I designed an outfit for @boociforme 's Odei, a malachite earth genasi artificer!
It was a good opportunity for fleshing out the outfits for Evres, a faction within my DnD campaign. I've been starved for worldbuilding-related art and this was a great opportunity!
First time doing a kinda comicy action shot with my characters. I suck at poses (obviously) so I never really try these things even though I have a bunch of ideas, whatcha think?
Here's my birthday gift to @boociforme ! I gave her malachite earth genasi artificer a new outfit, based on one of the clans in my homebrew setting, Aar'Voss. They quite adore eye motifs and starry stuff!
Odei's design is just the coolest. Malachite and copper makes for such a cool color combo!
People mentioned they wanted to see more of these design sketches, so here's the one I made for @boociforme 's Odei! Green is the one color I never use, so it was fun to find a way to make it work with the clothing
Originally a Karelian cosmonaut during the Cold War, the accomplished physicist was placed as a mission specialist on board the Soyuz program. His role was to operate experimental equipment designed to study fusion reactions via plasma in the vacuum. Initially both the spaceflight and the plasma monitors went well and were soon recording valuable data for the realm of astrophysics. However when the cosmonauts began the experimentation part of the mission did things begin to go awry... The experiments yielded surprising results with plasma manipulation powering reserve energy cells within the spacecraft and providing ample opportunity for the physicist to proceed further distributing the electrical energy produced from the fusion reactions to power various sections of the spacecraft that otherly would have to be powered down to conserve energy. Amazed, he pressed further creating an even more powerful reactions within the chamber despite his comrade's warnings and the result was it growing out of control causing an implosion within. Severely damaging his section of the spacecraft as electricity sparked and flowed wildly in his module horribly electrocuting and burning his suit and body. In the subsequent crash landing of the failed voyage, only the physicist survived if his condition could even be called "living." The combination of the rapid depressurization he suffered before entering an adjacent pod along with the massive amounts of electricity that had largely fused his suit to his flesh making it impossible to remove it without killing him forcing them to resort to unconventional means...
Rather than pull him out of the suit, the doctors and scientists instead began to repair and modify it implementing extensive life support systems which kept his tremendous pain just above the threshold where he could function once more. Following this, he began to assist in the treatment, openly allowing a great deal of experimentation on himself and secretly adding his own additions to the suit for the most prevalent issue present with his new form: Electricity. The incident's unusual circumstances caused the massive amounts of electrical energy to continually flow through his melded suit, so much so in fact it created a hazard for the researchers treating him as discharge would occasionally flare out and shock the staff. In his own modifications he added a complex system of nodes and conductive fibers meshed into the suit connected to a control console on his chest. By monitoring the electrical levels and adjusting his suit's conditions from the console, he can turn a dial to control the amount of electricity he can discharge at will so as to prevent any additional accidents.
After years in this new life he finally felt as though he had adequate control of his new form thus tore the facility from within before escaping into a world where the Cold War had long since ended and, unsure of his future, he decided to pursue his research into plasma technology obsessed with the cold void of space that had enlightened him to a cosmic triviality of life. He traveled across Russia visiting and liquidating countless Cold War era facilities of their research and records in his pursuit of knowledge and once his erasure of his very existence was complete, he headed west across Europe fueling many an urban legend before finally settling in the technologically advanced smart city of Makina-Hiria in Euskadi. Once there he quickly began to make his move stealing prototype technology and schematics from countless industries and labs including NiiS and Prototech before holing himself up in the Machine City Radio Tower in the Commercial Quarter reacting to police attempts at apprehension with passive sparks completely unphased by them. His ability to single handedly seize the building brought him into the underworld conversations and soon enough many individuals flocked to the radio tower seeking to join his technology driven endeavors from disenfranchised researchers from big companies to cybernetic criminals seeking an upgrade and private military contractors seeing the potential for online crime. A paramilitary gang was made of this unusual group of outcasts quickly making a name as a small but highly efficient gang becoming one of the Big Three alongside the Barbosa Clan mob lead by Don Afons, also in the Commercial Quarter, and Residential's Tong Long Triad lead by Jin Shen. Seeing his image as a tool of fear to allow him to work in peace, the physicist and one time cosmonaut turned criminal adopted the name "Odei" after the Basque god of thunder only furthering his spectral and haunting visage in his leadership of KOSMOS.
