Standing-Stone
Banded Mongoose
As I have spent the last few days reading up on these creatures in the "Slaine Runequest" book. There is something of the Avanc that I read in the Runequest game's description that I also remember reading in the text of "Slaine, The Horned God". Noticing that in the picture for the first time. That they really look like some type of Ape creature or early man from a forgotten age. But more importantly....
Minus the boney ridge and horns on it's brow!!!!!.
I wonder why this slipped through.
Were they forgotten or was this deliberate?
Not that I'm trying to knock Simon Bisley's work, which is actulley some of his best.
It doesn't detract from the desired look of the artwork and the it's really only a mistake if you've read the text like I have.
The other thing, I was wondering about is the similarity and possible connection between the Shoggey beasts, Half-breed Formorians and Beaver-Folk. As they have be drawn by different artists or that theres a text description of them that would make them nealry the same. Even if their separate backgrounds aren't. Considering that out of all the Formorians, the half breeds look alot like they're made of parts of land mammals.--Unlike the full blooded Formorians whom are all mainly amphibious or mostly fishy--. Possibly those that are made of the same parts that would be most common on the Shoggey beast in monstrous form or horned-ape like Beaver-Folk.
Remebering the one picture that Clint Lanely has done of some Shoggey Beast. With those horned brows, in retrospect I thought they could very well be Beaver-Folk as well.
I have asked the same question on 2000AD online, in case you wondering.
Minus the boney ridge and horns on it's brow!!!!!.
I wonder why this slipped through.
Were they forgotten or was this deliberate?
Not that I'm trying to knock Simon Bisley's work, which is actulley some of his best.
It doesn't detract from the desired look of the artwork and the it's really only a mistake if you've read the text like I have.
The other thing, I was wondering about is the similarity and possible connection between the Shoggey beasts, Half-breed Formorians and Beaver-Folk. As they have be drawn by different artists or that theres a text description of them that would make them nealry the same. Even if their separate backgrounds aren't. Considering that out of all the Formorians, the half breeds look alot like they're made of parts of land mammals.--Unlike the full blooded Formorians whom are all mainly amphibious or mostly fishy--. Possibly those that are made of the same parts that would be most common on the Shoggey beast in monstrous form or horned-ape like Beaver-Folk.
Remebering the one picture that Clint Lanely has done of some Shoggey Beast. With those horned brows, in retrospect I thought they could very well be Beaver-Folk as well.
I have asked the same question on 2000AD online, in case you wondering.
