A couple of days ago I was delivered my contributor’s copy of the Game of Thrones Shadow City chapter pack by Fantasy Flight Games.

As usual, I giggled with delight, both for the free stuff aspect of the thing and, I have to admit, for the good memories that the smell of newly printed cards evokes in nerdy old me.

Anyway, Ser Gerris Drinkwater below is one of the characters I illustrated for Shadow City, here he is.

Again, I didn’t trash the sketch:

As you can see, the coloured version changed a little bit from the sketch, it was flipped, his position changed and so on.
I had no memory of Ser Gerris Drinkwater from the books, so I had to resort to A Wiki of Ice and Fire this time as well.

Gerris is tall and lean and comely, with blue-green eyes and sandy, sun-streaked hair.
He has a swordsman’s grace and a courtier’s wit.
His confidence is often close to arrogance.
Gerris does not speak the Volantene dialect of High Valyrian as well as Quentyn Martell.

Gerris wears an expensive cloak of soft brown wool lined with sandsilk.
Ser Barristan Selmy thinks Gerris is shallow and a worse warrior than Ser Archibald Yronwood.

One thing I’m chuffed about is that Ser Gerris Drinkwater was picked for the bunch of cards displayed in the product page.
Although, I have to say, my favourite illustration of the whole pack is the guy right above and to the left, Scheming Septon by Aleksander Karcz.

Anyway, as always here’s the Shadow City Chapter Pack in all its glory, look how pretty it is. Look at it!

Next week I’ll post the other illustration of the pack, Aegon Targaryen.

by Paolo Puggioni