i'm still going to color this but i actually really like how it came out in just black and white (and gold embroidery)

colors! eleyn helped her commission her dress and came up with the color scheme, since orphne is mostly blind. the rubies on her necklace are actually colored glass, but the pearls are real.

i'm still going to color this but i actually really like how it came out in just black and white (and gold embroidery)

this style of academic gown is anachronistic but so is "10th century women's college" so. also it's cute.

fun fact about the twilight gest setting: gwenffrewi college is if you transplanted the feminist milieu of the early oxford women's colleges to the 10th century so the Hot Debate is should women cover their hair or not. eleyn has attempted to split the difference, pleasing no one. orphne doesn't cover her hair although she does wear it tied up (totally loose hair still marks you as a Young woman) and mererid is ignorant of the whole debate since she's from a matriarchal werewolf commune.