It is Christmas Eve, and I wish you a happy holiday season!
While I’m working on – and revising – what I aim to become the definitive, “iconic” pregen characters for Hexingtide, I wanted to briefly share a pair of other, example pregen characters in the hopes that it shows more of the variety of ways that Hexingtide characters can be built.
And what’s better on Christmas Eve than Santa and Krampus?
(I’ll be honest: had I thought of this in time, I would have also included some other touchpoints like the three Christmas Spirits from A Christmas Carol and figures like Jack Frost.
Here’s Santa, though imagined more as a not-exactly-human toymaker and artificer than jolly old elf. Enough with a touch of the dark and monstrous to fit in Hexingtide:
And here is his counterpart, Krampus, as malicious and rancorous as you’d expect, but not without a humanizing element of two in his Coin of St. Nicolaus and fair-minded Impulse to fairly-doled out judgement:
You can download both at Hexingtide’s Itch.io page: