Now I'm really liking the story possibilities of a sophisticated Prussia-like Orc dominated nation that is not just some Other Savages, but is also kind of not who yoy want for a neighbor:
Small set of pics from a few days ago. I was trying out DALL-E initially to try and come up with an idea for an celestial counterpart for the devilish Abishai that was based on the metallic dragons. I call them the Asahel, the name coming from the same biblical origins as Abishai. He are a few of my early attempts.
Playing around. I really need to stop and go to bed.
Prompt A man stands imposingly in a starship corridor. He wears gleaming black armour and cape. On the chestplate is a small console that monitors the life support functions of his armour. He wears a helmet with an exaggerated respirator mask. High resolution science fiction digital painting.
First attempt at Tika Waylan: Young human woman with rosy cheeks, freckles, eager eyes, curvy figure, and short-cropped, curly dark red hair. She wears a medieval barmaid's outfit under mismatched piecemeal armor. She has supple, flat-soled leather boots. She wields a sword and a frying pan. She has an infectious smile. Background is a dusty roadway in a fantasy landscape. Oil on canvas.
Will try again.
EDIT: Here are some line-art versions using this prompt: Young rosy-cheeked freckled curvy human woman with eager eyes and short-cropped, curly auburn hair. She wears a medieval barmaid's outfit under random mismatched pieces of armor. She has supple, flat-soled leather boots. She has a sword and a frying pan. She has an infectious smile. Background is a dusty roadway in a fantasy landscape. line art.
Interestingly, I tried removing the word "young" to see if I could get an older-looking woman but it just gave me an inappropriate content warning. Sigh ...
diverse bronze-skinned druids with curly brown hair offer puja to an idol of Obad-Hai on a wooden altar in a rustic wooden church decorated with carvings of trees and egyptian hieroglyphics. Obad-Hai is a lean and weathered old man of indeterminate age, dressed in brown or russet. the idol is in lotus position with a wooden stafd over.hia lap and is depicted playing a wooden shalm. high quality digital painting.
Boccob is usually portrayed as a middle-aged man with white hair wearing purple robes decorated with golden runes. He carries the very first staff of the magi with him
One of the players in a campaign I'm running is playing a bookworm tiefling (well, technically, a mixed-ancestry human/tiefling), an escapee from a tiefling tyranny, described in this thread.
Here are some possible portraits of the character, including one that is a surprisingly "cutesy" style.
Iuz is...not OK, based on the Greyhawk description:
Diverse priests wirh red robes decorated with skulls off burning of dung and other noxious substances on an altar with giant idol of Iuz, worshippers celebratinf with the beating of drums and the clang of bronze bells. Iuz is bloated, seven feet tall, with reddish skin, pointed ears, and long, steely fingers. Monumental torchlit Greek style temple. high quality digital painting