Quicklings rocket through haunting, twisted forests where the unseelie fey hold sway, both in the Feywild and in the world. Racing faster than the eye can track, each appears as little more than a blurry wavering in the air. A quickling is a small, slender fey, similar to a miniature elf with sharp, feral features. Its cold, cruel eyes gleam like jewels. To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur as it moves. Its cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, its speech a shrill squeal. Only when a quickling deliberately slows down, which it prefers not to do, can other beings properly see, hear, and comprehend it. Never truly at rest, a "stationary" quickling constantly paces and shifts in place, as though it can’t wait to be off again. —D&D Beyond Well, D&D stumped me. Couldn't find a race, class, or spell that begins with"Q". So I went with a somewhat lesser known but absolutely fun "monster" to use. Moving faster than the eye can see, these seemingly tiny threats can cause great havoc. Fortunately, they are more mischievous than malicious, but a DM can make quite a challenge for PCs unable to see their enemies. Six in-progress pictures below. |
Why you should practice drawing Quicklings: Any actions in all fantasy genres are always exaggerated to show force and/or movement. None more so than running. To emphasize speed figures are usually hunched over which means that their legs would have to straiten to place their entire body at a 45° gravity defying angle like the drawing above. In real life, runners bodies are strait to allow the ball and socket joints at the hips the maximum arc and speed. However, they do not look nearly as cool or dramatic as the Flash or even the FTD logo (aka Mercury). Anyway, I think about these things so you don't have to.
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