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Sprite Base - Fantasy Skintones

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Part 1 of my project to make a full variety of base sprites so it's easier when I get around to doing NPCs for my game project.
> Skintones
> Game-specific Fantasy Skintones (you are here)
> Heights & Builds
> Clothes Pieces
Also if anyone wants to use these bases themselves, feel free! But please give me credit~
Beta base sheets for the walk cycle and the general stuff are shown above but they're really limited.

These skintones have been made with my game in mind, but if you ignore the categorization by norse mythology race you could use em for any character with colourful skin~
But to briefly describe the races...

Ice Jotunns are part of an overall group of shapeshifting chaos creatures who are at war with the norse gods. The ice tribe gets the most appearances in the stories, to the degree that when the myths were being translated the whole species got erroneously classified as Frost Giants. (they're not even giant..) Ice jotunn skintones tend to be blue, aqua and purple.

Fire Jotunns are the other racial group that lives off in a magma-filled land that keeps most other beings out, thus they could sit on their ass and never bother fighting the gods if they didn't wanna. But eventually at ragnorok they're supposed to send out the troops at last and become a backup army for the ice guys. Their skintones are red, pink and orange.

Trolls are kind of a wimpy spinoff of jotunns that act as nature spirits or wandering monsters. It's said they began after the famous jotunn/god Loki got tricked into a pregnancy by an enchanted heart. (Cos it was fed to him and who suspects free food? No matter how ominous XD) They have yellow and green skintones, but can also have human ones with colourful fur or animal parts instead. (Commonly near-bald long ears with lil tufts on the end, and a cow tail.)

Light and Dark Elves are.. well, elves. Everyone knows the gist of elves. But unlike the pop culture version these ones are nature/disease spirits who are flighty and could as easily bless your house as they would give you genital herpes. Light ones live near the gods and on the surface, dark ones live near the underworld and in caves. Their skintones in my interpretation are literal black and white like porcelain chess pieces, since the original 'lol evil brown people who live in caves' thing is kinda UGH FOLKLORE STOP MAKING ME HATE YOU.

Heimdall is here as a bonus and is basically the weirdo god. He invented the human class system, has a buncha gold teeth and jumps at the chance to suggest Thor should crossdress. I gave him a distinctive inhuman appearance cos well.. he's a freaky sea creature born from nine mothers. It was lame that the original mythos made him an ordinary white guy. (He's actually specifically called 'the whitest god'... *facepalm*)
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WingDingIX's avatar
The Bunny has earned a pat on the head, good job tho seriously. This is very helpful in learning new techniques cx