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Braum is like a Norn, period, no question about it.

Voliboar··1 votes·5,467 views

If you have played Guild Wars 2 you'll realize that he fits every single description of the race.

  • Huge-ass body and muscular build
  • Lives in the icy region
  • Outragous facial hair
  • The cold doesn't seem to bother him, neither does it to norns
  • Tattoo, BLUE tattoo
  • Extremely similar armor with one of the Norn cultural armor
  • He builds his legend by helping people, like a Norn does
  • No lore yet but the ram symbol is REALLY similar to the spirit of the wilds concept

So @RiotWrekz, I take it that you got tons of inspiration from the Norns? :D

I love you so much, norn is my favorite race in GW2 and Braum just made my dream come true.

http://i.imgur.com/Lv4G2JB.jpg

6 Comments

RiotWrekzzz3 votes

Artistically the Norn and Freljord draw inspiration from similar things, but the details of the visual style is different (I also worked on both games!). TheBravoRay is the best person to talk about the intricacies and inspiration of Braum's visual style. However, as a raw summary we wanted to make Braum visually distinct from our other large men and tweaking his proportions as we did generated a really distinct silhouette.

Really glad to hear you enjoy the champion, i'll pass the feedback on to the art team!

LouisLeGros1 votes

Those are all pretty common fantasy tropes for manly men and I'm not seeing the similarity in the armor.

RiotMorello2 votes

Yeah - there's a lot of Nordic influence in both (having worked on both games!). It's pretty natural that Norn + Freljord have some comparisons.

Swaingry Birds1 votes

Morello can you convince Phreak to stop hogging U.R.F. to himself :( But I do have all the poro as my minions because of it :D #giveusURF#freetheporo

Polaritie1 votes

Except for the part where the Norns are female, I guess?

Tobasco da Gama1 votes

Wrong.

FRELJORD FOR THE NORDS!!!

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