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ashmcgivern · 2 years

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Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free

When Zeal was very young, he used to make Lilith read him a story about a blackbird that was learning to fly. While his bat wings were growing out, Zeal forced them to become feathered through a series of rituals and introspection about what it means to have fiendish heritage. In using the power of his Infernal Legacy, he transformed the wings to become feathered instead by him accepting (mostly) what he is. (Mechanically, Zeal "used up" his Infernal Legacy abilities to swap out for Feral Tiefling abilities, namely permanent wings.)

Black isn't my favorite aesthetic choice for Zeal, but it's a fantastic narrative one considering the implications of Zeal "learning to fly" in more than just the physical capacity. The wings will likely continue to transform as he pushes them to being more white, especially knowing that he CAN change himself now.

#tiefling #dungeons and dragons #zeal #aiben #asharts #i have many feelings about my boy #I wanted to do a nice drawing for the transformation but just #im so busy and so tired all the time #holidays really take a lot ouf of my my family is overbearing #and work is work and is frustrating #so yall can have this drawing I did a while ago #this actually was when they were in a demiplane with The Candle #and not a drawing from when Zeal actually got his wings #Lilith gave him a gem of spell storing with Fly programmed in it #except it had been augmented to do a physical transofrmation #and that was the first time Zeal flew #he didnt feel like he was ready tho #and wanted to earn his wings #and so a few sessions later he sat down and figured it out for himself

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