{"id":14955,"date":"2026-08-24T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:33:50","slug":"hooves-on-the-water-iona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14955","title":{"rendered":"Hooves on the Water – Iona"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iona commands the old Charleston Steamer named Valiant. Recently refitted with the new Diesel engines and twin screws replacing her old paddle wheels, she is one of the fastest ships on the waves. And Iona is a faery of the old Scottish school. She came to the America with one of the storied Scottish regiments during the War of 1812 and almost killed William that day. And William almost killed her. He was drowning her. She had a knife in a place he didn’t want to lose. She decided to stick around in America after that and saw the industrial revolution flow through the country and beyond. She returned to her old homeland in 1912 aboard her own ship, with a crew of her fellow faeries that were happy to find something worth fighting. The Scottish spirits were restless, the storm was powerful, and Iona was delighted to test her people against it.<\/p>\n

Iona was created in Forge using the Juggernaut Ragnorak AI art model on my computer at home using a prompt I coded and tested until it came up with output that I liked.
\nThis particular image I put into Grok Imagine and asked it to add a storm in the background and the spirit horses on the waves.
\nThis is one of many character portraits I generated for Iona on my own computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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