Ersaor and Karlaia (first seen in the second comic page) meet for the first time in this comic but it's obvious that they know each other.As the story progresses it will become clearer who knows who and what relation they have to each other.

That first panel took a long time to draw and color.  Not that it was very easy to do the rest of the page either.  I'm using more reference then before which makes it easier to draw complex details but also takes more time to draw because it is so complex.