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Tumblrdump + I ramble about knaaren

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Most of these are on tumblr but haven't seen the light of DA.

1) Yeah I did one of those pokemon fusion things everyone was going bananas over a bit ago. So majestic.
2) Isra as she's been seen around here and as she is within her respective story is portrayed as being fairly young, perhaps 18 at oldest. So here she is a bit older, in her 20's, now a warrior proper - more filled out and muscular, but also a bit more scarred up.

Might as well explain some worldbuilding stuff about my approach to knaaren: The glyphs seen on the forearms are magical in nature and are what allow them to produce the shielding effect seen in-game, and as such are only given to males of warrior or guardian rank. After the war caused by Leptys, however, the surviving rebel knaaren, with Sargon as warchief, find themselves in a much more egalitarian society and have slowly but surely assimilated female knaaren into their fighting and hunting ranks. Isra was naturally one of the first lady knaaren to fill this station and ended up learning shield magic as a result. Sargon's sect of post-war knaaren rely on hunting rather than raiding for their meat and have moved out of the City Beneath (the tunnels seen in Rayman 3) and into a series of slot canyons closer in proximity to a mountainous, high desert region. Female knaaren, being more lean muscled and agile than males, have taken very well to the role of game hunters while males are still better adept to handle roles as guards or offensive fighters. There are still some leptys acolytes skulking about, as well as naturally occurring baddies, so guards still have plenty to do. Not all knaaren have taken to this new lifestyle,of course and Sargon and his followers are still trying their best to sway other tribes to their new sociological system. This has yielded mixed results and Rayman, Ly and Togo (newly welcomed back into the council) are in an ongoing struggle to convince the Faerie Council and the rest of the Glade that the Knaaren have potential to be long term allies.

THE OTHER PART of the worldbuilding is that all knaaren have facial tattoos that are as unique to them as their names, and are given to them as part of a puberty rite. And since in the end Rayman ends up, for all intents and purposes, an honorary knaaren warrior I thought it might be interesting to depict what his tattoos might look like. Also loincloth because that's how they roll. As mentioned before, Rayman is the number one advocate for Sargon and his tribe and is also The Glade's emissary to their territory, making his visits to them frequent.

Stupid fan world building triple whammy: Rayman has no belly button because the vast majority of his species are magical in their origin (ergo no live birth) and fall into a category of sort of gaurding spirits that manifest to fill a specific niche in their world (Tarayzan as a guardian of his land/forest, The Magician as a guardian of magical forces, and Rayman, as a super special snowflake, is a guardian of the world in general). So in my version of the U, his kind are rather rare, and ones that are born rather than created are rarer still.
Ray tries his best to understand knaaren customs and culture but it's still all pretty weird to him.
Alright enough of that, NEXT.

3) A couple of characters I've been hammering out and can't really elaborate upon too much right now - August, my version of a dark elf, and Benjamin, a half-orc bard.
4) Kid versions of my character Rodney and Jazzy's character Vagabond.
5) The Doyen about shank Arq.
6) ~theREDspy's monster character! I think his name is Arthur? Oh well I liked him and I really needed to draw her something.
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I Really Like your style of Rayman here~ Amazing!!! >W< :heart: