One of the things I like about deadric script is that you don't have to conform to left-to-right. It's perfectly acceptable to spell a word clockwise from the first letter, which by convention is the largest.

So I started playing with the letters S-L-A-V-E. I mean, as you do.

I quite like the letters. The word looks nicely predatory, as if the outer letters are keeping the inner ones prisoner. Under some duress I might add. Not so sure about the circle of thorns around it, but I thought it needed something.

Not sure what to do with it now. It would work on the right cheek (without the thorns anyway) but would look weird on the left. Could also work for belly or back.

I've got a few more ideas for glyphs in this style, but some of them might make into P,V so I'm keeping quiet on that for now.