I'm excited to finally get to share this girl! Cryptozoo and I both put a lot of thought and love into her design, and she's easily my favorite Tequine to date. This is the cropped ref, the full went to her owner :) The original idea was for a powerful, primitive, sabretoothed character, and our imaginations took off from there. I'm including Crypto's brief on her because I adore the background and culture he started building around her:
Her name is Tret.
Her people are the Shaego, the name for a group of sabretooth tribes. Her offical patronymic is Tret Baw-Ceycha, or "Son of Ceych." It's as close to a bit of subtlety as the Shaego language gets. Her people are fixed in their gender roles, so referring to her as a 'son' means she fills a position normally held by men in her tribe. But the feminine ending implies her gender despite the title. She became the master scout of her tribe after her father had four girls in a row and decided 'screw it.' Styracosauruses are a symbol of independence since they are stubborn and untameable unlike the other sauroids that the Shaego ride. Imagery of the beasts features heavily in tribal art. Tret carries the same shield banner into battle as her father's. She worries about matters of intermarriage and breeding because she vastly prefers females. This is a secret kept for the time being. She crafts her own handaxes and is an expert at throwing them from lizardback. She carries several of them at a time.
Her name is Tret.
Her people are the Shaego, the name for a group of sabretooth tribes. Her offical patronymic is Tret Baw-Ceycha, or "Son of Ceych." It's as close to a bit of subtlety as the Shaego language gets. Her people are fixed in their gender roles, so referring to her as a 'son' means she fills a position normally held by men in her tribe. But the feminine ending implies her gender despite the title. She became the master scout of her tribe after her father had four girls in a row and decided 'screw it.' Styracosauruses are a symbol of independence since they are stubborn and untameable unlike the other sauroids that the Shaego ride. Imagery of the beasts features heavily in tribal art. Tret carries the same shield banner into battle as her father's. She worries about matters of intermarriage and breeding because she vastly prefers females. This is a secret kept for the time being. She crafts her own handaxes and is an expert at throwing them from lizardback. She carries several of them at a time.
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 813px
File Size 4.73 MB
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