#necroficer

recently finished commission for @dm-clockwork-dragon and @starryeyeddeerdog of Stitches, a necroficer, and a few of her pals: pancake the “platypus”, squishy the skull, and batty the bat of holding.

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

This is my DnD character Progress, as a woman of science she prefers the art of Necroficing over the magics of Necromancy to splice together man and monster alike in Frankenstein-esc ways and "further" the evolutionary process.

The Necroficer is my unique take on the idea of a Necromancer. Rather than relying on spell-casting and summoning, the Necroficer is built around the idea of crafting unique undead monsters that fight by your side. The Goal is to be More of a “Frankenstein Meets the Reanimator” than Classic Death-centered Mage. If that sounds interesting Please take a look!

The Previews here are missing  several pages, for the full PDF check out the full class using this handy dropbox link.

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An oc of mine named Kaen Jiré, a side character. He is a young vampire, in my style of vampires which are living beings related to elves and afflicted by an ancient curse that they gradually evolved to live with symbiotically.

Kaen has tan skin and curly red hair. Both his parents are mixed ethnicity, so he’s extra mixed. His eyes are green with cat like slit pupils, and he has long pointy ears. He's smiling, and his mouth has a shape similar to that of vampire bats. His upper lip is normal, but his lower lip is cleft with a sort of channel down his chin, and his two front teeth are visible, being very pointy and close together, like sharp buck teeth.

He is wearing a purple cloak with arm holes, light beige pants, and dark brown boots and gloves. His left hand is by his side, fingers spread, a glowing fiery aura around it. His right hand is holding a preserved goose heart he wears on a strap around his neck, and it’s also glowing with a fiery aura.

On his right shoulder is a tiny creature made of a hummingbird head and wings, a lizard body, and a squirrel tail. To his left in the air is a brown and white owl with the legs of a white rabbit, and below it on the ground is a creature made of a red fox whose muzzle is torn to show the bone, one front leg is normal but the other three legs and the back half of its body are from a black and white goat. All the creatures have black eyes with a glowing center.

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@dm-clockwork-dragon has homebrewed a 5e d&d class called "the necroficer" which is a very dr Frankenstein take on necromancy, using "soul embers" contained in a preserved heart to bring their creations to life and control them (hence the fiery aura here) my oc Kaen has been an experimental taxidermy artist since I first made him in like high school. Now that I’m fleshing him out more and giving him a bigger role in my story, I thought it’d be fun to see how he’d work in d&d and lucky me this class fits him perfectly!

I would clarify though that he’s no evil mad scientist. He’s an experimental taxidermist and his wife is a wizard and he probably got the idea to do necroficing by reading her books. He thought that being able to collect and use the energy put off by the death of a creature sounded great, especially since he kinda has to kill things on a regular basis just to stay alive, as an apex predator with a need to drink a lot of blood. Sure, it wouldn’t be a big form of sustainable energy to run a whole city, but it would make his taxidermy creations more interesting perhaps. Functional pieces rather than stiff statues.

Only it made them even more functional than he anticipated, and after some internal moral debate about whether or not it was ok for him to bring these things "back to life" he decided that, surely, he wasn’t actually putting their souls back into their bodies, and they were really more like your typical construct, but made of dead things, so it’s fine, right? Plus he mostly uses scavenged carcasses, creatures he killed for food, livestock and game parts no one else wanted, etc. he has a lot of reasons to justify his necroficer creations.