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[DalishRanger]

We've already seen celebrity look-alikes, ugliest characters, and prettiest characters. My challenge is to recreate, as best as you can, characters from older Bioware games where the character creation system didn't allow for a lot of facial customization. This includes: Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights/expansions, and perhaps even KOTOR and Jade Empire if you want to try to recreate the character models, or make something you wish you could have in those games.

Include any info like race/alignment/class/etc if you want. If you have an image/fan art/etc of your character or what your character's supposed to look like outside of the CC for comparison, feel free to include that.

I'll start with my two earliest characters, both half-elves. However, they both have faical hair, so I used the human models.




Nimelian,  my first and "official" Bhaalspawn. He's a neutral good half-elf ranger. I got him fairly close, but unfortunately, only dwarves can have braided mustaches, it seems. Here's a comparison of what I draw him like.


Namin, my very first Bioware character ever, and my Hero of Neverwinter. He's a chaotic good half-elf fighter/cleric. Unfortunately, I don't have a comparison for him.

So, let's see what everyone else can come up with!

[LadyKarrakaz]

Eh EH, nice idea for a thread, but maybe we could also include pics of the original characters, so that we can easily compare, would be good for people that didn't play one of these game (concerning trying to recreate companions for instance)

Modifié par Purple Lady, 20 octobre 2009 - 06:51 .

[DalishRanger]

I did say you could compare it to the original character - if you didn't have a drawing or photo, screenshots are cool.

I unfortunately can't show anything for Namin, as I don't have NWN installed on this computer. For Nimelian, however, I can compare him to the portrait I used in-game: It's a Todd Lockwood painting. Outside of the portraits, there's no good way to compare what characters look like in Baldur's Gate, since each racial avatar looks pretty identical.

Modifié par DalishRanger, 20 octobre 2009 - 07:03 .

[LadyKarrakaz]

Yep, sorry! I'll try to make some characters for this topic, I have some companions I'd like to recreate!
And you're right, I did not think of the problem of the ancient games (portraits) Hum...

Modifié par Purple Lady, 20 octobre 2009 - 07:24 .

[DalishRanger]

That's part of the fun though, I think. You have a little more flexibility with what you can create. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Modifié par DalishRanger, 20 octobre 2009 - 07:56 .

[Remmirath]

Yours looks really accurate to the drawing. That's pretty neat. Both your characters look pretty cool, too. :happy:

This seems like a cool idea. I maybe went a bit overboard on it doing six people at once, but after I'd thought of doing one of them, it seemed odd not to do the rest of them... and I couldn't decide which ones to single out not to do.
So my entire first (and favourite) Baldur's Gate group follows, as they were at the end of the series, more or less; I changed clerics twice and thieves three times. I tend to play through multiplayer and make all of my own characters. It's not that I have anything against the NPCs exactly, I just prefer it that way.

Ithenrael Wyrmbane

The best drawing I have of him. (A lot of things about this drawing make me cringe now, as it's rather old, but unfortunately it's still the best one likeness-wise. He's the standing one, on the right.) 

Neither of these, as you can probably tell by the drawing, really look much like him. The first one - well, I can never manage to make the male elves actually look young, as in under-twenty-looking young. He should look to be around seventeen, in human terms. And there are some other problems. So I thought "Fine, I'll try and cheat and see if I can get it closer with the female elf". And it is closer, though not very close (and that would probably annoy him). If you sort of spliced the two (taking mostly the 'being male' from the first one) it would probably be reasonably close, though he still wouldn't be pale enough.
Ithenrael is a neutral evil grey elf sorcerer. In game, of course, that was just 'elf mage', but since I later have ended up playing all of these characters in a tabletop 3.5 game, I tend to think of him that way. He started out chaotic neutral, but fairly soon after he figured out that he was a Bhaalspawn he started going down the slippery egomaniac/power-hungry slope (and looked to be headed that way even before then). He still more or less tries to be a nice guy, but that doesn't mesh too well wanting to be the Lord of Murder. So evil he remains, if not very evil.

Retgar Nyatar

The best drawing I have of him. (He's the one on the right; Ithenrael is the one on the left.)

This one is a good deal closer, I think, though not quite right. He is in fact a half-elf, for one thing, and there aren't any half-elves in Dragon Age.
Retgar is a chaotic evil half-elf fighter. He isn't all bad; he, Ithenrael and Jarina grew up together, and he's always been a very loyal friend (especially to Ithenrael). He got progressively more mad as time went on, as his obsession with the madness inherent in the world tended to change his world view a bit. He is currently the Lord of the castle he inherited from his father, Lord Garrion Nyatar, which is where the group resides.

Jarina Demonslayer

The best drawing I have of her.

