Another render with the new Harness and other past gear. Also having some fun with more descriptions:


Hither came Varka the Red, red-haired and war-painted, bearing the twin Grimfang axes beneath the grinning skull of the Skullbound Harness.

No man agrees whence she came. The tribes of the north claim she was born where winter winds strip the flesh from stone. The folk of the red wastes swear she strode from the desert already armed, already scarred, and already weary of their local champions.

Varka herself has offered no correction, and thus the tales have grown ever taller.

Yet this much is known: where war gathers, Varka follows. She has broken raiders beneath the wheels of their own chariots, hunted oath-breakers across country no horse would willingly cross, and left more than one petty warlord wondering why his final memory was of a red-haired woman with two axes and no patience for excuses.

The Grimfang twins were once spoken of as lesser companions to the mighty two-handed axe carried by Fabio the Magnificent. Fabio speaks of them thus still. Varka merely carries them. This has become a source of disagreement.

So too has the Skullbound Harness. Fabio claims he wore it first, that he won it in a pit duel of terrible consequence, and that Varka stole both his war paint and his legendary style. Varka calls him a fraud. Fabio calls her jealous. Tavern keepers call for another round before either account can be settled.

Yet the tales of Varka grow, and with them the name whispered from campfire to campfire, from the jeweled thrones of the earth to the red wastes beyond:

Varka the Red. Varka the Red Wolf.