Shik'sa of Xinthar

2012, digital

Here's another one of my characters that I played in an....almost-not-quite-evil 4th ed campaign last year. (We weren't evil, we were just an inquisitorial squad of a conquering nation ruled by red dragons and dragonkin. Really, she was lawful neutral...) Shik'sa was the muscle of the squad, and the most noble in status (half-dragon--so not as pure as dragons or dragonborn, but still strongly draconic in appearance).

She was a trip to play. Her gender was often confused due to her demeanor and voice. Imagine something between Christian Bale's Batman and Wil Wheaton's Aeofel...maybe a little bit of Rad Longhammer as well. Before her service in the Imperial Eye, and the Black Legion, she was basically a frat boy in military academy--captain of the hazing squad and the kobold bowling league and everything--ergo the voice. Well, the huskiness we'd decided was from all the dry mouth and fire breathing. She eventually had the honor of being chosen as a dragon-rider of the Red Legion.

Shik'sa is also usually was more clothed...like, huge plate armor and toting an enormous executioner's axe. This was mostly a reference for how her draconic blood physically manifested, which was fun to figure out. Haven't gotten around to drawing how she'd normally look. So many projects -.-;;

Soooo for the prints--name or no name? (The font doesn't really let me do the apostrophe--It's mostly there to distinguish this half red-dragon from a non-Jewish/gentile girl. Even though there aren't Jews in the fantasy-land known as Belthasia. In the Empire, there are those who worship the great red dragon Pyreclaw, and then everyone else is pretty much considered dirty heathens to Belthasians.)

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