My submission for the talisman challenge in character creation. Even though I'm a writer, I found it easier to just doodle this, hehe.
This is a piece of Zan's mother's breastbone, carved into the shape of a heart. As one of VERY few survivors to his village getting razed as a child, he vowed to bring vengeance and justice to the wicked people in this world. As a constant reminder of his mission, and to provide emotional support, he created this talisman when he bore witness to his mother's corpse. She's always with him now, in the form of this literal piece of her.