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Offline Schrumpfkopf

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The Rakshasa Court
« on: October 22, 2020, 12:55:01 AM »
Outrageous personalities need to be done in miniature.

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The Rakshasa King


The Rakshasa King when he takes the form of a beautiful young man.


The Rakshasa Queen


Her Zombie





« Last Edit: October 22, 2020, 04:18:03 AM by Schrumpfkopf »
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Offline SotF

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2020, 01:01:10 AM »
I like the look of them, they've got the right tiger look, only one thing I noticed that stuck out when looking at them as Rakshasa though...

Aren't the Rahshasa supposed to have reversed hands?

Offline Schrumpfkopf

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2020, 01:29:41 AM »
Yes yes - the do! The sculptor wanted to do them the right way first.

« Last Edit: October 22, 2020, 04:11:57 AM by Schrumpfkopf »

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2020, 03:36:52 AM »
This is superbly tongue-in-cheek.  Forwarded to my buddies who are D&D fans.
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Offline SotF

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2020, 03:39:10 AM »
Yes yes - the do! The sculptir wanted to do the 'right' first.



I'd only noticed it because a game I've been playing recently added a rakshasa based character to it and they didn't swap the hands because they wouldn't be easily seen in the game...and were rather surprised that people asked about it.

Offline Schrumpfkopf

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2020, 04:45:13 AM »
This is superbly tongue-in-cheek.  Forwarded to my buddies who are D&D fans.

Thanks!

Offline Schrumpfkopf

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2020, 04:47:29 AM »
I'd only noticed it because a game I've been playing recently added a rakshasa based character to it and they didn't swap the hands because they wouldn't be easily seen in the game...and were rather surprised that people asked about it.

Yep, I might've left the hands where they were, but people got quite intense about it.

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2020, 12:18:41 PM »
Rakshasa's are shape-shifters. Not sure how the "tiger form" came to be so prevalent. D&D perhaps. Never heard of backwards facing heads in any of my readings of the source material.

Why is the Rakshasa Queen appearing as a medieval lady? This is SE Asian mythology, not Western European.   :?

Offline Brummie

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2020, 12:28:35 PM »
Rakshasa's are shape-shifters. Not sure how the "tiger form" came to be so prevalent. D&D perhaps. Never heard of backwards facing heads in any of my readings of the source material.

Why is the Rakshasa Queen appearing as a medieval lady? This is SE Asian mythology, not Western European.   :?

Its because they're based of a Netflix(?) documentary about a crazy dude who kept Tigers I think.

Offline Ciliatus

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2020, 12:55:11 PM »
Rakshasa's are shape-shifters. Not sure how the "tiger form" came to be so prevalent. D&D perhaps. Never heard of backwards facing heads in any of my readings of the source material.

Why is the Rakshasa Queen appearing as a medieval lady? This is SE Asian mythology, not Western European.   :?
Sarcasm? Those minis are based on real people from an unbelievable popular Netflix documentation ;)

Offline SotF

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2020, 04:26:59 PM »
Rakshasa's are shape-shifters. Not sure how the "tiger form" came to be so prevalent. D&D perhaps. Never heard of backwards facing heads in any of my readings of the source material.

Why is the Rakshasa Queen appearing as a medieval lady? This is SE Asian mythology, not Western European.   :?

It's probably due to D&D that the tiger form became prevalent.

I remember the backwards hands from older stories...a lot like several "demonic" type creatures from the forest tend to have backwards facing feet. It's one of the "tells" that someone who knows what their doing can look for to spot them.

Most shapeshifters tend to have them in mythology unless their actual gods.

But for the Rakshasa, I'd love to see something based off of Raksha(sa) from the Jungle Book in appearance


Offline Schrumpfkopf

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Re: The Rakshasa Court
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2020, 09:51:49 PM »
Rakshasa's are shape-shifters. Not sure how the "tiger form" came to be so prevalent. D&D perhaps. Never heard of backwards facing heads in any of my readings of the source material.

Why is the Rakshasa Queen appearing as a medieval lady? This is SE Asian mythology, not Western European.   :?

As a man with west asian heritage I'd like to inform you that our Rakshasas like nothing better then to torment us with the appearence of our former colonial overlords. ;--)
Joke aside - i get your point!

 

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