Kyra inspirations

[jasin]

Kyra is my favourite iconic design all the way back to 1E, so looking for some inspirational imagery for a cleric of Sarenrae for our first 2E game, I was delighted to discover this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Deutsch-_The_Palace_Guard.jp g

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/collection-pierre-berg e-pf1860/lot.24.html

Obviously art will be influenced by earlier art, but these guys look like they're literally wearing the same uniform as Kyra, including the positively WAR-like amount of equipment tucked into their belts.

I love tracing D&D's (and by extension Pathfinder's) influences and sources, and I've never seen this discussed before, so this was quite a find.

[James Jacobs]

For those playing the home game, she's sorta named after my favorite character in the Dark Crystal as well, which was a pretty formative movie for me growing up as far as my tastes in the fantasy genre.