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Yeah I’ll admit it, WoW has jumped the shark.

What can you really expect though? I mean, they popped their bad guy cherry with Arthas about 2 expansions back, and now they’re just diving into their lorebooks from Warcraft II to fish out baddies for us to “trick into killing through creative game mechanics.” I’m not trying to sound like a pessimistic douche about it, but I just feel like Warcraft for me, sort-of ended at WotLK when me and my guild teabagged ol Artie and put an end to the threat of scourge invasion. This brings me to the artwork above.

Deaths Knights rock. I mean, yea Monks have been added since then so the whole “new class” thing isn’t unique anymore, but the Death Knight starter questline still to this day sticks with me as a certified epic gaming experience. Surprisingly enough, the whole WoW crossover thing hasn’t really been touched, as I’ve browsed through the archives. Hell, aside from fanfics, the concept of Naruto as a Death Knight is nonexistent. So….challenge accepted!

Now the tough part of adapting these two properties together is the contrast in gear. Death knights are garbed in heavy plate, while Naruto-verse ninjas generally stick with leathers, cloth and mesh. There are instances of armor here and there with the Hokages and samurai, but generally its rare.

So I stuck with removing parts and pieces here and there, while making sure some areas remained distinctly Death Knight. I figured, keeping Naruto’s dominant side (right) more armored made sense, so I added the heaviest plate there. You’ll notice under the cloth doublet, Naruto has chainmail underneath; a nice compromise between mobility and protection while still keeping with the armored look. Another detail pretty prevalent on all WoW Death Knight art is the use of fur-linning. If you look, they have it on boots, gloves, collars, all over. Here, I used that detail, but I kept it pretty tame, so its not overkill.

Now for the runeblade design, I more or less, played around with curves and lines to get a fairly cool looking blade that I could line with DK runes. The hilt is a stylized fox-head, giving credence to the wielder’s personality.

Naruto’s complexion is somewhat intact, in that he still has some semblance of life in his hair, and skin elasticity (I didn’t make him look gaunt like some undead). But I left the hair limp and his skintone looking semi-dead.

Coloring is fairly straight-forward. I used a blue-ish teal for the metal, giving it the true sheen of Saronite plate. I used dark grey here and there, with a hint of white for the furs. Skin pigmentation I kept with the icy-blue hue of the DK’s semi-dead look, and I muted the blonde of Naruto’s hair to be more of a sickly blonde, rather than cop-out and just make white.

I could go on and on, but this description already got stupid long, so I’ll let you guys take over from here lol.

PS: Guess where his pauldron came from and post it! Pretty easy for WoWHeads lol

Description
Yeah I’ll admit it, WoW has jumped the shark.

What can you really expect though? I mean, they popped their bad guy cherry with Arthas about 2 expansions back, and now they’re just diving into their lorebooks from Warcraft II to fish out baddies for us to “trick into killing through creative game mechanics.” I’m not trying to sound like a pessimistic douche about it, but I just feel like Warcraft for me, sort-of ended at WotLK when me and my guild teabagged ol Artie and put an end to the threat of scourge invasion. This brings me to the artwork above.

Deaths Knights rock. I mean, yea Monks have been added since then so the whole “new class” thing isn’t unique anymore, but the Death Knight starter questline still to this day sticks with me as a certified epic gaming experience. Surprisingly enough, the whole WoW crossover thing hasn’t really been touched, as I’ve browsed through the archives. Hell, aside from fanfics, the concept of Naruto as a Death Knight is nonexistent. So….challenge accepted!

Now the tough part of adapting these two properties together is the contrast in gear. Death knights are garbed in heavy plate, while Naruto-verse ninjas generally stick with leathers, cloth and mesh. There are instances of armor here and there with the Hokages and samurai, but generally its rare.

So I stuck with removing parts and pieces here and there, while making sure some areas remained distinctly Death Knight. I figured, keeping Naruto’s dominant side (right) more armored made sense, so I added the heaviest plate there. You’ll notice under the cloth doublet, Naruto has chainmail underneath; a nice compromise between mobility and protection while still keeping with the armored look. Another detail pretty prevalent on all WoW Death Knight art is the use of fur-linning. If you look, they have it on boots, gloves, collars, all over. Here, I used that detail, but I kept it pretty tame, so its not overkill.

Now for the runeblade design, I more or less, played around with curves and lines to get a fairly cool looking blade that I could line with DK runes. The hilt is a stylized fox-head, giving credence to the wielder’s personality.

Naruto’s complexion is somewhat intact, in that he still has some semblance of life in his hair, and skin elasticity (I didn’t make him look gaunt like some undead). But I left the hair limp and his skintone looking semi-dead.

Coloring is fairly straight-forward. I used a blue-ish teal for the metal, giving it the true sheen of Saronite plate. I used dark grey here and there, with a hint of white for the furs. Skin pigmentation I kept with the icy-blue hue of the DK’s semi-dead look, and I muted the blonde of Naruto’s hair to be more of a sickly blonde, rather than cop-out and just make white.

I could go on and on, but this description already got stupid long, so I’ll let you guys take over from here lol.

PS: Guess where his pauldron came from and post it! Pretty easy for WoWHeads lol