#<- tag for organizing when I'm drawing stuff that is temeraireVerse but not in the line of the plot of the books themselves

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #temeraire worldbuilding collection #<- tag for organizing when I'm drawing stuff that is temeraireVerse but not in the line of the plot of the books themselves #for school reasons I have been reading a lot about 14th-17th century mesoamerica #and thus am Interested in how that would have potentially played out in temeraireverse... #anyway! not sure if I'll draw these two again but I Have given the lad a day sign name (five deer) so I could Potentially. who can say. #haven't come up with a name for the dragon yet... maybe cipachcoatzin would work if can't think of anything else #<- Please Forgive My Dubious Command of Classical Nahuatl Grammar I Am But A Student #on that note zoomorphic interlace is not very much a style from this period/region but it helps me with composition things #five deer himself is mostly based on the illustration of the tlacuilo's son in the codex mendoza #the dragon is drawn more from a fusion of older scribal styles (ie. the codex borgia) and my own shorthands for dragon anatomy