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"Look at who you're up against. If you want to fight us, fine. Just ... don't blame me when your head's laying ten feet from the rest of you."

Dishonor Amongst Thieves was such a fun quest. 'Cept for the part when you find Palkeera's dead body - that wasn't so fun. After finishing the quest (the day it came out), I doodled up a handful of quest-related sketches and recently decided to finish this one.

So, this is my World Guardian, Finley Baanbreker (not her in-game name, but w/e). She's around 30 years old, the third eldest of nine siblings in a family of woodcutters and woodworkers, can swing an axe (or halberd...) like no tomorrow, is altruistic almost to a fault, and absolutely hates her job, but puts on an optimistic face and does her best. Growing up telling grand stories of knights and dragons to her younger siblings has made her a little prone to exaggeration - she'll often blow a situation out of proportion and second guess herself as a result. She's quite social and actively tries to be friendly and helpful to everyone (with the exception of a few select individuals), which quite often backfires, even on good days.

Regarding her garb; yeah, it's not exactly canon to what's in-game. I wanted to do a variation on the Pathfinder armor, since I thought it would be cool if the armor scaled to your defense level like the warpriest armors, gaining different additions of metals or other armor materials corresponding to those levels and your preferred combat style (in this case, rune). I don't think it would work in-game, for various reasons, but it seems to work in a story setting, especially for a wandering adventurer like Finely. She sort of scavenges from wherever she can find at first, eventually building up a patchwork set of 'armor' that protects her fairly well while still allowing her to move around and adventure comfortably. She's a pragmatic being, not caring too much about appearances anyway.

I had a good amount of fun with this piece - it was almost therapeutic to paint the background. I actually ended up throwing together a quick 3D model of the Stone of Jas in Sketch-Up for a reference (which then accidentally got deleted just after I had finished referencing it...).

RS--->Jagex
Art--->me

Description
"Look at who you're up against. If you want to fight us, fine. Just ... don't blame me when your head's laying ten feet from the rest of you."

Dishonor Amongst Thieves was such a fun quest. 'Cept for the part when you find Palkeera's dead body - that wasn't so fun. After finishing the quest (the day it came out), I doodled up a handful of quest-related sketches and recently decided to finish this one.

So, this is my World Guardian, Finley Baanbreker (not her in-game name, but w/e). She's around 30 years old, the third eldest of nine siblings in a family of woodcutters and woodworkers, can swing an axe (or halberd...) like no tomorrow, is altruistic almost to a fault, and absolutely hates her job, but puts on an optimistic face and does her best. Growing up telling grand stories of knights and dragons to her younger siblings has made her a little prone to exaggeration - she'll often blow a situation out of proportion and second guess herself as a result. She's quite social and actively tries to be friendly and helpful to everyone (with the exception of a few select individuals), which quite often backfires, even on good days.

Regarding her garb; yeah, it's not exactly canon to what's in-game. I wanted to do a variation on the Pathfinder armor, since I thought it would be cool if the armor scaled to your defense level like the warpriest armors, gaining different additions of metals or other armor materials corresponding to those levels and your preferred combat style (in this case, rune). I don't think it would work in-game, for various reasons, but it seems to work in a story setting, especially for a wandering adventurer like Finely. She sort of scavenges from wherever she can find at first, eventually building up a patchwork set of 'armor' that protects her fairly well while still allowing her to move around and adventure comfortably. She's a pragmatic being, not caring too much about appearances anyway.

I had a good amount of fun with this piece - it was almost therapeutic to paint the background. I actually ended up throwing together a quick 3D model of the Stone of Jas in Sketch-Up for a reference (which then accidentally got deleted just after I had finished referencing it...).

RS--->Jagex
Art--->me