(Asymm'Ariom. El Shar'Akkolom. Preliminary J. Charro sketch)
The mist is waking up. It is making clear. The wind pulls the strings away, the veils. New faces appears before us, before me: the hunter. Before the marks, he was an elf. I'd never seen his clean face so vividly. His gaze is the one of a bird of prey. Eyes fixed in the piece. He has an empty soul due to a life almost forgotten, but that has marked him. He is him before. He isn't him now. Charro invites us to enjoy this past picture. It is like beholding an echo reflected on the surface of a lake. Looking at him is an overwelming experience.
Jade Flower as an illustrated series is being a path full of beyond belief experiences for this one responsible of the lines that you all are reading. To you, in the best case, it will be a new experience. To many, it can mean the meeting with a admirable cohort of wandering souls. Discovering, over a low heat, the way of building a story full of a liric beauty and a piercing epic. I've spent a few lifes writing it. Now, next to Charro's work -extracted from his guts-, this story converted in a series that breaks the conceptual frame of what is a book. A story launched as a e-book to overcome the printed page limitations... the chance to give my best is opened before me. The chance to return inside these broken souls and to nest again. The chance to add pages where I can offer aspects that could not be exposed in a different way. Perhaps, the trip I am starting leads to nowhere. Maybe, the adventure I have been invited to play -thanks to his magical colours and traces- is so crazy that, perhaps, it is worth to dive into it naked. You all will have the last word. You will be those who, at the end of this battle where a writer and an illustrator bet their souls in a card play with the devil, will approve each drop of blood. We just have to go on discovering those faces and those secrets that once stayed out of the way and now are coming back. If you remain behind the mirrors, maybe sometime you will also come back with them.
(Ariom vs AnhkAhra. Preliminary pencil. Javier Charro)
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