Originally created for 2013 Bubonicon Convention.  Their mascot is a rat and this year's theme was supersistious rat.

 

After going through the obvious ideas in my mind, I assumed everyone else would go with, I came up with this little power voodoo sorcerer, taking care of his biggest problem with some help from some darker loa.

 

I spend quite a bit of time on just research regardless of whether it's required.  It's a great excuse for me to learn something new and add some moderately 'authentic' elements only few may notice.