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Another day, another character from my past.
This time is Mothar, aka The Maul of Moradin. He was quite a peculiar character indeed, being a rare example of dwarven monk.
Mothar was born in the Great Rift of the southern Forgotten Realms, home to the Gold Dwarves. He was a Thunder Twin, meaning he and his twin brother were born blessed by Moradin, the High God of the dwarven race. In fact, both Mothar and his brother were blessed by Moradin's gifts: Mothar had incredible strenght and stamina, while his brother cunning and wisdom.
Mothar was trained to become a Maul of Moradin, an elite caste of bare-handed fighter said to be capable of crushing the hardest rock with a single blow of the clenched fist.
Mothar was however unaware of the fact that his twin brother, raised in the meanwhile to prominence as the High Priest of Moradin, would have turned against him, because he was jealous of Mothar's fame and pureness of soul. Mothar was cast away in exile being accused of high treason against the Temple, and undertook a life of adventuring.
For this redesign I felt the original look of the character was still cool, but he looked too much handsome and his body, although exaggerated in anatomic features, still was too well-proportioned. I always imagined Mothar as being a solid 200+ pounds of muscle in a pocket package, being only about 4' 5" high. So I wanted to give him this hunched feature reflecting his impossible physical proportions.
I've also drawn him arms gauntlets to help him live the expectations of crushing rocks with a fist

Description
Another day, another character from my past.
This time is Mothar, aka The Maul of Moradin. He was quite a peculiar character indeed, being a rare example of dwarven monk.
Mothar was born in the Great Rift of the southern Forgotten Realms, home to the Gold Dwarves. He was a Thunder Twin, meaning he and his twin brother were born blessed by Moradin, the High God of the dwarven race. In fact, both Mothar and his brother were blessed by Moradin's gifts: Mothar had incredible strenght and stamina, while his brother cunning and wisdom.
Mothar was trained to become a Maul of Moradin, an elite caste of bare-handed fighter said to be capable of crushing the hardest rock with a single blow of the clenched fist.
Mothar was however unaware of the fact that his twin brother, raised in the meanwhile to prominence as the High Priest of Moradin, would have turned against him, because he was jealous of Mothar's fame and pureness of soul. Mothar was cast away in exile being accused of high treason against the Temple, and undertook a life of adventuring.
For this redesign I felt the original look of the character was still cool, but he looked too much handsome and his body, although exaggerated in anatomic features, still was too well-proportioned. I always imagined Mothar as being a solid 200+ pounds of muscle in a pocket package, being only about 4' 5" high. So I wanted to give him this hunched feature reflecting his impossible physical proportions.
I've also drawn him arms gauntlets to help him live the expectations of crushing rocks with a fist