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This is a sketch of a "mixed company" of Local Militia of the colonists. The small Garrisons of "Regulars" in the coastal ports so not mix the members of the Units. Township militias take any locals as volunteers. Units are paid for and stood up by anyone rich enough to pay for them, and as such get to assume command of the Unit, From left to right: Human Leftenant wearing the Full Hat with the cocked side to allow for a musket on his right shoulder, He won't carry one, usually There is an ostrich feather and a short hackle to denote which platoon he is the officer of. . Over his Buff leather jacket he wears a simple blued metal cuirasse. He has a baldric, for his sword hilt, crossed with a colored sash of his office. in front of his neck he's wearing a gorget. Leather gauntlets, trousers, and turned down boots, with spurs complete the outfit. Next is a human rifleman, wearing the cocked hat with a unit "sun disk" with the number of the platoon and company inscribed into it, neckerchief, gorget, sleeveless buff leather coat, with a two compartment ammunition pouch, straight-sword, and haversack and a canteen behind the ammo pouch. Trousers, gaiters, and square toed, buckled shoes. He carries a Rifled Musket of local manufacture. Local riflemen would supplement the regulars as skirmishers and scouts in times of military crisis. Next is a Lupine Musketeer, he wears a cocked brim ring, neckerchief, and a sleeveless wool coat. HE carries the same basic equipment as the human, but a single compartment ammunition pouch, though the straight-sword, and haversack. As a Lupine he wears the trousers, socks, gaiters and armored sandals. Finally we have the Company commander, a wealthy Lupine land owner that stood up this township company. He wears a cocked brim ring, with the ostrich feather, and a sun diadem with the unit number upon it. He wears a silk neckerchief, and a blued steel cuirasse with pauldron scales over his jacket . Over the cuirasse he wears a baldric for his straight-sword, and a silk sash in the Unit's color. Trousers, hardened leather greaves over his stockings, gaiters , and then armoured sandals.
This is a rough sketch, which is why it's in scraps. Nut I had to get these thoughts down on paper. The period is roughly equivalent to the middle to late 1600's, so armour, claymore-like swords, muskets with snaphaunce locks, and early flintlocks. The thinking is this could be background for a tabletop RPG Campaign, with little to no magic, but I don't have a clear picture about the rest of the continent yet.
Why are they colonize? well Lupines are carnivores, and finding "free" land means that commoners can strike out to raise beef to ship back to the masses of the old countries, as well mining abundant iron and other resources. The old Countries are mostly ossified monarchies with limited land and squeezed populations. Gold may also be a factor.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask.
This is a rough sketch, which is why it's in scraps. Nut I had to get these thoughts down on paper. The period is roughly equivalent to the middle to late 1600's, so armour, claymore-like swords, muskets with snaphaunce locks, and early flintlocks. The thinking is this could be background for a tabletop RPG Campaign, with little to no magic, but I don't have a clear picture about the rest of the continent yet.
Why are they colonize? well Lupines are carnivores, and finding "free" land means that commoners can strike out to raise beef to ship back to the masses of the old countries, as well mining abundant iron and other resources. The old Countries are mostly ossified monarchies with limited land and squeezed populations. Gold may also be a factor.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
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I find your world building concepts fascinating and I have like a thousand questions to ask, mostly cause I too enjoy world building, working on a hard sci fi world myself based on Expanse-like tech and features uplifted animals. I just find it interesting humans and lupines living side by side like that.
As for the Uplift in an Expanse-like background, Inhad similar campaign ideas, but the uplift was minimal, but necessary due to the failure of generalAI development, so dogs could talk, and had squirrel hands, and the Chinese uplifted African Pouched rats to be an extra set of hands to work with their tech or in confined spaces. Food is grown in Oniel stations to avoid the lifting cost of bulk food into space, and lots of little communities in hollowed out asteroids. Fun stuff.
