It's been some time hasn't it since the last upload, laziness is a bitch.

Anywho, new character! This is Doort Nock, and oh wow! It's NOT a dragon for once!

So the story behind this one is pretty simple:

Anyone who's played this fun not-so-little 4K game called Stellaris likely recognizes this design as Lithoid Portrait #10 from the Lithoids DLC, and you'd be correct. I've always been a fan of this portrait in the game but always hated playing the race due to how slow Lithoids reproduce.

Regardless, first time player gets the complete package on a massive discount (As you do with Paradox games; this was Version 3.6 for reference, the Overlords DLC had just come out) and eager to play the game I rolled up my first empire: A race of silicon-based life forms known as Onyxians, and all their planets named after gemstones:

The Rolling Stones Commonwealth
and their home system of Rockstar living on the capital planet of Arock
(how original)

The Ethics were Xenophile, Pacifist, and Materialist.
Civics were Mining Guilds and Meritocracy.
The origin was Scion (This was axed from the lore, I only picked this back then because it was credited as "beginner mode")

With their leader being non other than this guy: Doort Nock. The name is not original, it's pulled from the Lithoid 2 namelist. But the character was born from the empire itself.

A few years later I had a desire to make Doort into an actual character in my own fantasy universe: where he is head researcher who goes out and does field research into the great beyond. So I considered my roster of artists and choose to commission to draw this art you see before you, and they perfectly captured the vision I had for Doort! I took some further steps to reason how the race would dress and how they would handle tools/weapons/devices without fingers with prosthetics. He has a non-clothed and hooded version as well.

Art by  DSW7, thanks again!

PS: would you consider this character a Taur? I personally don't really think so, but that's just me.