_“The elders say each of us has our own familiar. It’s a kind of special animal spirit that lives inside you. It’s all mixed up with your soul like plants are all mixed with each other in the forest, so sometimes you can’t tell which plants are which. Summoning your familiar is the first thing you learn to do. You can do it before you talk, or crawl, even before you can eat red berries. Because of the special connection, the two of you are.. kinda the same thing. Mine’s this silly lookin cat.”_ - Rin Vaalie * More concept art of Rin wandering around the Poma forest. Now she’s got her familiar with her because it’s cute :). * **If you’ve never seen me before and wandering what the hell this is, hi! I’m Aaran the Artist and this is one of many pieces in my ever expanding fantasy world. The world I am building is called Omnes Magna, and here you’ll see concept art including the environments, character designs, pixel art, as well as the occasional lore dump. Hope you enjoy it!** I also have a video showing the process behind this piece, and going over 3 tips you can use to improve your background paintings: https://youtu.be/N5Xx1g3IMtU

**The Poma Forest** “_That forest way up over yonder? Nothin’ up there. Just a buncha trees”_ The Poma Forest is a paradoxically rich rainforest. Despite sitting high up in the mountains, the forest has bizarrely tropical weather, seemingly generated by some sort of magical force. Somewhere within the forest, some say there exists a lost summoner’s village, home to an ancient people with summoning mana coursing through their veins; but that’s just an old wives tale.