Ash (Fire Genasi Warmage)

 Ash (Fire Genasi Warmage)

My only D&D campaign at the moment is a homebrew continuing after Waterdeep: Dragon heist and I really wanted to have a good mini for it.  Not only a good mini, but one that looked AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to what my character looks like, magic items and all.

So here is my Fire Genasi Warmage.  He is a hermit who was living in the old workshop of an ancient wizard after running away from home the night at a young age because he set the family home ablaze.

One of the key concepts here was the piecemeal way adventurers must look to begin with.  We all want our characters to look cool and/or stylish, but the fact of the matter is that the Cloak of Protection you just picked up was made for someone else and probably doesn't match your Noir aesthetic, but you pretend it does so you can get that sweet +1 to AC at level 2.  Anyway, so to represent this, I made sure my character would have the three magic items he has kept for a while, a Wand of the Warmage +1, a Cloak of Protection, and a Bag of Holding.

The basis of the model is Ghost Archipelago Crewmen body (weird sash cut away), with Frostgrave Barbarian arms, and with a head, cape, and wand from the Frostgrave Wizards set (I swear I'm not sponsored by Frostgrave or anything, I just really like the utility and compatibility of the box sets so I got them all...).  As someone away from society from most of his life, he doesn't have much social grace, but has a decent constitution from living off the land, hence the bulkier arms and plain clothes.

 

 

I based the Cloak of Protection off the image in the DMG, adding a hood and shawl to the cape.  I forgot about the coloured trim until it came to painting, so I didn't sculpt it with that in mind.  I also wish I had thinned the edge at the base of the cloak, it looks really weird after painted.  I tried but couldn't do a shield clasp I was satisfied so I left it out.  The Bag of Holding was based of the DMG image too.

 

When it came to painting, I followed the main sources as much as possible, blue and gold for the cloak, red and blue for the bag of holding and purple for the vest (Because Xanathar said that Warmages should wear purple in his Guide to Everything). 

The Bag of Holding intentionally looks different because I had an idea where a Bag of Holding might start to alter its appearance based on what it most often holds.  In this case, the bag was most often used to hold bones and body parts of monsters so it shifted to be more skull-like.  Heavily inspired by both the Bag of Holding and Bag of Devouring.