The inspiration for this work was the ancient Buryat legend about the spirits of the old keepers of the forest Soryel and Oryel.

Not having enough information about these characters, I tried to come up with their images on my own.

 They seemed to me to be wise and powerful, and at the same time kind and bright creatures, guardians of the order and tranquility of the forest thicket.

The symbols depicted on the bark of trees are the names of spirits written using the Buryat-Mongolian calligraphy.

The illustraition is created with Procreate.