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The Prophet of Panamindorah 2

2. Music in the Dark

They say it was a trinket in the Temple of the Creator for a thousand thousand years before it came into Panamindorah. They say he commissioned a shelt to bear it in his service. They say I lost it, which is not quite true. Gabalon stole it from me, but only because I was careless.

--Archemais, A Wizard’s History of Panamindorah

From that day on, Corry spent every evening beside the lake. On the fifth day, he was trudging home near dark when he heard soft music. Moving furtively, he started back towards the opening in the palmetto hedge. Corry poked his head around a tree to have a look at the grove and something

The Prophet of Panamindorah 1

Chapter 1. Voices in the Walls

Historians have written chapters or even books about the night Selbis fell to the cliff faun armies. However, few historians devote more than a couple of paragraphs to that night a hundred years before when Selbis almost fell to the Durian wolves and wolflings. Lack of information partially accounts for their silence. It was a curious event—perhaps more legend than fact. However, some part of the story must be true, for the Endless Wood derives its name from this incident.

Some say the city floated. Some say it gathered about it a moat of blue flame. Some say that Gabalon polluted the air of the wood with

The Prophet of Panamindorah P

Prelude: Sing Muse

Hope died with the day in the city of Selbis. In the west the sinking sun bled color like a severed artery, etching the shadows of parapet teeth on the red stone walls. In a tower room of the great keep, the light fell across a man, a wolf, and a tree. The man sprawled on a branch-strewn couch. He held an enormous dagger, its cross-guard set with jagged fragments of pearl, a strange pale jewel in the pommel. His other hand clutched something on the end of a necklace. Sap oozed from the torn branches beneath him, staining his white silk shirt and black trousers. He lay as still as a waxwork, humming softly under his breath,

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pegasus skeletonby ~alhilton

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Quadropedavia! Keeled sternum (you’d need a big one to attach the kind of flight muscles that would get this guy off the ground), modified scapula. My pegasus are fully feathered, including a ruff around their necks into which they can tuck their front feet to make them more aerodynamic. They have a feathered tail that acts as a rudder, although it does have a bone in it. Their feathered manes also help them maneuver in the air and are used socially for signaling mood. They have hollow bones and a bird’s complicated lung system to get enough oxygen for those flight muscles. They have a cloaca. They lay eggs. They are technically monotremes.

Things I don’t like: I think the skull should have been smaller, and it should look lighter than a horse skull (which it doesn’t). I think I should have made the spine longer—like a crane as opposed to a song bird. He looks too bunched up.

~CaptainMool Oct 17, 2011 Student General Artist

This is amazing! Maybe the proportions aren't as perfect as you wanted, but it's an incredible interpretation. Fairly accurate, believable, and just darn magnificent, as a pegasus should be.

~SabrePanther Jan 3, 2011 Professional General Artist

Very nice! I keep noticing how typical "wings" on a Pegasus are impossible for flight in all the other drawings and it is refreshing to see a diagram that smoothly blends both horse and avian properties. And as for the skull, I think that if it like the other bones, would be lightweight as well? Some of the other bird skeletons I have seen had quite large heads in comparison to their bodies and I would guess that the head could help in balance during flight?

~Isoli Sep 20, 2009

I think it looks magnificent

~alhilton Sep 20, 2009

Thank you, Isoli!

~Xenothere Mar 1, 2009

This is just awesome and well thought out

How the heck did this go unnoticed?! I commend your research, as well as your art.

~alhilton Mar 2, 2009

Thanks, Xenothere. Scapula for 6-limbed creatures are always an interesting problem.

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