Aaravos holds a mistletoe over his horned head, smirking very ambiguously towards you, his other hand inviting you, to show him about that 'tradition involving a mistletoe'. He's more than eager to learn about every detail, so don't hesitate and show him everything you know about it - he's an elf of deeds.

Next part of my 3-set "under the mistletoe".
Go on, show #Aaravos about this tradition - he's more than eager to discover every detail about it
#startouch #TheDragonPrince

Claudia showing up with a witches hat and a pumpkin basket to on onto some truck and treat, greeting Aaravos and her taken-on little sister

Claudia's eyes have grown wide, when she discovers, Aaravos and Leola have put their costumes on in the wrong way: the holes in them are not where they are supposed to be.

Aaravos stands there, Leola up his arm to his left side. Both are covered in ghostly blankets but Aaravos had used the holes from the eyes for their horns to peek through. Leola has the advantage of only having one horn, therefore she can use the second hole for an eye to look out. Aaravos asks Claudia then, where their horns have to go, when the holes are not fit their horns. Leola whispers, she has told him, those holes were not for horns and suggests, he should use his magic now and become creative

Aaravos snaps his fingers and creates more holes: now he can have both horns and both eyes peeking through the blanket and Leola's fit is now corrected to one horn and two eyes. She also now has a pumpkin basket and calls or for trick or treat

Happy #Halloween to all who celebrate it.

I think, these three would nail any trick or treat run - and our famous Starmage would also do it with style 😏

#thedragonprince #thedragonking #aaravos #leola #claudia #startouch

Delving in Dungeon - final page.

I guess, we all know now, what to do, if a Startouch elf ever lies on his/her back...

#Aaravos #Runaan #Startouch #thedragonprince #tdp

Delving in Dungeon 9/10

Well, that's the truth!

#Aaravos #viren #thedragonprince #tdp #startouch

Delving in Dungeon 8/10

#Aaravos will provide knowledge - he always does and he never lies!

#Thedragonprince #tdp #Startouch

Lord Viren wants to leave the elves down in the dungeon to rot. Runaan agrees and ugly wishes to be left alone because as a Moon shadow assassin, he believes he's already dead anyway. Aaravos though has again slipped out of one of his shackles and calms the assassin down, emphasising how much he appreciates, that lord Viren wants to learn something about elves

Delving in Dungeon 7/10

Lord #Viren is fed up, #Runaan is fed up while #Aaravos enjoys slipping in and out his shackles here and there.

#Thedragonprince #tdp #Startouch

First panel: Lord Viren gasps about Aaravos' proclamation, Startouch elves having the largest ones. In the second panel Runaan clears up the situation by telling Lord Viren, Aaravos meant his horns. In the third panel Aaravos corrects Runaan, telling, he meant his titan but appreciates the praise of his horns. Lord Viren then plays over his little misguided thoughts, explaining he of course knew, this was about titans and that he already has seen such. In the last panel Aaravos now is intrigued, but it questioning, lord Viren knows about titans.

Delving in Dungeon 5/10

It was obviously, #Aaravos spoke of his horns and nothing else!
#Viren #Runaan #Startouch #thedragonprince #tdp

aaravos gives away free facts: startouch elves hang the most precious, incredibly powerful, outstandingly strong and largest ones! By telling this, there's emphasis on eyes and mouths of Viren and him while in the last panel, it is obvious, that Aaravos casually had slipped out a hand of his shackles

Delving in Dungeon 4/10

#Aaravos gives away free facts: #startouch elves hang the most precious, incredibly powerful, outstandingly strong and largest ones!
#TheDragonPrince #TDP

Three panels: left top shows Runaan being laid in magical chains, calling Lord Viren a fool to trust in his other prisoner. Next Panel shows Lord Viren with folded hands, finding it very interesting, that Runaan now wants to talk about things and that just by seeing his fellow inmate. Last Panel: Runaan sits chained up beside Aaravos, taunting Lord Viren by stating, the human has no idea, who this other inmate truly is. Aaravos though tells Runaan, Lord Viren does know, who he is, for it was him, who has already told the human.

Delving in Dungeon 2/10

#Aaravos enjoys his stay at Katolis dungeon clearly a bit too much, but interrogations are so much fun to be part of.
#Runaan #Viren #TDP #TheDragonPrince #startouch

The Starmage Aaravos is brimming in purple power, his face contorted in contempt and anger, his hands clawing the air, while furniture and books around swirl around him under the promise, the cosmic council will fall. They all will fall

Starless Nights 8/8

The moment he realized, there's nothing left for him, than tearing the cosmic order down to make them pay for their crime against #Leola

#Aaravos #TheDragonPrince #startouch #elf

Starless Nights 6/8

When hurt turns into something more...
#aaravos #tdpart #thedragonprince #startouch

Starless Nights 5/8

As I said: he's the first so-called villain I absolutely understand.

#aaravos #startouch #tdp #thedragonprince

Three panels up show Aaravos' eyes in closeup. In the first he says" and to make it worse, I lied to you because you were so afraid". His eyes are filling with tears. In the second, he has to close them, tears falling free, saying "I lied, saying you'd go to a place of ever-flowing love". In the third he opens his eyes, their gold turning into a purplish power-brim, staring up to an unseen entity saying "but there is no love in the heavens. Not among them". The lower left panel then shows him sitting in his chair, half body pose, touching his burnt-out star on his chest. "They struck me a wound so deep in me... It will never heal.". In the last we see a bit more of him, pondering on his chair, gently stroking over his star. "To survive such a wound, is to suffer forever".

"Starless Nights" 4/8

... Or how the Cosmic Council created a villain, walking a path they cannot fathom yet. An eternal being, a Starmage and a father bereft of his daughter just for the sake of order... What could possibly go wrong?

