Woot! This is my big dramatic cover for The Tactician and the Jewel, showing Ceniro valiantly vaulting over a rock, and his employer about to kick big fiery butt over on the right. And, of course, all the minor Player Characters around him with their names attached so I don’t forget who is who. A few of them you might know, if I drew them in greater detail! Some of my friends have already seen this. Apparently they like the horses. This is flattering.

…Actually you might know all of the PCs if I drew them in greater detail and you knew what my inspirations were. I’m only missing a couple of guys, like the shaman. He’s not at the part of the story this scene is from, which is a generic battle scene somewhere between chapters 4 and 5, I think?

This was actually the first image I did for this story. I just had a very clear image what Ceniro and Erk would look like in this scene, and what their surroundings would look like. I even tried perspective. This is still a big deal for me, even after all these years. Ceniro looks really good, and Erk is not unrecognizable, I think. The random lords and ladies in the back are random. Yay!

Someday I’ll colour all the images to go in this story. But not now. I have complete awe for those people who manage to churn out multiple gorgeous colour pages a week with seemingly little effort. This isn’t a webcomic, don’t get me wrong. (Though it will end up as a playable FE7 fanmade RPG if I get my hands on enough time to mess around with that Sphere stuff, and it might be awesome as a webcomic in my opinion) But these random pictures would be so much better in colour. Oh well. I guess I’d better get a tablet.

As for the story itself, this is my account of what happened to my tactician during the gap between the two halves of the game. And it gives me a chance to hang out with Pent, who is super cool. And Louise. Together they probably make the best married couple in videogame history. What do you think? Anyway, this plot is all highly original and I’m very proud of the first half. This chapter probably seems a bit long. But I was enjoying myself. I did a lot of research into FE6 to find suitable villains and minor characters from Etruria to round out this story. I mean, there’s not a lot on Etruria in FE7! So I scraped together what I could. There’ll even be some cameos from vaguely important people besides Douglas. Huzzah!