I need to get back to drawing By the Saints. *sigh*
Like the detail. Its amazing how in depth you can go in the niggly things when you start researching period uniforms. I have dozens of drawings like this back in the design phase. Looks like your digitigrade boots are more like grieves and sandals. Interesting. I gave up and kinda blobbed mine. :) I tend to draw my digitigrade feet larger than yours so I never found anything that looked right. Anxiously waiting for the lean times in the comic when they are marching barefoot and I don't have to draw them. :)
Like the detail. Its amazing how in depth you can go in the niggly things when you start researching period uniforms. I have dozens of drawings like this back in the design phase. Looks like your digitigrade boots are more like grieves and sandals. Interesting. I gave up and kinda blobbed mine. :) I tend to draw my digitigrade feet larger than yours so I never found anything that looked right. Anxiously waiting for the lean times in the comic when they are marching barefoot and I don't have to draw them. :)
It's actually not that hard. Take the foot, however you draw it. Then draw a "polygon" with straight lines around it. Either a polygon or oval to serve as the foot shape. Plantigrade feet are actually a lot more difficult because the shapes are irregular. Then stack the polygons to build the thickness of the sole of the sandal. for the strap, just put a loop through the sole over the middle toes of the foot. either metal or rawhide, or plain leather depending on construction or needed durability. Armored sandals are just a sheet of metal nailed to the front faces of the polygon to encompass the foot and is a hold over from the medieval period of their world.
Later in their upcoming industrial age they may switch to cloth and leather slip-ons over the top of the sandal and the ability to get closer sizes. It would be unlikely for them to have anything that encloses the ankle, because that would probably hurt with extreme flexion or extension of the joint, but a strap over the back of the ankle may be there. In the mean time, wool stockings or "hose", with laced on or button up canvas duck gaiters will probably be the go to solution, with the puttees being the secondary, low tech solution for a while.
The whole question is answered if you know character's anatomy, in the constructive sense, and a little bit of engineering. Medieval craftsmen knew their client's joints, and range of motion. The knew their engineering well enough to construct armor that didn't imbalance or restrict their movement. all it did was add imbalanced weight that did not impede their strength, but did reduce their overall endurance, and added to their heat burden. These craftsmen up to the renaissance were able to armor just about any body shape, including fat nobles, horses, dogs, elephants. That same thinking also works for clothes. It's a conversation between anatomy, technology and comfort.
I hope this helps.
Later in their upcoming industrial age they may switch to cloth and leather slip-ons over the top of the sandal and the ability to get closer sizes. It would be unlikely for them to have anything that encloses the ankle, because that would probably hurt with extreme flexion or extension of the joint, but a strap over the back of the ankle may be there. In the mean time, wool stockings or "hose", with laced on or button up canvas duck gaiters will probably be the go to solution, with the puttees being the secondary, low tech solution for a while.
The whole question is answered if you know character's anatomy, in the constructive sense, and a little bit of engineering. Medieval craftsmen knew their client's joints, and range of motion. The knew their engineering well enough to construct armor that didn't imbalance or restrict their movement. all it did was add imbalanced weight that did not impede their strength, but did reduce their overall endurance, and added to their heat burden. These craftsmen up to the renaissance were able to armor just about any body shape, including fat nobles, horses, dogs, elephants. That same thinking also works for clothes. It's a conversation between anatomy, technology and comfort.
I hope this helps.
I like the mention of the lupines needing so much land for herding and ranching, Something people tend to forget with these stories is that carnivores will need much more land for raising their food animals than an equivalent population of humans or other omnivores. I suspect that means that everything from warfare to stock rustling gets a lot more common with them, too. Maybe they're something like the Border Scots, the old Reivers, in their culture?
Thinking through the thousand years since Asheru's Journey. How things changed for the Empire, and the small Lupine Kingdom in the mountains on it's easter border. Well the "Threat from the East is dealt with, but the Empire eventually fragmented into many smaller kingdoms. The Lupine Kingdom continued for a while. Things changed with a dark age, and the coalescing of cultures into larger nation states over time.
For the Lupines, because of the religion declaring them people, they were integrated into Imperial society, and then into the kingdoms afterwards and in some cases were the nobility.
