Definitely a bit disappointing, and I wonder what the cause was, and whether it was as simple as the artist not knowing, being given a very poor brief/extremely short deadline, or deciding to make it more like Sauron's Avatar (where he appears almost like a beautiful elf, rather than a tower of steel, wrought in hate).
Plus, I think there are so many interesting things in learning about other cultures; the recent (2021?) re-do of his design for 5e looked cool, and gave me hints of subtle nods to middle eastern cultures and ornamentation/dressing.
If I am ever confident and skilled enough to run The Whispered One at my table, I would like to be true to his original heritage and appearance in my depiction of him.
Yeah Vecna has some really interesting ties to a mostly dead subculture of Flan people called the Ur-Flan who were necromancers that druids actually sided with half the time. Its really interesting.
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u/National_Rutabaga549 Nov 09 '24 edited Nov 09 '24
Definitely a bit disappointing, and I wonder what the cause was, and whether it was as simple as the artist not knowing, being given a very poor brief/extremely short deadline, or deciding to make it more like Sauron's Avatar (where he appears almost like a beautiful elf, rather than a tower of steel, wrought in hate).
Plus, I think there are so many interesting things in learning about other cultures; the recent (2021?) re-do of his design for 5e looked cool, and gave me hints of subtle nods to middle eastern cultures and ornamentation/dressing.
If I am ever confident and skilled enough to run The Whispered One at my table, I would like to be true to his original heritage and appearance in my depiction of him.