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[Sketch] Project Valkyrie Mascot - Initial Concept by Midnight Hyperion

[Sketch] Project Valkyrie Mascot - Initial Concept

Midnight Hyperion

Initial concept sketch for the Project Valkyrie forums which serves as a support group to facilitate users on FA wishing to make the move over to Weasyl. I had the idea to design a mascot for it, and since I put the idea out, i figured that i would throw my hat in the ring as well.

The idea base comes from a cursory study on how Vikings wore armor, and found that leather or mail was the most common choice, with lamellar armor, if afforded, being worn over the mail. The helmet design is from the early Viking era with the nose-guard and the dome-shaped helm reinforced by steel strips forming a cross at the top that is sometimes studded with a spike. I modified the design where the ears intersect the helm by giving a steel cowling over the ears that is reinforced by steel plates at the ridges, these ridges then have feathers extending from them to give a look reminiscent of Lenneth from Valkyrie Profile. The wing design is also somewhat inspired by Lenneth's armor. The palette shield is rounded out a bit, but not perfectly, so that it still looks like a palette as well.

The funny thing about the paintbrush axe design is that I initially had the idea of a hand axe, until I found out in the research that the more common Viking axe used in combat resembles more of a polearm than a hand-axe, hence the length.

There are elements that are still tentative with the design, namely the shin-guards and the vambraces as well as the shoes. They may be accurate to Viking era war-attire, or it could be a LARPer filling in the blanks in their Fantasy Viking campaign.

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    Looks great at the moment. Love the design of the Armour. The only thing that seems a little iffy is the paint palette shield, would think a large kite shield palette would impose a more grandiose image.

    Can't wait to see it all coloured up. Reminds me a lot Banner Saga. I should buy you that at one point, so you can get some "referencing material" xP

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      I was considering that, but Kite shields aren't a part of Viking armory until much later. It's much more common for Vikings to use round shields.