#cuman

janosh uher + cuman helmet w/ mask

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yes, i know janosh isn't cuman. he is hungarian/slovak but i thought it'd be fun to draw him wearing cuman armour due to the association with them due to being hungarian. i have also taken the liberty of drawing the byzantine pattern on his coat correctly according to the original source because the pattern on his ingame model overlaps horribly.

I thought it would make more sense to start with the first game, so that's what I'm playing right now, but I plan on playing the 2nd one after! At least this way there will be plenty of mods out by the time I get to it.

My brain always gets confused when I hear the Cumans yelling in Hungarian and a minute later people are speaking to me in English. I understand both and it feels like I'm not supposed to. I do wish the Cumans screamed louder and said more foul things, 'cause you hear way worse just by taking the 4-6 tram in Budapest. It's just not that scary when they're supposed to be savages but actual middle schoolers use cusswords that would make them blush.

This is about the volume I would expect them to come at you with:

Happy to share a painting I made a few years ago!

This is a female warrior from the medieval Volga Bulgar era; Steppe warriors from the east who settled in Central Europe.

Hope you like it!

Best,

A nearly 1,000-year-old Polovtsian "Baba" (warrior) statue was evacuated from the frontline near Hektova Balka and transferred to the Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum in Dnipro. The 3rd Brigade’s Khorunzha Service conducted the rescue under heavy shelling, saving the statue from destruction by Russian forces. A member of the service stated that the statue would be returned to its original location after the war but would undergo research at the museum in the meantime. This is the second Polovtsian sculpture saved from the frontlines in recent months. The Polovtsi, also known as Cumans, were a nomadic Turkic people who inhabited the area north of the Black Sea and left a lasting influence on Kyivan Rus and other kingdoms. Their "Baba" statues, found throughout Eastern Europe, were erected between the 11th and 13th centuries as sacred tombstone figures representing ancestors. More than 2,000 have survived, though many are now threatened due to their proximity to the war zone. Photo 3: Polovtsian stone sculptures (babas) of IX-XIII centuries on Mount Kremenets in Izium city (Kharkiv Oblast) after Russian shelling during the Battle of Izium in 2022. One statue was completely destroyed by a projectile. Nearby monument to WWII heroes (in the background on the right) is partially destroyed. (Photo: Wikipedia) —Euromaidan Press