#i’m not going to pretend his appearance isn’t inspired by the Leper from DD / king Baldwin IV / soulsborne

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Can you tell us more about your scourge assimar? I am absolutely invested, he has such an interesting and unique design

Of course 🥺🖤

✦  His full name is Karim yn Mahtab al Kelemvor yi Sheirlantar. (Calishite naming conventions...) He refers to most if not all people including close friends with at least their full first and last name, adding their titles and place of origin etc. if known. He's 25-26 y.o. I’d say he’s more lawful neutral than neutral good.

✦  He's male in the sense that it's his assigned gender and he refers to himself as such but ultimately gender doesn’t matter to him, he views himself not so much as a person, but as a tool or instrument of god(s) to be directed by his celestial guide, almost as a construct with one singular purpose.

✦  He was born in Sheirlantar to two human mothers - Mahtab works as an embalmer and some other things related to burials or funerals, Azam is a carpenter or woodcarver of some sort. They're a happy healthy family.

✦  Him not being human was evident immediately (unnatural eyes, echoing voice when yelling/crying). He was never given special treatment or anything for being aasimar, but with all the clergy in the city he knew he was different and in what way.

✦  Kelemvor is the civic deity of Sheirlantar so that's always been Karim's religious focus. He's not the kind of person to sit and study to be a priest or cleric (can't focus on reading..), but he picked up a blade early to help with the undead and necromancers that plague the area due to numerous old tombs in the city and surrounding mountains.

✦  He's very soft spoken, loves art, poetry, music, flowers, all beautiful things. He enjoys whittling as a form of meditation and he’s decent at it.

✦ He holds himself and sometimes moves in a weird way, and his proportions are not quite human (his torso and limbs are oddly elongated and at first glance he just seems tall and lanky but when you look hard it can be a little uncanny valley) and he's not a very elegant warrior (think Gael or Artorias from DS), especially when raging. He has a penchant for decapitations but in the heat of battle he’s more likely to stomp someone than give them a clean death.

✦ He has prayers, angels and such tattooed on his body, he paints his nails, and wears kohl eyeliner.

✦ The worst of his facial scarring is the result of an incident when he was about 20 years old. He wears radiance burn scars as proof of god working through him, and he sometimes lets the radiance burn him further while meditating (at a safe distance from everyone and everything of course).

✦ I often draw him with it but he doesn’t really have a halo. You might see a glimpse of it when he’s transformed and raging - like flames licking up an invisible disc or several behind him

✦ The mask he wears has a dual purpose - to cover up scarring (doesn’t want to make people uncomfortable), and to further diminish his identity as anything other than a servant and tool of Kelemvor (the mask is modeled after a statue of the god). His face isn’t very expressive anyway so it’s not like a mask has a major impact on his communication of emotion.

✦ He reveres priests, clerics, paladins, and all people who serve gods to the point where he could easily be manipulated by such a person, or someone merely claiming to be one.

✦ He has a playlist and a pinterest board.

#pretty sure sheirlantar doesn't exist since 4e but i'm going to ignore that. #i’m not going to pretend his appearance isn’t inspired by the Leper from DD / king Baldwin IV / soulsborne #but i’m working on making his design more unique #asks #not art #karim #he's a weird little creature man and i want to see someone make him worse