#aslkjdfhadfl i hated doing this one but also kinda liked it

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#Tribes Concept Art project

- Average Attire

- Formal Attire

- Warrior Attire

i really procrastinated this one because drawing armour is difficult and i started to really hate it, but here we are!

so for the Jalis, i originally had intricate detail based of McBride’s amazing art but i realised that since i was giving them very geometric hair and beard styles (that i didn’t want to part from) i realised i should reflect that in the armour? the wear a mail shirt with gold plate armour. technically gold is inefficient as armour material, because it’s so heavy and is soft (i think that’s the reason), so i tried to lesson how much gold was there. maybe it’s even just gold coated armour, idk. i haven’t thought that much into it. they mostly use swords, and they have a sort of pentagon shield. and of course, they have their iconic horned-helmet. 

i didn’t really give the Dread Gnomes armour, but i did give them war paint that accidentally eludes to archery. so double plus. they have recurve bows and hunting knives. they usually keep their distance, pick enemies off with arrows but also setting up tricks and traps. i forgot about scale armour when i was sketching this way back when, and i thought it would fit for Mere, but now i’m considering giving the Dread Gnomes scale armour!! they deal with vraal 1.0 and 2.0 a lot, so maybe that kinda mimicked that idea? idk. just thinking aloud.

so i was headcanoning leather armour for Mere, but i read Tales of Deltora recently and it’s actually canon!! i was disappointed when i remembered scale armour because i thought it’d look cool with the Mere but i’d nearly finished everyone and didn’t want to redraw, but tHEN. but then i realised that studded leather armour exists too. and that works WELL with their Tribal Talisman which is described like the night sky!! like. steel (?) studs on their armour and shields would gleam like stars,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i imagine they might dye/paint/something colour to their armour, or at least their shields. they’d be Colourful and Beautiful despite their Ferocity in battle. i imagine them favouring spears and sabres, and their shields are teardrop shaped.

alkjsdfh oh Del. i didn’t know what to do. i sorta based it off the Palace Guard armour i did earlier, but without the union motif. i started to phase out by this point i think. started over thinking how they went to the bathroom asdkljfh. but yeah. CAPES. because they’re dramatic. steel plate armour. favours swords and buckler shields.

Plains (or at least Hiran) soldiers seem to be Roman-esque (maybe a lil Spartan too?) with their plumed helmets and spears (as seen in Tales). They’ve got silver plate armour that’s more angular than Del, and maybe a little more extravagant? or heavy, design wise? favour spears and swords, and have sturdy rectangular shields. they might have longer and thinner swords, in comparison to the Jalis broadsword perhaps, but maybe not quite like a rapier because i think that doesn’t combo good with the shield. unless they have mode 1: spear and shield, mode 2: sword. 

Ralads aren’t fighters, so,,, i was tempted to just not include them. but then i started thinking that it’d be fun if they wore clothes with camouflage markings,  streaked their skin with natural-coloured paint, and maybe had branches and leave accessories to blend in with the ‘Ralad Wilds’. they do not fight, but they set lots of traps and are clever and elusive, so i thought it fit. Adin couldn’t see them, and neither did any of the Plains scouts apparently. i was headcanoning that they used their flutes, or some sort of whistle to make bird calls and signal to each other, but when i was rereading Tales i think it’s actual canon. so that’s pretty sweet!

Similarly, Torans aren’t fighters either. i don’t really imagine their magic in a ‘make coloured beams and sparkles and shoot it off in all directions’ but more of a ‘tweaking with the world space’ type of thing. like they can move things and speed things up and keep things away and idk, like how they moved the sand off the Amethyst Dragon in the Sleeping Dunes. although, as i wrote that first sentence i remembered how the Entrance to Tora is described to have coloured sparks and stuff i’m pretty sure, so maybe they do a little? anyway ranting about Tora can be for another post. so Torans aren’t fighters, but i thought it’d be fun to sketch one with her robes billowing (sort of, i ran out of space on my paper hahah) like she’s summoning her magic and oh boy we need to run.