It isn't often that I get commissions to draw characters that mean as much to me as this one, but getting hired by your old GM has its benefits. This is for a rpg rulebook, of one of my older role-playing characters. Slate is a basilisk unwillingly transformed into a mostly-human being by magic gone wrong. In helping the heroes save their city, he managed to get himself back to his real form, at the expense of newfound intelligence, but not the friendships he'd formed. I like to imagine that he occasionally takes human form when he decides he has something to say, but in this picture, he's communicating with another basilisk in a simpler way, and doesn't look too unhappy. This was very fun to draw.