I couldn't get her nose or hair right, but other than that, it's fairly close.
Jarina is a chaotic neutral human ranger. Through the course of the game she was supposedly chaotic good, of course, but she never really was much, and Blackrazor and continued association with Ithenrael, Retgar and Gadragk didn't help anything. She's mostly a loner, and is very fond of wolves.

Gadragk Zarn

The best drawing I have of him. (He's the one on the far right.) 

Not quite right, but I'm not sure how much of that is the completely uncharacteristic expression he's got on him here.
Gadragk is a chaotic evil human berserker. He is by far the oldest member of the group in terms of relative lifespan; in fact, his hair should be going a bit grey at the temples, but I couldn't do that, so... yeah. He used to work for Lord Nyatar before he went adventuring with the others, so he's known the first three for quite a long time. He is a rather savage person, but is also a brilliant tactician.

Moreniel Nightsong

The best drawing I have of her. (She's the one second from the left.) 

All in all, I think this is probably the closest one by a fair margin. There are some things that aren't quite right, but they're mostly pretty small things.
Moreniel is a true neutral elven cleric of Ao (because at the time, I didn't realise Ao wasn't supposed to have clerics... so we mostly just ignore that). She tends to be fairly antisocial, only really getting along well with Xerelas for the most part. She was the second cleric, as the first cleric died at the end of the first game. She also gets along reasonably well with Ithenrael.

Xerelas Shadowknife

The best drawing I have of him.

This one's mostly pretty good, though I've come to realise that I suck at noses in the character creator - and most of the time he keeps his face almost completely covered and wears a hood.
Xerelas is a chaotic neutral elven swashbuckler from a desert land. The party found him wandering around in Watcher's Keep after the death of their second thief (the first one also died at the end of the first game). He is a very good thief in addition to being quite a good fighter. He is obsessed with speed. He gets along by far the best with Moreniel, but has no problems with any of the group.


I appologise about the length of that. I'm afraid I have a tendency to talk way too much about my characters if you get me started.

[DalishRanger]

Halae Dral wrote...

Yours looks really accurate to the drawing. That's pretty neat. Both your characters look pretty cool, too. :happy:

Thanks! I just wish I was able to put a full beard on Nimelian's chin in the creator rather than stubble, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with the result.

Very nice, overall! I have to agree that Moreniel is probably the closest to the drawing, but they're all pretty decent.

Halae Dral wrote...
I appologise about the length of that. I'm afraid I have a tendency to talk way too much about my characters if you get me started.

Bah, don't apologize! I had fun reading it, and there's no limit to how many characters you can do in this thread. I enjoyed reading the little bios too, especially since I don't see a lot of people playing BG with an all created party. If you have more ideas for ones from other Bioware games, feel free to make them! Love the detail in your sketching style, by the way.

[Remmirath]

Thanks! I always like reading about other people's characters, but I'm never quite sure if other people find it as interesting as I do.

I've got a whole bunch of other characters floating around, but I'm not sure how many of them I have scanned-in drawings of. I'll have to see, since that was pretty fun.

[Inhuman one]

I made about 40 characters with neverwinter nights through the years that I really liked. unfortunatly very few can be remade with Dragon Age, and the ones I can recreate dont match with any origin.



I am rather picky about remakes, I need to really recognize the character and I wouldnt want it to vaguely resemble them.



My biggest problem is still the origins though, almost all my neverwinter nights characters are human and while about seven of them can claim noble heritage, none of them are a cousland and I doubt the character will be adopted or something like that.



The origins are nice of course and its fun to make completely new characters, I am looking forward to seeing Arban (my avatar) in the game although the noble origin probably wont suit him either I think, and any new character will take time to get used to while I would see someone impressive from the start when redesigning an existing character.

[vyvexthorne]

The character in my avatar is the same I've used to go through every role playing type video game the first go around... red haired female elf rogue. Her name has changed many times but I think I re-make her every time because her character is the closest to my own personality type.. and I can play through the first time making decisions that would most likely resemble my own if I were in that situation.   She's basically the easiest type of character for me to play .. magic users are much harder for me to play .. I've actually never gone through a game with straight up fighter as my main character ...   I usually go thief, druid.. then some other form of rogue like swashbuckler or bard.

[DalishRanger]

Inhuman one wrote...

I made about 40 characters with neverwinter nights through the years that I really liked. unfortunatly very few can be remade with Dragon Age, and the ones I can recreate dont match with any origin.

I am rather picky about remakes, I need to really recognize the character and I wouldnt want it to vaguely resemble them.

My biggest problem is still the origins though, almost all my neverwinter nights characters are human and while about seven of them can claim noble heritage, none of them are a cousland and I doubt the character will be adopted or something like that.

