"Time ought not to be controlled. That much everyone knows. Yet there are a those who think that rules shouldn't apply to them and decide to seek out illegal things for the sake of seeking out illegal things. Altering the passage of time is quite tempting to power-hungry and just plain terrible people, since it makes you, simply put, unbeatable in almost everything. That's not to say it would be easy to master the skill, though. Just as easily as you can get rid of your adversaries, you can banish yourself into a vapid limbo for the rest of eternity never to be seen again."





"Temporal Mage", or working name "Time wizard with cool effects". This was one of those paintings I had no idea what would come out of it when I was starting. All in all, I'm pretty happy with the result, and frankly a bit surprised that it worked out at all :^).







I got inspired by pictures of nebulae and wanted to include a similar, gaseous and mystical-looking thing in the background. My original plan didn't have magenta or purple in the backdrop at all, but I found those colours to be a neat addition to it. I found it difficult to keep the background detailed while still keeping the focus on the owl. I feel like I managed to pull off a sort of pretty and magical, but still powerful, unstable and a bit threatening atmosphere.



