Took me like a year and a half of working on this on and off, but here's the boy I play in eldrikke's current game, The Illorian Chronicles! Being the great DM he is, he let me try out the absolutely demented idea of a Mindflayer Bard, and it's been a blast.
V'aazh'Endiss, or just V'aazh, is a member of the Xaodreel, a Mindflayer-adjacent race that were bred as fashionable servants and slaves for the Illithids, meant to be seen where conquered races were kept low and away from their captors. Once a simple miner for resources on hostile worlds, he joined several other of his kind in a secret, desperate escape from the Illithids, made possible by the mercy of The Mother Mind. She secretly brought the Xaodreel and two other races, the Tadruu and Ghibbians, onto a massive arc and escaped the Mindflayers into deep space, all of them searching for a new home before settling on one of the moons of Illorian, Rhea Vandasiel.
The three races have inhabited their new home for about 300 years now, enjoying their freedom and safety under Mother Mind's watchful gaze, but V'aazh was overtaken by wanderlust and became one of the few to explore the planet below. Free from slavery, he realized he enjoys making music, and finds a muse in the primitive people that populate the surface. Often disguised as a Leonin, to most he's just a really really weird bard, speaking strangely, playing music straight out of the Dune ost on an alien instrument, and prattling on about space in a way that gives people existential crises. But beneath the oddity V'aazh is delighted by the the planet, and he'll need that connection to the people, for there are signs the Illithids might be on this planet after all...
V'aazh'Endiss, or just V'aazh, is a member of the Xaodreel, a Mindflayer-adjacent race that were bred as fashionable servants and slaves for the Illithids, meant to be seen where conquered races were kept low and away from their captors. Once a simple miner for resources on hostile worlds, he joined several other of his kind in a secret, desperate escape from the Illithids, made possible by the mercy of The Mother Mind. She secretly brought the Xaodreel and two other races, the Tadruu and Ghibbians, onto a massive arc and escaped the Mindflayers into deep space, all of them searching for a new home before settling on one of the moons of Illorian, Rhea Vandasiel.
The three races have inhabited their new home for about 300 years now, enjoying their freedom and safety under Mother Mind's watchful gaze, but V'aazh was overtaken by wanderlust and became one of the few to explore the planet below. Free from slavery, he realized he enjoys making music, and finds a muse in the primitive people that populate the surface. Often disguised as a Leonin, to most he's just a really really weird bard, speaking strangely, playing music straight out of the Dune ost on an alien instrument, and prattling on about space in a way that gives people existential crises. But beneath the oddity V'aazh is delighted by the the planet, and he'll need that connection to the people, for there are signs the Illithids might be on this planet after all...
Category Artwork (Digital) / Muscle
Species Squid
Gender Male
Size 2294 x 1606px
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Ooh, sounds like a great campaign! I hope you're all having fun with it.
I feel so honored that you have enjoyed this character enough to create such elaborate and detailed artwork. Epic costume design. Thank you. It's so great!!
YOOO, absolutely beautiful! And very funny, I played an illithid bard once too! He was cheesier though, a dumbo octopus-esque sailor who played the button accordion...
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