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[Chronas]

Pretty cool Bronze Colossus. Although I always imagined them as bieng more statue-like and less of a mecha.

Seriously though, it looks like ancient dwarves might have designed that thing.

The bronze colossus is most likely to have been designed by dwarves, the story goes like this:
The great ancient dwarvern race, the smartest creatures that were to ever exist. After a long period of hardship they have driven the HFS underground and sealed them in. they relax and have a major baby boom. The artisans finally have creative freedom, so they decide to build a giant complex megaproject to display their intellect -a giant invincible colossus. after it is finished the entire race gathers to celebrate with alcohol made from every plant known to dwarf, they are modest drinkers, but it is a special occasion. One dwarf, a cheap drunk, stumbles into the activation lever. The colossus activates prematurely and disconnects from the magma pump before fully filled. in the confusion a splash of magma spills before the floodgate closes, landing on the booze supply. The colossus' nascent mind likens the flaming chaos to the concept of 'the pit' as the dwarfs compiled a basic cognitive memory for the colossus before the accident. every older dwarf burns to death, the young are left squabbling in the ashes, brains -damaged by the blast, future -no longer guided with wisdom, their only early memories -alcohol soaked. noticing that he is not fully powered and therefore not invincible, the colossus attempts to pull the lever to finish the process, his giant hands only succeed in breaking it. This pushes his mind over the brink, reverting to a paranoid point of view that any technologically advanced civ must be crushed before it threatens him, so he eternally roams the land in search of enlightened races, destroying their constructions so he can forge his own invincibility...
He would come back centuries later to find the dwarves overall incompetence disturbing, their basic grasp of engineering derived from the few writings that weren't destroyed in the fire. He would rather the dwarvern race be extinguished than this foul bastardization.

*phew*

[DennyTom]

And Spreggo, that is SO AWESOME. I second the opinion of a SOF.

I would sign this too.

[Deon]

Another quickie. Goblin Cavalry!

[Ironhand]

That beak dog is bipedal.

Are beak dogs bipedal?

[Neruz]

Yeah, Toady stated that they're large Velociraptors. They have a humanoid body.

[Ironhand]

Cool beans.

Oh, look. Now there's blood.

[Vester]

I may as well put this here too.

Don't you just hate having dwarves meander near your animal stockpiles?

[Deon]

Oh god, Vester!!! Hahahahahhaha!
Thank you very much!

[Typoman]

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My impression of the collosus would make more sense after the magic ark.
i pictured it as being created long in the past by dwarves who animated it much in the fassion of a golem (magic engavings in or on head that not anly give it life but are basically programming) and it went on a murderous rampage cause someone screwed up the engravings telling it who is friend and who is foe. or perhaps the engravings were damaged somehow.
the shape would be a huge dwarf in plate armour. the armour would have intricate engravings all over it telling the whole history of the dwarves that made it.

[Neruz]

I always figured it was something left behind by Armok when he created the world; massive statues built in his image that accidentally absorbed some of the leaking divine creation power and came to life. Or perhaps huge idols built to a given god that were animated by an ancient race with a trapped spirit of some kind, the spirit; not being too hot on being trapped in a body of bronze, promptly flipped the fuck out and killed them all off.

Or something, who knows. There could be thousands of different kinds, each with their own unique origin.


Perhaps the Titans built them?

[Fault]

{Another quick sketch: A legendary thrower}

that's a.. very manly chin. Methinks you're just drawing babes in leather and then trying to make them seem DF-related...

{Another quickie. Goblin Cavalry}

Nice composition, the picture really flows. I always thought beak dogs were red, though.

{Vester's Vermin-eater pic}

oh wow, that's funny. and so true.

[Deon]

Nah, I draw babes WHILE thinking of DF, so it's a real-time process. However I like to draw them in general, so the theme doesn't matter that much.
Also, I am not sure about beak dog's color. Might be red as well.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Apparently I'm the only one around here who draws women with enough clothing on. 

(Ah, just being silly, I just happen to be a bit more prudish than most people.  )

[Armok]

O_O
So much awesome stuff.... I cant even begin commenting on it all..

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I really need to break out the ol' mechanical pencil again.