Dauntless Dawn, the Draxi
With the resolution of our Curse of Strahd campaign, all of our characters were brought back to their normal plane and set off to pick up their lives. For my Tabaxi Monk, Friend of Foe, this meant following through on a promise to another party member that he would confess his feelings for the live of his life.
And thus Dauntless Dawn, half Tabaxi, half brass dragon (lovingly deemed a Draxi by me), was inevitably born! I do not know if I'll ever get to play as her in a campaign (would require some homebrew for sure), but she would likely take to being a bard with possibly some multiclassing. Having grown up on stories of her dad's adventures and those of his Dawnseeker companions, Dawn would absolutely take to a life of adventures herself.
The little fellow on the lefthand side of her reference sheet is Jeb, a mimic that her father and friends adopted during their time in the valley of Barovia. Dawn has grown up with him at her side, expanding on the commands that her father taught him so that he can join her in her travels and make himself useful. Most commonly, Jeb can be found disguised somewhere on Dawn's person; coin pouch, ring, arm wrapping, and the like. When asked to though he'll take a more specific form, such as that of a lute so that Dawn doesn't have to waste funds. Still the scardy cat that he was when the Dawnseekers found him though, Jeb will not take the form of any weapons or armor!
I could ramble for ages, but I'll save that for future artwork featuring Dawn. I'm absolutely elated to have been able to commission this design though. I gave Earth very little to work with since at the time I knew very little about what I wanted for the character aside from name, probable class, and that they would adopt Jeb. Earth took that little bit of info along with the parents designs and came up with this absolutely gorgeous design! And even managed to get clothes on her despite those big ol wings! I've said it probably at least a dozen times, but please please check out Earth's work. She's such a gem. <3
