Black and grey realism full sleeve on an upper arm and forearm, showing an armoured warrior, a skull, a spiked mace, a chain and a sword.

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Armoured warrior sleeve with skull and sword

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

The collage shows one full sleeve from several angles, running from the upper arm down towards the forearm. A helmeted armoured warrior dominates the upper arm, with a skull, a bearded face, a castle and a sword with an ornate hilt lower down, all set among billowing clouds. The shading is smooth and detailed in black and grey, with a faint warm and purple cast in some of the sky areas.

Realism Upper arm Forearm Warrior Helmet Armour Skull Castle Sword Chain Cloud

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tobin Vell had been polishing the same visor since the rain started, because his hands would not stop when his head did. Beyond the sally port the besiegers' fires had gone out one by one over three nights, and the smoke that rose in their place was the grey-violet of cloud banking over the ridge. Sir Aldous Crane had ordered the helm cleaned before he rode out to parley, though everyone in Wrenmoor knew he meant to be buried in it.

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The man who waited on the causeway was called Corvin Stroud, a bearded stranger who had come alone with a skull hung from his saddle on a length of chain. He said it was the head of the magistrate who had hanged his brother from the mill bridge. Sir Aldous studied the skull for a long while, then took his mace from its hook above the gate and walked out to meet him without a shield.

They fought in the mud below the walls until the clouds split over the keep and the bell began to ring without anyone touching the rope. Tobin climbed the parapet in time to see the knight kneel, sword planted point down in the mire, and Stroud lift the visor to find nothing behind it but rainwater and a folded letter addressed to nobody. The chain lay coiled in the grass like something sleeping.

Tobin carried the sword back through the postern that evening, its hilt cold and ornate under his thumb. He read the letter by the forge, which asked only that the gates stay barred until the bell had rung three times, and he hung the blade above the coals where the heat would keep the steel warm. Then he went back to polishing, because the helm still had a smear of mud on the left cheek plate.