| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2014 12:10 p.m. PST |
"Norsgard" game's Facebook has been updated with a concept art of a new Mork Tribe miniature – Prosecutor. Prosecutors use short poisoned swords and fight with heads covered with masks made from hides of swamp predators. Photo blocked by adult filter:
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| John the OFM | 01 Sep 2014 12:13 p.m. PST |
The usual dumb looking fantasy swords. |
| Lupulus | 01 Sep 2014 1:21 p.m. PST |
Dumb looking, but more importantly, realistically sized. |
Frederick  | 01 Sep 2014 5:27 p.m. PST |
Agreed about the odd shaped swords At least they are not "too heavy to carry, let alone use" |
 Parzival | 01 Sep 2014 7:04 p.m. PST |
Since when is a sheep a "swamp predator?" Note to designers and artists: There are no predatory beasts with horns. None. They don't need them; horns are a *defensive* development in prey animals.
Just sayin'. |
| Zephyr1 | 01 Sep 2014 7:40 p.m. PST |
Tell that to the beast-men and minotaurs!  (And, she's got too many spikes and barbs to be allowed to sit on the furniture…. ;-) |
 etotheipi  | 02 Sep 2014 2:47 a.m. PST |
Since when is a sheep a "swamp predator?" I ran an RPG adventure where the chupacabra was a mutant carnivorous sheep. :) Does that count? Besides, you can't always tell from flesh color … maybe they're plant people. That makes sheep predators. (Ooooh, I need to use that idea now. Plant people are attacking encroaching sheep herders whose sheep are eating not yet mobile young from their nursery.) |
| monash1916 | 02 Sep 2014 5:32 a.m. PST |
Note to designers and artists: There are no predatory beasts with horns. None. How about a Narwal (I know it is actually a tooth) or a Jackson's chameleon for instance? The are both predators.
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link Second note to designers and artists: when doing fantasy subjects, there is no limitation. (Except bad taste maybe, but that is another discussion :-) ) |
| abdul666lw | 02 Sep 2014 6:47 a.m. PST |
If the male members of her tribe go bare-breasted (as so many fantasy barbarians do), why – except for the requirements of the prudish American market? – why dos she wear a bra? The taboo on female breasts is a parochial peculiarity of the Abrahamanic faith and the cultures steeped in them. Historically everywhere climate / weather was favourable women went bare breasted just like men before Christianity or Islam -&/or corresponding 'Western' prejudices- became locally dominant. Hyborian times are set before 'our' History, thus it's silly to have women wearing bras (à la Raquel Welch in '1 million years BC') where men are content with a loincloth or a penis shaft – or fur breeches, here. As for the horns, the question is complex. It may be a tribal totem – not all tribes have predators / carnivorous animals as totem.
In Scythian cultures the psychopomps were horned herbivores – to the point that they set false horns / antlers to the horses buried with the lamented departed ones: thus horns could mak a 'death dealer' / executioner.
Also during the preparation of a hunt the shaman dressed like the prey species, to contact its Protective Spirit.
And the horns may have some camouflage value when coming close to the hunted herd… |
| Moonbeast | 02 Sep 2014 8:43 a.m. PST |
"Since when is a sheep a "swamp predator?"" I'm viewing the picture on a 50" TV used as a computer monitor, that "sheep" has some pretty sharp teeth for a herbivore. Just sayin'. |
| OSchmidt | 02 Sep 2014 9:27 a.m. PST |
Dear Abdul You should try asking a large breasted woman sometimes why she wears a bra. Because if they do anything strenuous, THEY HURT! will be the primary answer. |
| OSchmidt | 02 Sep 2014 9:28 a.m. PST |
Now.. Let me ask a question. How many of you out there think she'd be MUCH better looking in that simple little spaghetti-strap black dress or a dirndl, or one of those collar to ankle 19th century dresses. Bet she has a nice smile too. |
| Parzival | 03 Sep 2014 10:00 a.m. PST |
Yes, the push-up bra is stupid, as are the pointless leather straps wrapped around her legs and thighs, and the ridiculous bronze ring with the straps above her chest, and the spike-covered shoulder pad, and… I just thought all that went without saying. It's par for the course in fantasy art these days. Aside from that (and the sheep head, toothy or not), it's a nice piece of illustration by a clearly skilled artist. Oh, and as for why a woman not in a humid, tropical climate might wear a covering across her torso… I can't guess, but I suspect it might have something to do with why men in similar climates clothe their own torsos. I'm sure by the time it starts snowing here I'll be able to come up with an answer. Check back round about November. |
| tkdguy | 03 Sep 2014 4:47 p.m. PST |
She may be a prosecutor, but she's not allowed to bring those knives inside the courtroom. |
| abdul666lw | 04 Sep 2014 5:48 a.m. PST |
"Oh, and as for why a woman not in a humid, tropical climate might wear a covering across her torso… I can't guess, but I suspect it might have something to do with why men in similar climates clothe their own torsos"
17th C. illustrations (not first hand, I know, and artists may already have be tempted by 'exoticism' and 'exotic eroticism) show native Canadians of both sexes bare breasted in summer. Clearly this 'prosecutor' is not in winter dress. |
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