Taiko Hadashi

Art I did for Ben Bruck some time ago and never got around to putting up here. At some point I posted it up on my Tumblr page.

Taiko Hadashi was Ben's character for the Savage Tide AP, a tengu (back then kenku) shugenja from an isolated mountain monastery of tengu that had turned their back on regular society so they could honor the spirits of the wind. A complicated backstory involving a magical mirror, a child from another alternate reality, and a lie to save his brother from punishmnt led Taiko to being exiled from the monastery until he could acquire a feather from Pazuzu without calling him directly or committing an evil act- basically exiled forever.

'Course, that wasn't so, and Taiko had one of the longest, strangest side-stories I've ever had the pleasure of running, which, considering it also was in a campaign with a character who found a dozen clones of herself walking around being drafted into an assassin's guild by her from-the-good-reality-but-still-evil twin, says something. It was a really good game.

With this AP taking folks into the low epics as-written, Taiko is one of the most powerful PCs we've ever had, in a career running from 2nd (we started higher because it was only a group of 3) to 22nd level after beating the final boss, with a cohort that started as a hired porter, then went on to be an essential part of the crew's frontline damage output. At any rate, far too much backstory to shove in here. 

For you guys? Eh, just some art to look at and use as you wish, I suppose. Folks seem to like the tengu. So enjoy!