I love how you add splashes of color to your work to highlight points of interests. Your character designs look incredible with definite influence of fantasy.

Thank you so much, shadow! I was trying to be very strict with the black and white, but I felt like color was really important to differentiate characters, so when I was asking players for descriptions, I would also ask "What's your favorite color."

really good technique. Also, i love the fact that the hat and rebreather function as one unit when activated. Does it allow them to breath underwater or on land in toxic areas or both?

He's from a watery kingdom called Rivermarsh and characters from their share the ability to breath underwater. After an apocalyptic event called the Black Bloom spread blight through the kingdom, splitting it off, making half of it the toxic Murkfen. The folk of Murkfen loose the water breathing ability but gain poison immunity. Malachite has skills from the Artisan tradition that lets him craft rebreathers that can be used to both negate poison in the water and allow underwater breathing via an enchanted moss. This technology effectively unifies the realm again, but Brambalund, the thorn kingdom has a fierce inquisition that blocks all access to Murkfen and treats their people as children of the blight. Smugglers like Malachite travel a hidden network of paths called the Merchant's Coil, which evades the inquisition.... sorry I have too much lore...

TLDR: The cloak, hat and rebreather function together as a combination diving suit and hazmat suit.

no such thing as too much lore. I enjoy learning of people's worldbuilding lore of their settings, characters, and plots. Especially getting into good detail like this.

I'm getting close to being done with the players guide and I'm going to start running games again, so hopefully I'll have some recorded games I can post on youtube.

oh nice can't wait to view them when you post them

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