#daario

Another Sellswords post again, with another named character! This time, I've painted up a figure to represent the ever ostentatious Daario Naharis, ruthless captain of the Stormcrows and Dany's paramour

Given how extra Daario is, I needed to set him apart from the already colourful Tyroshi I had painted up. So considering Daario is a fashion disaster in the books, I just had to get that included! I've based the scheme on his first outfit in A Storm of Swords in particular:

Daario Naharis was flamboyant even for a Tyroshi. His beard was cut into three prongs and dyed blue, the same color as his eyes and the curly hair that fell to his collar. His pointed mustachios were painted gold. His clothes were all shades of yellow; a foam of Myrish lace the color of butter spilled from his collar and cuffs, his doublet was sewn with brass medallions in the shape of dandelions, and ornamental goldwork crawled up his high leather boots to his thighs. Gloves of soft yellow suede were tucked into a belt of gilded rings, and his fingernails were enameled blue.

Going off that description meant a LOT of yellow, but I didn't want everything to be the same shade, so I've gone for a few different tones, with a warm yellow for the doublet, ochre for the leggings, mustard for the gloves and a very pale butter-yellow for his lace cuffs and collar The miniature itself is based on a Eureka Miniatures Portuguese sailor, which I felt really had the swashbuckling feel I needed without literally going for 18th century pirates I felt that the sword and dagger hilts were a tad too small to effectively sculpt the custom designs Daario uses, so I've just left them as gold, for even more yellow on the outfit And to round off, here's Daario with the other Tyroshi sellswords I've painted up

"He has a sellsword's conscience, That is to say, none at all."

He sells his sword for money, but fashion is his passion. Steven Attewell recently had a post about how fan art interpretations of Daario inevitably tone him down because his described appearance is just so much. Admittedly I didn't go full yellow on yellow here, but I like to think I did him justice - I added the striped trousers last minute to keep him full-on (also my Euron has striped pirate trousers and I love that terrible theory).

Daenerys: The person you called is unavailable right now.

Daario: You're standing right-

Daenerys: Please leave a message after the beep.

Daario: Wha-