#bargonauts

I don’t think I’ve talked a lot about his youth on here!!! so here’s some Rakkab before he was grandpa

He was born and grew up in the Imperial City, around the docks district and did a lot of jail time there. He was pretty much a thug all his life, but due to not being persuasive or sneaky he often served as a bodyguard or hired to beat up people. Since a 2+ meters tall tiger-man doesn’t exactly quite get unnoticed, he was known by the guards, and had more problems from being overly aggressive towards said guards than actually doing crimes. He never killed people of his own will nor managed to succesfully plunder much so alone/unemployed he didn’t do much harm - however he was prone to caving in the breastplate of whatever guard watching over him with the nearest blunt object

He ended up with “Guardsbane” as a nickname, though mostly ironically since he was getting old and seen as a fun part of the community (even if he still did scare off youger recruits hehe). Obviously getting sent to Morrowind completly shattered that. I did end up naming his custom enchanted battleaxe Guardsbane! He commissioned the enchantement himself for a precious daedric battleaxe - it wears off armor and weaponry, making heavily armed opponents much weaker. On his side, he liked the nickname, having kept all his life a much justified hatred for authority

also fun fact about his character design

here’s probably the earliest art i have of him 

He was originally based on how Jason Momoa looks in Game of Thrones, and was more human. I ended up making him way more cat-like, but I kept the killer eyebrows, sharp nose and strong eyeliner from that idea!

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