A few more

Sigh. I made a few more. Plus, I updated a few that I wasn't happy with.

First, I turned my cursed hammerer into a shadow sword, because I already had that idea for a character. Now, both my cursed iconics are shadow swords, which may be a bit much. But I like them, so I'll probably make another sometime. Sadly, instead I made yet a third Cursed shadow-sword, mostly just to experiment with the effects, but I liked it. I've always said shadow swords could make their "swords" be any weapon that they chose, but the guy with two cleavers was probably a bit much. Like I said, I don't think he's iconic, but I liked the concept too much to not save it.

I also made a Chersky mafia shadow sword assassin, because that's a think in my setting too that's kind of iconic. Not sure that I like his horns poking through his hood, but I think I can turn that off. Maybe I'll do an update. And, I made a representation of the same type of Germanic warrior that I'd been using to represent Desdichado, my alias. I like my cropped Angus MacBride picture of Valaris the Ostrogoth, but I like having another alternative too. (As an aside, I made a quick and dirty swag of how much Celtic vs Anglo-Saxon vs Other there is in my ancestry. My sister's ancestry.com results suggest that I was a little off; although of course when it says "English" that doesn't necessarily mean "Anglo-Saxon" because the English absorbed Brythonic Celts to at least some degree, and when it says "Scottish" the Scottish absorbed some Anglo-Saxon and Viking too. So my quick and dirty attempt to approximate both the actual percentage of Scottish vs English that I have in my ancestry, plus the amount of Celtic absorbed into the modern day English vs the more "pure" Germanic Anglo-Saxon of the early Middle Ages (which is almost impossible to distinguish from the Iron Age Scandinavians) I'd said 40/40. But since I said that, we've found that the admixture of substrates in general is less than we think, in many ways, so I'm now going to suggest that my ancestry.com percentages of 56% English and "northwestern Europe" are a pretty close representation of my Anglo-Saxon percentage, while the 28% Scottish is my broader Celtic percentage. The 7% Spanish and 6% Portuguese is really just 12½% Portuguese. I know exactly who my great grandfather who brought that mixture is and what his ancestry is, because I'm quite familiar with his family tree. Spanish and Portuguese DNA, especially at the resolution that ancestry.com was working with at the time she did it, would have mostly been indistinguishable anyway. Poking around for hours in the family tree yielded absolutely no Spanish ancestors; he's all Portuguese. The last 3% is Scandinavian; although they say 2% Sweden and Denmark and 1% Finland. Again, these results need to be taken with a grain of salt. The details of DNA have improved greatly since then, and statistical fits of a lingering 1% are not to be trusted. I'm not aware of any Scandinavian ancestors that I have at all, although it wouldn't surprise me that there are some that I haven't found yet, because my English ancestors lived for generations in close proximity to Scandinavian immigrants. Although curiously, I didn't see a single Scandinavian name in the family tree. But Scandinavian ancestry would be indistinguishable, as I said, from early Anglo-Saxon ancestry anyway. I seriously doubt that I have a single Finnish ancestor.

Anyway... sorry for the tangent. My Desdichado Hero Forge yielded a good alternative on YouTube to the Angus MacBride, which is largely why I made him. Meanwhile, I need some nephilim who don't look like soldiers, I need some cursed who aren't shadow swords, and in general I need fewer shadow swords. I have too many of them for this to be the roundup of actual iconics, where only one or two max should appear.

Chersky mafia shadow sword assassin

Just playing around, I made this cursed shadow sword winter warrior, and I liked him too much not to save him. I may take the shadow sword qualities off of his weapons, though, and give him something more practical than cleavers.

Desdichado

An update to the Tarushan witch. The hair I had looked too much like a hood or cowl over her head instead, so I changed its shape and color. She's obviously quite a bit less tan than the Tarushan rogue, and dressed considerably better. I suspect that she represents one of the lingering Tarushan noble lineages that was completely displaced by the Timischers.

An update to the kemling woman. If she looked like she was casting some kind of spell with that staff, then I should have gone all the way with it from the get go and added a spell effect.

It occurs to me that not only do I have too many shadow swords, I have way too many witches and sorcerers. Granted, most of these characters are meant to be either villains or "PCs" which means that they are exceptional compared to the total population. But still... I have a lot of both. And not everyone needs to be an adventurer, either. I can have some just regular folks sitting around doing regular things sometimes. A Lord Mayor, or his daughter, or a barmaid, or a farmer, etc. The majority of all of these races aren't constantly carrying around weapons all of the time either.

UPDATE: Well, here's a couple.

A Hillman trade baron, such as might feature in the Chaos in Waychester campaign.

Revecca von Lechfeld, a prominent NPC from the Cult of Undeath campaign. You can't see it from this angle, but she has a long Dutch braid all the way down her back. I know it's just a mini, but she's supposed to be a highly attractive, young orphan of about 16-17. That cat's not a familiar, by the way, just a pet. She's not a witch.

I also updated the guy above, turning him into a winter hunter. Not only did I not want him to be a shadow sword, but the racoon hat wasn't very useful if you can't see the tail.