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How It All Started<\/h3>\n\n


Hi and welcome to\u00a0Dances in Exile<\/strong>. This comic is a real passion project. I\u2019ve been working on the stories and these characters for close to twenty years off and on. T\u2019Orianna started off as a D&D character. I wanted to do something different than your elf, human or half orc. So I created a female warrior from another plane\/world and set her down in a harsh world where her people come to train and sharpen their survival skills. As we played week after week her backstory started to fill out and I quickly noticed that I had a whole galaxy of material to work with. The more I thought about her and the eL\u2019nathians the more and more stories started to come until I had a dozen or more spiral note book full of stories. For years I did page layouts and rewrote dialogue and add characters and worlds and races and\u2026 you get the idea.
But this comic isn\u2019t a one man show. I had a lot of help from friends and family along the way (some, if not most, I tricked into listening to my rants). But there was a plethora of people that brain stormed with me and inspired me. Far too many to name here.<\/p>\n

I finally, I met Jake and Sean Baggs at a comic-con we were attending and we got talking and they decided that they were interested in working with me on this project. I can\u2019t thank them enough. Jake\u2019s pencils are strong and bold. Sean\u2019s coloring is striking and delightful.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy the comic as much as we did making it. I am proud of the results.<\/p>\n\n


Jan 7, 2020
~Delfino~<\/p>\n\n\n

The Story<\/h3>\n\n


Dances in Exile<\/strong> is a science fiction story that takes place in a far of quadrant of our galaxy where alien races and faster than light travel is common place.\u00a0 The main characters are T\u2019Orianna, aZ\u2019ariah, and oR\u2019thargurys.<\/p>\n\n\n

The stories follow T\u2019Orianna, a female, of the warrior sect of eL\u2019nath, as she is unceasingly chased through several star systems, nebulas, planets and space stations, by her ex-fianc\u00e9, oR\u2019thargurys.\u00a0 Besides the many bounty hunters, oR\u2019thargurys also sends his right hand man and lieutenant of his personal guard, aZ\u2019ariah, to chase her down.\u00a0 Unknown to oR\u2019thargurys, years before aZ\u2019ariah was T\u2019Orianna\u2019s academy trainer and one time lover.\u00a0 Now aZ\u2019ariah must choose between honor and duty, and the love he still feels for T\u2019Orianna.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n


Dances in Exile is an adult comic book with very hard language, sexual content, and graphic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n

T\u2019Orianna\u2019s Background<\/h3>\n\n\n
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T’Orianna was about to get married to a noble of a powerful eL\u2019nathian House.\u00a0 The marriage was arranged by their parents in hope to strengthen power and influence.\u00a0 Unfortunately T’Orianna was a very arrogant woman.\u00a0 Up until now she had been undefeated by any opponent.\u00a0 On the day upon meeting her future husband she boasted and bragged of her fighting skills, and declared that she could take on any male even her husband-to-be\u2019s men.\u00a0 In jest he said that she would have to fight him to reach his men.\u00a0 With that she challenged him to a duel.\u00a0 He did not take the challenge very seriously and they started to tussle. \u00a0By the time he realized that T’Orianna was not joking he was face down and unconscious.\u00a0 When he woke up he was livid with rage and wanted to kill her for making a fool of him in front of his men, but T’Orianna was gone.\u00a0 Her father spirited her away and put her on a ship in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n



Her parents had agreed that the less people knew the better, so they made arrangements to marry him to T’Orianna\u2019s younger sister and to hide T’Orianna from him.\u00a0 But oR\u2019thargurys\u2019es pride would not let the matter rest and he vowed to hunt her down and make her pay for his humiliation.<\/p>\n

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Click the following button to see the full digital comic!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dances In Exile Online Comic<\/a><\/div>\n

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View more drawings of T’Orianna in the Dances In Exile Gallery<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

Creators<\/h3>\n\n


I am a life long lover of all things Geek-dom, but Sci-fi and Fantasy are at the top of my list.\u00a0 I have been drawing and writing stories since the age of 4, when I met my childhood friend Vincent Amoroso, who showed me my first comic book.\u00a0 As a child\u00a0Lost in Space<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Land of the Lost<\/em>\u00a0had a profound effect on me.\u00a0 These were my gateway drugs and cemented the foundation for my love of the genre.\u00a0 Then in 1973 my dad took me to my first movie in the theaters.\u00a0 That movie was The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and from then on, I was enraptured more deeply than Narcissus was with his reflection.\u00a0 I fell deeper into the rabbit hole in 1977 when my friend Kevin Tomasello introduced me to The Hobbit.\u00a0 And of course, that was the same year that Star Wars came out.\u00a0 \u2019Nuff Said!<\/p>\n\n


I\u2019d like to thank:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n


Daniel R. Horne<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for being a mentor but mostly a friend.
Tony Williams<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for his technical knowledge
Brenda<\/strong>\u00a0(my wife)\u00a0Valkyrie, Alexandria, & Galadriel<\/strong>\u00a0(my daughters) \u2013\u00a0 for listening to my endless rants and prattling.
Amerigo Falciani<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for many a brainstorming sessions\u00a0 (basically listening to me go on and on about my stories).
Kevin Tomasello<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for introducing me to The Hobbit.
Vincent Amoroso<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 For lighting the spark and introducing me to comic books.
Jake Baggs<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for his pencils on “The Tech Wizard”.
Sean Baggs<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 for his coloring on “The Tech Wizard”.<\/p>\n\n


Jake Baggs and Sean Baggs:<\/strong>
A brother duo hailing from Burlington, Vermont.
Pencilist \/ Inker – Jake Baggs
Colorist – Sean Baggs
Additional works and information can be found at\u00a0www.baggsbrothersart.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n


Yannick Oliveira:<\/strong>
An artist located in Cape Verde.
Pencilist for the “Balls The Size of Jovian Moons” story<\/p>\n\n


Daniel R. Horne:<\/strong>
Pencilist for the “The Bazaar” story<\/p>\n\n


Translators:<\/strong>
Elio De Filippo \u2013\u00a0 Italian
Irian Mishonkova \u2013\u00a0 Russian
Jennifer Guay \u2013 French<\/p>\n\n


3-D modeler:<\/strong>
Alexandria Falciani<\/p>\n\n


Web-Meister:<\/strong>
Rick Meale<\/p>\n

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