Portrait of a Sovereign:
The Empress
Category
Illustration
Year
2024
Medium
Digital
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop
“You serve me not out of love. You serve me because I have not yet stopped protecting you. The day I do, your obligation ends; and so, perhaps, do you.”
She was built on three pillars before she was built on anything else:
to know herself completely, to revere what she found there, to govern it with hands that never tremble.
The Empress rules because the alternative is something most are not prepared to survive.
“You reach for my mind with soft, fumbling hands; creatures of blood convinced that nearness is understanding. It is not.”