Imperial Vanguard By Hollen36 Watch

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Yay! I drew a person for once : D I was looking over a friends artwork and suddenly felt like drawing a chick in shiny armor.





A few folks have surprisingly shown interest in the lore of my fantasy art so I guess I'll start posting lore bits with my inter-related works just for funzies.



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Lore (For those who care)



Vanguards are arguably the most powerful soldiers the Empire has at its disposal. Their armor and lance while mostly composed of strong materials like steel are partly lined with rare metals such as platinum and gold, very poor for any effective defensive or offensive capability but instrumental in channeling and enhancing a users magical affinity.



A single Vanguard is worth at least seven brutish Myth'Ul Drak Grunts and has greatly boosted the offensive and defensive capabilities of imperial forces against the invading Masmonazzi (or Myth'Ul Drak) since their inception some nine years into the war. Before this, nearly %80 of imperial infantry served as cannon fodder. Due to the costs of training and arming a Vanguard, as well as finding a human with the magical affinity required for said classes attacks, they are relatively few and far between.



A Vanguard's Lance typically functions less like an instrument of jousting and more so as an over-sized wand and melee weapon. Their attacks can easily be long or short ranged, having a variety of glyph-based attacks meant for providing hail-fire, more devastating than any arrow volley, and must be executed by tracing the shape of a glyph in the air before themselves. Their close range attacks mainly consist of swings of the lance enhanced with magic to disproportionately increase the amount of momentum delivered to a target than the speed weight and strength of the weapon and user would have dealt otherwise. All of these attacks bear characteristic glows and flashes of red.

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Published : May 2, 2018