A figure stands with one arm raised, fully decked out in a mix of armor, trinkets, and gadgets. Their face mask is gilded in bronze and brass, a respirator hidden beneath a bone-white faceplace designed to look like a bird of prey. Their cowl is covered in brown feathers, matching the feather-styled demi-cloak they wear patterned and colored like a northern Kestrel. A bandolier and heavy belts support multiple pouches as well as occult & arcane essoterica talismans, hinting at the thaumaturgical dabblings of the wearer.
The armor beneath these layers has an odd, dull glow to it's edge, the dark, icy blue giving way to a dull ember glow. Keen eyes recognize that this is chitin from a Rehorhaz from the icy mountains at the crown of the world. The beast's hide and exoskeleton make for flexible yet hardy armor components.
Their gauntlets each sport a variety of Innovations, including hidden blades, cauterizing herbal sprays, and Stassian voltaic capacitors. The left gauntlet is fashioned as a collapsible buckler, etched with more esoteric runes to focus occult and arcane power. The right gauntlet sports an impossibly complex clockwork weapon system that can convert between a rotary crossbow and a chain-whip-sword.
All together, this is Rory Dunstan's lvl 15 armor and kit. The callout window showing his stern face, cleanly braided and pulled back red hair, and bronze skin. His piercing, platinum silver eyes look on with grim determination. Dull brass markings mark his face and chest, the art deco runiture a manifestation of his aphorite aeonborn heritage.
Half body illustration of Rory in the buff (tastefully censored) showing off his bronze skin and the contrasting golden-brass markings of his aeonborn heritage. The patterns grow more complex as his connection to the one-mind of Axis deepens, and after a recent incredibly stressful encounter with a great fey creature, multiple new markings have emerged. His facial runes have grown, connecting back under his hairline and dotting the edge of his cheekbones under his eyes. New marks have emerged on his trapezius, hands and knuckles.
His shoulder and thigh marks have largely stayed the same, only gaining slight complexity, but the markings upon his chest have grown dramatically, evolving from what once was a simple pattern across his sternum and collarbones to become a wide winged bird of prey, a radiant wheel at it's center reflective of the Wintersun clan.
Rory also bears the marks of multiple battles in his scars. A prominent fulgarite scar marks where his hand was struck by chain lightning. A small, twisting scar on his neck hints where a whisper-vine once tried to strangle and bleed him dry. His left arm bears the long, ragged scars of undead Scythe-trees that surrounded and battered him while hunting a Storm Hag. His left side holds his newest scar, where a clockwork buzz saw ripped through him just below his ribs.
By far his most dangerous wound though is marked by the scar that splits to either side of his spine and sternum, where grasping shadows pierced him at the beck and call of a memory reflection of Areelu Vorlesh.
Rory's only gotten wiser and more mature for these troubles, and no longer carries himself as a nebbish, scared socialite, but a confident, sometimes brash young man.
First real art of 2026! Rory's new Body Card and expression exploration sheet along with Rory new armor setup as we close out our chapter in Nerosyan. Rory's leaning hard on his celestial ancestry, and the runiture on his body is reflecting that deepened connection. #Pathfinder #OC #ScarsofSarkoris
