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For an upcoming issue of a game 'zine.My customer requested specific peoples as inspiration. So a Masai giraffe, an Ashanti okapi, and a Zulu zebra. (The giraffe is literally a Masai giraffe, and Cape zebras are local to south Africa, though might not be local to kwaZulu.)
I really enjoyed some of the research behind this - it turns out the Masai have an actual code for colors on their spears, and that there's a lot of really elaborate terminology for Akan soldiery.
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This is amazingly cool! I happen to love African adventures, and I often write stuff for the Hepmonaland continent of Greyhawk, and also use the Nyambe supplements for gaming ... and though I haven't ever included variant centaurs, if I were going to, I would certainly include ones like these! Do you know when it's being published, and what the name of the magazine is?
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Okay, this is for Nod Magazine published by J.M. Stater ([link] ) - so I don't know when the magazine actually came out, but I'm pretty sure it's print on demand or available as back issues.
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I admire your skill in matching tribes to varieties of animals, as in the Masai giraffe. I try to do something similar with my Fledgling Grace series, choosing bird species that overlap people's ancestral homeland.
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Thanks! But in this case it's not actually my skill. I looked up the costumes, but the tribal affiliation? Completely 100% my customer, here. Check out [link] , he's awesome.
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I'm really impressed with the hoofwork here. Whenever I try to draw those, they give me no end of trouble...
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Thanks! I think I'm actually getting a little better understanding how unguligrades work so stay tuned.
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Wow, these are awesome! I could almost imagine the Giraffe-taur's thorax even longer and more flexible than most, with a complex system of muscles on their back.
I like how different each one's dress is. And the expression on the Zebra-taur's face looks somehow both mistrustful and amused - like warily encountering a trickster of some sort.
Thanks as always for sharing your art!
Light and laughter,
SongCoyote
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Thank you - and the different tribes were basically the customer's specification, I just was able to look up the costumes! What I'm trying to say is that I have awesome customers.
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Great style! I think I like the okapi and the zebra best. Love the theme. Reminds me of the old Nyambe campaign setting.
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