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The Complete "Blades of the Exile" set. This set is a series of ink drawings based on the descriptions of paintings of light left behind by magic items of the same name.
  They depict three scenes of the relationship between the Alrisen known as The Fallen Exile and his paramour.
  The top two pieces are separated by a thick vertical line of ink in the center of the page while the third piece takes up the entire bottom half of the page and is separated from the both of them by a thick horizontal line.
  The first piece in the top left, Falling Dusk, depicts a woman on the balcony of a tower overlooking the sea. The piece is made up almost entirely of parallel vertical lines drawn in ink that are spaced at varying distances apart to create areas of light and darkness. The sea however is made up of horizontal lines instead. The sky is darkest on the left-hand side of the piece and is lightest in the area surrounding the falling star, the moon, and the sun. The woman is facing away from our view . She has long white hair billowing up and behind her as if she has just thrown herself against the railing of the balcony and the inertia has yet to catch up. She is wearing what looks to be a billowing gown that drags along behind her and appears a shining beacon of light in contrast to the darkness around her. The seeming subject of her attention and reason for her rush to the balcony's edge is a brilliant falling star that's trail of starlight leads all the way back to behind a small dark moon. In the right hand corner of this piece but in center of the page there is a quarter-circle with concentric strips of white space to give off the sense of a setting sun. The sun is setting behind the sea and vague reflections of light can be seen scattering across the water.
  The second piece in the top right, Rising Dawn, depicts a similar scene but now we the viewer are looking on from the opposite direction as the sun rises behind grand rolling hills. The same parallel lines of ink are used to denote areas of light and darkness but in this piece the sky is made up of parallel horizontal lines while the hills are made up of parallel vertical lines. There are solid flowing lines that separate the multiple layers of hills as well as outline the railing of the balcony and the woman. The rising sun connects to and continues on from the setting sun of Falling Dusk but does not make a full half-circle as hills take up the lower eighth. There are thick lines that radiate out from the sun to symbolize the dawn. On the right side of the piece the woman is once again seen leaning against the railing of a tower's balcony but now she appears at rest and we have a clearer view of her face. Once again she is rendered in a shining white contrast to the world around her. She is leaning over the railing and looking downwards as her long hair hangs down over the edge. What we can see of her expression tells of bittersweet emotion and pensive thought. She appears to be wearing a gown more fitted to her form or perhaps the same gown; now clinging to her while she's at rest. Either way we can now see curves accentuated by her arcing posture as leans her forearms on the railing; shoulders raised above her neck showing she is resting her weight on them heavily. A trail of stardust and light weaves through her hair; starting from the edge of her balcony before curving out the top right-hand corner of the piece and page.
  The third piece, Moonlit Midnight, depicts the same woman from the previous two pieces; no longer alone on the balcony of her tower but hand in hand with a starry woman floating above her as she lies on her back amongst the tall grass of a steep hill. The piece is made up of stippling, a technique in which a great many tiny dots are used to convey shape and light values. No more bars of darkness imprison the lone woman from the tower because in this moment she is neither alone nor locked away in her tower. In the background we can finally see the full view of the tower. It is a lone lighthouse built on an island beyond the peninsula. No entrance to the tower is visible nor does there seem anyway for one to get on or off the island. The sea around it is wild and roiling as it crashes upon the cliffs of both the island and the peninsula in the background. The Sea itself appears to have large, rounded crests defined with solid lines of ink that dip behind each other in layers. Each crest also has parallel but curved lines of dots within to give the feeling of flowing waves. Areas where the water crashes against cliffs are left blank but with stipple drawn borders, creating the effect of foam and spraying water. The sky is far more detailed and vibrant than in the other two pieces with the stippling forming greater depth and the appearance of space clouds and galaxies visible against the darkness. The same small moon from the first piece also hangs in the sky just above the starry woman's upper arm but it is now full and bright. The starry woman is The Fallen Exile and he is visibly an asterad, or star nymph. The same dark stippling of the night sky creates the shapes and curve of his full figure that appears to be reclining midair, right hand flung out behind him giving off comet trails from each finger while his left hand is interlocked with that of his paramour. We see The Fallen Exile's face in side profile. He has a square jaw with high cheekbones and full cheeks dimpled from his smile. A wide square nose bridges almost level with the brow and forms a crease with his cheeks right up to the eye. The Exiles eyes are dark as the void but full of love. He has some form of crown that holds back most of his hair except for a single lock of spiralling curls that frames his face. The rest of his hair springs from the head in the same weightless, spiralling curls. The style is reminiscent of depictions of certain hairstyles commonly painted on Greek pottery. Stars shine from each joint and other central parts of The Fallen Exile's torso such as the sternum and solar plexus. Each star is connected by a line of blank space completing the constellation appearance. He is fully nude but few details can be made out. He has large breasts that have no sag to them as if they've never bore the weight of gravity and the silhouette of belly rolls can be made along the starry woman's side as his raised leg and reclined posture folds his body over itself. The curves or his hips, rear, and thigh all seem to be equally unaffected by gravity as they hold such perfectly round and supple shapes. The Fallen Exile's right leg is bent at both the hip and knee in a way that much of that lower area. The leg does not end in a foot but instead trails off into a tail of stardust and light. Opposite him in more way than one is his paramour. She lies heavy on the grassy slop, her limbs and hair sprawled out around her as she stares into the eyes of the woman she loves. Her face is at three quarters view and a single lock of straight hair drapes from her brow and down her right cheek while the left side of her face is covered entirely. She too has a squared jaw but it is far softer and less defined than the Exile's as gravity pulls it in line with the flesh of her neck. Her nose is similar in shape to her lover but slightly smaller and with a more pronounced slope. The eye not covered by hair is half-lidded with a dark colour to iris. Her mouth is agape as if talking or maybe panting for air. All together her expression reads of someone who is physically tired but incredibly content. Her gown is bunched up and twisted in multiple places making it obvious that she'd been rolling around in the grass before coming to rest where she currently lays. That same weightlessness that her lover's body possesses is not shared between them however. The woman in white's breasts are flattened against her heaving chest , pulled to either side under her dress without support. Both the fabric of her gown and the flesh her body squish and flatten against the ground the hem of her skirt is hiked most of the way up her left leg. In the foreground tall grass and cattails poke up with the same dotted lines that make up the rest of grass blowing in the wind.
  The Fallen Exile and the magic items these pieces were based on can be found in the 5e compatible, OGL content "Compendium of Forgotten Secrets: Awakening" by Genuine Fantasy Press.

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