MarDun - New art commission

For those of you that don't know, I have played, uninterrupted, City of Heroes since beta (6+ years). My main is MarDun (Fire/WP Scrapper). The concept was actually "born" during my pen and paper rpg days of Villains and Vigilantes.

Here is my latest commission from BAKART (http://bakart.deviantart.com/) MarDun on his home planet. Such an amazing and epic feeling picture! Caught the essence of MarDun perfectly!




MarDun's Story:(adapted part of the story to fit the DC Universe as well - I am a huge DC fan) Sorry for any grammar or typo's...

MarDun was born on the planet Terrastradus (also known as sector 3409) to the Dragon Warrior Clan* in the city of Perocias. (*See description of Clans)

*The four ruling Clans of Terrastradus are: Dragon Warrior (military), Senestras (political), Trivovas (labour/Engineering), and the Gelletrands (arts) The Dragon Warrior Clan is the only clan that includes Dragon Kind in its ranks.

MarDun was born with his abilities from the planets evolution involving the natural genetic link between the Dragon kin of his planet and his Terradians people. Genetically, they are the identical species, but physically, they are different. From the age of five (Earth years) all Dragon Clan learn to develop their skills and powers with the guidance of and elder “Tiran” (TerraDian teacher) and a “DragaKin” (Dragon Kind teacher).

MarDun so excelled at the art of combat and fire manipulation that he was made the youngest Drago-Su-Kahn (Officer) in the history of the Terra Warriors* of his own military unit. MarDun led many victories over those forces that abused their powers and acted without honour* and rose to fame amongst his people, enemies, and those he aided. After successfully repelling an invasion by the Terradian’s mortal enemies, the Saravans, he was awarded the highest honor of his people – Dragon Mark (inscribed onto his shoulder with the fire of the eldest dragon)

*The Terradians are not invaders of worlds, but have evolved to become peace keepers. They protect weaker planets from races that would take advantage of their inferiorities. Many times called upon to help the “righteous races” defend against the dishonourable.

*The Dragon Warrior Clan has also been nicknamed the “Terra Warriors” by allies and enemies alike do to their precise, unstoppable and devastating combat tactics.

Later, the two controller Clans of the planet (Dragon Clan Warriors and the Senastas) fell into a civil war. The disagreement came when the Senastas were found giving aid to dishonourable worlds that wished to conquer weaker systems. They made alliances with war criminals* and mortal enemies that were once defeated by the Terradians and who never changed their evil ways. The world was divided…

*Mortal enemies are the Sarkove’gins

After a bloody 3 year civil war and with the help of many dishonourable enemy nations, the Senastas defeated the Dragon Warrior Clan. Terrastradus fell into the darkness of the evil powers that ruled. The Dragon Clan were refused to surrender or recognize the new occupying government* and were deemed “enemies of the home world”.

*New government consisted of: Senastas Clan, Sarkove’gins, Barkglovas, and Kingreg representatives.

Unable to secure help from the Green Lantern Corp of OA (due to the Blackest Night war), and having no allies left able to stand with the Dragon Clan, they had to leave Terrastradus. The Dragons of the clan went deep into the Terradon Mountains and into the deepest and hottest fire pits the planet offered in order to be free from the new tyrant rulers. With the help of the Guardians on OA, the Dragon Clan was taken in as refugees throughout the universe. They wait for the day to build their Clan again and to take back their once prosperous and honourable planet. MarDun, ever dutiful, decided to make the troubled planet of Earth his home. With the help of the Earth Lantern Hal Jordan, MarDun was able to establish himself as a guardian of justice, by teaming with Hal to defeat the remnants of the defeated in the Blackest Night war. He has also assisted the Justice League in the rebuilding of the Earth defences through patrols and enforcement.

MarDun waits for his return to Terrastradus in victory…


Thoughts?

Of all the MarDun art, and there is a lot of it, this is by far my favorite, bud! This artist is amazing, mega-congrats!

AWESOME piece o' ARTZ! Gratzzz MarDun!

Yes! I am very happy with this!

very nice~

Heya Mardun great catch there. Not sure if you are asking for people's thoughts on the art or the story so I'll just point out one thing I see on each and leave it at that.

I'm rapidly becoming a Bakart fan as he has put up some amazing CoH pieces thus far and this is no exception. The background is captivating and it's fun to let your eyes wander and enjoy the rich environments he creates. One of the things I notice that's amiss though is on Cimeroran armor. There are 5 separated arm plates under the main shoulder plate and the ingame ones have 3. The plates do have a dividing seam down the middle (though not at the edges as he has it) and if he was taking some artistic license in showing each of those as a separate plate that's fine but then there should be 6. Having five looks odd.

As for the story in the last paragraph you say in the first sentence "Unable to secure help from the Green Lantern Corp of OA" but then two sentences later you say "With the help of the Guardians on OA" and further on "With the help of the Earth Lantern Hal Jordan" which sounds a bit confusing or even a contradiction (unless there is some distinction between the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians that I'm missing because I never read any of the stories) and maybe should be corrected or if it is correct then maybe add a few sentences to explain it a little better so that people unfamiliar with the history can make sense of what is going on. Did they help or did they not and why?

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dude that is some awesome artwork