Astral Abraxas

It's time to properly introduce my full roster!

I have 14 characters up, and made matching portraits for everyone. Some have variants as well. More under the cut

Salem Praesig is a reborn tiefling great old one warlock/lunar sorcerer. He's my precious baby boy and I love him, which is why I gave him like 20 pages of the most fucked up lore imaginable. Long story short, he was a sailor, discovered an island made of flesh, got partially absorbed by it, had to be cut free and lost like 70% of his skin in the process, and was in a coma for a year. He woke up covered in skin that was not his own, as well as bunch of red eyes in places where eyes are not supposed to be, and then found out that he was possessed by nine evil wizards and almost his entire crew was dead, minus his captain. So yeah he's had a pretty normal life

Here's a version with his bangs trimmed back just so you can see the detail of his face better. His hair doesn't actually look like this, I just wanna have those details available in case anyone wants to draw him with the wind blowing his bangs out of his face or something

Here he is with his mask and eyepatch, which he wore for almost the entire campaign that I played him in except for one singular scene. Oh wait no the mask never came off, only the eyepatch did. Man, I really did not trust my party at all. Anyway, I don't usually draw him with the mask cause the details are fun, but realistically, the version with the mask and longer bangs is how he actually looks most of the time.

And here we have the pre-time skip version, of course. Practically unrecognizable. This is how he looks for all scenes before or during The Incident™️. His skin turned gray when he became undead, and his hair grew out during the coma and the next few years after it.

What's this? Human Salem?? This is actually his current version. I wasn't really satisfied with the amount of development he got in the campaign I played him in, so now I'm adapting him to be the MC in a horror novel, with a setting based on a horrible nightmare I had once :) The main story will be pretty different, but most of the backstory will be more or less the same. Both versions are fully written out on his af profile, of course

And of course, another trimmed bangs version, because even though this version of the story doesn't have tieflings or undead, nor is he possessed by nine evil wizards, there is still an inhuman presence within him, and it still decided to cover him in red eyes.

Masked versions (all of these variants are really not necessary I just can't stop myself)

Aaaaaand the pre-Incident™️ version. He didn’t change colors completely like he did as a tiefling, but he did still lose a bit of vibrancy.

This is Uriel Bradshaw, my other precious baby boy. Uriel is Salem's best friend/captain/lover/who even knows at this point. The point is that all they have is each other. Uriel is the one who took care of Salem during his coma and in the recovery period afterward, and even founded a whole ass relief organization for undead to smuggle supplies to him. He is the kindest most gentle guy ever, and he is very good at hiding the constant soul-crushing guilt he is experiencing for getting his entire crew killed and his best friend temporarily killed, permanently mutilated, and possessed. None of that was his fault, of course, but he doesn't see it that way. He may have started as an NPC, but he ended up with just as much personality and backstory as Salem, and will have a similarly sized role in the novelized version of their story.

Uriel was already a human in the campaign so he doesn't get an entirely new form, but I did still make him a pre-Incident™️ design. Nothing too different, since he didn’t get physically changed by it– he just aged a bit, grew out his beard, and started putting his hair up more often so he could lock in.

One last version with the current beard just cause he looks incredible with his hair down. I'm gonna have to save this look for special occasions.

Ok on to other characters– this is Killian Burkhardt, a human tactician (the equivalent of a fighter). He's my current PC, but don't assume that means he has a lot of backstory, I have almost nothing on him. He is a generic 60 year old man with a canonically forgettable face, his go-to fake name is Manfred, and he lowkey never talks but that might just be cause I keep being unmedicated for extended periods of time. His only real personality trait is loving his adopted son, Duraþror (who you should fs attack with him).

This is Brazier Izmark, the equivalent of a tiefling rogue who I will be playing in a homebrew system based on my friend's sci-fi world. He's a space tiefling who has made a name for himself as a master thief who is always causing problems for the government out of spite, having had quite a few issues with them in his childhood.

This is how Brazier looks as an adult, after amassing a giant collection of stolen artifacts and somehow (we'll figure it out in the campaign) getting the government back on his good side and getting them to let him keep his collections. He now owns and operates a museum full of all sorts of interesting artifacts, and continues to make periodic appearances as a local public menace who looks like he's wearing the contents of an entire department store at once. His fashion sense knows no bounds.

