cover for an historical fiction novel set during Crusades

Closed Posted May 17, 2015 Paid on delivery
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I need a cover image for my upcoming novel, Why Does the Heathen Rage, which is an historical fiction novel set during the Crusades between the years 1123-1125. I will provide some example images to give an idea of the way the characters should look so that they are historically accurate. The two main characters in the novel are King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and his daughter Princess Melisende of Jerusalem, so what I want for this cover is an equestrian image of the two of them, riding on horseback side by side.

Baldwin II of Jerusalem is 56 years old, six feet tall, with shoulder-length graying blonde hair and a beard. He is a broad-chested, muscular man – very much a warrior king. He has blue eyes and a fair northern-European complexion. He wears a chain mail shirt (long sleeves), with a chain mail hood that is pulled back off of his head. He wears leather riding gloves. Over his chain mail shirt he wears a quilted jerkin called a purpoint which is white with the crest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem emblazoned across his chest. The crest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem is a gold cross surrounded by four smaller gold crosses (I will provide an example image of this). He wears a blue cloak lined in fur. He wears leather riding boots. He is riding a black stallion covered in a white caparison (a caparison is a silk covering placed on horses in the Middle Ages, I’ll provide some example images) with the crest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem on both flanks of the caparison. He wears a sheathed sword on his left hip.

Riding beside him on a bay mare is his daughter, Princess Melisende of Jerusalem. She is 20 years old, with brown eyes and long blonde hair and a fair skin tone. She is 5’7” tall, with a slender physique. I will provide an earlier image I had commissioned of her to give you an idea of what she should be wearing.

For the setting, I thought they could be riding through a street in Jerusalem, perhaps with the Dome of the Rock in the background. Of course, this is the Crusader period, so the Dome of the Rock was a church at this time and would have a cross on top of it.

In the background, I thought you could show some mounted knights riding kind of behind them. These knights would bear fully mailed with conical iron helmets with nasal guards (I will provide an example image). They would be wearing quilted jerkins like King Baldwin’s: white with the gold crest of Jerusalem emblazoned across their chests, with sheathed swords on their left hips and kite-shaped shields emblazoned with the crest of Jerusalem hanging from their saddles. You might also show a couple of foot-soldiers walking alongside them. These foot-soldiers would also be wearing conical iron helmets, mail, with white jerkins and carrying long spears and larger kite-shaped shields with the crest of Jerusalem across them.

Please let me know if you need anything else. Thank you.

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