Friday, June 25, 2021

Painting fun + story - Degahrssin

 

 

The resin figure I decided to show is from LOOT-STUDIO’s October 2020’s An Expedition to the Underworld pack.

Shiza Gallar – she is apart of the heroes. A shame she doesn’t appear in other packs.

She reminds me so much of my original character Degahrssin “Degahr” Mithuth. The hair is almost similar, enough that I could work with it.

Degahr is one of my favorite characters. She is antisocial. The only person she tolerates is Jexnellia, a rogue drow female who saved her. Degahr was onced raised in a prominent drow clan familiar. However, her sisters feared her, so they collaborated to eliminate her.




Here is a revised snippet. Please forgive any grammar or other errors. The original is riddled with them. If you are curious about the old version just ask.

 

Degahr stared straight into diamond-slitted eyes. “Takes more than what you got to do me in,” she rasped in threat.

Slender, ebony fingers applied pressure to the viper’s putrid yellow head. With expert care, she pulled its fangs from her arm.

Agony blazed up her arm. Her stomach cramped and spasmed from the snake’s venom. She waited for her body’s resistance to fight against the poisons.

“Next time, choose your victim wisely.” Her grip tightened. Bone crunched beneath the vise-like pressure.

The viper tried to attack, but it found its movement hampered by the drow’s hold. Its slender body writhed and thrashed.

The smile beneath the veil of white hair turned sinister. “Unfortunately, you don’t have a next time.”

Degahr clenched her jaw against the pain and flicked her wrist. A dagger slid into her waiting palm. She positioned its tip to the viper’s eye.

Blood splattered onto her wrist as she gauged the snake’s eye out. Degahr moved on to the rest of its body. She laughed mirthlessly as the serpent's mangled parts thumped to the ground. 

“Degar?” A masculine, whispery voice queried.

Cold, scarlet-red eyes flicked over to the man’s presence. She recognized him as the tavern’s stablemaster. Omarch, she believed Jex called him.

His green eyes darted first to the snake then back to her. They widened at noticing the darkening stain on her sleeve. “You were bit!” he rushed forward.

Degahr jerked her gangly-thin body from the male’s touch. She held him back with a blood-coated dagger, the very same one she used on the snake. Gore dripped from the blade.

“If you know what’s good for you, jaluk,” she sneered the last word, baring her teeth in warning. “You will keep your distance from me.”

Omarch grunted in frustration, his white forelocks swishing about his broad shoulders. “At least have Jex look at that.” He pointed a gloved finger to her wound. “Tocaths are poisonous.”

“Unless you wish to sire children someday, you will not bother the Mistress about this,” she hissed at the meddlesome male.

Omarch notched his chin up in challenge. “I am more afraid of Jex than you. I hate to imagine what she would do to me if I did not tell her…”

Degahr shoved her dagger back into its sheath beneath her sleeve. “Do what you wish,” she growled in disdain and stalked out of the stable, leaving the male behind.


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