eleyn... drawing this was really fighting me. partially bc i accidentally made the canvas huge so it took forever. cloak pattern sketched on bc i need to figure out how to stylize it

since "elf" in twilight gest is already an in-universe loanword (from the fantasy northmen), i'm debating using the mercian spelling (aelf, f. aelfen) or west saxon (ielf, f. ielfen) for some historical verisimilitude but this might be too twee. the local name is "the fair family" (y tylwyth teg), but you can't use that as a descriptor for an individual. the thing is i LOVE playing with archaic and/or non-modern english words. my toxic tolkienian trait.

i guess people have readily accepted "faerie" instead of "fairy" as the currently dominant spelling of that so aelf might not be a step too far...?

after testing this incidentally aelf was too twee. i'm still curious about ielf but it's back to just elves for now. i am sticking to "elvish" rather than "elven" to preserve the possibility of "elfen" as a feminine form.

By nature quiet and intense, and by cultivation kind, with a helping hand always at the ready, Mererid is a young wolf-clothed of the Brecheliant Greenwood in the land of Ynys Cantrevi, born both woman and wolf.

something something excessive polish in art can be the death of it so here's a mererid as-is