#I wonder if the bell is a crotal bell? which were apparently used on horse-drawn carriages?

[void-botanist]

[Image description: a digital illustration of Ravenot and their weapons on a grey gradient background. The colors are mostly muted purples, with some darker tones and lighter silvery tones for decorative detailing on many of the items. Arranged along the left side are a thurible (a censer with a chain attached to it; this one is shaped like a handbell), a sleigh bell on a string, a long-stemmed trumpet with a banner hanging from it, and a sword with a dark blade. A few plant cuttings are scattered around the sword that look like herbs and lily of the valley. On the right side is Ravenot, fully covered in a long dark tunic and pieces of medieval European style armor. The symbol worn over their scale mail shirt is a balanced scale. Their beret-like headpiece has a veil on the back and sides and their face is completely covered by a dark mask with silver filigree patterns and friendly, upturned eye holes. A few locks of dark wavy hair are visible over the mask. They are waving with their right hand, and on their right wrist is a bracelet that appears to be made of large pearls. /End image description.]

Ahah you reblogged the thing….now I am contractually obligated (but genuinely curious) to ask about Ravenot! Can you give some information about what he is/what he does? :3c

Don't mind if I do! This is also a moment for me to showcase the very good art you made of them so that everyone else can see it too. <3

Ravenot (he/they), third to bear that name, is the Unmade of the Order of Balances, a clerical order devoted to maintaining the coexistence between the living and the un/dead. At all times, there is one Unmade, a skeleton knight created by an act of willing sacrifice, who strips themself of their former identity to become a being capable of venturing into perils where the living can never go. Ravenot travels the realm, undying, following what he calls 'the path,' a guiding instinct which bears him towards disturbances in the natural balance. The Unmade is sworn body and soul to the Order of Balances, and must serve unwaveringly. As long as they obey, the Order of Balances fuels the magic which animates them, but an unruly servant might be severed of that magic, and left to pass into Death. The Unmade is, at all times, able to resign themselves to that fate, should they no longer possess the will to continue on the path. So far, this third Ravenot has neither strayed, nor lost the driving force that spurs them on. It is the sole mission of the Unmade to oppose those who might bend Death to unjust ends. This can mean disposing of a necromancer who is raising the dead without their consent, or destroying the undead when such beings misuse their power and do harm to the living. It may also mean performing burial rites, or guiding lost spirits to their rest. Other agents of the Order of Balances do the same, but when the task reaches the edges of their skill, or they become compromised by the forces of darkness, Ravenot will be there.