#amento

[leenalecklin]

Main Cast of our Curse of Strahd Campaing - or at least most of it

I've been having a little project for my own enjoyment and drew a lineup of our CoS main characters - mostly our PC's and couple NPC's. Amento is my reborn puppet druid, while the others in the party are Matra human paladin, Tera half-elf rogue, and Varis elf bladesinger wizard.

Eustebio, our human bard, I banished to the NPC page, although he was one of our original PC's. His player had to drop out of the campaign around a year ago and we haven't seen his shady bard since. And I just had to put Pidlwick II in the PC page, as he's almost one too. I'm very happy how Ireena turned out, as I'm not super fan of her original hot lady design and I've always imagined her more of a "good looking, but in the end just a normal girl next door" type. Strahd I had to draw couple times and I'm still not 100% happy with him but I'm getting there.

[leenalecklin]

Pidlwick 1-2-3 🎭✨

(possible mild Curse of Strahd spoilers below)

I've had the idea of this image for some time in my head, ever since we found out that my puppet druid Amento is the second artificial version of the jester in the original Ravenloft court. He's been having a tough time trying to live up to his past lives, and the fact that h̸̳̜͛î̵̙̦́s̴̝̳̆̏ o̴̧̯͗̓ň̴̞l̴̙̥̓y̸̹̒̒ p̷̟̱̼̱͉̋̓̓͒̽u̷͎̎̏͑͆̀ř̴̺p̶̺̦̑̈̕o̸̘̿̃̈́͑s̵̹̥͕͕̊̃͊ȩ̵̢̻͍̥͒̂̄ is̶̢͈̱̟̾̿͝ to̶̠͋ k̵̞̥̥̀̍̕e̴͔̩͗̈͠e̴̠̬͍̜̊͊̽́̊p̵̧̛̀̽ Ir̸̟̖̳̗̦͌͒͠ȅ̴̥͂e̴͍̽̿̓͐n̶̡̧̛̹̞̤͂͠a̶̧͔̪̻̮͒̈́̈́̎͑ h̶̬̼͈͉̄̒͐̀a̴̛̝̳͔͌p̴̪͒͌p̸̛͇͕̽͗̽ỷ̸̢̖̚ is not helping. He has met both of his past versions, and both of them feel very uncanny to him, like that strange repulsion you get when hearing your own voice played back to you. 🌚

Talking about the voices, we had a part where our party heard their own voices reciting the prophecy back at them, and I love imagining how Amento thought that it sounded like the voices of his friends + Pidlwick, as it has never occurred to him that they share the same voice. ✨

[leenalecklin]

Pidlwick II and III 🎭

(👇 Possible Curse of Strahd spoilers below 👇)

Amento has been having a stressful journey figuring out his past as Pidlwick III. In the castle he met his first failed version Pidlwick II, which definitely creeped him out.

Now he lives in denial saying that they look nothing alike (they do).

I wasn't too keen on the official design of Pidlwick II, so I just drew how I imagined him instead. Also our DM added in the story that he has a second face in the back of his head, and the head rotates 180 degrees between happy and sad expression when needed. It's so creepy I love it.

Amento is my reborn druid in Curse of Strahd campaign. I had no idea what the story was when I was designing him and decided he would be a puppet. It fits so well with the story it's almost uncanny.

No spoilers in the tags please! 🙏

[leenalecklin]

Amento in many forms 🌱✨

Amento is my puppet druid in our curse of strahd campaign. Whenever he turns into animals, his colors stay the same (except for winter coat), and his little sprout follows him in each form. 💖

[leenalecklin]

Amento was cool for 1.5 seconds in the fight, then he got bonked in the head and decided to flee. ❤️‍🩹🌱 Kazan the Blood Spear was not amused about this cowardice (and the fact that it seems like all our enemies has no blood for it).

Amento is my reborn puppet druid in the Curse of Strahd campaign. And he's still quite convinced that Kazan has probably mistook him with someone else as the future leader of its Berserker Armies.

[leenalecklin]

The wooden boy with the borrowed soul 🌱 Amento is the character I play in our Curse of Strahd campaign. He’s a wooden puppet druid - who apparently wasn’t a puppet at first at all! He is looking for his druid master Vladislava who disappeared one day leaving only her cloak and hat behind. Amento didn’t remember anything about his past at first, and the memories he is now getting back are making him just more confused. 💦

I got a drawing frenzy last weekend and drew Amento in so many outfits! His normal outfit consist of a cloak and a hat that were left behind by his master when she disappeared. Under the cloak he has his own Vistani clothes that he doesn’t remember where he got from. The night gown Amento borrowed once from another player when his own clothes were soaked, and the jester costume I drew because we found out that Amento was a jester in his previous life - it’s also what mini-Amento wears. 

I’ve been enjoying this campaign so much 💖

[leenalecklin]

Amento is a wooden doll druid and the newest addition to my growing army of non-living characters. 🌱✨ He’s a shy and kind boy who doesn’t remember anything about his past. Amento’s first proper memory is being rescued from a swamp by an old druid called Vladislava, who became his teacher and druidic master, teaching him the most important thing: “everything is alive”.

A year later Vladislava disappeared leaving behind only her hat, cape and mysterious letter. Unfortunately Amento doesn’t know how to read, so he collected her clothes and decided to find someone who could help him to read the letter.

I play Amento in a Curse of Strahd campaign that we started couple months ago and I’ve been having a blast! We decided with the DM that she will write his backstory and I don’t know what’s going on more than Amento does - so it has been quite thrilling trying to figure out where he came from and why. 

No spoilers in the tags please!! 🙏💚 Thank you!

[leenalecklin]

Present for the servant of Lathander 🌱☀️ A bunch of Amento sketches! The first picture is a memory from our first session when Amento gave a flower to our paladin Matra. Amento is my wooden doll druid which I play in our Curse of Strahd Campaign. He’s shy and kind young boy who doesn’t remember anything about his past life before meeting his druid master Vladislava. She taught him the basics of druidic secrets and proved him that “everything is alive”, by growing a little sprout on his head.

Unfortunately, a year later Vladislava disappeared leaving behind her cape and hat that Amento now wears while looking for her. Under the cape he wears Vistani clothes - although he can’t remember how he got them or where.

I also have a cantrip called primal savagery that makes the druid grow fangs and claws that they can attack with, and I like to think that Amento turns pretty scary-looking when using it. He bit a chunk out of zombie’s butt in the last session so I guess the cantrip works well.