BRUNA — The Caravan Mother

"Nobody in this company dies alone. That is the wage."

The Caravan Mother — one of the Free Marches, in the medieval world being eaten alive by the Pale Rot. Part of the AETHELGARD — THE WORLD THAT ROTS collection.

Trigger word: bruna — first, then her tags, then the scene.

Three versions: Anima (Anima-Base and Anima finetunes), Krea 2 (Krea 2 RAW/Turbo) and Illustrious (WAI and the Illustrious family). Same trigger, same design.

THE LORE

The Free Marches run on salt, and the salt runs on Bruna. She has taken caravans through the passes for thirty years, through rot-fog and bandit country and the kind of weather that kills mules, and she has never lost a wagon she signed for. The company is hers. She knows every one of their names and every one of their debts.

She is short and stout and weathered, with war paint across her eyes that she puts on before every crossing and bone beads in her braids — one for each of the company who did not come back. She adds to the braids herself, at the fire, without saying anything.

She charges double for the northern routes and pays every coin of the second half to the families. The Marches think she is sentimental. The Marches have not counted the beads.

WHAT SHE WANTS, AND WHAT SHE FEARS

• What she wants: to bring the company home whole, one more season, and then one more.

• What she fears: a crossing where the beads are the only thing that comes back.

• How she sounds in a scene: gruff, warm, and used to being obeyed the first time.

APPEARANCE

• Fixed: 1girl, tanned skin, pale grey eyes, dark brown hair, many braids, short stout body, large breasts, weathered face, war paint across her eyes, bone beads in her braids

• Work outfit: hardened leather cuirass, fur mantle

HOW TO RUN HER

• LoRA weight 0.8–1.0. Two characters in one prompt: drop each LoRA to ~0.6 and go wide.

• Anima version: 32 steps / CFG 4 / ER SDE + Beta. 832×1216 portrait.

• Illustrious version: 28 steps / CFG 5–6 / Euler a (SDXL family). 832×1216 portrait.

• House style, after the character tags — this is what keeps her in her world:

grim medieval dark fantasy graphic novel style, thick ink outlines, desaturated earth tones broken by luminous toxic green, heavy chiaroscuro, woodcut hatching, painterly brushwork, candlelit rim lighting

• Lights that suit her: campfire, grey fog, cold morning.

• Negative: bad quality, worst quality, lowres, watermark, signature, text, extra digits, blurry, clean, sunny, modern, colourful

PROMPTS

La escena de su facción

bruna, 1girl, tanned skin, pale grey eyes, dark brown hair, many braids, short stout body, large breasts, weathered face, war paint across her eyes, bone beads in her braids, hardened leather cuirass, fur mantle, a mountain pass in rot-fog, wagons in a line, full body, campfire, grey fog, cold morning, grim medieval dark fantasy graphic novel style, thick ink outlines, desaturated earth tones broken by luminous toxic green, heavy chiaroscuro, woodcut hatching, painterly brushwork, candlelit rim lighting

Retrato

bruna, 1girl, tanned skin, pale grey eyes, dark brown hair, many braids, short stout body, large breasts, weathered face, war paint across her eyes, bone beads in her braids, hardened leather cuirass, fur mantle, a campfire at night, mules and packs, medium shot, campfire, grey fog, cold morning, grim medieval dark fantasy graphic novel style, thick ink outlines, desaturated earth tones broken by luminous toxic green, heavy chiaroscuro, woodcut hatching, painterly brushwork, candlelit rim lighting

Encuadre abierto

bruna, 1girl, tanned skin, pale grey eyes, dark brown hair, many braids, short stout body, large breasts, weathered face, war paint across her eyes, bone beads in her braids, hardened leather cuirass, fur mantle, a free company staging yard, banners and mud, wide shot, campfire, grey fog, cold morning, grim medieval dark fantasy graphic novel style, thick ink outlines, desaturated earth tones broken by luminous toxic green, heavy chiaroscuro, woodcut hatching, painterly brushwork, candlelit rim lighting

Primer plano

bruna, 1girl, tanned skin, pale grey eyes, dark brown hair, many braids, short stout body, large breasts, weathered face, war paint across her eyes, bone beads in her braids, hardened leather cuirass, fur mantle, a mountain road in snow, carts and torches, close-up portrait, campfire, grey fog, cold morning, grim medieval dark fantasy graphic novel style, thick ink outlines, desaturated earth tones broken by luminous toxic green, heavy chiaroscuro, woodcut hatching, painterly brushwork, candlelit rim lighting