Moving on to the few characters I have that are not for dnd– this is Nova, the protagonist of a series of fantasy novels I'm working on (and by working on I mean I've been worldbuilding and outlining for like 5 years and have yet to actually write anything). Nova is a star, a child of the sun and moon goddesses sent to earth to help guide humanity. He doesn't actually know what his specific domain is supposed to be, though, and all the people trying to kill him constantly make it pretty difficult to make time for self-discovery. Not to mention that all stars in history have been born as twins, learning about themselves through each other, and he's an only child. He might be my most tortured oc after Salem, it just doesn't show cause stars have self healing abilities.

This is Everest, another character from the Nova project. They are literally nothing but a design rn. Everest isn't even their actual name, it's just the first placeholder I thought of for a character from a mountainous region. I'll give them a personality someday I promise

And finally, we have Briar Sitis, the source of my username and the only female character I have on af (I know how to write women I promise I'm just transmasc and don't wanna play one). She was originally a tiefling graviturgy wizard with the Volstrucker agent background (yay more Exandria stuff). I actually got to play her for a full campaign, along with my irl brother playing as her brother, so she actually has a good amount of backstory. Long story short, she was targeted by evil wizards at a very vulnerable time in her life– which they had orchestrated, of course– and conscripted into becoming a government assassin. She only broke her free when her brother came back, leading to her finding out that her organization was the reason he had disappeared in the first place.

Briar is now being adapted into an antagonist for the Nova project, hence the human variant. Her backstory will be staying pretty much the same, the main difference is just that instead of trying to defeat Tiamat she's going to be trying to assassinate Nova.

The Clockwork God tightens his "corset"

unfortunate that none of the ideas i have for Sil feature his face, but i am quite satisfied with this being my first time drawing him properly. I didnt try to make the spine prosthetic make sense or anything as my priorities was to get the material right and to just make it look cool.

Im interested in Sils rejection of the "flesh" by replacing it more and more with tech, both for himself and his followers. I also have the headcanon his arm was amputated from his injuries in the Ald Sotha tragedy (reason behind the scar), later causing him back problems from improperly fit dwemer prosthetics. I can never let this guy have a break so i also imagine he had some debilitating illness (eg. cancer) leading up to the Foul Murder, its the reason why he was so tempted to use the tools besides just being curious as Sil genuinely just wanted to survive, also why hes so desperate to replace his body with machinery.

also sorry for my increased absence as im very busy and exhausted with uni assignments, i will also be missing for a few weeks in June due to mandatory summer practice

oh and have in mind im not as knowledgeable about Sil as i have not played eso (likely never will) only watched a playthrough of the clockwork city dlc, havent read the truth in sequence either, so bear with me if i make very "contradictory" headcanons here

1 close up:

Secunda in the sky above Red Mountain once more

Study i did on a screenshot i took right after defeating Dagoth Ur and exiting the facility, a moment i did not expect to turn out so beautiful and sentimental to me. As always the visible subject is 1111, really roughed up from what has just occured

close ups:

screenshot:

Avian (?) - Tiefling, Wizard

Artfight attack nr 14; for Quartoch

hiii so sorry for disappearing for,, 5 months, I was really busy getting my diploma and all that! I'm still posting Artfight from last year, I got a LOT on the back burner at the moment, but I'd like to get through the Artfight stuff first, since it's less quality stuff than my usual repetoire,, let's hope I finish posting it all before Artfight 2026 starts!!

edgy vampire time :P

[The background is a screenshot from the game!]

I'm willingly posting my characters on main. Replaying through Hades and Hades 2 really does activate my want to do more sprites like these.

Hey hello!! It's been a while since I've shared some stuff from The Dungeon Archie, but I realized I never posted about these ones I worked on a while back- It's a celestial cultist and a floating mask creature! These were released as part of the Golden Tower adventure, which you can check here for free! (Also the art for the animated tokens was done by me, and animated by Vaank!)

[The background is a screenshot from the game!]