Ashe Colbray, Human Gunslinger - Sketch (Patreon)

A fun gunslinger I drew on commission for a Pathfinder 2e supplement! I was commissioned to do all the art for this book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/366453/Gunsmiths-Guide

Character: Ashe Colbray, Human Gunslinger

You’ll find Ashe at the local tavern, with a crowd cheering her on as she shows off with increasingly impossible trickshots. When she’s had her fill of the limelight, she buys the crowd a round and inevitably a strangers asks her story. She’ll pause and swirl her drink before downing it. She tells a tale that comes out a little different each time, perhaps because she is guarded, or perhaps just because she enjoys being mysterious. She tells how she wound up in a dusty coastal town after being on the run, and how no one showed her any kindness except for the town’s old smithy. She became his apprentice and always makes sure to say he was the greatest smith who ever lived. The smithy showed her secrets of the forge and she worked day and night to master all manner of weaponcraft.

Life was good, until one day a particularly cruel magistrate requested a weapon without equal to slay his enemies, and the smith refused to help. The magistrate threatened the smith until Ashe stepped in and agreed to make the weapon herself if only the magistrate would spare the smith. The magistrate agreed and gave her ten days to complete the task, or he would be back for the smith’s head. That night, the smith made Ashe swear to not forge a weapon for the magistrate and to leave town as fast as she could. She promised she would do as he said, but she knew what fate awaited the poor smith if she fled in the night.

So, in secret she experimented with all the knowledge the smith had given her and crafted a weapon better than any sword or spear or axe. She crafted her first pistol and engraved a name onto its side: Broken Promise. When the ten days were up the magistrate did not come for the smith, in fact no one ever heard from him again, and Ashe herself faded into legend from that old dusty town.

What do you think? :)

Full painting soon!