The Cavalier, after leading the charge, stands triumphant on the battlefield. Amongst the carnage, he searches and finally finds his war companion and lover, injured and unconscious. He holds her close in his massive battle weary arm. Will she survive? It cannot be determined now because she is not the only survivor! He hears, behind him, the snap of bones under a massive foot. A creature ripped from the bowels of a darker, ravaged world has been conjured to do the evil bidding of the enemy. The weapons of mortal man have torn at its flesh and bone but cannot kill this devil bent on the total annihilation of good and order. The Cavalier must still face his greatest foe. A creature of unfathomable power but the Cavalier carries a blade forged from magic metal and enchanted by spells cast by the greatest sorcerers of all time. This blade is not a mortal weapon. It burns with a searing power charged by the evil souls of all the enemies the Cavalier has smote. Evil ripped from the souls of the unruly, contained in the magical metal of the blade, harnessed for the might and cause of the just and turned on the devils of his day to vanquish evil forever. Time to add the dark soul of this demon to the power of the blade.

24"x 36" penciled, scanned, digitally painted in Adobe Photoshop using a 9x12 Wacom Tablet. Commissioned by Brian Marcus of Cavalier Comics.