However, since they are carnivores, but that civilization is based on static locations rather than mobility, the Barbarians were mostly absorbed, eventually, so rather than following herds of Large ungulates, they became ranchers, growing meat for lupine and human consumption. With population growth stunted by plagues, problems of land use were held off for a while, but soon crowding and an unequal distribution of suitable grazing land lead to wars of expansion in all directions. The discovery of a new continent beyond the western sea lead to the current situation of countries rich enough to sponsor trips to the new world, sending ships to establish ports and places for the colonists to send raw materials and beef back to the old countries. and getting back finished goods and fresh supplies of new colonists to help exploit this new land.
The analogies to the Border Scots would be location specific, but more likely would be Lupine Nobles in a Lupine Kingdom follow on, sending forth armies to conquer territories. burn forests to make new pasture lands for their herds to graze. On the flip side Human Mountain peoples would close passes and demand tolls for passage through the limited number of routes suitable for trade and cattle drives.
For the Lupines, because of the religion declaring them people, they were integrated into Imperial society, and then into the kingdoms afterwards and in some cases were the nobility.
However, since they are carnivores, but that civilization is based on static locations rather than mobility, the Barbarians were mostly absorbed, eventually, so rather than following herds of Large ungulates, they became ranchers, growing meat for lupine and human consumption. With population growth stunted by plagues, problems of land use were held off for a while, but soon crowding and an unequal distribution of suitable grazing land lead to wars of expansion in all directions. The discovery of a new continent beyond the western sea lead to the current situation of countries rich enough to sponsor trips to the new world, sending ships to establish ports and places for the colonists to send raw materials and beef back to the old countries. and getting back finished goods and fresh supplies of new colonists to help exploit this new land.
The analogies to the Border Scots would be location specific, but more likely would be Lupine Nobles in a Lupine Kingdom follow on, sending forth armies to conquer territories. burn forests to make new pasture lands for their herds to graze. On the flip side Human Mountain peoples would close passes and demand tolls for passage through the limited number of routes suitable for trade and cattle drives.
These are great. It's fun to see how the development of a parallel society was affected by the introduction of variants -- in this case, the Lupines. They would follow familiar parallels through history; I'm thinking that if the Militia was integrated, what place would the Lupines hold in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries? Would we see an integrated workforce and military? Would the racial suppression and uprisings of our world be expressed against Lupines? I'd love to see 21st Century Lupine cops!
The further from the inflection point, the more divergent things become. General trends are still there, but with the game board being a different shape than ours, as well as the introduction of Lupines, plus their integration in The West, means that their view of non- integrated societies in other parts of the world could lead to moral /religious based conflicts and later stage imperialism. So while the general broad trends and ideas come along, the motivating factors and issues are different The large wars in the 20rh Century were a result of economic factors breeding flawed ideologies based on a misunderstanding of those economic and political factors. Those came about with the dissolution of aged monarchies. The wars in our future will be purely about economics and resourced. Similar things may happen in their world, but the reasons will be subtly different.
As for 21st Century Lupine Cops, there was some precious work (See: Asheru 2044, Magnus 2044) but what lupine cops look like right now? Interesting thought.
As for 21st Century Lupine Cops, there was some precious work (See: Asheru 2044, Magnus 2044) but what lupine cops look like right now? Interesting thought.
In “Western Countries”, after the Church declared Lupines as people, nobility would hire young Lupine females as nannies, to look after the children. This children growing up with warm fur and bed time stories, would mature with a positive and trusting view of Lupines. Lupines themselves, if they aren’t Alpha types (leaders) tend to have more conformist personalities than humans, so they tend to integrate into the localities they live in. There have been racist incidents over the centuries, but they aren’t as bad as in the Eastern, more segregated societies.
Oh the ideologies came and went, and the Lupines were not immune to it internally, with a "Return to our native roots" movement causing a pelt purity movement,(Something left over from the barbarian tribes as a way to tell their members apart at a glance, indicating this was a "tribalist" movement, not an intellectual one.) and a separation from Human Society. It was not very widespread, because people like their comforts, but it did cause problems and served as wedge issues. Some Human groups wanted segregation and separation from the Lupines, either due to eastern cultural proclivities, or as a reflection of the lupine Native roots movement, and a desire for self sufficiency. These movements didn't take hold in the Colonies, so when war erupted in the old country (several times). the colonists just looked back at the old countries and shook their heads, and then rolled in if asked nicely. Remember the Lupines and the humans are People, for better or for worse.
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