Endless Realms advanced playerrace - Crystal Dengu

Player race artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.  These are the so-called advanced races, which are subspecies of the core 9 races to be released in their own separate advanced races books.

The art director wanted another Dengu subrace, but was having difficulties coming up with concepts.  I figured, if Dengu love treasure - particularly crystals - so much, what if a subrace evolved from otherwise spending too much time around magical crystals?  Perhaps they began as a cult that not only worship crystals (as many Dengu do), but took to consuming or embedding them into themselves, and have actually become more like them after so many generations, changed forever by their power: they've lost their normal corporeal senses, but gained some unique way of perceiving the world in turn.  While the Dengu are normally robust and hearty, I imagined these crystal-touched Dengu are much more delicate, but able to store magical energy in the crystals they've cultivated within themselves, making them excellent mages.

Anyway, the art director liked the idea, so here we have it!

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