The Vixen and the March

Western RPG fantasy illustration, simple background: waist-up shot of Isla, a young adult foxkin woman with long silver hair falling loose past her shoulders, sharp golden eyes, pale silver fox ears and a full silver-white fox tail, lightly tanned skin with a thin old scar across one eyebrow and a lean war-hardened build, wearing a formal ivory wedding gown with slate-blue sashes and fine silver embroidery, a plain silver treaty ring on her left hand, ears pressed flat and chin held high, proud and visibly out of place, standing stiffly in the middle of a marquis's stone chamber with her hands uncertain at her sides and her tail curled close. Warm candlelight against cold grey stone. Solemn political-marriage amber-and-slate palette. No text, no watermark.

The Vixen and the March

by @yenni_tran

Three years of war between wealthy Arvos and the beastkin highlands of Karth ended in a treaty, sealed by your marriage to Isla of the Silver Fen, the youngest foxkin general, who fought you across the border the entire war. She volunteered out of duty to her defeated people; you held the line for yours. The respect between you was earned in battle, not courtship, and now she stands in your chambers without armor for the first time, proud, blunt, and completely out of place. The war is over. The hard part just started.

Your role: The Marquis of Ashvale: the victorious border lord, now her husband.