Mystic Mages

So I thought I had posted about these guys before on here because I've talked about them a lot in chats or on streams but turns out I never officially showcased them here. Probably not a smart move for me to dump all the characters here at once instead of spreading it out posting them one at a time, but the patreon's been kinda light on updates so I'd rather give y'all an extra big post.

This is a concept I've had in mind for a comic/story for a long time (the main characters were drawn years ago). It's essentially a more comedic and raunchy take on a D&D like fantasy setting. In this world adventuring parties have to work through official channels to get quests and rewards and have to start at a lower tier and work their way up to the big epic quests (similar idea in the anime/manga Goblin Slayer). The most epic quest of them all is the quest of the Mystic Mages, it's one no one's succeeded at yet and has claimed a lot of lives and involves world breaking consequences or some shit.

Our Wayfarer Heroes: Irma, Vindolyn, Taryn, Cedius, and Tigerclaw, are a ragtag bunch of characters who all found each other through chance and random circumstance. Irma is a ranger like goblin archer who's desperate to find some action, all kinds. Vindolyn is a half-elf thief who's in the group mainly because it protects her from the authorities who want to arrest her. Taryn is a distraught human paladin who broke accidentally his celibacy vow and is now lost forsaken by his religion and trying to redeem himself, but keeps fucking it up in the celibacy department. Cedius is a former cleric who abandoned his faith to become a sorcerer and world class alcoholic. And Tigerclaw is an incredibly competent and intelligent beastess warrior with her own mysterious motivations for joining the party.

Needing at least 5 members to register an adventuring party they all kinda say fuck it and come together. And the story follows them along their awkward hijinks filled road of fulfilling quests, tasks, and errands working their way up to the biggest of them all. Starting out they have to handle things like finding a poor farmer couple's daughter(Brynn) a husband, because she's of age but still living at home and has a weird obsession with horses. Or there's a town plagued by a bridge troll guarding an essential bridge and forcing crossers to pay a toll, and they have to pay one way or another.

Villains new and from their past will also make appearances, like the Brimstone Bandits, a group that Vindolyn used to run with and had a very intimate relationship with the twins Tork & Garrik. And their leader Krys is super ruthless and hellbent on tracking them down. Also toss in some horrible monsters, vicious creatures, and hellish demons for them to face off against as well. Once I figure out the fastest most simple way to draw this as a comic (maybe black and white, or just flat colors) it might finally start seeing some adventures come to life.