I couldn’t resist hopping on the Witcher OC bandwagon with a Witcher concept of my own - a Witcher of Ofir!
Ofir is a country south of Nilfgaard consisting of numerous desert tribes and kingdoms united under a Malliq. It is a land of great cities said to be even more grand than those of Nilfgaard.
My Witcher is from the Ofieri School of the Cobra (a school of my own creation), who train Witchers in alchemy, oils, and poisons made to fight monsters.
In my alternate universe inspired by the glimpses of Ofir we’ve seen in Witcher 3, the Witchers of Ofir are not feared, but revered experts. However, royal decree states that only a certain number of Witchers may exist at one time. When one falls, another is chosen from volunteers to take their place.
Read my entire lore write-up on The Witchers of Ofir + see more WiPs of this painting at my blog!
Oh look, what a surprise: another minor Scarecrow design change XD
What can i say? I just can’t help myself; he’s my favorite villain, so i’m never satisfied with his look (tho i can say that i’m rather pleased with this iteration hehe)
Hope you guys like him too and aren’t too sick of my Scarecrow posts at this point XD
Also it was fun to draw the Joker Stress-Toy
(EDIT: Oops, in my excitement, i forgot to add the shine on the gold of his bootstraps, but it’s there now :3)
Tievo now in colour! I’m using these ink drawings to get used to Clip Studio and try out new brushes and textures. :p Also trying to think more about flat shapes recently.
Stop thinking of thieves’ cant (which is a real thing, not a D&D invention) as a jargon of Thieves, and start thinking of it as a jargon of People in the Margins: petty thieves (the big ones live in mansions and speak on a higherregister, not cant), gamblers, sex workers, vagrants, beggars, performers of all sorts (actors, acrobats, buskers, carnies etc), slum dwellers, peddlers, itinerant and migrant workers of all sorts, whatever minorities have reason to mistrust the law, and whatever professions are considered disreputable or “unclean”.
Cant’s purpose is to be unintelligible to respectable law-abiding god-fearing outsiders, because if you’re in the margins, these folks are dangerous. (They’re also potential marks for your scams, sure, but cant is primarily a defence mechanism.) That doesn’t mean it’s magicallyunintelligible to outsiders. Anyone associating with this underworld can potentially learn it, or at least parts of it. And in fact, all cant dictionaries were written by respectable law-abiding god-fearing outsiders.
So in order to speak Thieves’ Cant, your Rogue can be criminal, or criminalised, or otherwise marginal, or someone who has associated with these elements enough to pick up the lingo. You’re not required by law to be an urchin -> pickpocket -> thieves’ guild member, geez.
As for thieves’ tools, it’s a toolkit used by burglars, locksmiths, investigators, cops, spies, activists, revolutionaries, and lockpicking lawyers amateurs who like a puzzle. Your Rogue can be any of these, or somehow related to any of these. It’s not even a stretch of the imagination, geez.
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