Prayers of the Udugan

This is an original, one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted work by artist David Paul Seymour.

Paper: Strathmore 400 Series black, 11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.6 cm), 184 (300 gsm) heavy stock.
Mat size: 16 x 20" (Mat included with purchase).
Medium: Colored pencils

Prayers of the Udugan

The Udugan, a shamaness of the Northeast Tribal Order of the Clan of Xymox, keeps vigil in her chambers while the army marches to war against the Ironclads.

Unblinking, unmoving, she sits in silence with blade and prayer bound as one. Her stare reaches far beyond the walls that contain her, stretching across hundreds of miles to the battlefield itself. Through rites older than kingdoms, she calls upon the spirits of forefathers long dead, summoning their presence to the field so that their descendants do not march alone.

The protection she offers is not gentle, but something ancestral, merciless and earned in blood, memory, and oath.

She is not naive enough to believe all will return home. No war against the Ironclads has ever ended without cost, and no prayer spoken in times such as these is made without sacrifice already waiting in its shadow. She does not kneel this day for survival alone, but for the long-awaited requital of atrocities heaped upon her Cult for far too long.

And so she keeps her vigil, eyes fixed upon a war she cannot see, guiding unseen hands through smoke, steel, and slaughter, until the field is decided, or her own spirit is laid beside them.