SKT 2016 Splash Art

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I knew it seemed familiar.... :P FE:A. IMO one of the best games ever made...

http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire4/33d36239b6d7ec9db40cc15bcc32499f1479758887_full.png

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

It's just a very common way to showcase a sense of unity within a given crew. Nothing too distinct.

Armor comes in many different forms, and even light armor (something universally regarded as the bare minimum standard for mages) is still relatively durable and solid. Cloth armor itself, something even 'lighter than light armor' can come in such designs without any compromise.

A few examples would be these:

• http://68.media.tumblr.com/3a3f2378c1cca9f6d5f18ddf0cf4ef48/tumblr_inline_nunvowcOJx1s8yi28_250.jpg

• https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/90/4d/c4/904dc482149554dc5a05391149dd6c59.jpg

• https://elderscrollsonlineradio.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/breton-homespun-1.jpg

• https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f2/5b/01/f25b0136ca933e755f5b3a11d8cef2b1.jpg

• http://asianform.com/images/yayasilver/armour.jpg

Chinese armor forms in particular are very good at this, especially when it comes to greater visual variety than may be immediately found in European designs. A deeper search than a quick 5 minutes on Google can probably produce more specific answers, but these will suffice.

Even in a stately capacity, women in such cultures wear elaborate dresses conveying a variety of designs (from the cloth to the details embroidered upon it). Even though the underlying torso and hip sections tend to be the same basis, there's can be a variance in the sleeves and skirt portions. It depends on the rank, position, and so forth, but details like "hey look at my huge breasts (cleavage window)" and "check out my legs (massive skirt cut up to her hipbone or just not even having a lower skirt at all)" don't appear on dresses for the state and ruling class. No, no one gets any points for being cute about using dinner dresses.

I have even gone to have some prototype artwork for a Syndra base redesign with this in mind: http://i.imgur.com/bekWcSi.jpg

(Artwork concept as provided by http://fiship.artstation.com/ )

You'll note the right section, which is working toward a completed outer layer, as the left was to work on undergarments. I hadn't settled on it, but something of that nature was the direction I was moving toward. Greater variance than that is possible, it is one iteration of the idea. You'll note the complete removal of "needlessly sexualized" components I directed for, though.

The same can be done here. How? Well, a dress with a stylized design to start. Maybe throw on some ornamental pieces, like a dragon-scale pattern? Maybe a fanciful SKT T1 logo on the front or back since she's the team center piece in the splash art? Perhaps having her lower skirt being a mixture of cloth and burning flame to compliment her arms?

There's a variety of ideas to go with this I could really dig into, but the underlying principle of "make Syndra needlessly sexy" is what undoes any better design that could exist.

A mage being in armor wouldn't be strange at all. In fact we have several skins of mages in armor and they look fine.

"It wouldn't fit her role" is a weak argument in a game where a Void Dog can be a pug. Or a character based around showing off her body can be fully clothed in multiple skins.

He has a good point, the skin seriously doesn't display her as an empress, but it doesn't look bad despite that.