#bloodhunter

[namarikonda]

⚔️ Hekate Valerius, bloodhunter of the Profane Soul

My human vampire hunter (she/they) in a modern DnD campaign!

[catbatart]

Commission for merisaurum on twitter of their handsome tiefling lycanthrope bloodhunter!

[mynqzo]

the alchemist

[iseutz]

Yeah, I couldn’t resist, I had to draw a Molly

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Monk: What do you believe in in life? Bard: self preservation through love Warlock: chupacabra Bloodhunter: Chupacabra as well

[theevilemster]

Will draw more but lets just say tonights DND session was very fun!

[tinycowboyart]

Last commission of the batch!! I’m taking a big ol break from commission because they really burnt me out this time, so you guys can look forward to more personal dnd stuff. A lot has happened in a few of my campaign that I’m very exited to share!

[kamillyanna]

Oh yeah, he also got a redesign not too long ago. My cowboy bloodhunter!

🚫 Do NOT repost / trace / plagiarize / use the character / train a.i. with / etc. ! all rights reserved.

[ulmuri]

Lethe, my current DnD character; I'm slowly warming up to this emo girl. Let's hope she will make it to the end of the module

[shookethdev]

A reference I decided to rush out for Artfight since I needed my Dhampir on there djsnsjsns

Meet Viktoria! She’s my Order of the Mutant Bloodhunter that found out she was Strahd’s daughter in our COS campaign. (Also have some new plans for her in a campaign I was making)

[losteventide]

Realized virgin killer sweaters are the perfect cut for her arms/tail. Plus great opportunity to experiment with her mutagen markings!

[galacticsabc]

The Mortal who played as Ares

[safirasart]

Still trying to get out of my artblock. So here's the first fully rendered piece I've done in months.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I wished I had taken a little more time for shading but my patience was starting to run low haha.

[justabitscrewy]

Fain! My bloodhunter shifter that I built for a very weird curse of strahd oneshot! She was an absolute delight to RP, and I would honestly love to get to play her again sometime.

Physically, she’s rather sickly — but her understanding of her own weaknesses ensures that she knows how to adapt — and people who underestimate her would never know that she’s already leveled the playing field. She has gone above and beyond what it took for her to survive, because just surviving wasn’t enough for her — she ensured that she would be able to survive viciously.

[blububblgum]

Arya stark: bloodhunter, order of the ghostslayer.

Once again, reasoning in incredible detail under the cut

Ok for arya, i once again wanted to subvert obvious expectations (and play more in the dnd space) so instead of the rogue subclass (with either thief or assassin as her subclass) i settled on bloodhunter for her class. First, to be clear on why not rogue; its not really that different from how she is in the actual world of asoiaf, and if i'm committing to an au then i might as well branch out (the same reasons stand for why not fighter). Bloodhunter is a class that was created by matthew mercer for campaign 2 of critical role, and it is deeply interesting to me (as well as being suited to arya)

Bloodhunters are a martial class that is based around the use of blood magic in order to destroy evils in the world, while resisting giving into the dangerous magic they work with. The subclass that i chose for arya is Ghostslayer, which is "the oldest of the bloodhunter orders" and they focus on everything around death, with an obsession with ridding the world of the undead. While the House of Black and White is not like, focused on ridding the world of undead, it does align well with how she could have come into these powers/fighting style. Beyond the House of Black and White, arya herself has so many personal vendettas that work with the motivations of ghostslayers (especially when you think of the white walkers, though i know she doesn't know about them).

Though ghostslayer (and bloodhunter really) have some magic, it doesn't really give the specific power of changing appearance, and that is kinda crucial to what arya learns in the House of Black and White. So!! In order to make this work, i think dnd arya is not a human (or at least, not a human anymore). Instead she is a shifter, which is descended from a were-creature. The shifter option that suits arya best is swiftstride (which isn't the one that is recommended for werewolves but whatever), since it gives extra movement/increased speed, and matches how arya fights. However, arya still can't change her faces, so this is where feats come in. The Eldritch initiate feat allows one invocation (something that warlocks get as part of their deal) and though arya is definitely not a warlock (though i did think about hexblade for her, i just couldn't figure out what her patron would be), the Mask of many faces invocation allows the character to cast disguise self at will, which works as a dnd take on changing faces. If she were higher level then Master of myriad forms makes more sense (it gives the spell alter self at will, which actually changes the form of the caster, whereas disguise self   is an illusion spell) but i decided to plan her at about 8th level, so whatever lol.

Some bonus thoughts (i know i have already rambled a lot oopsies); her fighting style is either duelling or two-weapon fighting, depending on whether she uses exclusively needle or if she also fights with a dagger. Her crimson rite damage would be cold, as a little nod to her stark side. For her blood maledicts (bonuses that are useful in fighting) i decided on the Blood curse of the Eyeless which lets her temp blind people (fun!) and Blood curse of Binding which reduces peoples speed to zero for a bit (good for just fucking sprinting away). Since i'm thinking of her as 8th level, she can have another feat (which is more interesting than an ability score improvement) and i decided on magic initiate (wizard, since its intelligence based), which gives 2 cantrips (spells that don't require spell slots) and 1 first level spell. For the two cantrips, mage hand and booming blade would give some helpful bonuses to her both in and out of combat. For the one spell, i thought find familiar would be fun! Find familiar doesn't have wolf, but if you just  use cat stats for wolf then that's fine, find familiar is cool cause the caster can look through the eyes of the familiar when they are in range, and they can be summoned in a different form when it is recast. Lastly, i think her stats (highest to lowest) are: dexterity, intelligence, constitution, wisdom, strength, charisma.

Again, if you read all this, thank you!!!! I hope it made sense and lmk ur thoughts.