Second digital painting of Husk, replete with her runic-tattoos. I think the slightly gnarly staff in this version helps promote the idea she is a sorceress. I like the notion that her spell-tattoos turn blood-red when she casts magic but otherwise remain this cooler blue/green.

Concept painting of Husk, an Orc of mixed lineage and sorceress with an emerging talent for rune-lore. I'll soon be taking her on a Norse-style journey into a vast, ancient forest in 'A Bronnhelm Tale.' Her spells are synonymous with her skin-art, while her back is marked with a mysterious tattoo of the three Norns or fate-weavers, a ward she does not remember receiving yet brings her luck. Perhaps one day she will discover her benefactor.

Late evening, under the glare of the surface sun, Husk was spared a return to the perpetual horror and strife of her homeland deep in the Iron Mountains. The Witch-Queen Valeris had unleashed the orc-tribes on Bronnhelm's territories but as night began to flood the land, Husk's brethren came to be ambushed and slaughtered by a warband of spear-men, patrolling from nearby Bronnhelm. Before she could be dragged to the corpse-fire the Druid, East-Wind, forbid any man to touch her and took the gray-skinned girl into his flock of outcasts. To him, Husk had been spared a battle-death and was thus miraculous, lucky, a child-curiosity, touched by fate-magic. 

And East-Wind found his intuition to be correct, for he later observed her scribbling runes with discarded charcoal. One winter morning he caught her daubing complex bind-runes on his long-house with the blood of slaughtered live-stock. Over time, his kind heart tamed Husk's wild mind and between chores he would teach her a little more the secrets of rune-carving and the art of inking the skin with spells.

Quick drawing of the Widow-Maker, Ingvar, caught between the battle-lines, shouting insults across the field, his enemies desperately attempting to kill him with arrows. He was called to withdraw from scouting when the Orcs ran over the rise but Ingvar's history makes him hot-tempered in battle.
"COME AND DIE YOU WORTHLESS, WEASEL-FACED LICK-SPITTLES!"

Concept art for Nina Ragnarsdottier, Amy's character in Fire-Heart. Her description was also furnished by fast-talking Mike. Nina Ragnarsdottier is a bounty hunter armed to the teeth and, like the rest of the White Company, she is thrown into the events of Fire-Heart. However, the journey's end promises to be the companions' final battle.   

Finished concept art for three of the characters

 Linwe, Aethelflaed and Aethelraed

Aethelflaed Ingvarsdottir

Concept painting, this one of the aggrieved sword-maiden, Aethelflaed, sworn to avenge the death of her kin. Played by Mike Everest in the original telling of Fire-Heart, this is an attempt to interpret the likeness of this important character into image.

Revised Linwë

This concept painting is a revision of Linwe's garments for the next part, which is in the style of a Norse epic set in frigid northlands