The lost monastery.

I like to give myself a drawing challenge. I have a weekend to draw as much as I can from a story. The rub is that all the characters I draw die at the end of the weekend. That means that I can never redraw them or revisit their world. Once the weekend is over I can no longer think about them. Why? Honestly it gives me this relief and freedom. I don't have to care about these characters and stress over them like I do the characters from Storm of the World. Its just fun for me. I am not trying to make anything epic, I am just making a world and at the end of the weekend the world is destroyed. 

I have done this twice now. Click here to see the first world back in February of 2016.

Here is the second world. Titled The Lost Monastery. 

A potion merchant comes across a being dying in the marsh. The unknown creature had come from the under earth to try and stop a great calamity. The merchant tries to help the creature, before it dies it whispers to the traveler 3 words. The merchant is on his way to a remote monastery to gather a rare herb he had heard about. The monastery is the only place know to harvest the rare plant. It grows on the side of a oddly shaped mountain. 

Unbeknownst to the merchant the creature was killed by one of the monks. This monk is a junkie who gets high off the rare plant. He did not know the intent of the creature, he was high at the time and thought the creature was a nightmare. Its not until the traveler reaches the monastery that the junkie realizes that it was not a nightmare and he really did kill the creature. In order to hide what he did and still not in the right mind, he kills the  potion merchant.

The merchant was starting to piece together the 3 words that the creature had whispered to him. Sitting in the monastery's vast library he came across a book that foretold the coming calamity. The oddly shaped mountain long ago was struck by a falling star. A slumbering calamity was about to wake and the rare plant was the key to its undoing.