Needed a dedicated cleric for games in my entourage, so decided to whip up a gnoll~ Her particular design choice is lifted from an AD&D gnoll depiction, when they were plantigrade and seemed to have a longer neck.

In Raziya's homeland, gnolls are more common than the canid (or sometimes vulpine) Hinn, of which Layla is a member, but are less common than Humans and the Leonine peoples. As much as I'm not a fan of fantasy racism, I'm tempted to have many gnolls be raiders and slavers and, as such, wind up with a stigma. Amara, who had chosen her name upon becoming a Theurgist of the Leonine-oriented fire goddess Aralisi, may be an exception to this rule... but likely would still face racism for the sins of those evil-doing gnolls that still exist in her world.

Her name has a few meanings, all of which I feel make sense for her to choose that particular one given the real-world influences of my fantasy world's main locales. "Amara" is a name used in Greek and Latin, meaning "grace" or "bitter"; it is also a term used to describe paradise in an African language (I think?); in Sanskrit, the word also refers to immortality. Considering her role as a divinely-inspired magician as well as a warrior-priestess, I feel her name fits nicely, no?