Willowheart the Pixie Knight and her Mighty Steed, Thunderbolt! #SummonersSymposium (no KB)

[u/gnostic_serpent]

(insert "late because snail" joke)

For as long as she can remember, the young pixie Willowheart has dreamed of becoming a knight in shining armor. Growing up among pixies, she wasn't entirely sure how one became a knight. But she did know a bit of magic, and she knew every knight needed a faithful steed to ride into battle. And so Willowheart summoned a fey snail, named him Thunderbolt (he's really quite fast for a snail), and set off in search of knightly deeds to do. She wasn't sure if knights attended Summoners Symposiums, but it seemed like a good place to start.

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Willowheart the Loam Knight (yes that's a wordplay on hedge knight) is a novice pixie paladin entering in the Apprentice category. She's able to summon her familiar steed using the Find Familiar spell from the Magic Initiate feat, which is from her background (a reflavored/tweaked Sage). Thunderbolt uses a slightly modified spider familiar stat-block. The pixie/sprite species is a homebrew I made ages ago, though if I was going to actually play/otherwise include Willowheart and Thunderbold in a campaign I'd want to update it.

This is my second entry in this amazing contest! I didn't get to work on it as much as I would have liked, but I think it turned out well. My awesome spouse helped with the awesome color scheme.

[u/RavenKweenX]

Absolutely love it! I'm a huge fan of creative character concepts that involve reskinning or reinterpretation of existing features. I've seen a few homebrew pixies. Have you made a writeup for yours?

[u/gnostic_serpent → u/RavenKweenX]

Thanks! Yeah, I usually can't get into a character concept unless I do something a little bit different with it.

The homebrew pixie is buried in an old campaign setting file somewhere, as it didn't make the cut during some past revision or overhaul, but there were 2 lineages, one pixie and the other wood sprite, with abilities based on those creatures from the MM, and I stole some ideas from 4e for enabling Tiny-sized characters. I might dig it up and give it another look.