Celtic based faction: New villager

[DeViL]

i mean give him one big sword and use the elvish HEROES pose not captain make him hold in the not parrying dagger hand

then extend other arm to hold it with both

sorry didnt know it was parrying dagger

[Flametrooper]

I'll think about the champion pose. Until then, however, here is the level 0 villager.

[DeViL]

is that a thong seriously though make his lower garment a lil bigger and shade him a lil more but ok overall and nice work on the torch.

[Hagow]

Poor villager... A broken right leg, and no smarts to tell him to hold the torch away from his face.
But the other units look really nice.

[Flametrooper]

Woah, someone revived my thread. I've actually got another villager in progress - it's that then the Champion that's left, at least for now.

[Flametrooper]

Does this look any better?
EDIT: Especially, note the un-copy-pasted hair. I am not sure if it looks too good, and I haven't drawn much hair; that's probably an area that needs criticism, and work.

[DeViL]

much better torch flame maybe too big but i see no other big problems hair is very good actually good job

[pwnzerIV]

If you want to push this closer into almost 2000 years ago, Blonde hair wasn't in the gene pool of the british until the saxons invaded.

[Fiach Dubh]

*Magically resurrects a long-dead thread*

I just came across this while browsing the forums in the wee small hours of the morning, and a couple of things caught my eye. There may be a better place to post this (not sure if discussion has been moved to the IE forums?), but I'm here and not there so here goes:

* 'Morrigan' is an incorrect anglicization, there should be an 'h' in it (my surname, so I would know - see my signature).

* It actually derives from 'an Mhór Rioghain', which means 'Phantom Queen'. While She was a patron of warriors, She was also a goddess of fertility, whose worship may well date back to the Stone Age. Given that the more traditional branch of my family still pays homage to Her today, this would make Morrighan-worship the oldest religion in the world.

* Despite popular conception and the Boudicca myth (and the female war-deity), there is no evidence that Celtic women ever fought on the battlefield. While around half of all male Celtic burials included weaponry of some description, not one woman from that culture has ever been found buried with any form of armament.

* PwnzerIV (how can that be a name?) is right about the hair, it should be either black or red.

[Temuchin Khan]

Despite popular conception and the Boudicca myth (and the female war-deity), there is no evidence that Celtic women ever fought on the battlefield. While around half of all male Celtic burials included weaponry of some description, not one woman from that culture has ever been found buried with any form of armament.

That's what I thought, and I commented on it earlier in the thread, but I didn't have the data to back it up at the time, and some of the others had links to a website that boldly made claims to the contrary. I decided to leave well enough alone, at least for the time being.

[Fiach Dubh]

To start with, the typical Celtic warrior was male. Even hints that armed females existed are extremely rare. Not a single instance of a female burial containing a shield or a sword has yet been uncovered. About 50 percent of the males, about 25% of the total population, were buried with weapons...

The link might also be useful for general research, though from what I hear Flametrooper's done plenty of that already.

[Maeglin Dubh]

I might have been the one who proposed the word Morrigan... It's the only way I've ever seen it written, even in Irish literature. But from what I've seen, Gaelic spellings have been very flexible down through the ages. Someone probably felt justified taking the license of Anglicizing the word.

[Fiach Dubh]

I think the flexibility comes down to the fact that native English-speakers tend to spell unfamiliar words phonetically, and it's completely impossible to speak Gaelic properly if you're not fortunate enough to have an Irish accent.

[Maeglin Dubh]

I've worked with Irish before, so I can approximate a pretty good accent. I'm a decent mimic, having worked with puppets for years, and can pull off most accents and speech characteristics after one or two conversations. Talking to foreigners, I sometimes slip into their mode of speech, and since it's familiar to them, they don't notice either.

But to answer your earlier question, and to at least maintain some semblance of relativity, the Keltoi are currently being developed at the Imperial forums. Of course, work there is proceeding at about the same rate as Spacenoth, that being, a snail on salt.

But we do all have lives. To a point.

[turin]

But to answer your earlier question, and to at least maintain some semblance of relativity, the Keltoi are currently being developed at the Imperial forums. Of course, work there is proceeding at about the same rate as Spacenoth, that being, a snail on salt.

Visible work.