So, HiRez (of SMITE fame) have released Paladins into open beta and well, Cassie is one of their heroes – actually one of their more hardcore looking female heroes. After all, this is their promo banner:
– wincenworks
Princess Gisla + Blue Battle Costume
@bikiniarmorbattledamage? Boobplate and chainmail veil? Good luck untangling that from her hair!
LOL, this looks like designed by someone who heard about armor and maybe saw a picture or two of it, but never got the hang of what it’s supposed to do.
~Ozzie
It’s kind of amazing that this is from Vikings, a show which has both shown us they can do convincing aesthetic and is at least fairly interested in doing the historical research.
Yet somehow, they’ve managed to not only product this thing but also put it in the same shots as fairly convincing real battlefield armor – making Gisla look like an extra from a fantasy movie production who accidentally wandered onto the wrong set.
– wincenworks
Dat Ás – the Pin-Up Calendar You didn’t Know You Needed
To balance out Destiny of Ancient Kingoms’ absolute lack of any Norse mythology elements, even though they claim to be based on it, here’s a project which does honor that culture… with male empowerment!
Seriously though, apart from Jotun, which is unironically good, this is the most knowledgeable spin on Nordic legends that deserved to be featured on BABD (even if not all of those gods are actually Æsir, I’ll let that slide for the sake of double entendre 😉
Full images can be found in the artist’s dA gallery here.
~Ozzie
ht: Daniel
