Twisted Plot Revision - Prologue04

For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .

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"What our histories tell us of those two lost cultures is not flattering, but do we consider why? They were the outsiders and their ways were different from ours, to be resisted and kept beyond boundary, border, and wall. Led by their enigmatic Dustmaidens, the people moving in from the west threatened our crops and our sea trade. Our histories describe the Dustmaidens as tyrannical arch-priestesses to the Mother of the Depths, their minimal ritual garb festooned in pearls laden with the power to seek and sustain the lives of their people at any cost. And the so-called 'murder cults' of the northern barbarians were no less mysterious or threatening to us, their numerous adherents cloaked in darkness, emulating secretive, beastly aspects empowered by the Other we call 'Dreamstalker.' Their practices appeared brutal, frightening, and unenlightened to our forebears, whose devotion to the Lady of Light and Blade was open and nigh omnipresent."

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Note: Thanks to Edmere for the heads up on the "hair-splashes" on her arms. I went in to work with them and ended up just removing them. Easier, faster, and it looked better anyway.

For the upcoming Twisted Plot Part 1 publication, this will be the fourth page of the Prologue. People have asked about Avora's provocative outfit a few times, and here is a good portion of the explanation for it.

The script-less version of this is here:


Enjoy!

Note: Twisted Plot and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones this kind of treatment toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.