Name: Xiik 

Race: Kobold

Gender: Female

Appearance: Standing at just 3′0, Xiik is a pretty petite little kobold. Her scale pattern shifts based on the seasons, transitioning from sandy with rust-colored spots in the summer to swampy with mud-colored spots in the winter. Being a reptile, she has no visible nipples. For apparel, she prefers light, wispy pieces complimented with plenty of chunky jewelry. Her only piercing is her right nostril. 

Personality: A kobold of privilege from birth, Xiik is proper and welcoming. If you respond in kind, she can be quite caring, generous and pleasant but if she feels you are crude or uncouth, her elitist nature will show through. For her, respect is key. She can either be a loyal ally or a very cold shoulder.

She’s not one to hesitate to use her physicality to get her way or convince others and it’s no secret that she has a particular penchant for mammals. Their warm blood gets her own blood boiling. 

Occupation: Shaman / Ambassador. As the speaker of her tribe, she communes both with spirits beyond and with the people of foreign nations.

Fun Fact: Although she specializes in communing with spirits and using more traditional means in her negotiations, she’s a reasonably good sorcerer. None of her spells are used for combat, however, and she’s useless in a fight.

-TB

The more I thought about this character, the more I came up with about them and now, I think I have something I like. Daliah is an interdimensional Nymph, a being that jumps from plane to plane as it sees fit to entice and ensnare the creatures it finds there. It’s innocent eyes hide a hypnotic gaze and it’s antennae serve to amplify it’s telekinetic powers. The wings of it’s species are mostly for show, fluttering when it uses it’s innate powers to maneuver weightlessly. The gender of their species is fluid and can be changed in a matter of hours to suit their needs, though male or female, their organs are always internal (until a male becomes aroused).

Daliah in particular is a bit of a dimensional tourist. It loves to cross over into new realms and explore, the local lifeforms being of particular interest to it. It will ensnare a protector if needed but for the most part, it just exerts it’s influence on those around it to make them docile. It’s relative size to everything else all depends on the size it selects when it manifests into a dimension- though Daliah typically prefers to be somewhat smaller so as to not attract too much unwanted attention.

-TB

“What do you think, Mr. Ambassador? Don’t you like it when I dress like one of your human women? I’ll be your warm-blooded companion, cooking and cleaning for you and anything else you like to do with your females.”

-TB

She sure is! Xiik has laid four happy, healthy children. They see each other from time to time but parenting is a bit different in kobold society. The strongest and most desirable are encouraged to breed as frequently as they can but the raising of children is a community effort. With Xiik’s duties as the village Shaman, she rarely sees her eggs from when they’re laid to when they’re walking and talking and her only involvement in raising them is the occasional afternoon visit.

-TB

“Rags…”

“They’re worker’s garb, milady.”

“Commoner’s rags…”

“I am deeply sorry but we must disguise you as a commoner. The humans are mobilizing and if they come here, we need to be able to extract you without drawing attention.”

“I think I’d rather be nude… who works like this?”

“Everyone else in the village, milady. Now come, we don’t have much time.”

Slept in for her own sun ritual! Little Xiik had to rush out without a single piece of jewelry (save for her piercings) on. How embarrassing!

Finalizing the Kobold girl design. I decided to go with the two most popular designs. The first is her scales during the wet season and the second is her scales during the dry season. She is the shaman of her tribe and her name is Xiik.

-TB