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Quoted from Jason's (~Crimson-Shirou ) War of the Roses Primer :

"While casting complex spells, the magier sometimes manifests animus (latin. soul), an idealized representation of the magier’s person or self image. A magier’s power can be gauged simply by looking at his animus. The clearer and more elaborate the animus, the more power he possesses."

Kamal al-Sa'ir's animus manifests in the form of a brilliant, fiery four-winged angel. Here in this picture, his animus is beginning to materialize as he performs a powerful magic spell. In full flare, the animus has a fiery aura, a burning sword, and is dotted with runes similar to Kamal's runes. I opted not to draw a full flare because it detracted from the character in the picture (Kamal) and put too much attention on the animus, which is the opposite effect I was trying to achieve. So, to shift the focus back to Kamal, I faded the angelic visage into the background.

This is NOT a summoning. Kamal detests magic that summons extraplanar entities and has never learned any spells to that effect. As mentioned above, it's a manifestation of his inner self. The reason he has an angelic animus will be revealed during the course of the manga (which I am actually working on doing panels and pages for...slowly).

I've got a details shot coming so you can see closeups of the runes on Kamal's armbands and some other choice things, as well as Kamal and the angel individually.

Kamal al-Sa'ir is (c) Micah Weltsch (*kaitou-kage )
War of the Roses is a joint project that is (c) Jason Koh (~Crimson-Shirou ) and Micah Weltsch (*kaitou-kage )

Description
Quoted from Jason's (~Crimson-Shirou ) War of the Roses Primer :

"While casting complex spells, the magier sometimes manifests animus (latin. soul), an idealized representation of the magier’s person or self image. A magier’s power can be gauged simply by looking at his animus. The clearer and more elaborate the animus, the more power he possesses."

Kamal al-Sa'ir's animus manifests in the form of a brilliant, fiery four-winged angel. Here in this picture, his animus is beginning to materialize as he performs a powerful magic spell. In full flare, the animus has a fiery aura, a burning sword, and is dotted with runes similar to Kamal's runes. I opted not to draw a full flare because it detracted from the character in the picture (Kamal) and put too much attention on the animus, which is the opposite effect I was trying to achieve. So, to shift the focus back to Kamal, I faded the angelic visage into the background.

This is NOT a summoning. Kamal detests magic that summons extraplanar entities and has never learned any spells to that effect. As mentioned above, it's a manifestation of his inner self. The reason he has an angelic animus will be revealed during the course of the manga (which I am actually working on doing panels and pages for...slowly).

I've got a details shot coming so you can see closeups of the runes on Kamal's armbands and some other choice things, as well as Kamal and the angel individually.

Kamal al-Sa'ir is (c) Micah Weltsch (*kaitou-kage )
War of the Roses is a joint project that is (c) Jason Koh (~Crimson-Shirou ) and Micah Weltsch (*kaitou-kage )