Reality Deviant Publications

Here’s a Preview of the artwork you’ll find in the upcoming Book of Bones, a bestiary for the BLood throne campaign setting.

Book of Bones Art preview

Here’s a preview of one of the Dragons you’ll find in the Book of Bones, a Bestiary for the Blood Throne Campaign Setting.

Enjoy!

T’sserakk Horrakken

Type: 22nd Level Dragon (Shapechanger)

Size: Huge

Speed: 60 ft., fly 150 ft. (poor)

Abilities: Str +11, Dex +0, Con +5, Int +3, Wis +4, Cha +5

Skills: Bluff 25 (+30), Concentration 25 (+29), Diplomacy 25 (+30), Intimidate 25 (+30), Jump 25 (+36), Knowledge (tactics) 25 (+28), Notice 25 (+29), Sense Motive 25 (+29), Stealth 25 (+17)

Feats: Attack Focus (bite), Attack Focus (claw), Cleave, Double Strike, Heavy Armor Training ^B, Improved Initiative, Leadership, Light Armor Training ^B, Move-By Action, Powers (4) ^B, Snatch, Weapon Training ^B

Traits: Alternate Form, Blindsense 60 ft., Breath Weapon 13 Acid (Difficulty 26), Damage Reduction 2/supernatural, Frightful Presence (Difficulty 24), Immunity to Sleep and Paralysis Effects, Immunity to Acid, Keen Senses, Powers (rank 25, Cha, save Difficulty 24, Dominate Mind Touch, Heart Shaping, Suggestion), Shroud of Darkness, Supernatural Resistance 21

Combat: Attack +20 (-2 size, +22 base) (+21 with bite or claws), Damage +17 (bite) or +15 (claws), Defense Dodge/Parry +20/- (-2 size, +22 base), Initiative +4

Saving Throws: Toughness +19 (+4 size, +5 Con, +10 natural), Fortitude +18 (+13 base, +5 Con), Reflex +13 (+13 base), Will +17 (+13 base, +4 Wis)

Alternate Form: T’sserakk can assume lizardman form at will as a standard action. He can remain in lizardman form until he assumes a new form or returns to his natural form.

Breath Weapon: T’sserakk has one type of breath weapon, a cone of acid.

Shroud of Darkness: T’sserakk is continually surrounded by a shroud of wispy shadows that provides him with partial concealment.

T’sserakk is a megalomaniacal tyrant of a dragon. Like most dragons who survived the fall of Kiv’Larast, the last draconic kingdom, he burns with an undying hatred of the keza-drak. T’sserakk takes this hatred a step further, extending it to the other elder races of Simarra, those whose dragonslayers forced the mighty dragons into the hidden kingdom of Kiv’Larast in the first place. For too long T’sserakk has witnessed the slaughter of the majestic dragon race at the hands of lesser beings. He believes it is time for dragons and the lesser reptilian races to rise up and take their rightful place as the rulers of Simarra. After all, of the elder races, only dragons were the creation of Enâra, mother to all the other gods and the mightiest among them.

Ever since the destruction of Kiv’Larast, T’sserakk has seen his path clearly. It was up to him to purge Simarra of this infestation of the lesser races, and lead dragonkind to a new golden age over the piled corpses of elf, dwarf, human and keza-drakalike. He has since been hiding, planning and biding his time as he amasses an army of renegade Kithanni lizardmen, and the Half-dragon Groa’khan along with a few other dragons and what remnants of the ancient dragon cults he has been able to find. His troops amassed, he now waits only for the elder races and the Keza-Drak to exhaust themselves in their constant battles with each-other and amongst themselves before making his own bid for power.

In dragon form, T’sserakk is a great shadowy thing of blackness. His pitch-black scales are shrouded in a cloak of wispy shadows cloak that seems to emanate from his very being like fog off of a lake. His head is a frightful mass of armored plates and horns, and his sunken yellow eyes give it an almost skull-like appearance. His mouth is a gruesome maw filled with impossibly long teeth through which a forked tongue constantly flickers. His posture is that of a hunting panther, always crouched with his belly near the ground and his powerful limbs poised as if to strike at a moment’s notice.

T’sserakk’s lizardman form looks quite a bit like a humanoid version of his true draconic form, though his head has fewer horns, his teeth are much more to scale, and his black scales no longer exude a shadowy vapor.

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let you guys know that, while this project has been coming along slower than I would have liked (pretty much my fault), Things are progressing nicely. I’ve seen some of the concept art, andthe images are looking sweet!

I’ll have a preview of the cover up soon, so keep checking back!