Colour realism tattoo of a horned-helmeted warrior with raised arms and chainmail, across the forearm.

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Horned warrior with chainmail on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A muscular warrior wearing a horned helmet, chain necklace and chainmail stands with both arms raised, with a cape behind him. A shaded grey figure sits at the base of the design. The piece uses detailed shading and realistic rendering, with warm flesh tones, reds and browns against the grey and black areas.

Realism Forearm Warrior Helmet Horn Cape Chain Figure

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The horns came off the anvil crooked for the third time, and Ingrid Sallow held them up to the forge light and decided they would do. Brannoch Hale would not notice a finger's width of bent iron once the helm sat on his head and a crowd stood below him, and the crowd was what the buyer had paid for. Out on the causeway the tide was already working at the pilings, and the ferrymen were shouting for the last cart.

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The commission had come up from the coast in a cloth bag of silver with one instruction stitched into the lining: make him stand the way the old songs had him standing, arms up, chain bright, as though he had just hauled the sky off the ridge. Ingrid had not asked who the grey man crouched at the base of the design was meant to be. The buyer had only said that the fellow had been owed a great deal and was not to be forgotten.

She riveted the mail by lamplight, ring by ring, and pinned a cape of dark wool across the shoulders. When Brannoch came up the track at dusk with his cloak snapping in the wind, she made him stand in the doorway and lift his arms the way the buyer had drawn them. He grinned like a boy with a new knife, and the lantern threw his shadow long across the floor, where it lay beside a second shadow nobody had lit.

When the cart was gone and the causeway was under, Ingrid stamped her mark into the back of the last helm, a small crooked horn, and hung it on its peg beside the others. The tide would take the road by morning, as it always did, and the men would stand on the far bank shouting into the spray.