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Gideon - the slave mage

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Meet Gideon, my new-old creation (I actually developed him a looooong time ago, but this is his first "corporal" appearance). To be exact, he is an ex-slave as one can see from the collar-scar on his neck.

Yes, poor Gideon's story is rather sad. He is actually the forth prince of a certain country, and on top of that a powerful prophet and magician. When he was 23 there was a coup d'etat led by one of his cousins accompanied by an army of monsters. Gideon's family was slaughtered and he was captured. Because his cousin feared him, he didn't dare to kill him, and so he sealed Gideon's powers (that's the tattoo on his left eye) and sold him into slavery. The young prince spent 7 horrible years as a slave until one day he was sold to a horrible aristocrat, who wanted to make him his "boy-toy". Gideon couldn't take loosing the last part of his dignity, so he struggled like crazy and in the process bit off the aristocrat's ear. For this grave crime the prince was beaten almost to death and than sentenced to a public execution. Just when he thought that he is going to die, he was saved by Eva and Conrad kitanokata.deviantart.com/art/…, who managed to cheat the aristocrat into selling them Gideon.

Gideon stayed with the two and decided to help them find the new source of magic, since he was the one who made the prophecy about its existence. With Eva's help he managed to partially break the seal restricting his powers, so now he can use easy magic and store his powers into objects (like his staff) for times when more serious magic is required.

Gideon and all other characters and the story (c) ME :iconkitanokata:

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EDIT: I realized that Gideon's waist is too thin, so I corrected it a bit. 
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Dragoness-Lephisto's avatar
That's an amazing character you got there.
Sad story, indeed. But there is a happy end (sort of)

Your art looks amazing, what kind of technique do you use ?
I especially like the tatoo, I don't have the paticience (or the talent) to draw proper tattoos so my own characters have very basic ones.