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Ruta Skadi

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On her right sat a visitor: the queen of the Latvian witches, whose name was Ruta Skadi. She'd arrived only an hour before, to Serafina's surprise. Serafina had thought Mrs Coulter beautiful, for a short-life; but Ruta Skadi was as lovely as Mrs Coulter, with an extra dimension of the mysterious, the uncanny. [...] It was said that Lord Asriel himself had been her lover. Serafina's daemon Kaisa had learned from Ruta Skadi's daemon that she had killed the tigers herself in order to punish the Tartar tribe who worshipped them, because the tribesmen had failed to do her honour when she had visited their territory. Without their tiger-gods the tribe had declined into fear and melancholy, and begged her to allow them to worship her instead, only to be rejected with contempt; for what good would their worship do her, she asked? It had done nothing for the tigers. Such was Ruta Skadi: beautiful, proud, and pitiless.

-The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman.

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PS CS2, about 5 hours on and off.
Credit for splatter brushes to :iconred-eclipse:
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909x1200px 834.14 KB
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HP
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HP Scanjet djf300
Date Taken
Dec 16, 2007, 7:13:25 PM
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MUAHAHA
I <3 Ruta Skadi 8D