Ugh. Between the Romairi, Ithilien and the Xalan realms in my fantasy world, the greatest diffrences are between Xalan and all other. Despite being west on the map, they are more oriental inspired while the other two are more of the european styles.

In the timeline, the Ithilien forces are marching their way into the Xalan lands, waging war upon them. In the midst of the of the frontline chaos, are servants of the Xalan Temples deep inside the west mountains who protects the people against wicked men and enemies of the realm.

This portrait is of a so far un named Master that can me mistaken for a boy when it infact is a tigress woman with a "shaved" head. When she appears it's relatively late in the story, but when I came up with her I thought she was awesome enough to start concept sketching even now.

The colored version (photoshop, very simple)