Okay, so we've got an AD&D Gnome and a Champions of Norrath Dark Elf, I figure I'll add my own figure to the growing fantasy offerings:
Garet Jax was a protector and companion to Jair Ohmsford. A master of weapons and weaponless combat, he had no equal, and had found himself searching the Four Lands for an opponent worthy of him. Not even, it seemed, the deadly Kraken could do him in...until he met the Jachyra, a Demon from beyond the Forbidding. He died fighting it, though to this day no one knows if he defeated it or not, as by the time his companions spotted his body, the battle was long past and the the magic that sustained the Jachyra gone.
For those not familiar with the book Garet Jax was the Shannara equivalent of Snake-Eyes, though I believe he'd mop the floor with Snake-Eyes any day (and probably slaughter Storm Shadow without breaking a sweat). He was a loner and a man of few words, hovering between heroic legend and mercenary; what drove him, where he came from, few knew and none with any real solidity. He dressed always in black, and at least initially carried a black staff and short sword, though he always seemed to have other weapons on hand, and could make use of any weapon that came to hand.
Pic:
(Background created by Cap!
)Parts Used:
Head: Comc Pack General Hawk
Torso, waist, skirt: VvV Kamakura
Arms: DTC Barrel Roll
Legs: VvV Cobra Commander
Cloak: Star Wars
Short sword: POTC, modified
Staff: Custom
The only parts of him that required extensive work were the staff and sword. The head required me to shave down the neck ball and the inside hole for it on the torso, then it fit well. I felt it captured his look perfectly. If you look at the figure closely (didn't work with the pics) I painted the eyes grey.
The sword I cut down from a full-length POTC sword and rounded off the end, then trimmed away the guard to make a decent short sword out of it. The staff is actually two plastic Q-tips with their ends removed, joined in the center with a length of paper clip and glued; I sanded and smoothed it, then added a stick pin on the end and painted the whole of it.
) Elfstones was my first one too; Sword was next and then I was eager for Wishsong. Recently re-read both Sword and Wishsong to get a better feel for my customs (still working on parts for Allanon, but matching his height and finding a proper set of robes is proving a bit troublesome.)