Sleepy laReef wrote:

I gotta say, two of the pictures match real well with character descriptions. The other two, not so much

I suspect one of them might be Shensen—the backstory there is that she's a character I've played in previous editions as a multiclassed fighter/bard, which is why she's got a scimitar. She's also traditionally done bard performances via singing and dancing, hence no musical instruments.

For this game, I'll be taking General Training as my Ancestry Feat to open up all those fun martial weapon proficiencies by taking Weapon Proficiency. Originally I'd planned on waiting a level and taking the Fighter multiclass archetype, but there's an even BETTER archetype I want that we'll see if I get to preview in the game once we hit second level; it's an archetype coming soon in the Advanced Player's Guide. And since I wanted that archetype... can't go the fighter multiclass route, hence General Training for Weapon Proficiency.

Of course, I could have just gone another route and used my scimitar untrained, but that's 1) not in thematic character to a bard that's as much of a fighter as a performer, and 2) rules gross! :P

That all said, the art for Shensen was ordered originally for the cover of the 100th volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path, where she showed up in Hell's Rebels as an NPC ally. One of the fun perks of working at Paizo is getting to put your PCs in the world as NPCs and then getting our artists to illustrate them!

That said, I do agree with Aaron about the looking forward to fan art side of things! :-)