Well, I had four iconics done earlier; might as well do the next four before I call it a day. Lem is the last of the Crimson Throne iconics, a halfling bard. Supposedly given a tragic backstory, because although raised in the lap of luxury, he was a slave in Cheliax, he comes across as a little weird. His original 1e illustration makes him look like some kind of pixy or little boy, while his 2e illustration gives him a chiseled fantasy Elvis look. Plus, y'know, he's a bard. Literally the worst of the core classes, and a halfling to boot. Not only that, he's not a bard with a lute or pan pipes or something, he's a bard with an actual flute.
Sigh.
Still, you've got to do them, right? You've got to have iconic versions of all of your core races and all of your core classes, even the ones that you probably shouldn't have included in the first place. I guess he's not terrible, I've just never had much interest in halflings that weren't part of Middle-earth and even less interest in the bard class. And as I said, a wizard, paladin, bard and ranger isn't exactly the most iconic adventuring class. Although it's probably still better than the one we were about to get for the third adventure path and the next wave of four iconics: Sajan the Bollywood monk. Lini the gnome druid with a snow leopard (Harsk has a badger animal companion, for what it's worth. I forgot to mention it. Because they mostly forget about it too.) Seltyiel, the half-elf fighter/wizard/eldritch knight (hardly an iconic combination. In 2e, that was called a magus and was a regular core class.) And Amiri, the grrlboss barbarian.
Anyway, here's his original and updated designs.
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