DTAE - Glossamaara!!

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Arrow keys/click/space!! Uh not that it matters too much since there are only two drawings but uh! it's the principle of the thing!!! So! Here's Glossamaara. This time the pronunciation of her name is pretty self-explanatory! Or!! At least I hope it is!!! Something goofy you might recognize if you're following me is that lynx there, in (technically both of) the drawings! Issenaeirrlacht! Whosawhatsit what is he doing here?? What a silly silly boy!! Well actually not so silly! Booki you are very lucky this is the first DTAE I have ever made with actually fleshed-out lore!! Mostly because the majority of which was already planned out months in advance! See, after I won Issen, I was mostly just thinking of what else I could do with him!! And like I said in that project, it slowly sorta came to me! Basically: (SPOILER WARNING HAHA) This universe coincides with the Guardians of Ga'Hoole/Wolves of the Beyond series' one so be mindful if you're interested in reading them!! There isn't major stuff for Guardians of Ga'Hoole but this does kinda spoil the entire last book of the Wolves of the Beyond so tread lightly! Anyway anyway!! Issen wasn't always the way he is now (all uhhh icy and wingy and stuff)!! He belonged to a pounce of lynxes called Glauxian Lynxes - a species of bobcat drawn to ice and sky, and thought to have a sort of spiritual connection with owls! They also have funny wing-shaped cheek tufts :33 To cut a very long story (that, if i ever have any free time ever again, will actually be explained in depth in a differing project-) short, there's this magical ice bridge leading from Beyond the Beyond to the Distant Blue and back, which the Lynxes were crossing! The dire wolves were, too- they were going in opposite directions because it was too hot in the Beyond for the lynxes and too cold in the Blue for the wolves haha logic!! The Lynxes and wolves had a massive skirmish when they met on the narrow bridge and Issen ended up slipping off and falling into the sea. Magic is kind of weird in the owl world though. It's not necessarily evil, but it's not good, either. The magic of the bridge (in my personal canon haha) sort of chooses to encapsulate (freeze) a creature and, over a long, long long long period of time, it changes the creature into what its magic deems "what the creature is meant to be." For Issen, this means his fur grows stiff and icy, he has funny little wings, and can breathe this funny cold mist stuff (which he's doing in the picture as a "homing beacon" for his owl friends, so they don't lose him while they scout from a distance). For Glossamaara, who was frozen (I don't know how or why yet sob) on the very outskirts of the bridge and battered for probably centuries by the ocean, seaglass formed, kind of!! All over her body! Is there a tail under all of that glass? That's for you to decide!! And me later if I think it might be a cool plot point!!! I don't know if Glossy has any powers yet because right now she's just really disoriented! So she's not actually as dull as she looks!! She's been trapped in magic ice for like 300 years can you honestly blame her hehe Issen, Elwynn, and Mycashein make it a point to rescue any creatures they find trapped in the ice bridge (that's why they stick around it, though by all means they should really stay far away caus it's a step away from nachtmagen if I'm honest) after this point but Glossy is actually their first ward! There will for sure be more in the future (there is this funky wolf I doodled a while back who I'm interested in exploring) but this is a good starting point for them! Yeah that's it for now!! If you want to see the disaster I tried writing about Issen, here's that project!! It's kind of old though!!! please read the guardians of ga'hoole and the wolves of beyond please please please i'm begging you they're so good sob