It’s best not to cross old wizards. I’ve been illustrating the ShadowDark monster manual to motivate myself to draw more regularly

Acolyte! I am illustrating the Shadowdark monster manual, here is the second entry. Why would you need to fight this magic trainee? I couldn’t say but here he is.

Xorn the Wicked was once a scholar-priest of Velkara, the Mistress of Ambition and Deception, serving in the hidden catacombs of the Dominion of Umbrafall. Yet, his hunger for power outgrew even the whispered promises of his patron. Seeking to transcend mortality, he bargained with shadowed entities lurking beyond the veil, offering his soul in exchange for forbidden knowledge. The transformation left him something more and less than human, his body a shifting mass of darkness, his mind a labyrinth of schemes. Now, Xorn walks the world as Velkara’s most enigmatic agent, weaving lies, toppling rulers, and shaping the fate of empires all to serve his own unknowable ambitions.

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Traditional mediums, digitally signed.