These are not the Paladins you are looking for.....


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When the Paladin deck placeholder art came out there were 3 paladins besides Seelah, when it was changed to three characters instead of four we got two new paladins that were not on the original art: Raz and Koren. I didn't notice until today that the art for both was drawn by the same man,Rogier Van De Beek. At first I didn't think much of it but then I checked the Monk class deck. The place holder monks were replaced by two new ones: Rooboo and Athnul, who were also coincidentally(?) both drawn by Rogier Van De Beek. If Maznar of the Druid deck wasn't drawn by a different person I would be prepared to call it a full fledged conspiracy ~_^.

Knowing this now my question is, are any of these characters from (or based on characters from) any of the sourcebooks or are they new and made from scratch? Also was there any particular reason why the changes were made and all the art just happened to come from the same man? I f they didn't come from any book I'd be more then happy(As would everyone else I'm sure) to start making custom requests for the upcoming and unannounced class decks ~_^.

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Class Deck design varies a bit, but generally, the designers come up with concepts first, and then go looking for existing art that matches the concept and is high enough quality to use as primary character art. (Occasionally, they might find an illustration that they really want to design a character for.) If they don't find existing pieces that work well, we commission new art. Whether that's going to one artist or several will vary based on things like our art director's desires for the art or the availability of the artists she wants to assign them to.


Thanks for the quick answer Vick ^_^. I can't wait to see what the designers come up with for the rest of the decks. It's nice to know that not all of the new characters can be looked up so this batch of class decks will come with some surprises.

Also I hope we get more art by Mr. Van De Beek, I rather like his interpretation of Imrijka. For everyone out there who might think I dislike the Iconics because of my class deck posts, I LOVE Imrijka, she would definitely be my best character ever ^_^. I'd love to see Rogier do the art for at least one of the new inquisitors(A dhampir or fetchling with Arcane instead of Divine or a Lycantrope who uses BoG for moon effects would be nice, hint hint ^_~).As always thanks for all the hard work you all put into this game.

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