McRory, final colors.

McRory does like his smokes.

Morgo the Mighty takes place in series of giant caverns located beneath the Himalayas. Most of the caverns have a “daylight” cycle, a period when they are flooded with light. In the novel, the method of how the light gets from one cavern to another is left … vague. There’s an explanation for why there’s light in the caves but it doesn’t work if you think about it for more than a minute or two.

So in this illustration, I’ve depicted an organic method of lighting the caves. I plan to go into it in greater detail in later illustrations.

When McRory salvages supplies from his crashed plane he makes sure to grab a carton cigarettes. McRory is a twentieth century man.

The narrator and protagonist of Morgo the Mighty is James McRory. McRory is a pilot ( and Irishman) flying in India who takes on the wrong passenger and ends up adventuring in a massive cave system beneath the Himalayas. Morgo gives McRory the nickname “Derro” because of his red hair. “Derro” means “red” in the language of the caves.