My try for a troll magic unit: the troll shaman
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My try for a troll magic unit: the troll shaman
Well on severeal ocassions, while looking trough topics, it seemed to me that people try to think of a magic unit fitting for the troll race.
So I took some effort thinking about it and it seemed to me that a form of shamanic magic would fit trolls best, so i asked myself what does shamanic do and how could it be used in a battle? The answer seems to me that the most original and fitting form of a shaman would be someone who summons the spirits of animals and totems and helps them manifest in our world.
So I had the following picture in my mind:
Wearing a necklace of animal tooths and small bones as well as a fur cape around his neck, a large troll stands upright several strange tattoes covering his body, his arms stick in the skulls of dire wolves, which eyes are glowing red and are engulfed in they transparent manifestation of their spirits.
They troll shaman atatcks by using these Wolf ghost against his enemy, as a fitting effect for this attack I though of an ability called "rabies" (or ghost rabies like someone in irc named it).
A unit inflicted with rabies will do 20% more damage however also suffer 20% of the maximal damage he could inflict whenever attacking or retaliating.(So this situation would always be to his disadvantage as he always suffer the damage but does not always hit)
I think such magic would be quite fitting for a troll, as he can regenerate he does not care much for the additional damage he will suffer.
Rabies could of course behealed the same way as poison is healed.
Down below I add my first experiments with attaching the skull to the trolls arm, not really god but its a start.
So I took some effort thinking about it and it seemed to me that a form of shamanic magic would fit trolls best, so i asked myself what does shamanic do and how could it be used in a battle? The answer seems to me that the most original and fitting form of a shaman would be someone who summons the spirits of animals and totems and helps them manifest in our world.
So I had the following picture in my mind:
Wearing a necklace of animal tooths and small bones as well as a fur cape around his neck, a large troll stands upright several strange tattoes covering his body, his arms stick in the skulls of dire wolves, which eyes are glowing red and are engulfed in they transparent manifestation of their spirits.
They troll shaman atatcks by using these Wolf ghost against his enemy, as a fitting effect for this attack I though of an ability called "rabies" (or ghost rabies like someone in irc named it).
A unit inflicted with rabies will do 20% more damage however also suffer 20% of the maximal damage he could inflict whenever attacking or retaliating.(So this situation would always be to his disadvantage as he always suffer the damage but does not always hit)
I think such magic would be quite fitting for a troll, as he can regenerate he does not care much for the additional damage he will suffer.
Rabies could of course behealed the same way as poison is healed.
Down below I add my first experiments with attaching the skull to the trolls arm, not really god but its a start.
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What already exists? A troll magic user? Well but its not official yet so i can give it a try right?
Oh and dragonmaster the skulls are on his hand so he cann attack with them, as I originally planned that as a melee attack, but well this could also be transformed in a range attack, then the skulls could just float around, but I think skulls as gloves would be more stylish (maybe smaller skulls would be better for that?)
Oh and dragonmaster the skulls are on his hand so he cann attack with them, as I originally planned that as a melee attack, but well this could also be transformed in a range attack, then the skulls could just float around, but I think skulls as gloves would be more stylish (maybe smaller skulls would be better for that?)
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^^ well I somehow tried to mix him together from other troll pics and he really became a little small.(well a trollshaman would not be to muscular right?) Maybe someone other then me will give it a try, it might neeed some time until my pics become good enough.
Well i made one more hunky and tried to resize the skull, I think if i make a smaller better oriented skull it should look goodon the hand, as if he has wolf heads instead of fists
Well i made one more hunky and tried to resize the skull, I think if i make a smaller better oriented skull it should look goodon the hand, as if he has wolf heads instead of fists
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If I were you I'd use neorice's new sprites that will be included soon. These troll graphics are a little outdated.
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Me too, but I like the idea of a Troll shaman.Dragon Master wrote:AArgh! When I see those skulls on his hands it looks like he's gonna do a puppet show.
Sounds niceDragon Master wrote:I would rather give him a staff with animal spirits around it
But what about this: a troll shaman wearing wolf bones? I mean wolf skull as helmet, ribs and bones bound to his rib cage and to his arms.Slow and steady wins the race.
...but he could regret it...
...but he could regret it...
how about i let them hover over his hands with some kind of chain connected to his arms, oh and i willsearch for the new sprites immediately
oh or if he equips the bone , the spirit couls just fly around him?
... [censored] they are really good but there are not enough positions yet ,so its hard to keep the same standard as neorice
:/ pretty hard to make it look good as you can see -->
oh or if he equips the bone , the spirit couls just fly around him?
... [censored] they are really good but there are not enough positions yet ,so its hard to keep the same standard as neorice
:/ pretty hard to make it look good as you can see -->
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