"Bite risk," the notary says. Their eyebrows draw together slightly when Daniel gestures to Johnny's fettered thighs. They speed-skim the papers the retriever handed off to them. "Huh. Also a kick risk, apparently."
Daniel can't help wry amusement. Yeah, Johnny Lawrence is a kick risk. True.
Another Experimental Character is another Paladin but this time he’s a 7′3 300lbs Minotaur he is a Paladin Oath of Vengeance (Haunted One, Great Weapon Fighting) to the god of Revenge Hoar.
Dio Minos
As a baby he was sold into slavery to be a part of some lords personal menagerie as he got older and grew larger he was locked away in a cavern under the castle of the lord, the lord would throw those who he thought wronged him down into the cavern where Dio would be forced to kill them or be punished with whips and lack of food and water. One such victim would be a Paladin of Tempus who would convince Dio to rebel and fight the lord and his men so a bloody battle was waged down in the cavern that led up into the castle fighting all the way to the “throne room” of the lord but sadly the Paladin would die surrounded by knights dying as his god would see fit, Dio would take up this Paladin’s hammer and crush the knights beneath it defeating the lord handedly in combat Dio would hear someone whisper to him but it wasnt the Paladin nor the god Tempus but instead the Doombringer god Hoar bidding Dio to take his Vengeance and he did crushing the lords skull with the hammer. Dio now ventures dealing out judgement and vengeance where his god deems it needed Dio has an understandable hatred towards slavers especially.
Fanart dedicated to Ariel D’s Road to Redemption / Descent Into Darkness / Power of Prophecy series of fanfiction for RA Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt books.
I first read Ariel’s stories back in high school, when I was a huge Drizzt fan and just tentatively beginning to pick up a pencil and draw. They had a huge impact on me at the time, focusing around Entreri and Jarlaxle (some of my favorite characters), but written so skillfully and so well-characterized that everything from the interactions to the dialogue to the very language structure itself read just like the real thing; for me as a quiet, withdrawn teenager it was a huge revelation that even Normal PeopleTM could write and encouraged me to actually start writing my own stories with the same OCs that I still love. Her stories and the themes in them were a huge influence on me in a lot of ways, and I unironically think they helped shape a lot of the stories I tell today.
Ariel herself was also an infallibly kind, genuine, and modest person who was endlessly patient with a doubtless very annoying highschooler who wanted to be friends; something that I think is rare, and something that I wish more people had because I know it made a hell of a difference for me back then when I was just starting out in what would turn out to be a lifelong love of drawing and writing.
Though it’s about fifteen years late, this is the fanart I wish I could have done for her back then. I owe her more than I can really say.