New Azalin artwork

[Five]

Reads here and looks to me like a simple re-imagination. I wouldn't put too many PSP's into it. No different really than 3E Ravenloft being a re-imagining of 2E Ravenloft. Stuff added, stuff taken away. It's the nature of a shared RPG world. What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours. Only canon (I despise that word when talking about RPGs!) is what's at your table. All good.

I personally don't like Curse of Strahd for many reasons, but it's not gonna change my Ravenloft...

That, and it's only art. If we can forgive artistic evolution of Strahd (he sometimes looks a bit like Jerry Only, or a new touring member for the Misfits at best) then why not Azalin?

Strahd:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OKh3CmxNmgA/ ... strahd.jpg

Jerry Only:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 283%29.jpg

It would be pretty lame if all artists for Dungeons and Dragons had to shackle their pencils and brushes and form an assembly line for visual inspiration!

[Mephisto of the FoS]

Better now?

[Mephisto of the FoS]

To me he looks a bit young and massive (i know this is because off his fluffy robe) but looks like having supernatural strength, Who is the artist?

[Rock of the Fraternity]

He just doesn't look all that undead to me...

[ewancummins]

He just doesn't look all that undead to me...

Maybe this is his disguised look? Most of the time he appears an old man, not a skeletal figure.

[ewancummins]

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Sure. Except, would he bother with the disguise when he's alone and scrying on Strahd?

[RavensCall]

So in the actual book, they don't actually mention Azalin in the text (they mentioned him in a sample of the product originally, but I guess it didn't make it into the final product). There is a little blurb under the pic that says "Azalin, the Lich, spies on Castle Ravenloft". That's it unfortunately. Guess it's better than nothing!

So he wasn't a group patron after all? Lame.[/quote]


Azalin's picture is in the section for the "Ancient Being" patron. My assumption was that he was to be used in that way. Also, in the tables when you randomly roll for a particular ancient being, one of them is a lich. But yes, that blurb by the picture is the only true mention of Azalin.

[Mischief]

Azalin's picture is in the section for the "Ancient Being" patron. My assumption was that he was to be used in that way. Also, in the tables when you randomly roll for a particular ancient being, one of them is a lich. But yes, that blurb by the picture is the only true mention of Azalin.

This is hilarious because Azalin is ~375 years old. There are living elves older than him.

@Mephisto. That is an improvement.

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If I get can get can get a copy of Tasha's group patron text (or someone links me to it), I'll write up Strahd and Azalin as group patrons for 5e and post it here and on reddit's /r/Ravenloft.

[Mistmaster]

My Azalin is even younger; Everlast is six centuries older then him.

[Pacal of Palenque]

I do like the altered version above with the blue robes better. Mostly though, I’m just glad that Avalon has been officially recognized to any degree in a 5E product.

I honestly glossed over the picture and didn’t even notice it until I saw this post.