Way back in Son of the Storm, we introduced the idea of Storm’s Bane, a mighty hammer that came into possession of the king of the Thunderfury Dwarves.  Since his passing, it’s gone missing, and the dwarves have spent decades (if not centuries) trying to locate it.  In fact, it even played into the tale a little bit in that first book, although it was just hopeful thinking.

As we move closer to “phase 3” of the Tellest universe being put into place, we’re going to possibly hear more about Storm’s Bane.  Azot delivered an awesome piece of work here, so I’m happy that we’re signing off with this set with the mightiest of his works.

We’re certainly not done with Azot, but it will be a while before the fourth set of artifacts inevitably shows up.  Stay tuned for future news from that series of art pieces.

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Of course, since then, his art prowess has increased tenfold.  We asked him to go back and try his hands at making our characters pop even more than the last time the characters saw the light of day.

Now, it should be noted, Bolt was a special piece for us.  When we told Hozure we wanted to tackle these characters again, he was all about it.  He even did Bolt for free for us—he was the last one, and we technically didn’t have it on order.  So when we received it, it was a complete surprise!

Comparing the two makes it incredible to see how far Hozure’s come.  It’s like night and day, and that’s an incredible feat considering how good his art already was.

And here you have our Thunderfury adoptee in all his glory with a nice background behind him.  Hope you liked seeing what a year’s worth of increasing talent can do!

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Each of these pieces of art is a “VS” scene.  We decided to start with Bolt, the hero of Son of the Storm and the upcoming Lord of Thunder. His first big challenge was against the beautiful yet vicious harpy arcanist Keilana.  What we decided to capture here was the feel of that encounter, but with a kind of quantum twist.  What we’re about to show you didn’t happen in the canon of the books, but it very well could have.

Horace started us off with a test, so that we could see what the battle could have ended up looking like.

From there, we had almost a storyboard situation, where he gave us a couple different options for the way the scene could have progressed.

What we ultimately decided was to use basically the test version that he came up with, and expand upon that from there.

In the full version, with feathers flying around and dwarves in the background, the scene truly does look as chaotic as the encounter in the mountains were.  Bolt and Keilana meet here a little more on even ground, but it’s gorgeous nonetheless.

Stay tuned for more from this series in the next couple of months!

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