Áedánon - The Vanguard
By Scylla on May 1st, 2021 |
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Hello there,
I've always struggled with my characters wearing heavy armours. Light & medium armours are for me simpler to elaborate. I recently wrapped my mind around this one as I tried to embrace the idea of what a vanguard would best look like and I am pretty satisfied with what came out of it.
I love the cape and the helmet together ; the touch of red peps the entire outfit and it also can be found on the grips of both the sword and the greatsword. I believe the shield is a nice addition as the shape and the gold on it compliment the whole outfit.
I only used three dyes for the main armour, but because all pieces are from different sets ; the variation does the trick. By variation I mean for example ; a bright yellow on the dyes channel and once on the outfit turns dark brown [a real pain]. The three dyes in question are : "black" and "carnage orange" for the core of the armour and then some "scarlet" on the crest of the helmet and on the Jora's cape.
My main being a female weaver and extra shining [legendaries & infusions], I wanted something more subbtle and more medieval themed rather than fantasy inspired.
I hope you'll like it as much as I do.
The pieces :
_Head armour -> Firebrand's War Miter (D1 carnage orange, D2-3 black, D4 scarlet),
_Shoulder armour -> Houndskin Mantle (D1-2 carnage orange, D3 black),
_Chest armour -> Whisper's Secret Breastplate (D1-3 carnage orange, D2 black),
_Hand armour -> Draconic Gauntlets (D1 black, D2 carnage orange),
_Leg armour -> Vigil's Honor Tassets (D1 black, D2-3 carnage orange),
_Foot armour -> Protector's Footgear (D1 carnage orange),
_Back item -> Jora's cape (D1 scarlet, D2-4 black, D3 redemption),
_Glider -> Lightbinder Blades Glider (D1 lemonade, D2 ember red).
_Greatsword -> Krysaor, the Golden Sword,
_Sword -> Firebringer,
_Shield -> Shield of the Wing.
Comments
 Zefirez Fashion Collector | Nice screen and nice design. You remind me of another entry here -the hoplite. But since you did not use historical reference i do not have to judge you on accuracy to the source material. Gold, well done. But I'm me...so a nitpick. Look at your characters arms - noodles. While you're playing a norn barbarian woman who constantly walks around with a greatsword. It's perfectly fine on pictures with 1h sword, there it's a non issue. But when you walk with 2h greatsword in just one hand (first picture from left, 2nd row) it just looks bit silly. |
| 2021-05-11 6:50 | |
 Scylla Wanderer | Thank you for sharing your point of view, I do appreciate it. :) Now that you are mentioning it ; they do look like noodles ! But I'd like to point out that she's in fact a human female and not a norn. But the race aside, I do get you. I did read somewhere that most greatswords used to weight on average around 4 to 7lbs / 2 to 3 kgs, which is quite not as heavy as I imagined them to be. It seems common that most people believe these were extremely heavy due to their incredible lenght, up to 7 feet / 2 meters, but to be effective a weapon had to be as light as possible in order to strike and be on the winning side. What did make the difference in battle was probably how dexterous the wielder was. I also pictured her using her one hand sword and shield as main set of weapons and deliver once in a while powerful blows with her greatsword. Have a nice one ;). |
| 2021-05-18 19:07 in reply to Zefirez |
