Endless Realms player race - Ulvar Kyr (male)

Bestiary artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.

When we were going over all the possibilities for types of races that would make up the core races of the game, I noticed a glaring lack of any "huge tough" races - the most physically intimidating race at the time was human, believe it or not.  Not just because I'm a personal fan of such races, I insisted the development team would be making a huge mistake if they didn't include at least one player race in the line of ogre, dragonborn, charr or tauren.  I also figured it would be a great time to also make a beast-race, thinking the concepts go well together, and the developers wouldn't have to worry about covering those two bases with the other races.  At the time, it may have been the only beast-race to make it into the final cut, although in the end, five of the nine core races ended up being "furry" :V

So this is a race that I essentially got to design entirely myself, aside from general species inspiration (I suggested alternative inspirational species, like turtles, armadillos, ankylosaurs, vultures, cervines...) - although there were lots of potentially cool things to pick from, we settled on canines and ursines being the primary inspiration for look.  However, as I developed them, I also feel a bit of big cat/smilodon, wolverine and yeti made it in as well, which I really only see as a good thing :b

So yeah.  Technically, these guys have tails and ears that make them look rather wolflike, but they're the sort of guys that chop stuff like that off because they are (or used to be) liabilities in fights.  Admittedly, this was inspired by a myriad of dog breeds, but most notably the ovcharka, the breed Casey and I want to get eventually - originally bred to defend villages from wolves, bears, and tigers, they have their ears chopped off so predators have one less thing they can rip or grab later :b

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