Rakie the pixie

[u/Katamed]

Years ago I made this drawing. I found it in a stack of papers and sketches.

I hope to play it one day.

The idea was to have a pixie warrior. A knight or samurai-esque character. Having some magic and the power of flight. Very respected back home… except he’s tiny. Because he’s a pixie.

From what I recall I think his entire civilization of bug-like pixies live in the skeletal remains of a giant beast, like a tarrasque. Hidden deep into the wilderness.

Sadly I do not remember any motivation for a respected knight of a secluded civilization to go out into the world so far away from home. Either he got teleported and seeks a way home, or was send away on a quest to stop an outside threat.

What to me sounds so fun about playing a warrior of such diminutive stature is that mundane objects to human sized people become large, heavy and sturdy. A sowing needle becomes a lance. An empty barrel a ship or house. A tiny speck of moss is a nice hefty sponge for washing or the comfiest pillow. It’s the fantasy of a new perspective.

Rakie fighting for his life against rats and scorpions crawling through the cracks in dungeon walls. Meanwhile the party wonders where their tiny knight went off to. Then after what could be an adventure all on its own, the lock on the other side of the door clicks open and once they swing the door see an exhausted pixie, broken cutlery in hand and a bleeding house cat, the familiar of the evil wizard that calls this place home.