Sartan, the Malevolent

Eld

Alyssea said:

Jonathin said:

I do not like that comma after malice. I don't know if it's wrong, I just don't like it. It makes me pause while reading and makes the sentence read funny.

I could have been taught to read funny though.

It's correct. "The vicious scowl that twists His mouth radiates pure malice" and "His dark eyes burn with bloodlust" are two independent clauses, and thus when combined into one sentence with a conjunction, need a comma.

Not incorrect, but not necessary, I'm pretty sure. Though if it turns out that I'm unequivocably wrong, I will concede that I fought the law and the law won.

Katzchen

Doesn't look... immortal enough. It's a decent enough picture, but very underwhelming when compared to say Babel's.

Alyssea

Eld said:

Alyssea said:

Jonathin said:

I do not like that comma after malice. I don't know if it's wrong, I just don't like it. It makes me pause while reading and makes the sentence read funny.

I could have been taught to read funny though.

It's correct. "The vicious scowl that twists His mouth radiates pure malice" and "His dark eyes burn with bloodlust" are two independent clauses, and thus when combined into one sentence with a conjunction, need a comma.

Not incorrect, but not necessary, I'm pretty sure. Though if it turns out that I'm unequivocably wrong, I will concede that I fought the law and the law won.

It's not necessary in short sentences, such as "The boss shouted so the workers stopped," but the above one is reasonably lengthy.

Yue

@Eld, @Alyssea, @Jonathin - it is not required. A comma like that can be dropped to improve readability without rendering the statement grammatically incorrect. I'm with Jonathin here, it looks out of place.

Rheve

For some reason, this is how I've always pictured Xenomorph, only with armor and a little more trollish. Xenomorph is Sartan? I see a connection here.

Kyrra

Rheve said:

For some reason, this is how I've always pictured Xenomorph, only with armor and a little more trollish. Xenomorph is Sartan? I see a connection here.

Xenomorph has godly abs?!

Jules

Xenomorph is great, but jeez, he's like the Marsha Brady of the forums these days :P

Xenomorph

You can always start a poll to get me gone. Gather a hundred two signatures, and I'll honor it. Newton, Einstein, XM, Tesla, Marx, Rosenberg. Elite wise men.  The average audience cannot understand Their genius contribution to a society comprised of the chromosome #23 defective lesser men. Had they received symbols written in half broken pink crayon on construction paper, the wails and combined bump of wheelchairs would halt, leaving only the sound of a thousand mouths, breathing in and out in hypnotised unison.

Also, Lord Sartan, God of Evil   -was a burned man.

It was His "mortal avatar" He used when on foot to hang with the filth on the ground.

Speaking of avatars, each god back in the 280's had a mortal droid, so to speak, which the divine would use to fight mortals in the arena, or sometimes duels. The original God of Evil utilized Rakshasa, Knight of Iniquity. Honours him. He decimated anyone in the Infernals (or otherwise) that tried, but was himself a member. Never spoke a word.

Edit: Regarding the OP-     7/10      -elbows too pointy

Tahquil

Sorry, joining the 'do not like' camp, but when I saw the post in games I was really expecting a grotesquely disfigured gold compared to the all the beautiful gods we've had so far. I'm a little sad that Sartan got prettified.

Technically the painting is awesome but ... 

 Liquid fire burns through His veins, just beneath the surface of His ashen skin, raised like blazing scars over the powerful muscles of His bare arms and torso. Only one of the textually raised veins has a glimmer of fire beneath the skin. These raised ones should be the more obviously firelighted ones being directly under the skin. The firelighted veins just look flat and like and afterthought.

The vicious scowl that twists His mouth radiates pure malice, and His dark eyes burn with bloodlust. His eyes get lost in his skin. I didn't even realise he had eyes until I read the description and looked back at it but now I see the glimmers are not spots of dust on my moniter. Bared teeth also looks like he's straining far to much.

