This is a DnD character commission that I had the pleasure to work on!
Here's the character's backstory:
"Taliesin’s mother was a beautiful Glenmoril Witch with skin of porcelain and eyes of descending darkness. Overhearing a wandering bard singing as he wandered too close to her forest, she cast a dark hex, enchanting him into falling immediately in love. Instantaneously upon her appearance, the two made love – her dark spell ensuring conception though leaving the man nothing but a shriveled husk. Nothing of him remained, aside from his name, which she later passed down to her child.
She hoped to bear a daughter, but to her dismay a son was born. Knowing the male children of the coven were fed to the ruling Hagravens, she stole away to High Isle, seeking the Druids of the Stonelore Circle. She left him with nothing but a set of garments she sewed lovingly by hand, and a mysterious tome of spells that was enchanted to only be opened when he became of age. Playing the role of victim, and leaving a false name, the Circle took pity on the mother and child and agreed to raise him in the ways of Y’ffre.
Taliesin, conceived through coercion and ark magic, showed great aptitude for the druidic arts though the results of his casting were oft unexpected. Rather than creating vines of a restorative nature as taught, they would erupt with poisonous thorns. The flowers he created did not soothe, but created aggression in those around him. Rumors of Taliesin consorting with the Beast-Stags circulated among his peers, and whispers reached the city of a “Stonelore Warlock.”
Despite being ostracized, Taliesin values nothing more than the protection of all natural life on the Isles. Something he is willing to fight to protect, at any cost."