Transcript
Book 1, Chapter Five: Spear-won Land, Pages 93 and 94
Tatata ti!
The trumpeter sings,
the standard-bearer lifts high his staff of bronze eagle –
And boom, they are off!
Wild goes the crowd!
Chapter Five 093-094
Whew, finally! Sorry for the week’s delay – this sequence was hell to sketch. Colouring is much better and way funner, but it’s actually a lot of work despite the apparent simplicity of the style.
Content warning for the next remaining pages in this art style: there will be some horses getting injured and falling over. It’s not violent (no blood, no bones).
Footnotes:
Here a bronze eagle is raised (representing Zeus, patron of the games) to signal the official start of the race. I have no idea how exactly the eagle is raised in this Alexander Romance version of the games – it could be a mechanism or a person.
The eagle staff-bearer is accompanied by a salpinx player. A salpinx is a long trumpet and it sounds something like this.
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