#Allessandro Belmonte

[luckyblackcatxiii]

I'm hoping to participate in Art Fight more this year than last year allowed me, and I added Allessandro over there...only to realize I didn't have a colored ref for him! It's been a year since I last drew him so I figured: no better time than now to give him a new fullbody pic!

Fun update: after a month spent searching for his mentor and ending up in Barovia because of it, Saverio finally 'heard' from him a couple sessions ago...only for the message to be vague, short and offer no real answers. Needless to say: Allessandro is still full of mysteries and Saverio is pretty irked at essentially being ghosted by his not-father figure.

(You can find me on AF here!)

[luckyblackcatxiii]

So, given the CoS campaign is going full swing, I realized I somehow never shared a fairly important figure from Saverio's background (and current plot line) so have some rough doodles of the man of the hour: Allessandro Belmonte, Saverio's personal fighting instructor, master swordsman and #1 best (not) dad.

If you know Saverio's background, you might recognize him as the catalyst that eventually leads my fop getting lost in Barovia. The two were traveling together on Saverio's Grand Tour with Allessandro acting as chaperone, only for the man to mysteriously disappear without a trace one night, leading Saverio to attempt to personally locate and find him out of concern for Allessandro's wellbeing as well as not wanting to be blamed by his family for losing his teacher.

Allessandro is generally a humble, no-nonsense, serious type of man who keeps to himself and his head down, focusing more on his current life as a swords instructor and sharing nothing of his past, which he is intently secretive about despite his student's attempts at prying into it. Saverio looks up to Allessandro with great respect and admiration, seeing him as a role model, a hidalgo and thus makes up heroic stories to fill in the gaps of his mentor's hidden background (which Allessandro doesn't mind too much, not wanting to rain on Sav's creative parade but does try to insist not putting him too much in a hero's role).

I won't get into depth about his secret bg just yet (because I don't want to spoil my fellow party members and also, while providing our DM with some ideas, I can't say exactly what they might choose to do with said building blocks) but let's just say he's been running away from his own demons for awhile now and, after accepting them for a time, might now be aiming to tackle them head on :) (Also if you want, have his small WIP playlist)