Nestraphine (Painting)

A picture of a slender female moon elf woman with shoulder length white hair, her features are delicate and slight. Her eyes are dark shade, maybe even black, the pupils hard to discern against the iris. She’s shown from the hips up, facing the viewer, holding a longsword in one hand. She wears a garb of black and burgundy in rich silks and velvets.

The background of the painting is a grey-black swirls, heavily contrasting the still, strange figure that’s the centre of the painting.

The expression on the elf’s face is… unsettling. Close up there is the faint bulge of fangs about the mouth – the sign of her vampire nature, a little exaggerated for artistic sake. That is perhaps the most expressive thing there though – her demeanour otherwise seems vague, distant, etherial. Her black, dead eyes are devoid of any emotion save, perhaps, a tinge of faint deep seated sorrow. There’s a sense of terrible loneliness about the figure, standing solitary in the encroaching dark, a single candle in the night, flickering, about to vanish.

At the bottom right of the picture, very small, is a tiny black rams head, in profile, with ‘A.S.’ beneath it.