#dnd cambion

[tkacz-art]

A devil with a deal ;)

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[ninitenebrae]

"My, my. My little Tres wants to play."

[transkingcobra]

[slipperyskell]

Finally got Teshyta’s outfit design done!!!! I had a couple doodles of it sitting around but never actually got around to it till today. I love this big lug so much 🥺🥺🥺

[powerful-pomegranate]

day 15: cambion 👺

redbubble!

[reagan-the-saunders]

Halviti, Human -> Cambion

[nepherit]

This is the Nine Hells fashion collection, first piece of the series:

Avernus, featuring Raphael and Zariel

It's time to make good use of all the fancy costume designs I sketched for Raphael 😆

[sabbathism]

THE APPLE AND THE TREE.

My piece for @silkandsulphur !!! A retelling of Brian Valenzuela's Glasya and Asmodeus portrait.

[junorsky]

"Go on then, try to conquer the Hells. Shop around, beg, borrow, and steal, Raphael. Exhaust every possibility until none are left." — a conversation that could probably happen between Raphael and Mephistopheles in the past, the topic being Raphael's ambitions.

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I tried to project some features of the devil we know on his father to show that even though they're related, they're still very different monstrosities. Also I picked the blue color for Mephisto for artistic purposes (okay he is canonically red I suppose, let's just consider it an option)

[apricoctopus]

I saw some posts speculating why Raphael looks the way he does. Not only he does not look like Haarlep (don't tell him that), but also cambions are not supposed to age past their twenties according to DnD 4e lore. Not sure about 5e tho, but that' irrelevant.

Some people supposed that Raphael's look is an illusion he puts on to make himself seem more mature and imposing. While I like this theory, let's be real: Raphael is exactly that type of person who claim they look so unbelievably young they have to show their ID to buy alcohol.

Like this man will have a meltdown if you call him daddy.

And then the truth was revealed to me in a vision.

[artlystica]

Doing a lot of research on Cambions rn and-

Raphael is lowkey the only Cambion I know of with a human name. I wouldn´t put it past Mephistopheles to give him one just to annoy him with it-

Now wouldn´t that be a plottwist...

Confirmation that Raphael has a soul of his own, as well as that signs of character development and redemption are in fact possible.

also

The Heart of a human, the instincts of a Fiend

[oriixxc]

[pengychan]

Raphael's class

So, @sabbathism and I were talking about the unique spells Raphael has in the fight. We talked about how there is so much about him that screams BARD and yet the way he casts is a bit different - specifically how soul charges double as both spell slots and sorcery points.

We also discussed Raphael's ability to use Hellfire - one literal hell of a feat for anyone who's not an Archdevil - and joked about how much that might annoy Mephistopheles.

And it hit us that actually, wait up - yes he did. Everything would make perfect sense if we assume Raphael was multiclassing. So we looked a few things over, and remembered that Mephistopheles tieflings do have a natural affinity with arcane magic (think how Burning Hands, a wizard and sorcerer only spell, is available to Mephistopheles tieflings as a race trait).

So @sabbathism looked up a few things about sorcery and

There is also the fact Raphael is seen making things appear - the contract, the Orphic Hammer - very casually with a snap of his fingers, and no verbal component at all. This is something consistent with a sorcerer using a Subtle Spell sorcery point.

In conclusion: Raphael as a sorcerer who multiclassed and leveled up as a bard cause being just a sorcerer was not Dramatic enough.

Which is kind of hilarious because Mephistopheles is literally a wizard and wizards notoriously have beef with sorcerers.

"What the fuck do you MEAN I had to WORK for it and this brat is just BORN WITH IT--"

[oniishi]

just funny meme

[adarlingmess]

𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆

Raphael is definitely arrogant and narcissistic enough to have himself painted triumphing over an archdevil

Some close ups, as a treat:

[syqkos]

Valfirith - first raffle prize for @/TinyTop_Hats (on Twitter)🖤