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Tiste Edur, Height chart

Continuing my personal project creating Dungeons and Dragons playable species based on the Malazan Book of the Fallen book series.
The Tiste Edur are not your standard Wood Elves. Grey skinned Children of Shadow, they are slavers and raiders with a strict social structure, warrior culture and some very specific descriptions noted in the books.

"The high cheekbones and angular eye sockets looked Tiste Andii, as did the man's evident height."
""The four bodies were adorned in bone fetishes, claws, the canines of beasts and polished seashells. There was none of the fine Tiste Andii craftwork that Kulp had had occasion to see in the past. Moreover, all four were brown haired, the hair hanging loose and uncombed, stringy with grease."

I gave up with the matted hair and went with dreadlocks instead. Seven feet tall and with the unusual facial structure I really wanted them no not just look like grey skinned humans. The original model I chose had awesome clothing by a dull pose, I gave myself the harder challenge therefore of using the more interesting pose and having to transfer the clothing across.

With thanks to Marcus Ranum at deviantart for the stock refference pose and @reference.pictures for the clothing refference.

Stretching the body proportions to match the 7' tall Edur.

Stretching the body proportions to match the 7' tall Edur.

Realised the proportions needed to be stretched even further. Using 6'9" model as proportion refference, pushed the face even further from human.

Realised the proportions needed to be stretched even further. Using 6'9" model as proportion refference, pushed the face even further from human.

I wanted a more athletic build than on the refference model so I needed to work on shading her well.

I wanted a more athletic build than on the refference model so I needed to work on shading her well.

First and second pass adding clothing. She needed a bit of a boob lift to fit in her new outfit.

First and second pass adding clothing. She needed a bit of a boob lift to fit in her new outfit.