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character design

Delsys

Delsys is a half-elf bounty hunter and former pirate with her own sailing ship and crew. Dealing primarily with merchants, she spends her summers working contracts and her winters on the mainland.


Her design draws from Crete costal aesthetics, Tibetan hair beads and braids –showing her experienceand Hmong and Kyrgyz dress. Her jacket embroidery reflects her connection with Lúthien.

Crete traditional dress

“How This Tibetan Community Is Modernizing a Centuries-Old Braiding Tradition”, March 2024 Vogue

Hmong traditional dress, Guizhou Province

Black Hmong Vietnamese traditional clothing

Ainu embroidery

Lúthien

Lúthien is a triton paladin that values good favor and justice above all else. Bringing the ideology of her snowy village, she travels and helps others to set the world around her in proper balance.


Her design draws from Ainu bark cloth, Tibetan and weapons, and Japanese and Hmong dress.

Ainu bark cloth dress

pattern welding

abalone shell, aka mother-of-pearl

Hmong traditional dress, Guizhou Province

Alenna

An oc from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. She lives in the City in the Sky and is a priestess of the Goddess Hylia in the ancient past (before her people were turned into the Oocca, and after the building of the Temple of Time in Hyrule by the Sheikah). She wields the same magic that powers the dominion rod (yellow-green color).


Her clothing is inspired by the Russian povyazka and dushegreya.

Ooccoo design from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Russian traditional dress, dushegreya

Hylia statue from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Russian wedding headdress, povyazka