Pinterest - Middle Aged Female Fantasy Characters

[LuciferRising]

I am editing my 145k fantasy novel. I have started to build a Pinterest board to get a feel for the world so I can paint in more detail (while reducing word count). The thing is, I can find male fantasy characters who are young men, middle-aged men, older men and even ageless-looking figures. I can also find young women. I am really struggling to find middle-aged women with a sword or a bow. I have one. I not even talking particularly old - I'm talking around the 40s mark.

Are there any digital artists that want to close the gap?

Or any images you are aware of?

In my world, fantasy (fantastic) women use words rather than weapons to win.

See Terry Pratchett's witches and their 'headology'.

Also 'Lady Sybil Vimes' ((full title: Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin)). He also has female vampires and weir wolves.

Have you tried using an AI at generator?

There are the witches in Stardust who I rather like but they're unfortunately the baddies. Terry Pratchett does great women as a PP says. There are a few in Harry Potter. I always think of both Athene the goddess & Galadriel as middle aged, although I think they're meant to be timelessly beautiful. Fantasy is rather too male dominated for middle aged women.

I'll take a look at these. I read a fair few fantasy series over the years and was fed up of centuries old male falling for a 20 something, so decided to write my own with a subplot focused on romance - only she doesn't choose him.

I do like Robin Hobb and actually can think of a few side characters from there. Going to Google fanart.