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#five deer himself is mostly based on the illustration of the tlacuilo's son in the codex mendoza
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c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.
#em draws stuff
#em is posting about temeraire
#temeraire
#temeraire worldbuilding collection
#<- tag for organizing when I'm drawing stuff that is temeraireVerse but not in the line of the plot of the books themselves
#for school reasons I have been reading a lot about 14th-17th century mesoamerica
#and thus am Interested in how that would have potentially played out in temeraireverse...
#anyway! not sure if I'll draw these two again but I Have given the lad a day sign name (five deer) so I could Potentially. who can say.
#haven't come up with a name for the dragon yet... maybe cipachcoatzin would work if can't think of anything else
#<- Please Forgive My Dubious Command of Classical Nahuatl Grammar I Am But A Student
#on that note zoomorphic interlace is not very much a style from this period/region but it helps me with composition things
#five deer himself is mostly based on the illustration of the tlacuilo's son in the codex mendoza
#the dragon is drawn more from a fusion of older scribal styles (ie. the codex borgia) and my own shorthands for dragon anatomy
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