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South Asian Dating Sim mock up

My Entry for the Character Design Challenge this month, the theme was Barbarian Conquerer!

Audio from The Aristocats

The drunk German Landsknegt mentor for this sword master society Idea I had 🗡 I've been gettin really into sword fighting lately!

Lil Rakshasa Transformation Anim 🐯

Growing up with the Ramayana, I never really paid much attention to him, a lot of the myths focused on his monstrous nature and being a huge obstacle for Lord Ram's army. Oddly enough, he was a pretty chivalrous dude! Scolding his brother for kidnapping Lady Sita, but still fighting for his brother out of loyalty despite knowing who he was up against, The legendary sleeping giant.

Nothing says final boss monster like 10 heads and 20 arms, the main antagonist of the Ramayana of Hindu mythology

DnD Rakshasa - Despite my mixed feelings on em, Tiger demon is a pretty sick visual 🐅🐯

To relate it to European mythology, I'd argue that Rakshasa are less like demons, but a bit more like powerful shapeshifting Orcs!

While there are stories of rakshasa using their illusions to trick and take the form of others in mythology, I wasn't able to find examples of them trying to integrate into a society and keep up appearances in order to feast which I think was some cool lore on DnDs part!

I chose to do a mix of them being born of anger and hunger and the story of them being born when Brahma, the creator god took a breath, because the idea of a god literally "breathing" life into his creations and said creations immediately turning to devour him is a really sick visual!

RAKSHASA- You might recognize em as Tiger Demons from DnD, but their mythological origins trace all the way back to the indian subcontinent as strange carnivorous humanoids using illusions and trickery to hunt their prey (so not really all that different!)

Thanks all for your support!