Character Concept - Tashla, The Envoy Of The Mists

For something a little different; here's a concept character design I did a few months back, commissioned for a friend designing a fan-made League of Legends Champion (@Kalkolth, for anyone interested, he commonly streams on twitch doing design talk). This design was done back in March, but has been a project in the works for nearly a year before my art was commissioned.

The initial concept for this character was to bridge a gap thematically between two settings in LoL; the mechanical "chemical-punk" city of Vaun, and the arcane wastelands of the Shadow Isles. Tashla was designed to be a caster-type character - a mage with high damage potential and access to a complex ability set, rewarding intelligent play.

Tashla was a Vaun native - until a fatal chemical accident destroyed her lungs, forcing her friend and mentor Victor to install a crude respirator into her body. The procedure failed, and in a fit of sorrow, Victor threw Tashla's body out to sea, where it would one day come ashore in the Shadow Isles. Now, many years later, her corrupted soul returns to her home, bringing with her the Black Mist, a precursor to the strange and evil powers found in the Isles. She comes with a warning; the Mist comes, and those that oppose it shall have their soul tormented for all eternity.