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Anybody remembers when this thing followed a young salkahi home? Here be Javiki again and her father Veriki. Veriki is much more impressed than he looks like, there's a reason.

Veriki the Sorcerer's interest for supernatural things started very early. His family line has owned most of surrounding lands and they were about richest ones around, with a fancy house. Many thanks for their exentric auntie, who had collected quite a fortune and as childless herself, had left everything to some relatives. Veriki had never cared about that, instead he searched all surrounding forests and hills, trying to find something and anything that is not quite normal. His room had filled with oddly shaped wood pieces, stones, feathers, random little skulls and even a hellfrog crown. Still quite normal things.
One day young Veriki came back home from his usual treasure hunts, but something was wrong. He looked unharmed, just walked a bit dizzy. With more careful inspect his parents found that he couldn't make clear expressions anymore. It seemed his face was mainly paralyzed, but still worked quite good. Veriki explained he had encountered something that had done something and then some of his face muscles were vanished. That absurd explanation didn't fit for Veriki's parents at all, no matter the boy had read almost all possible books in whole town.
After that bizarre incident more things started to happen, first rarely but then more often. Anything that wasn't explainable. Veriki was enthusiastic (no matter his face didn't look that), his family didn't. They were normal creatures who wanted to live normal life, their mind blocked all supernaturality out, they didn't see what Veriki did, neither wanted to understand anything. Veriki was sent out of town (not exiled, just to study someplace else), and his family hoped the supernatural things would follow him.
They didn't leave. Weird things kept on happening, and now there wasn't anybody to explain anything. Veriki's siblings moved out one by one, and finally Veriki was called back when his parents couldn't stand this anymore, and moved out too. He got whole house for himself.
He got strange fame around the town and its surroundings. He never showed any expressions, was remarkably taller and slightly fluffier than average salkahi. In any case, he was able to heal hard diseases and wounds (and mostly without any magic, just natural incredients) so he gained respect.
Veriki's interest were mainly only in strange things. His housekeeping was poor and his cooking skills even worse. But he was overall nice person, somewhat distant and expressionless, but polite and kind. Some salkahi ladies were interested about him - handsome and rich after all. Veriki himself had no big interest to have a family but had nothing against it. Veriki liked to show his house and strange things he has found, with the result that other salkahis just ran away and blocked what they were seen from their mind. Veriki's future wife Vinna did so too. But she couldn't unsee "truth" anymore, she saw supernaturality afterwards. She was scared and actually ran back to Veriki, telling she rather stays with somebody who knows how to handle these things.
When Javiki was born, Veriki had an accident with poisonous vapor that made him infertile, thus leaving Javiki the only child. Some time afterward Veriki got lost in time crack that appeared in his old room (now his main "lab") with the results he was lost over seven years in past. He came back - after a mere minute in his time - but has got those over seven years older. Thus he looks older than he really is.
Javiki has same interest for supernatural things as her father. Veriki is proud of his daughter (Javiki was able to find something like Sympathy at this young age) and Vinna tries to endure.

Liner, colour pencils.
Nothing special standing still pic. I just wanted to draw Veriki. And ended up with whole story.
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Stargazer69's avatar
cool background story and awesome drawing!:D