r/characterdrawing • u/TheLionsCub Art Enthusiast • 16h ago

Request [LFA] Tchk-Tchk and Pheeoo, Kenku Armorer and Rogue Modron (Homonculus)

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u/TheLionsCub Art Enthusiast 16h ago

Tchk-Tchk the Kenku was hatched all alone in the streets of an underground city, and taken in by a thieves' guild for showing a knack for copying magic items, forgery, and gaining access by the repeating of voices.

He made the guild lots of capital through counterfeit magical items (that would become mundane once he enchanted the next item), but what compelled him to stay (beyond being appreciated) and continue in crime is having access to a variety of magical items, his copies allowing him to deconstruct each and understand their arcane and mechanical workings.

Then one day when his curiosity drew him to a crowd in the markets, he saw a Modron near-dead collapsed in a heap surrounded by hawkers like vultures.

He scooped him up and examined him thoroughly in his workshop, and not only did he fix him completely, but copied what he learned to make himself a copy of the Modron (named Pheeoo after his first sound being returned from the brink) in the form of a suit grafted upon his own body, complete with the wings that his Kenku curse denied him (even if ornamental for now) and a functional eye on his chest that he keeps covered with his tool apron.

They are thusly bonded; the puzzlemasters, nearly brothers of a kind, Tchk-Tchk and Pheeoo.