Thread:SaynaSLuke/@comment-2142396-20161012210846/@comment-2142396-20161019192048

No worries, I figured out you were probably busy, seems like autumn is a busy time of year in general. Hope you can get a breather well before Christmas, as there are full two months till that time! :o

And thanks for agreeing to do a request for me! *hugs* Remember Skvold Sharkslayer, Skief’s grandfather and former Stonebreaker of Rolt? He is a minor character in ‘For Freedom’ and main character in its side story ‘Sharkslayer’ – I don’t quite remember whether you read it or not. I’m currently working on another side story about his past, and while I’m not yet ready to start posting it, I would’ve loved to get some art for it.

At that point of the story, Skvold is about sixty seasons old. He is a tall and lanky rat, strong despite being more sinewy than muscular. He has light grey fur and grey eyes. His right hindpaw is missing below his knee, and he has a peg leg instead of it. Also, though Skvold isn’t exactly scarred, he did get into some scraps in his life that left him quite battered. He has a scar on his left shoulder (encounter with an eagle gone wrong) and long grazes on his left ankle (result of a cave-in), and some of his teeth are probably chipped with age.

Speaking of his clothing, I always imagined the clothes of Rolt to be more or less gender-neutral, as male and female outfits only slightly differ in cut, being tunic/tunic and kilt for males and longer tunic/tunic and skirt for females. They also weave their fabric mostly of lichen fibers, so it’s coarser than normal clothing. Skvold wears brown short-sleeved tunic with leather belt and sharkskin jerkin over it to act as the light armor. His weapon is called Stonebreaker, and it’s basically a mix of pickaxe and a hammer - metal pickaxe with a single thick spike, the other side of it balanced by a broad flat edge of hammer. He also wears a short knife with triangular blade on his belt.

As for the pose, I was thinking of something dynamic, probably a charging pose like the ones you did for Fripple and Romsca some time ago (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/redwall/images/7/7f/Fripple%3B_Daughter_of_the_Hawk.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150906143007 and http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/redwall/images/1/19/Romsca_%27Power_of_Loyalty%27.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160430015605). All in all, Skvold is a wise and calm leader who would seek a peaceful and bloodless solution no matter what, as he values his Clan above all and would do anything to protect them…but there are some things you never ever do, and among them are killing one of his rats before his eyes.

''Skvold gave out a wild cry. Never before had he been so enraged, not even when he faced down the blood-crazed shark. So he shouted, lunging at Darm with his Stonebreaker at ready, fully intending to smash the weasel’s skull to pieces. “Attack!! Attack!!”''

Feel free to act me any questions, and don’t be afraid to take your time. :D