#Aaravos #Leola #tdp #TheDragonPrince #startouch #elf

The page shows several panels, the upper ones being memories when Aaravos hugs his daughter for a last time, both staring then at the unseen force that finally drags her anyway from him, his hand losing his grip on her little fingers, when the heavens sentence her to death. In the last panel he sits in his chair in his home, her ghost still lingering about, reminding him how she always used to sit on his lap, fiddling with his fingers and playing with his long strands of white hair. He still can feel her...

"Starless Nights" 3/8
What might it be for an eternal being, to be haunted by witnessing his daughter's death?
As I said #aaravos is not a villain in what most people understand with that term.
#thedragonprince #startouch #leola

"starless knights" (2/8)

#aaravos trying to cope with the loss of his beloved #leola

#thedragonprince #tdp #startouch

Little Startouch elf Leola with her one horn protruding from her forehead sits on her father's shoulders between his both horns. They share so many things like their dazzling looks it is purest joy for aaravos, seeing his daughter to be so special. Leola is unique in many ways and though some thought her "strange", "odd", Aaravos knows she is a wonder. She is curious, quirky and joyous befriending everyone and everything around her, disvovering and sharing all she has to give. She shows her father, what more Xadia has to give, for she sees things different and does not care about any cosmic order - this world is full of wonders, life itself. That is worth exploring to the fullest!  And she intends on sitting up on his shoulders as long as she fits between his horns, which most likely will be for a long while, since Startouch elves have the longest and greatest horns among the elves.

More of these two: #aaravos and little #leola exploring Xadia together. I'm doing more stuff of them (a short graphic novel with funny 'father moments').
Stay tuned!
#TDP #TheDragonPrimce #startouch

Shows a part of a panel, focus on the Startouch elf Aaravos, engaged in a quite ambiguos conversation. My biggest struggles: all elves in The Dragon Prince only have 4 fingers/ 4 toes ... a horror for me, who barely now learned how to draw hands with 5 fingers ^^

Well, I barely managed drawing hands with five fingers (with feet still remaining my personal arch enemies) just to be given now elves with only 4 digits ... and horns typical for each subrace. When have I decided to fall for a villain? Oh, yes, with #thedragonprince and #aaravos

#wip #startouch

lineart of a closup on the startouch elf Aaravos with a devious smirk on his face, staring right up at you. He just told you a truth, he never lies, but sometimes a truth can be your demise. And just when you thought, having him shackled up down in your dungeon might be the solution to everything ... you notice, he enjoys his stay.

Ah yes, that sort of #elf they tell you, not to worry about, because he is safely shackled up in the dungeon... It seems, #Aaravos enjoys his stay more than he should, and his smirk tells you, he knows, how much the truth can hurt - and he never lies.
#startouch #tdp #thedragonprince

The Startouch elf Aaravos is shackled in a dungeon, only clad in his breeches. Yet he thanks you for being so creative in keeping him captive, he politely waves with now one free hand, reminding you, he's an Archmage and a powerful one. You won't keep him unless he chooses to stay

Close up on Aaravos looking up to you from under his splendid long white hair, suggesting you now might want to shackle him up again. He would be a bit disappointed, if he now has to do that again and all by his own.

He loves the attention, and appreciates the efforts, yet you should never forget #Aaravos is an Archmage. Chains won't keep him unless he wants to... But he's willing to stay when you promise further creativeness.
#startouch #tdp #thedragonprince

Aaravos half sits, half lies besides his daughter Leola, who is reading in a book. They are in his study room, all about them sorted things: primal stones, tea and cake, though Aaravos' piece of cake already has toppled over. Leola might already thinking about sorting her father's books then - she has her own sense of order, which sometimes is a bless and a curse. But one thing she has to say to everyone: "I wish that even in the dark - sad, afraid, alone - that every child should know: you are loved"

The line between mercy and cruelty might be thin, but what they have not expected is, one of their own might choose to follow a path of revenge. It was the day he became the Fallen One.
#aaravos #leola #dtp #thedragonprince #startouch

The Startouch elf Aaravos gently throws his little Leola into the air, on an early morning, while standing on spring grass und blue butterflies dancing around them. Xadia and all its inhabitants is the perfect place for her to grow. Studying the cosmic mysteries is nothing compared to being a father. There is no greater joy for him, than to follow her impulses, explore the world around them through her eyes, thinking her ways and feel the love Leola has for everyone and everything. She might be a being of the heavens, yet she has the greatest heart among all mortals.

Studying the cosmic mysteries is nothing compared to being a father. There is no greater joy for #Aaravos, than to explore the world around them through her eyes & feel the love #Leola has for everyone and everything.
#Tdp #thedragonprince #startouch

The startouch elf Aaravos sitting comfortably with crossed legs on a wide and cushioned chair, holding his beloved daugher Leola in his arms. Both have the same dazzling colour of a nightly sky, fading on face, arms and feet, sparkling with stars. While he has two formidably long and impressive horns, she only has one, protruding from her forehead. That's also why he calles her his little unicorn, while she is sorting again strands of his long hair, that falls down over his chest, instead taking her nap. He eyes are brimming in brightest pink and yellow, her hair shows signs of two-colours, a pinkish-lavender under the same white hair, her father has. They are unspakably happy having each other, they are full of joy and most of all: full of love.

Words can't describe what #Aaravos felt, holding his beloved #Leola for the first time - any many more, while they sat comfortly in their little house near the city Elarion. A place where she soon found many friends though she and her father remained the sole #Startouch elves walking upon Xadia.

i like you :))

*puts leola and her mum on your feed*

#tdp #thedragonprince #mysteryofaaravos #leola #isleen #startouch #elves #oc

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