brandee has always had a fasination with faeries & other faefolk. She feels a deep kinship to their magical, tricky ways. This character, Mai Riverrime, originally came about as part of a Dungeon’s and Dragons game where brandee rolled for different characteristics, like the salamander tail and her shimmering, tinted skin. She’s a clumsy but surprisingly powerful magic weilder. The painting came about to create a Magic the Gathering token art. In the MTG universe, she’s a Dimir Faerie Rogue with flying.

She’s a winter faerie — introverted, reserved, and can come across as cold at times. She’s a fierce defender of her friends, though she doesn’t always know how to work her magic outside of the Feywild.

Like many faefolk, her name is not a true name (giving such a thing over would give one power over her) but rather how she came to be in the Material Plane. There are many different points the fae can cross worlds, often they travel by accident. Mai was skating on her favorite river’s frost too close to the frozen waterfall as it began to thaw, cascading her down through planes of existence.