Hands down, Akama's is one of my favorite stories in the Warcraft canon. I'm also one of those people who likes to think the woman and girl that feature fairly prominently in the Black Temple trailer might have been Akama's family. This is because I like MAXIMUM TRAGEDY, clearly.
I felt like this had to be in Gustav Klimt's style, I guess because it's a somber subject. Took some artistic liberties on Akama's proportions, in part because the original version has him un-Broken but I preferred his toothy face.
Also: find all the hidden details/symbols. Woo.
Akama/draenei/etc. are intellectual property of Blizzard.
I think it's pretty clear that the little girl is Akama's daughter. You'll notice that she goes to give him flowers, and her expression when she sees that his face has changed?
If anything, the priestess who dies being said daughter's mother was less obvious.
Huh! Good call on the little girl's expression change. For shits and giggles, I went back and checked and there is a subtle to D: in that scene that's easy to miss through a cross-dissolve.
Augh, that trailer chokes me up. Those little details Blizz threw in don't help matters.
I feel the same way about Akama. In that trailer, there was no way that woman and kid were there just to be there. They had to be family. I like Illidan, but when I look at it from Akama's side, I THINK HE'S SUCH AN ASSHOLE AND WANNA BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM! *ahem* Pardon me...
When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.
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If anything, the priestess who dies being said daughter's mother was less obvious.
Augh, that trailer chokes me up. Those little details Blizz threw in don't help matters.
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