That pic is awesome, Jeff. Especially since that's the exact kind of sword Cheluk would be using.

In a week or two I'm going to start the habit of drawing my own character portraits. I'm what you call an art student (though I don't have any formal teaching), so what you'd get is pretty amateur, but if you're interested talk to me next week about it. I have to do some anatomy studies this week, and the fun part is this is completely my decision (fuck college, I'm a rebel.)

Oh, and James, I wouldn't be too concerned with the "alignment" of your patron god. In truth, Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan) did more then suggest that priests of any god could be basically manipulators and sometimes even sorcerers, the 'miracles' and divination they perform not being any more then tricks or dark sorcery in disguise. But he also left it open, so you could also decide that priests are actually in touch with their gods, and actually do perform minor miracles and divine the future; it's entirely up to you, really.

But, hey, my word isn't the authority here. Are priests in Hyboria 'legitimate'? I think it's more appropriate for the setting to leave the question open, and priests should be as bad or good as they want to be. This is a relevant and interesting article, I think: http://hyboria.xoth.net/gods/good_gods.htm

Also note that deities are more regional then alignment based. Mitra is the primary Western god, Ymir Northern, to the South and East: Ishtar and Bel are popular. There are of course other gods.

I keep thinking I may want to change my character's origin.....because this is still the picture I think of when I picture my character, and that is definitely NOT a Shemite!

Oh, and I forgot: Asura. The faith of Asura is sort of like Judaism. It's a middle eastern religion that immigrated west, and for no good reason everyone else hates and demonizes it. It's not a bad choice for a traveling priest.

This is Freya's avatar/picture from previous.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/2120/freya1yk.jpg

Fyi, I have lots of Conan related images as I have run a Conan:AE game in the past both online and at Dragon*Con years ago. I've got a lot of the material from the Sons of Cimmeria group too from Mongoose Publshing.

Aight, I'm still thinking of drawing Xhalite though.

Feel free, my stepdaughter is a pretty good amateur artist herself. We've tried to encourage her to go to art school. She loves comics and rpgs etc. I just offered up the pictures for anyone interested. Didn't mean you had to use them.

I'd be interested in taking a look at the Conan related images, Lando.....maybe I could find one of a Shemite that I like.

Quick note: I play in Lando's Middle Earth Roleplaying 2nd. edition game on Saturday nights at 9pm eastern over OpenRPG here and it has been a fantastic campaign. I also do an internet radio station for that game called Middle Earth Radio as our game soundtrack. We could use a couple more players so if any of you are interested please, by all means sign up in our MERP thread here in this forum. We can provide you with all the game materials via PDF and don't worry if you don't know the system. We can easily teach you and I can help you make a character or I can make one for you as you wish. The system is easy to catch on to and a lot of fun too.

I highly recommend it and any of you guys would be a great fit!

Some Conan tributes.

This should be the intro to all of our games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QtzQhxFHp0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg8D8KwhP5g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPvwmDlMlQ&playnext=1&list=PLAF1FF8CB7244486E
One of my fave tracks from Conan the Barbarian, Recovery after the death of Valeria.

The youtube tributes are very good.

Here is the main source for REH/Conan.

http://www.conan.com/

Years ago I found most of my images here and elsewhere. Later when I'm on my desktop I'll see what I have in my image archive.