Illiana

The first tiara I will be dealing with is the one that graces the head of Illiana the Witch Queen.
Illiana is by far one of my favorite villainous characters. In her story (or rather a short collection of screenplay scripts) she is a very powerful enchantress. She is vain, ruthless, power hungry as well as incredibly dangerous. So in her tiara are small beads of blue goldstone.
In crystal magic goldstone is believed to enhance traits of vanity, as well as power. While no stone is inherently "evil" it does enhance traits that can be destructive which makes this stone perfect for her tiara.
Illiana's power is thought to be the oldest living source of magic among the people which makes her a feared being. However, what makes her so interesting to me and so dangerous to her people, is her ability to shift her shape. Once she sees a person she is able to replicate just about everything about them. This ability allows her to give you a choice to decide which person is real and which is actually the witch queen. If the answer chosen is wrong there are very deadly consequences.
This game she plays is very much like certain plant species such as nightshade. Nightshade has several plants that are edible, for example potatoes and tomato, but there are several that are poisonous and one that, if consumed, will kill you. That one in particular is atropa belladonna, or rather, deadly nightshade. While researching that it became pretty obvious to me that this had to work itself into her crow, and it did. Its leaves create the base and point of the crown while the goldstone presents itself as the poisonous berries, thus creating one vicious crown fit for our villain.

My projects for the summer are tiaras which in itself is an incredibly interesting topic. However seeing as I'm somewhat of an amateur novelist I thought it would be fun to bring to life some of the characters I have created in these projects.
Each crown both reflects the personality of the character who is meant to wear it as well as reflect it' description in it's respective story.

Well summer classes have started and I have done exactly what I didn't want to do, but apparently do best. I procrastinated. I have a design and all, it's just fighting with models. Currently the models of the project are winning, but I'll figure it out eventually.