Posewise, I can't shake the feeling he's about to squat down and try to take a giant dump, but won't be able to because he's constipated. Overall I get a lot of Shaitan from the picture but none of the crafty, devious intelligence of Apollyon. If it were to be done again, I would suggest implying that via surroundings. Have him standing in the middle of worshippers, Have him picked one up, dangling them by a tight grip around their throat or have him lounging on the throne of skulls in the inferno.

Tael

This is apparently the one out of all of the new art that I don't particularly care for. It's gorgeous, but the symmetrical position (I feel like it's oddly between a standing-still pose and a menacing lean-forward-and-flex pose) is a little weird and I've always prefered a more firmly Satanic Sartan - blood soaked, maybe some horns and cloven feet (edit: I KNOW SARTAN NEVER HAD HORNS GO AWAY). Or, alternatively/additionally, a more bloody, evil version of the Hero's Shade from Twilight Princess.

This whole thing with Sartan mostly just being some really angry dude doesn't sit well with me either. It speaks to the idea of Evil being a sort of hasty, seething rage rather than a brutal, hierarchical militarism of darwinian rationality. It seems to lean more toward insane serial killer and less toward ruthless conqueror, which goes against everything that Mhaldorian players have been trying to build for as long as I can remember.

The Spires, on the other hand, I am so on board with. This is my favourite kind of Evil, totally in line with the other art we've gotten recently - big wicked monolithic architecture that just screams ancient, primal evil.

Ognog

Kyrra said:

Xenomorph has godly abs?!

Don't be fooled. Those abs are painted on!
)

Tahquil

Wait, is that rain in the background?

Berenene

No. It's deadly, deadly, acid.

Orklanishkal

I actually think the portrait is pretty good, and the only part I find bizarre is Sartan's shirtless-ness. He's furious, clearly malicious, clearly an imposing, rash, angry God. He's not really the quiet contemplative type, he's figured out what his ideology is and reacts almost instinctively to suppress that which he considers weak. Totally dig this, all in all, but maybe the pose is weird.

Nizaris

Love everything about the image, and this may be beating a dead horse a little, but ... The pose makes him look like a Ken doll. Other than that, detail on figure and background are great!

Sarapis

Sartan up close, btw.

Katzchen

@Sarapis looks better like that. Hmm.

Nellaundra

Muuuch better now that his face isn't a detailess smudge.

Garao

Yeah, without the stance :P

Sarapis

Nellaundra said:

Muuuch better now that his face isn't a detailess smudge.

Same pic, just zoomed in.

Shirszae

Sarapis said:

Nellaundra said:

Muuuch better now that his face isn't a detailess smudge.

Same pic, just zoomed in.

Thats the point. Without zooming, it looks like a smudge

Xith

Sarapis said:

Sartan up close, btw.

I am tired of this mothaf**** FOG on this mothaf**** ISLAND!!!

Oceana

Those veins were the first thing I noticed. Are those vampire teeth?

Wysteria

Now with the zoom in:

Ada

I always pictured him with a crown or some other shiny headgear for some reason. He looks more like a thug than a god

Xenomorph

Sarapis, I could be wrong, but I believe you have one of the older pictures of Lord Sartan. See, he should have more of a burned appearance with better defined abs thanks His tuesday night pilates class. Here's a modern day photo of His correct appearance taken next to the Mountain.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...........oh, thats right..

 

Anaidiana

Ognog said:

Kyrra said:

Xenomorph has godly abs?!

Don't be fooled. Those abs are painted on!
)

Asmodron

Sarapis said:

Sartan up close, btw.

<the sexiness>

Oh it looks -much- better now. It seems all the main focus went into the face. Still looks like an action figure though.

Yue

@Xith - Sartan is not Samuel L. Jackson. Mhaldor is not a plane. Fog is not snakes.

Xith

Yue said:

@Xith - Sartan is not Samuel L. Jackson. Mhaldor is not a plane. Fog is not snakes.

Disagree to all.