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>>4701794
Cheers m8.

>>4701800
Short answer: wizards.

Long answer:
A woman finds her house partially collapsed with a big-ass hole in it and her husband and two sons missing, races to town looking for the local wizard. Finding him and his apprentice in the tavern eating a meal, they immediately send for the local militia to meet them at her ruined house. The wizard and his apprentice make a brief stop at their tower to prepare for the worst as they theorize on what might have happened, surmising it was likely the work of a rogue wizard.
They meet a small squad of militia, captained by a giant woman. Using a hound they follow the scent of the husband, which leads them into a labryinth in the wall of the massive cavern the story takes place in. They scale the wall, enter the labyrinth, make their way through tunnels lined with cables and tubes and long-abandoned machinery, eventually finding the husband carrying his heavily injured eldest son.
To cut this synopsis short they find the rogue wizard squatting in a large structure, exchange a few spells and finish him off, rescuing the youngest son in the process.

It's a prototype of a series I want to make. I'm focusing on drawing backgrounds mostly here, since that's the area I want to improve in the most. I feel like I didn't leave enough room for the action at the end so it ends kinda rushed, and the story isn't particularly tightly written. But in actually trying to depict this setting visually for the first time I realzie things that perhaps should have been obvious to me (such as, being in a giant cavern, it's perpetually dark, so everyone carries lanterns or other lighting devices, buildings and roads are lit with lamps, the environment has a fair amount of bioluminescence etc).