Shadar-kai characters

Shadar-kai are drawn far more here than their obscurity suggests — ahead of dragonborn — and almost half of them are rogues or warlocks. They are a very fixed look: gaunt, grey, hollow-eyed, hair either white or black. That consistency makes this a good page to browse for tattoos and scarring, which is where people put the variation instead.

Rogues and warlocks lead, then monks, then barbarians, and men slightly outnumber women. Skin is ashen grey, charcoal, slate or obsidian, sometimes with a spectral sheen, and the variation shows in the markings. Tattoos that shift when you look at them, dark constellations across a bard's arms, vivid blue swirls on a fighter, tally cuts on a monk's scalp. Thin strands of crimson in black hair are the one colour many of them allow. Five are watercolours, which suits the washed-out look well.