#centaur bard

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WIP. Essentially my partner and I's D&D sonas, cause I needed something to help me take a break from more rigorous pieces. I have zero idea how tall centaurs are. Next up, clothes!

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Imagine how poor her stealth rolls are if she doesn't remember to take off all those bells and chimey bits... (If the hooves don't give her away first)... There will be three more of these to include my dragonborn's replacement and this friend in the characters I'm playing at the moment.

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Area bard gets a fully shaded portrait! Xaere is so fun to draw :D

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#Inktober2018 Day 10 - Flowing

*Make your saving throws!*

It’s her, my centaur disaster of a bard! She had very thraumatic few sessions so I decided to show her in all her spellcasting glory - and I like the result. I left it without shading because I hope to color it someday.

Technique: 0.1 Faber-Castell fineliner (mostly) and white gel pen.

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Xaere - reference sheet

Woohoo! Xaere’s reference sheet is finished! (She’s one of my D&D characters, a centaur bard from homebrew setting)

The final file (which can be found on my DA) is very big, so Tumblr wouldn’t probably let me post it here - so I made a separate picture of each part. The general description and short backstory under the cut! (warning: a ton of text)

(It made a good outfit design training, because I usually dress all my OCs in relatively washed colors and Xaere’s clothes should be colorful by definition)

Xaere - read as [ksaɪrɛ] species: centaur (female) Class: Bard Alignment: undefined Age: 25 Height: 220cm (155cm in withers) land of origin: Liwarn weapon of choice: Bow and Arrow

Strenghts: fast, strong, quick-witted, persuasive, easily adapting, outgoing, curious, musically and literary talented, generally friendly, generous to friends.

Weaknesses: Fate (constantly happening concidenses, cases of terribly bad or good luck), acrophobia, too big to move freely indoors, short spans of attention twoards things that don't catch her interest, often dishonest, it takes a lot of time to earn her loyalty, can be tenacious and unforgiving.

Short story:  Xaere was born in one of southern centaur tribes. She was always fond of stories, and soon turned out to be musically talnted. Unfortunately, the fate wouldn't leave the young centaur alone, and unbelievable situations of bad and good luck, as well as weird coincidences followed her on all occasions. She was so-called Double Coin, or Fatum's Bait - what meant that she wasn't going to have peaceful life. Life in her clan taught her, among other things how to track and use bow and arrow - which remained her favourite weapon. Xaere's tribe had connections with merchants from Evatraia - western lands of Kavra. When Xaere grew up, her parents, knowing about her adventurous personality sent her to study the ways of poetry and music among Kavra, other nation of their homeland. The centauress, after long journey joined the College in , Liwarn's capital city. She spent few years studying to become a bard, learning songs and stories, playing in taverns and working as a messenger. To this day, while knowing courtly etiquette she remained more of a playful vagabond than corteous noble's favourite. 

Clothes: Xaere's style comes from living between two cultures. Being a centaur, Xaere wears a blanket on her equine half, but its style isn't always strictly centaurine. Having spent a lot of time in harbor city, she drew from materials and patterns popular there, often mixing it with centaurine embroidery or pieces of jewellery. (she also doesn't divide her clothes strictly into sets, so illustrations above are orientational) Her signature piece of clothing is short, padded jacket, a piece assiociated with city's troublemaking yougsters, embroidered in centaurine style, with ornamental phoenix on the back. She usually wears rather vibrant colored clothes, as fabric and leather dyes are one of her homeland's resources and colorful clothes are popular.