Princess Nausicaa

Nausicaä is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a state on the periphery of what was once known as Eftal, a kingdom destroyed by the Sea of Corruption 300 years before the story begins. The leaders of the Periphery states are now vassals to the Torumekian Emperor and are obliged to send their forces to help when he invades the neighboring Dorok lands. The Torumekians have a strong conventional military, but the Doroks have developed a genetically modified version of a mold from the Sea of Corruption which they use to overwhelm invaders. But when the Doroks introduce this mold into battle, its rapid growth and mutation result in a daikaisho (roughly translated from Japanese as "great tidal wave"), which floods across the land and draws the insects into the battle, killing as many Doroks as Torumekians. In doing so, the Sea of Corruption spreads across most of the Dorok nation, uprooting or killing vast numbers of civilians and rendering most of the land uninhabitable.

The Ohmu and other forest insects respond to this development and sacrifice themselves in order to pacify the uncontrollable expansion of the mold. However, the fact that the mold can be manipulated and used as a weapon disturbs Nausicaä. Her treks into the forest have already taught her that the Sea of Corruption is actually purifying the polluted land. The Forest People, humans who have learned to live in harmony with the Sea of Corruption, confirm this is the purpose of the Sea of Corruption and show Nausicaä a vision of the restored Earth at the center of the forest. Nausicaä travels deeper into Dorok territory, where her coming has long been prophesied, to seek those responsible for manipulating the mold. There, she discovers a God Warrior, which allows her to evade both the Dorok and Torumekian armies.

Nausicaä eventually reaches Shuwa, the Holy City of the Doroks, where she enters the Crypt, a giant monolithic construct from before the Seven Days of Fire. There, she learns that the last scientists of the industrial era had foreseen the end of their civilization. They created the Sea of Corruption to clean the land, altered human genes to cope with the pollution, stored their own personalities inside the Crypt, and waited for the day when they could re-emerge. However, their continual manipulation of the population is at odds with Nausicaä's belief in the natural order and has led to the cycles of violence which have plagued the world for a thousand years. She orders the God-Warrior to destroy its progenitors, giving humanity the opportunity to live or die without the benefit of the old society's technology.

-- From Wikipedia. ^ o^

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Some fan art that I drew up over 5 years ago I think. (I really should keep better track of these things)

I decided to color it in digitally while doing my best to mimic a watercolor style.

I am hoping to have prints made of this piece among others to sell at the local comic conventions... and mebe even ebay.

*Edit* oops the RGB conversion made the clouds too pink... Fixed!*

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