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The Fairytale:

*Once upon a time, in a land far far away there was a small village that lived in fear of a powerful Sorcerer. His frozen palace a top a towering mountain cast a ever looming shadow upon the small villagers below as his power brought everlasting winters and endless blizzards. The villages desperate to free there land from his icey grips sent champion after champion in hopes of destroying the Sorcerer and ending the spell his presence had cast over the land. But a lass no man seemed to be able to fight his icey power which continued to grow and spread soon covering the land.

It seemed hopeless that he could ever be defeated and the people despaired fearing there was no hope, until a young maiden sought to brave the mountain like so many before her. The villagers begged her to reconsider. How could a simple young maiden defeat a foe that not even the greatest warriors of there kingdom could not? The maiden simple smiled and told them she would succeed and bring the sun back to there land simply because she had no intentions of trying to defeat the mighty Sorcerer and that was the reason the champions had failed.

After journeying up the dangerous peaks of the mountain the maiden reached her goal and presented herself most humbly to the Sorcerer.
"Why have you come hear child?" He asked coldly. She smiled up at him and replied, "I have come to free my land from your powers." He raised a great hand and motioned to the frozen figures around him. "Then your fate will be that of the other warriors who have journeyed here in the hopes to kill me."
She smiled again and bowed lower. "I do not wish to kill you, nor to I believe it is within anyones power to do so. No I will free our land by melting your heart. My love for you will melt your heat and freeing you from your icy prison and my people in turn."

Perplexed the Sorcerer allowed the maiden to stay with him. Each day she spend with him and she showed him all the kindness and love she could muster in hopes of melting his heart. But the cold palace's power could not be melted and the maiden eventually froze to death withing its icy walls.
As the Sorcerer was to lay her perfectly preserved body withing a glittering tomb, holding her one last time in his arms, he realized he could not let go. It seemed in death the young maiden was finally able to melt his heart. One warm tear escaped the Sorcerer's eye freezing halfway down her cheek. He pulled her limp body close and knew all he could no longer live without the brief warmth the maiden's sacrifice had given him.

The frost melted and soon the sun returned. The villagers rejoyest, yet the maiden never returned. They often wondered what became of her. If they had ever chosen to venture back up the mountain they would have found a small tomb, the only remains of a melted palace. Deep withing, light dancing off there sparking smooth surface, they'd have found the maiden and the Sorcerer frozen forever in there last waltz.*

Woot finished XD. Read the above story if you haven't already because it explains the image. Technical art stuff is....done in PS 7 painted in ONE layer. Thats right ONE layer only, fear me! All I had was a scan in of my sketch, a fixed perspective, and a sketch layer to redraw thing the scan didn't so well or I wanted to redraw but I did alllllll the work in ONE layer, pretty awesome huh? Biggest challenge yet, and although I wish it were even better, ie I know there are problems in the maidens hands and feet >< I am pretty please with how much work I did and how well it turned out. I hope the color is good my computer is brighter and alhough i didn't want this too bright I hope its still nice on other computers XD

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