Genius Loci: Mindsmith - Progression

A portrait of a Genius Loci character, or rather, profession: a mindsmith. I also created a GIF progression, so you can see how I made him (I believe it's a him - I'm honestly not sure, raganaj aren't dimorphous). You can find the article about these powerful psychologists in the Genius Loci blog, Starmaker's Gaze: http://starmakersgaze.blogspot.de/2016/12/mindsmiths.html



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