From Left to right: Victoria Rulin, Amelia Kenza, Samuel Novalis, Daesa Marlin, Regant, Stalric, Neras, Ellaria, Shade, Rachel Porvost, Ser'al, Terrasa.

"Thirteen bells tolled...
Thirteen laments sung...
Thirteen souls knew the cost...
Forty dragons forever lost...

The pacts were made...
Eternally in stone, Family laid...
The wanderers, the soldiers, the tinkerers, and the learned...
Time's misty seas ever churned...

Long years they wait...
Their promise unabated...
Memory will weave the lost...
From test and hardship as thread through cloth...

On plains of ash, legends will stand...
Through trials of strife amid the endless sand...
The bells will be wrung...
On the Thirteenth sun...

The timeless will sleep...
As the freed weep...
Fiftry-Three bells forever bold...
Endlessly will their story be told..."
~Sadol

The Details:
Program: Photoshop CS6
Time: 100+ hours....somewhere around there....
Layer Count: 655

This is the culmination of 2012, though a little late this is my Milestone for that year. The line up is of the thirteen dragons in my fantasy world who risked everything for a chance to end the oppressive reign of the Arch Angel Michael and lost their lives. Michael survives into the main series "Legends of the Scale" but this tale isn't about him, it's about the thirteens dragons and what they did, what they set the foundation for in the future. It was by their sacrifice that would set in motion what will transpire over the course of the series.

Thirteen Bells will be a short novel telling the story through the eyes of the only one to witness what happened. The book is planned for a Spring release and is currently being written. This is a teaser of the book.

Keep an eye out for any upcoming information.

Bigger Version: http://metaldragon27.deviantart.com/art/Thirteen-Bells-346624689