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Horseman Portrait

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Horseman guy is finally colored and lined properly! Whee, excellent things.

From the website:
"The horsemen are a wild people who roam the plains, traveling whichever direction the wind blows. They are the progeny of the god Levok and... horses. Yeah. No graphic details here, though; Levok simply refers to them as his children, himself as their father, and leaves it at that. Still, from their appearance, it's pretty easy to tell.
The horsemen have slightly elongated faces, wide noses, three-fingered hands, and divided manes of hair. It doesn't grow in a single mass but instead grows along rows. Their legs are slender but muscular, much more so than their father's. Minimal armor is worn, feathers attached for the sound of fluttering, hollow bones making up the armor and pierced to cause them to whistle. The horsemen aren't known for making quiet entrances... If the pounding hooves don't tip you off, the whistling bones will.
These people, though wild and intelligent, have been somewhat mistreated by the humans of the plains, who see the horsemen for what they appear to be: uncouth animals who feel obligated to trample crops simply because the wind happens to be blowing over them. Due to this, horsemen are sometimes hunted and often shackled into labor. The horsemen haven't exactly helped their case, though; very few of them feel there is any benefit from learning the humans' language and they see no reason they should bother running around rather than through crops. After all, the humans are residing on the land the horsemen had claimed long ago, long before the humans grew crops out in the middle of their plains.
Hans and Ealdy will journey to a ranch out on the plains where Arthur told them to get a horse for travel. Instead, they find a number of horsemen imprisoned in the ranch! The adventurers question the ranchers about this, who tell them the horsemen constantly stampede over the other farmers' crops and through fences, wrecking their livelihoods. Therefore, the ranchers have decided to capture some of the horsemen and put them to work. This obviously hasn't worked out very well."

Additional note:
"No, they aren't supposed to have Native American accents. Screw that. It's overdone."

Creature design is my work, please respect this. No, I don't own centaurs. They're too smelly, anyways. They drink an awful lot.
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