this was done by Kepchuk and here is a link to the artist. https://twitter.com/Kepchuk_art

This was the 1st version of Erobos Strider.
He was an Artificer and a Battle Smith who was a skilled human but 1/4th elf and still had white hair and pale skin. He crafted a double-bladed clockwork spinning blade.
He would have a wolf steel defender but couldn't get the artist to make it so I had to find some images to use as an example.

But this Erobos was a child of a lesser family who tried to get him a better education and took part in a Noble Families "Game" in which they would be hunted, and if they made it to the end of the border of the land they win. They would gain a small fortune but they failed and the Noble family decided to take Erobos into their family since he had the hair and skin color and "adopted" him.
The Strider family are nobles that believe in being "pure" humans and wanted to use Erobos as a sacrifice or transfer their consciousness to his body (they didn't know he was 1/4th elf)
So they sent him to school to become a powerful wizard and in an act of defiance he became an Artificer instead.
Erobos is very cautious when it comes to dangers and only will act confident when he has the resources to take out targets and enemies. He also hard to trust people but knows he has to put some trust in others to move forward. Lastly, he does like to keep to himself but will allow people to see the projects he's working on.