Here is one of Ramon’s best full-color illustrations yet.
Appearance:
- halfling
- three feet, three inches tall
- stocky build
- facially, he resembles a round-faced middle-aged Sting
- blond, curly hair
- slightly pointed ears
- his left eye has been replaced by a magical diamond, through which he can see as a normal eye
- there is a faint scar extending the length of the right side of his face
- His right leg was severed below the knee, and is replaced by a bronze foot, articulated, as with an armoured solleret or sabaton, but with a semblance of toes.
- His other foot is a normal halfling foot: large and hairy.
- His body proportions should be squat: compare http://diterlizzi.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2011/01/ not slender, as inhttp://www.canonfire.com/wiki/halfling1.jpg images/1/18/Halfling02.jpg attached is a diagram that may be helpful
Clothing:
- haubergeon of silvered steel
- with pauldrons of hardened leather at the shoulders
- over this, he wears a fur breechcloth
- and over this breechcloth, at his waist he wears a magical leather girdle decorated with rubies
- at his waist is also a leather ‘budget’ - http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/
ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN- 8100028&E=JPEG&Deb=26&Fin=26& Param=C - on his hands he wears a pair of armoured gauntlets that are too big for him (they were meant for a human)
- his legs are bare
- he wears a purple elven cloak about his shoulders, with ermine trim
Equipment:
- on his left knee sits a magical, Y-shaped barbute helmet, with a point-cut diamond (fixed in the position of the ‘third eye’)
- His sword is from this fantasy movie poster:
- https://lh3.googleusercontent.
com/-zPj2r2W3yh0/TYEaT8MSjVI/ AAAAAAAAED0/at1mPMHIbCw/s1600/ Hawk+the+Slayer+%25281980% 2529+dvd.jpg - The pommel is a hand grasping a magical gemstone that glows green.
- http://images1.wikia.nocookie.
net/__cb20100301194048/ uncyclopedia/images/9/99/ Hawktheslayer-die-by-this- sword.jpg - the sword, at three feet long, is about as long as he is tall
Attitude:
- sitting on a stone throne, with a rounded back, e. g. http://www.superstock.com/
stock-photos-images/457-2402 - instead of griffins for the arms of the chairs, there are stone ‘wemics’, as inhttp://wemic2.tripod.com/
wemic1.jpg - his right had supports his sword, as in: http://hyboria.xoth.net/img/
conan_saga_king.jpg - he rests his left elbow on top of his helmet, and his chin rests on his left fist
- he is glowering, and thinks of himself like this: http://freewestradio.com/wp-
content/uploads/2009/09/king- conan.jpg - yet the scar on the right side of his face gives his eyebrow a mocking expression
- his feet don’t reach the floor
Additional Notes:
- hanging on the wall behind him, a round shield, with an extremely battered and knicked bronze rim
- it is green, bearing the emblem of a golden foot
- a large magical trident leans up against the chair behind him, as in:
- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-
bF3uoFolU5k/Ta5lX-G18BI/ AAAAAAAAAcI/6HBt8orFzgU/s1600/ lizard+king.gif - the prongs of the trident also glow greenIs it possible to have one version without a caption, and the other with the caption?” J A D E Archduke of Chalace”
