Which horn style should the tieflings have?Poll:
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Official style - low, thin, swept back
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Tall vertical - rising clear of the hair
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Crown - heavy, low on the brow, sweeping out and up
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I have spent an embarrassing amount of time on daemon horns this week, and I want a sanity check before these get locked into the book.
The problem: every tiefling I drew had different horns. Not slightly different - different animals. And since the Crossroads Daemon is built on inherited blood, the horns ARE the inheritance. Having them change between pages quietly undoes what the text spends three chapters establishing.
So there are three candidates.
1. Official style - low, thin, wide-set, sweeping back almost horizontally and hugging the skull. It is what the rulebook art does. My problem with it is that it reads as a headdress or as long pointed ears before it reads as horns, and it disappears into the hair at small sizes.
2. Tall vertical - planted forward on the skull, rising straight up well clear of the hair, with a slight backward curve near the tips. Gives the head an upward silhouette.
3. Crown - heavy, set low and close together on the forehead, sweeping outward past the temples and then turning up at the tips. Sits across the brow like a crown and carries real mass.
I have gone with 3 for now, for two reasons. It is closer to what the official art seems to be reaching for than it first appears. And it is the arrangement that makes anatomical sense on something that fights standing upright - a buck's antlers are built around lowering the head to spar, and a tiefling is not doing that.
But I have been staring at these for a week and I no longer trust my own eye. Vote, and tell me if I have got it wrong.
The problem: every tiefling I drew had different horns. Not slightly different - different animals. And since the Crossroads Daemon is built on inherited blood, the horns ARE the inheritance. Having them change between pages quietly undoes what the text spends three chapters establishing.
So there are three candidates.
1. Official style - low, thin, wide-set, sweeping back almost horizontally and hugging the skull. It is what the rulebook art does. My problem with it is that it reads as a headdress or as long pointed ears before it reads as horns, and it disappears into the hair at small sizes.
2. Tall vertical - planted forward on the skull, rising straight up well clear of the hair, with a slight backward curve near the tips. Gives the head an upward silhouette.
3. Crown - heavy, set low and close together on the forehead, sweeping outward past the temples and then turning up at the tips. Sits across the brow like a crown and carries real mass.
I have gone with 3 for now, for two reasons. It is closer to what the official art seems to be reaching for than it first appears. And it is the arrangement that makes anatomical sense on something that fights standing upright - a buck's antlers are built around lowering the head to spar, and a tiefling is not doing that.
But I have been staring at these for a week and I no longer trust my own eye. Vote, and tell me if I have got it wrong.