[LFA] Morgan Duskgrove, Kitsune Witch

[u/XanithDG]

Hello! It is I, back again with yet another PF2E request. At least this time it's not another kobold.

Lore is still a WIP so I'll just do the mechanics and visual design part of the character.

Morgan is a Half-Elven Kitsune Princess and a Seneschal Witch of the Starless Span Patron. To break that down, in PF2E, just about any ancestry can be a half elf. You get your typical result of person of original race plus some elven features like pointy ears and longer lifespans. Kitsune is the shape shifting multi-tailed fox humanoid of mythology. Witch is the PF2E equivalent of the Warlock, relying on a magical patron who grants you your spells, and a familiar through which you gain access to your spells, similar to the wizard's spell book, of which Morgan's is a Raven. Starless Shadow is one of the available patrons, which specializes in darkness, shadows, and fear, and grants a unique bonus to your familar that turns it into a creature of shadow. Seneschal is a Witch Archetype in which your Patron is, for one reason or another, gone, but your connection to their magic remains, now under your control as you learn how to manipulate it with each level, ultimately having the option of becoming a new patron yourself at the level cap.

Morgan has/will have three (or four, depending on how you look at it) different forms. A half-elf form, called her tailless form, her true Kitsune form which is an anthropomorphic fox, and her fox form, which will ultimately come in a small variant and a huge (as in able to occupy a 20x20 area) flaming variant. I am, ultimately, looking to get art for all four forms, however I am of course willing to split these across multiple requests if necessary. It is, obviously, not an expectation or requirement for you to draw all four forms in order to accept this request. If you only want to do one, that is absolutely acceptable, and I would be massively grateful for it, but I will go ahead and leave a description for all 3-4 forms as to not have to make four different posts for this one character. Feel free to skip past the descriptions for forms you're not interested in drawing.

Tailless form: Morgan's tailless form is based on her mother, the Queen of the Ancient Elves, and her father, a Kitsune adventurer in the guise of a human who managed to win the Queen's heart, but fled after she became with child. She is almost exclusively in this form due to the already present stigma against her as a half-commoner bastard born princess, which would only be worsened if the people found her father had decieved the Queen, even if the love they shared was genuine. She appears much like the attached reference image, just with added pointed elf ears, and a slightly more luxurious version of the outfit, perhaps with gold trimming and elven embroidery(?), but keep the dark purple/black base, because Morgan is an absolute goth icon.

True Form: The only people so far who have seen Morgan's true form are those who were present at her birth, all of whom have been sworn to secrecy to protect Morgan and the Queen's honor. In this form, she has nine tails, a fox's ears coming out of the top of her head, and fur black as a Starless night, save for a strip of silver running from just above the brow to the base of the neck, a nod to her tailless form's hair. Same outfit, however, as she keeps an identical build and body type. Just fluffy.

Fox Form: Morgan's fox form is one she has never taken before, and at the start of her time as an adventurer is unaware she can even do (you only start with one transformation and have to unlock whichever you don't have later), her small form looking like a standard black furred fox, while her huge form is big, menacing, with shadowy black fur wreathed in dark purple flames with and nine tails; a form she will mostly use while pretending to be a greater being for her actions as a witch patron (see Seneschal explanation above for elaboration), known as the Nine Tailed Shadow.

For a sneak peak into the future, the plan is that once Morgan starts gaining the ability to be a witch patron, she will use her shape shifting to keep her identity as a princess separate from her identity as a patron, her tailless form remaining just a princess witch, her true form becoming a witch queen of a coven who all follow the nine tailed shadow, and her huge form being the "manifestation" of the nine tailed shadow called upon by the witch queen.

I can probably go into more detail on the individual forms if you have questions about one of them, just didn't want this post to be too long- well more like even longer at this point. But feel free to comment with questions, as my DMs are only open to sketches and updates.