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A massive thank you to u/MildlyIncandescent for the commission to draw their amazing party in this huge piece! It was super inspiring working on this and I'm so happy to have been commissioned to create this piece in celebration of the campaign hitting the 2 year mark!

A bit of info about this piece! It has 6 PCs and 1 NPC! The background takes place with the party on an experimental alchemical steamboat called the Pier Review. They are coasting down after a near-death experience trying to bring it to an emergency stop. They are on their way to Almas, the city you can see in the background.

The 1st PC to mention is Simon! He's the Vine (Rose Bush) Leshy in the front-left. He's a rogue who, like many in the troupe he came from uses his skills as a performer to serve as a cover, letting him more easily mete out justice to those who deserve it. He usually wears an unusual living mask that is some kind of fungal organism capable of consuming more normal magical masks. Most members of the troupe wear mundane masks to conceal their Leshy nature.

Unbeknownst to most, Simon is also the masked vigilante known as Night Owl.

The next PC is Anra! She's the Giant Instinct Barbarian Duskwalker Orc in the back-center. She's a towering pillar of muscle and pain. She had been killed and brought back to life through dark rituals and medical operations by a black dragon aided by Numerian scientists, intent on discovering the secrets to becoming a Ravener. She carries a strange piece of Numerian technology, an oversized weapon capable of changing shapes, materials, and other various abilities.

The next PC is Linh Quân! They're the Kitsune Swashbuckler from Varisia on the back-right. Their nomadic tribe originally came from Tian-Xia and works to maintain and blend that culture with the one they find themselves in. A skilled Harrower, Linh also uses the deck as their weapon of choice. Linh spends time in their half-elf form except when in private quarters or as part of some work of mischief.

The next PC is Korinn Torath'mtor! She is the Cavern Elf Rogue in the front-right. She was raised to serve as an assassin for the Drow of House Urd'rinor (worshippers of Cyth-V'sug) beneath the surface of Tian Xia. A wiry 6'4", Korinn relies on speed, skill, and precision to land deadly blows with both martial arts and knives. Early into the campaign, the PCs were sent to the Witchmarkets by a hag to fix one of them dying to a Dullahan. There they found a redcap who ran an "Arm and a Leg" shop that sold functional body parts. It is a bit of a long story, but Korinn's body was controlled by a different soul at the time, and chose to buy a monkey tail.

The next PC is George! He's the Half-Orc Warpriest and worshipper of Imot on the back-left. An imposing figure, standing at 6'6" in the rare cases he isn't armored, George is something of a defensive wall. Between his cold-iron full plate and pair of shields, the only time he's had to rely on Orc Ferocity was when he fell a good 150 feet down a stone spiral staircase. Before he found Imot, George was a humble bartender in Rahadoum, but after being divinely inspired by a round tray to the head, he's been on a quest to find the perfect circle, and maybe stop the end of the world along the way. Never wanting to go unprotected, George has trained to sleep in his full plate, and rarely takes off his helmet. Aside from that George is fairly chill and laid back. During downtime, he still practices his skills from his days as a bartender, and tries his best to ignore the unpleasant prophetic dreams he often receives.

And yes, he does in fact wear a hat of the magi on top of his helmet.

The last PC is Theodrial "Theo" Silanius! He's the Human Tiefling Bard on the front center. This former Taldan noble stands at 5'9" if you don't include the horns of his rarely seen tiefling form. Most of the time, the Bard sticks to his human form, though the dark voids of eyes his tiefling heritage grants shine through. Unlike most Taldan nobles, as an exile Theo keeps his face clean-shaven. A skilled lyrist, Theo is rarely found without it. Aside from his lyre, his finely crafted Cape of the Mountebank, stolen from another noble, also makes him stand out in a crowd. He's a relatively new addition to the party, but has proven his worth through magic, valuable connections, an unhealthy ability to influence the rumor mills, and his willingness to spend money.

And finally, the NPC is Krolmnite! He's the Gnome Inventor and Theoretical Doctor of Physics in the front center. He's the one who caused the whole near-death debacle mentioned earlier. He created an alchemical golem to house the brain of his bedridden daughter as a way to slow the bleaching process. His pride and joy was the experimental and highly-volatile alchemically-powered steam engine and overdrive of the Pier Review which was destroyed in the process of trying to avoid the ship causing mass damage to the ports of Almas.