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Dryad champion: A new path. Update 2 (Ideas and critique requested)

GG Open Legs·3/25/2018, 10:31:59 PM·4 votes·1,045 views
https://i.imgur.com/iWTZf8a.jpg

So I was colouring the original designs to see what would fit her, I was gonna post those here but midway through doing like the 4th drawing (this took a long time lol) I got an idea. Why not make her a more crystal based as opposed to plant and nature based, make her infused with her staff. My current plan for her: She is a protector of the souls of trees, she safe keeps them inside her staff. She used to be a normal dryad but upon somehow finding this crystal, or the staff itself she took up the mantle of guarding the souls, transforming her into this current crystal infused dryad. That's my idea in a nutshell, the details I haven't come up with yet. Her spells would be soul/spirit based

My second idea would be more on the darker side: The crystals corruption is being contained within the spiral section of the staff, but as it moves further away from that containment the crystals manifest into dark purple crystals corrupting the once innocent dryad. Her spells would be crystal based.

Let me know what you think of this! I personally really like it ofc... since it's my idea lol. Would love to know what your take on my idea could be, what should be changed and so fourth [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

If you care for the timeline of this project you can check it out here: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/my2j4tB5-early-concept-for-a-dryad-support-ideas-and-critique-requested-lets-make-a-champion-together Will edit that post with every new update I make to this.

Oh and one more thing, gonna work on my second project for a bit now, will be a little bit before anything on this one will pop up.

15 Comments

Lloyd Castagnier3/26/2018, 4:41:27 PM1 votes

Glad to see you're back. I'm glad we're moving away from the basic tree dryad into this new spirit/crystal doe girl. I like it.

The drawing is amazing and the ideas too. I like the way the crystal is taking over her. So I came up with a couple things.

With the first idea, let's say her tribe protects a sacred magic source or spirit forest and after the elder passed she was left in charge and they use this staff to channel their power and to communicate with the spirit world.

One thing is that if she overuses the magic of the crystal it goes overdrive and consumes her. So we can make her lore or initial story about how she had to go wild to protect or save her kind and the crystal took her whole left arm.

Her passive can be something like:

Crystal Leech: After casting several spells in succession, the following spells will consume a portion of her health instead of mana but will also deal more damage or heal more health.

Anyway, keep it up!

Nekaa11/20/2018, 8:29:35 PM1 votes

I've been looking at posts of a support Dryad character recently and all of them have gotten multiple things wrong, but so far you're the closest to showing what an actual Dryad is.

A Dryad is supposed to be a being that is physically connected to nature and doesn't actually have a full form, just a form they prefer. A Dryad character will be difficult to play seeing as how the easiest route to making a dryad character is having buffs and debuffs depending on if they are in jg or bushes and what not. All posts about Dryads have gotten this fact wrong, making the Dryad either a LITTERAL COPY OF SORAKA WITH NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL or forgetting the fact that a dryad is physically connected to nature.

While I like your idea of this, it isn't much of a Dryad anymore considering it is half horse and connected to a crystal rather than nature itself.