9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Hakon BlackAxe is a highly placed member of the BlackAxe branch of House Delusarnan. Hakon was romantically involved with Theresa Quinlan for a number of years before she became bodyguard to the Taoiseach.
This lady (who chooses to remain nameless) is professional assassin who hails from the city of Naglorond. She does most of her work for private citizens since the end of the House Wars, where she was responsible for the deaths of a number of House personnel.
The handle she is currently using is “Targeter” All that is known about her so far is that she was a child prostitute in Naglorond who killed her way out of the business , and decided to never put her fate in the hands of another ever again.
This is how militaries operate. The difference between paranoia and pragmatism depends entirely upon ones point of view. If you’re the leader of a family, you’re pragmatic. If you’re the leader of a mercenary group/clan, you’re paranoid – and rightfully so. Not sure where I’d fall. No longer being terribly brave, I’d probably end up on the paranoid side, with bomb shelters and air filters ready to go.
Ian is not “paranoid enough”, he is “pragmatic enough”. 😉