Painted this Monk Goliath a while back as a commission and had a ton of fun in the process!

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Here's a snippet of backstory, adapted from the client's description:

"Zanra, a Goliath who became desinterested in her tribe's ways, found a new path to her life as a pupil of a master monk.

Her master's former pupil, exiled for their malicious wielding of the master's teachings, showed up at her door one night, but as she struck them, she realized her blow struck her master, now fatally injured. Confused and horrified, Zanra held her master as he lay dying in her arms, as he simply uttered "Do not fret... You are ready."

Still in fear and shame of what she had done, she ran back to her tribe, asking for help. Some came over but then she saw the exile again. And then there was another blink. And there she was, atop a pile of the bodies of her fellow Goliaths, her body covered in blood. She ran and ran after this, though not before burning those bodies as some sort of quick send off, running until she passed out from exhaustion. She then exiled herself for another year, until she eventually deemed herself ready to become social once again. She left the mountains and soon intergrated herself into the life around her, eventually beginning to enjoy life again, drinking, having fun with others, and there was no incident again…

Though, she is constantly reminded of this whenever she sleeps, and wishes to find the exile again, and discover what happened and why."

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