Talon-ify Your Heroes

Granted, this works best for characters who are basically human to start, but create a version that has been corrupted by the Talon of Vengeance force.

I assume, of course, given the power level of people dealing with the Talons, that even Talon-ified, they're still operating more on their own will than the Talons, but eh:

Anyway: Tender Bar

Natural, surpasses human limits despite no discernible magic, genetic oddity, mutation or technology. She simply gets angry and things break:



Tender Bar Talonified (went Griffin-ish...but considered Minotaur...what can I say, I like wings and didn't want to do harpy given the Knives and Talons do that):

As if Oougel weren't enough of an eldritch abomination already... she's a hybrid human/Rularuu escaped product of mad science.



I think that, if she ever deigned to join the Talons (which she wouldn't, she doesn't need their help to punish the guilty :P), the Talon version would be a claws/WP stalker instead of a fortunata.

My other two characters that I play with any regularity weren't working for it... one's an ill/rad troller and the change would have rendered her a completely different character so I figured what's the point, and the other is, well, a man.

Besides, Oougel was fun

I remembered the Oracles and Prophetesses and suddenly it got a lot easier to think of my controller as a Talon. The Illumineer is a particle physicist whose weapon is light - not in the sense of lasers, more in the sense of mind-control rays (this is comic-book land!). I think the Talon version would probably be a Mind/Energy dom.



The dilemma of not being able to put bird feet with a skirt resolved itself when I remembered the lower-level bosses in the First Ward, some of whom wear boots.

ah, ParagonWiki had a good shot of what I based mine off of... here's what I referred to:

I gave it a try! I thought it would kinda neat to try the what-if Talon corruption on my atypical Roman, Lucia Volusa/Mind of Minerva; a Broadsword/Shield Brute.




Under the corruption of the Talons...



Lucia takes up a hood, of course. As wings sprout from her back, she drops her breastplate and scaled skin shows from behind her tights. More importantly, she casts aside her shield for a second gladius sword, as a Dual Blades/Invulnerability Brute. Any remaining armor holds for some distinction and perhaps some vague sentimental value.



Rather than emulating the soul patch tattoo using Technis, I thought it would be more interesting to bend the rules a bit and use Roman as her facial markings, reflecting the nature of her being.

pretty cool...

I like the use of the blast texture and the Roman skirt

(note I'm hating myself right now...did the destroy the knives of vengeance mission and forgot to do it in Tender's new Talon costume....I so meant to be a rogue Talon for that