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El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle

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You are a stranger here, El-ahrairah. You are alive.

I haven't draw any Watership down fanart or any complex art lately, but the linearts of this picture were sitting on my computer for almost a year now, and I decided to finish them. The background is crap as usual, the Black Rabbit looks to monster-like, but otherwise, I like it :)

This was the darkest tale of Watership down, the tale of the Prince of rabbits who offers his life for his people and take a journey to find Death himself to take his offer. The spirit rabbits are the Owsla of the Black Rabbit, "shadows without smell or sound".
This tale was told before Bigwig was about doing the same as their mythological hero did: risk his life to save their people.

The Black Rabbit smelt clean as last years bones and in the dark El-ahrairah could see his eyes, for they were red with a light that gave no light.
- You are a stranger here, El-ahrairah - said the Black Rabbit.- You are alive.
- My lord - replied El-ahrairah - I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.
The Black Rabbit draws his claws along the floor.
- Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah - he said-. There is not a day or a night but a doe to offer her life for her kittens or some hones Captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it's taken - sometimes it's not.
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renz5070's avatar

Fun fact, the prince rabbits’ name is a mix of three words from the language of the books.

El-ahrairah

Elil-hrier-rah.

Elil: enemy.

hrier: any number over five usually spoken as a thousand.

And rah: prince.

So elil-hrier-rah: enemy thousand prince

(prince with a thousand enemies).