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Runescape Concepts: Godwars Characters part 2
12th Sep 2012 0

Here are another couple of Runescape characters I did for the Godwars dungeon.
Now that I think of it, together with Graardor that’s all I did for this project.

Bree and Growler are both Commanders Zyliana’s body guards.

Zylyana has been designed by my good friend Dave, btw.

Commander Zilyana, Keeper of Faith, is the leader of Saradomin’s army in the God Wars Dungeon.
She is an Icyene, an ancient race of winged beings, chosen by Saradomin to guard his hilt.

[Again: source]

Bree, as you might have guessed by the four-legged lower part of his body, is a centaur.
He is one of the only three centaurs of the entire Runescape.
I’m told animators are quite happy of the race being neglected in our game, apparently they’re not the easiest thing to move around.
As far as I’m concerned I’m also quite content to keep their number as low as possible.
Horses are not the easiest thing to draw either, you know.

Runescape character from the Godwars dungeons

(Fun fact: artists have been crap at drawing horses in movement until Edweard Muybridge’s first action photos. There was obviously no way to isolate single frames to take reference until then. There’s an article about it on James Gurney’s blog. Oddly enough, being an old time fan of Muybridge’s work, I already knew about these facts. My brain has its own way to decide with information to retain and what not. I can’t remember my own mobile number, for example).

Growler is another one of the three bodyguards.
Apparently he is not much of a threat and Runescape players normally manage to kick all the Life out of him without breaking their stride.

Runescape character from the Godwars dungeons

Now, to be fair, at this point I should post the last of Zyliana’s bodyguards, Starlight, but I was so unhappy about the concept that I decided it should remain buried where it is.
As another horse-like creature, this unicorn is not so much to my liking.

The model looks great though.

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