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A piece for a "Mortal Imass" challenge over at the Malazan forums. I didn't spend all that long on this, one evening in fact. I wanted to get the mood right especially, not any super tiny details.

T'Lan Imass are a race from Steven Erikson's books. Does he look like a neanderthal man? No coincidence, the Imass lived hundreds of thousands of years before the events in Erikson's books take place.
In order to win a war with a powerful enemy - the Jaghuts, the Imass performed a ritual and put the whole race under a curse - they became undead. This "immortality" was supposed to help them hunt down all the Jaghuts.

It's a very complex and sad story. The man in the picture is Onrack called the Broken. A rather tragic figure, here's some info about him:

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This picture shows him sitting in the middle of a tundra - it's a SPOILER:


after he got his mortal body back in the Reaper's Gale book.

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I know he's supposed to have "amber" skin and most likely I screwed up some other details as well. This is just how I imagined the Imass.
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*Dok-Kizzi Aug 24, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
I have not read this story but I am incredibly intrigued after seeing your artwork portraying this character who seems to have a lot of complexity to him.

You do an excellent job of giving this depiction depth, emotion, and beauty. Great tundra landscape.

Really adore this one.
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~Son-of-Meng Jul 18, 2010
I first saw this one , a quick glance on the Malazan Empire site front page, I thought it amazing. Had to refresh the site maybe a 100 times for I found it again.

With regards,

Imperial High Mage Tayschrenn
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~Merlkir Jul 18, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
:D Glad you like it!
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~gondring Jun 9, 2010
I love this, definitely my favorite depiction of the character. The emotion is just as thoughtful as Onrack really is.
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~Merlkir Jun 9, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
I'm glad it works! :)
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~CaligulaClone Mar 4, 2010
Where does it say he's supposed to have amber skin? He's just a regular human neanderthal, maybe the "amber" skin was just a poetic description of the lighting or something.
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~Merlkir Mar 4, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
Yeahm, I'm hoping so. Anyway, I have no idea what type of skin neanderthals had. They could be rather pale too. It doesn't matter, this tone fit my image of the character. ;)
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~Katzilla13 Feb 28, 2010
Great work, as usual! There is something very poetic about this piece.
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~asd-Kazzan-asd Feb 2, 2010   Traditional Artist
Impressive, nice detail, brings out a atmoshpere that is worthy of the story.
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~Merlkir Feb 2, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks! ;)
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