Inktober #3. This one was pretty rushed. About 30m.
Despite the roughness, may end up keeping the overall design for a new character I've got in mind for my Valhanas setting. Just something I thought up as I was drawing it. Magic has the ability to conjure living creatures from nonliving matter, but there are significant restrictions. Chief among them that the conjurations must have a mind cloned from the mind of the caster. Because the caster clones their own mind into their creation and does so with the intent of creating a servant, the conjuration always acts subservient to its caster, as it sees the caster as itself and is thus acting "in its own best interest." So what would it imply if you came across a skeletal conjuration, unbound to any master, who thought for itself and had no memories of its past?
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