure something out in PS, but Manga Studio, which has no gradient, no color picker a tiny selection of brushes, and those brushes are soooo laggy? Hahahano. ))
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wow dude the fire and lighting looks amazing :omfg: