#vynestra

Commissions open! Here's a DnD Gentan Soldier I illustrated for the campaign setting Vynestra! Here's the character description:

Sex

Female, though androgynous in appearance.

Race

Desert Elf

Age

Preferably middle-aged to older.

Clothing

Beneath her armor, she wears a decorated padded gambeson featuring sun symbology. Outer garments should be inspired by moodboarding: flowing silks and cloths in whites, yellows, and golds. Around her waist, an ornate sash of patterned silk rests above her belt and over her stomach.

Armour

A creative blend of Aldarin (30 percent) and 17th-century Mughal and Persian armor styles (70 percent), with visual references from moodboards. Sun symbols, horses, birds, and snakes are encouraged. The design should reflect the prestige of elite, hetariae-style warriors: highly trained and heavily decorated. Medium armor preferred, with a mix of plating and padding, allowing freedom of movement. Highly ornate. 

Helmet

Acorn-shaped, inspired by proto-Indo and Persian designs, featuring a feathered ruff similar to legionary centurion helmets. Feathers alternate gold and white.

Weapons

A decorated shamshir in an ornate scabbard hangs from her belt, adorned with strings, charms, and holy symbols (see Discord reference). She is actively throwing a chakram, beautifully ornate, thrown by the gentan.

Belt

Carries a waterskin, coin pouch, extra chakrams, and various holy charms and symbols.

Feet

Commissions open!!

Here's the character I did:

Face: The character should be a female Aldarin human (Aldarins are essentially Romans, so quite dark tanned skin), Facial structure-wise, wide jaw between 25 and 30 years of age. 

Hair: with long brownish-blonde hair, braided as per the reference photo. 

Build: her body showing her as quite muscular (lots of exercise walking around the city in heavy armour!).

Outfit: They are better funded than The Legions, so their roman style armour is made of iron and steel rather than bronze. The skirt part of the armour comes down closer to the knees, as would the tassles/baltea (dangly strappy bits). Include the Emblem of Permadecio on her chest armor. 

Outfit color: Black and a dark navy. The shield worn by them would be a much larger shield, more in line with traditional Roman scutum. 

Shield: This shield would be the same blue and black as the armour, with the Permadecio emblem on it. The eye of the emblem would be centered around the boss with the pupil being the boss itself.

Cape: On her left shoulder, the one not decorated with the gryphon design, she would wear a shoulder cape. This is currently fashionable in the present Aldarin era. The cape would come down a bit past her knees, but only cover her shoulder and that side of her body (added references for this). 

Cape color: The cape would have a silver lining, a black exterior, dark navy/blue interior, and maybe some blue patterning along the black (feel free to play with this design!). 

Footwear: She should be wearing roman style sandals which come up about half-way to the knee. Again, feel free to play with the design of her outfit a bit, keeping practicality in mind.

Belt and belt items: On her belt, she would have a waterskin, a coin pouch, a clip pouch for carrying food rations, and a pair of vials with healing drafts inside (these would appear a magical red in colour). Not all these need to be visible in the illustration, just listing what she has to let you decide what can be seen. She would also have a scabbard for a gladius, a Roman shortsword. She might be wielding the gladius, or have it holstered, depending on the pose you go for.

Overall colour: Blacks, greys, dark blues, navy, silvers (if you think any other colours might work here, feel free to experiment!)

Emblem

I'm not a big tumblr boy but I'm doin my part, I playtested the starter module for this, Deveros, and it was fantastic fun. the world is so cool and detailed and if you're an ancient history nerd it really scratches the right itches, here's hoping the kickstarter does well!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vynestra/vynestra-a-5th-edition-ancient-themed-world-and-city-setting