End of the Beginning - Full WIPs and alt (Patreon)

I went into this with a sort of "what if the Main Canon™ had a cover?" some two years ago, made a sketch, and didn't feel confident in working on it more. If I tried to anyway I'd just lose interest and do something else.

When reworking this, I decided I wanted to make two standalone versions to then superimpose later, but still look like good images on their own. Despite Silas being an important character he doesn't get drawn much, so this was also a good excuse to do something about that. I hope people like these because this was probably the longest time I've spent on what's intended to be a single image in easily several years, and especially on such a large canvas.