The origins are nice of course and its fun to make completely new characters, I am looking forward to seeing Arban (my avatar) in the game although the noble origin probably wont suit him either I think, and any new character will take time to get used to while I would see someone impressive from the start when redesigning an existing character.

Well, the challenge is to recreate their looks, not so much their background/personality/origin - if you can remake some of their looks in the CC, I say go for it!

[Inhuman one]

True, but then I would be tempted to use them in the campaign. I better not do that since it would become a big disappointment when encountering the many conflicts the origin story would have with the background I gave the character.



Its pretty much why I hate Neverwinter Nights 2 very deeply. For my first playthrough I used an old thief which was never physically present in NWN1 but had a background and was refered to often by his daughters. He is a neutral thief that steals for the thrill of it, he kills without remorse when needed and is a charismatic man in his fifties.



It couldnt possibly have more conflicts with the NWN2 story, which only offers black and white options and no middle ground, your character cant be anything else than a young adult human peasant otherwise it conflicts with the story, they decide for you who your friends are and even go as far as naming your mother, you must be raised by an elf, etc.



Thats why I do worry a bit about Dragon Age. I can live with having to make new characters, the origins already clearly explained you can choose between six stories and cant use your own backgrounds. But the character creator allows you to make both old and young characters. I wouldnt want a grey old man to be refered to as a little brother, boy, or anything like that.



The human noble origin looks like a deathtrap to me because of it since it involves your character's mother and brother as far as I know, not sure about the father though. I do hope it leaves it open which one is older, your character or your brother.

[Remmirath]

It seems to me that the mage origin probably gives you the most leeway, but I don't really remember everything about all of them.

I've just been fiddling around in the character creator, taking screenshots, and then never actually making the character. None of my already created character's backstories would fit in with the world of Dragon Age at all, much less the specific origins.

Anyhow, here are some more...

Karilion Goldleaf

Best drawing I have of him. (Though it's not very good.}

Karilion is one of my characters from an Icewind Dale game originally; I re-used him one of my Baldur's Gate games, and then eventually in a face-to-face game.
Karilion is a chaotic good elven fighter, and generally a fairly cheerful person. He has mostly travelled with other good groups. He believes that using an axe makes him just about the coolest thing ever.
It's impossible to have curly hair, so he was sort of doomed to look wrong from the beginning, but elsewise it isn't too bad. Not too great either, though.

Varezkiyel Bloodsun

Closest thing I have to a picture of him. The one on the left is actually his younger brother, Xakiviyel, but he is supposed to look fairly similar.

Varezkiyel is another Icewind Dale character, from a different game. Same story about eventually ending up in a face-to-face game.
Varezkiyel is a chaotic neutral elf fighter. He is very self-centered and self-assured, and is sort of in the grey area between neutral and evil.
This one worked out pretty well. He's not supposed to look exactly like the drawing, as it isn't actually him.

Kinley Sunbrook

Best picture I have of her. She's the one far to the right in the back. The one in front of her is Karilion, for another reference.

Sometimes I get uninspired and my characters end up with names that are not very good. Kinley is one of them. Kinley was another Baldur's Gate character, a Bhaalspawn. She and Karilion were in the same party for that game. She also was in a face-to-face game briefly, where she died.
Kinley was a human paladin, obviously being lawful good. She had a bit of a 'kill first, ask questions later' policy, and tended to do away with anyone she thought might be evil. She wasn't a very good paladin because of this, and fell moments before her death.
It worked all right. She's one of those characters I've never had much luck drawing, so it doesn't suprise me that this didn't work out terribly well either.

I almost never actually re-use characters in games, since their backstories are unlikely to mesh well. If I've already played the game and I know that you're supposed to be, say, a mercenary, then maybe, but if I haven't played the game yet I certainly won't.

Modifié par Halae Dral, 24 octobre 2009 - 11:18 .

[Niko Daemon]

GJ guys

[Trillian-N7]

Thought I would get at least one of my character up here considering most of my characters have appeared in previous games.



Inara Hoque/Shepard/Amell
My first real sci-fi character for KotOR as none of my fantasy characters suited space ships. Loved her as Revan. When I finally got Mass Effect I created this totally new character with a full background, instead I ditched her and used Inara again. I will never play Inara in DA, but a couple of days ago I thought I would try and make her. She actually turned out quite good, and at least DA has tied back hair that looks decent unlike Mass Effect. Images from CC, Mass Effect and KotOR.

At least she has only been in 2 games. My main girl, Eadgyth has appeared in 7 games so far (BG 2, IWD 1 & 2, NWN 1 & 2, Morrowind, Oblivion). She just has many backstories with a central theme (the one that nearly stumped me was NWN 2) and luckily the human noble sort of suits her.

Modifié par Trillian-N7, 26 octobre 2009 - 08:09 .