Astraeus - Quiet Library

-Character: Astraeus (god of the spirit realm)
-Story: Ravenheart (its 3rd continuation)

Random drawing of Astraeus, god and ruler of the spirit realm, reading/studying an astral tome (special kind of tomes with black pages and with special kind of glowing, silver writing that hardly any god knows how to read in the story, since it's a special kind of writing used by the rulers of the spirit realm), with draco/dragon constellation in the background, to make the drawing serve as a budget lunar new year drawing as well.

I was just having some fun throwing random stuff into the drawing, while wishing that I, too, had a nice reading window like that, and I actually managed to come up with some more decent decorative patterns for once (got some inspiration from Neith's yolo golden pattern from a while ago). I might finish his daughter's (heroine's) version of this kind of drawing as well, when I get the time (since I made a sketchbook scribble for both).

NOTE: Astraeus is a neutral god that favours neither dragons nor phoenixes in the story, especially after being given his new position/role, since rulers of the spirit realm are not supposed to take sides between the two territories, due to being gods that watch over all souls. He mostly keeps to himself and hangs around pet griffins from time to time (who are also guardians of his temple).

I also added the sun pattern on the window, because Astraeus is known as "the god of dawn" for a very long time in the story (a title transferred to him from a certain goddess), hence phoenix Xien is later also referred to as "the Phoenix of Dawn", since he begins serving Astraeus as a companion beast through Astraeus's sister, while "the Dragon of Dusk" Muirenn begins serving "the goddess of dusk" as a companion beast and therefore gets his new nickname from that. (The two gods will later swap those two "titles" back to one another in the end, after the big, final battle between them, due to Astraeus knowing that he, by far, does not represent the "dawn", a title forced onto him by the other gods, and that goddess does not represent the "dusk".)

Astraeus's rough outfit design: https://www.artfol.co/a/cnoshxA
Astraeus's idea drawing: https://www.artfol.co/a/sa3opx2
God Neith (on the right): https://www.artfol.co/a/dqIHGz0
Astraeus's human daughter: https://www.artfol.co/a/MFhGg9O