Clairissa is Tre'ana's closest friend, and works with her at their clinic. Clairissa is more pragmatic than Tre'ana. While she's been taught a lot about Tre'ana's religion, she still remains skeptical. She often worries about Tre'ana's selfless ways and how they may get them both into trouble.

Clairissa is wearing a StarReader Priestess robe -- which is really just the part in blue. The embroidery is a stylized StarReader context symbol. 

The beginning and end...of the starreader website. I created it as a teaser, but the site never got past that point. The symbol in the center is of the StarReader Universe symbol. The story is the StarReader creation myth.

Basically, this is a page from the StarReader holy book placed on a rotating candle. The story was meant to be told with the candle lit.

Tre'ana is a follower of a nearly extinct religion. She was taught in its ways by grandmother, as her mother despised it. The actual name of the religion is unknown as the spoken language has been lost. The written language remains in the form of a holy book, passed on to Tre'ana by her grandmother.

The StarReader language consists of three tiers of glyphs that are read left to right, down to up. StarReader codicies are always bound at the top as a legal pad. The pages are long and thin. The informal language places the glyphs on parallel vertical lines. The formal language combines the informal language with a star consellation chart. This is where the nickname "StarReader" came from. The formal language is not used anywhere except in the holy book.

The formal language placed each star in the constellation on a certain "line". The lines connected to a Context Glyph in the upper left corner. The one in the image above indicates the context is one person. Therefore, this page tells a story centered around one person. There are for context symbols, each a 90 degree copy-rotation of the above symbol, each indicating a larger context of people. One for a person. Two, one down one pointing to the right, for a group. Three with a flat bottom for a world of people. Four for a universe.

Lines eminate from these context symbols to indicate the meaning of the star in the constellation. In the above image there are five lines. From left to right they are, The Earth Line, The Heart Line, The Strength Line, The Spirit Line, and the final unconnected line is the Star Line.

I never divined the meaning of the lines and the stars, but it wasn't that important to the story.

A really quick sketch of Tre'ana. While there's a number of things wrong with this image artistically, I really like the emotional intent of the piece.

Unfinished artwork. Originally I planned for this to be the background for an ad for the videogame project. Since StarReader the game never materialized, the image was never completed.

I haven't drawn Tre'ana in quite some time. In recent years, I've had reason to ignore the spiritual in exchange for what my friends call "dark complexities". Recently, however, the character has become more interesting. In a new variant of the story, Tre'ana is a conflicted character, stubborn although selfless, and secretly addicted to Codeine.

This is from a scene in that story, where she is reading by the bedside of another character, who is currently recovering from battle injuries. She's reading an religious text, passed on to her from her grandmother. The pages have their own design, a sample can be found here. The term StarReader comes from the fact that the language the book is written uses star consellations as part of it's syntax.