Greetings, travelers. Today, we’re looking at one of our characters, who was lovingly brought to life by Wern Szuen Lee.
Pendrich has been one of those characters that we’ve had forever. He’s a book two creation, and he would have been one of the characters in our first ever video game had I done things a little differently when I was younger.
We know now that Pendrich is affiliated with the royalty of Blacklehn, having trained both of the princes. He’s also known for defending the brutal Sentinel Pass on the Blacklehnian side, never letting anyone breach the pass on his watch.
A lot of times, when I’m working with someone, I use a real life person to try and make sure that the look is similar enough to what I have in my head in order to bring them a sense of realism. I had told Wern that I imagined him looking a little like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and… Well, let’s just say he took it to heart.
Now, I generally don’t like to actually have my characters look like a real person, no matter how much I like the actor or actress. Typically when I’m telling someone I want them to look like this person, I mean similar features, not a 1:1 likeness. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t absolutely love Negan to swap out his hammer for a huge axe, but in the event that it just doesn’t work out, I don’t want people to always see JDM in the character. Pendrich should be his own person first and foremost, and we’ll see more of that in the next pictures.
Pendrich is meant to be a fright on the battlefield. He’s very strong, without any of it coming from super powers or anything. He’s just a hard worker. But he does have his spheres of darkness which he can summon, and that makes him that much more frightening.
A lot of Pendrich’s motif is the raven. That’s his moniker on the battlefield, on account of his raven-winged helmet. But we wanted to make sure that he represented his kingdom as well, so you can start to see the Carthis bull in the first WIP, before his helmet hides it. We bring it back though.
This final piece really sells everything. Once more, we get a little bit of both animals that represent him. And Wern did an absolutely stupendous job making Pendrich pop. At this point, he was one of my favorite characters that he had done for us. And he keeps improving!
That’s it for today, but we’re coming back in a big way, and we’ve got plenty more characters that we’ll be introducing you to in the
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