[CHARACTER DESIGN] Exekiel Dagg - Fantasy Old West

Once, he was light — a true Vaurin, born of the deep fae courts, unbound by flesh. But the wizards of the surface dragged him into stone-hued skin and chained him to their will, stripping away the form that was his birthright. Now, in the dust-choked saloons of the magical West, he deals cards with the same precision he weaves his warlock spells, every flick of the wrist a gamble and a threat.

The iron cuffs he wears were once his prison, forged to drain his magic and anchor him to his masters’ command. When he finally turned on them, he didn’t break the shackles — he claimed them. Twisting their enchantments, he bound the souls of those very wizards inside the metal, their essence forever trapped and forced to serve as the wellspring of his power. The chains that once silenced him now whisper with the voices of the defeated, each incantation he casts a reminder that their magic is his to command.

A master of escapes, a collector of debts, and a connoisseur of trouble, Dagg walks the frontier with a sly grin and a shadowed past, forever straddling the line between performer and predator.