Found a perfect pic for a Forest Folk mouse in Melissa Vernon's (of Digger) Elfwood gallery. If I wanted to commission a full-color cover pic, I could definitely do worse.
The underground mice end up like naked mole rats? With skin covering their shrivelled, vestigial eyes? After all, there are bad things in the depths, and they're swimming in them.
"Mouse Guard" is apparently a cute fantasy comic book about mice who serve as scouts and guards for a mousy kingdom. No overt magic in the samples, but there is a blue-robed guard who carries a staff instead of a sword and who might be paralyzing a snake by holding his staff against its head. Not sure.
Touch spells possibly being easier... and enchanted staves that can conduct them.
Posted by Kiz at February 25, 2006 11:17 AMCommentsPost a comment