Rifter was drawn for  Kah for a setting he's working on called Fangora.

Rifter is the guard captain of the lower city of Saltknuckle, where all the rowdy adventurers and destitute drunks who can't get into the upper city coalesce. He's a grizzled old veteran that's mastered the thousand blades style, which allows him to scatter his quiver of katanas around the battlefield and bounce between them for rapid attacks. He's even more potent when paired with his squire, a young shiba inu that can control metal and sends the blades flying alongside Rifter for brutal combo attacks.

He ended up chasing some fleeing criminals out too close to the rift - the dense area of chaos magic that still covers the majority of the world after the last cataclysm but is slowly diminishing. Determined to bring them back alive, he ended up getting too close to the rift and got tainted by it, while the criminals themselves were warped into gibbering mounds of incoherant flesh.

That corruption is slowly spreading through his body, granting him those tendrils that can displace his body through space slightly. He's trying to keep them under wraps though, so he doesn't get ousted from the guard and put to death for harboring the taint of the rift, but his squire has a crush on him and keeps trying sneak a peek at him in hte nude so that makes keeping the secret quite difficult.

He is pictured here in his old military cloak, which he uses to hide his growing tendrils.

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