The Secret World - Faction handlers

This may simply come as a drawing of the three main Faction handlers but there is a little bit more thought poured into this. For starters, I've always seen them with a certain mix of respect and fear; well, Kiyota is clearly a loose cannon but, aside that, they do command a certain respect and not merely by their ranks - I'm sure they are, simply put, major badasses. Like all major NPCs with a level that would make us go 'nope' not poking that with a 10 metres stick. So I had to draw their badass side, their 'fighting stance', with that attitude that says it all.

Secondly, I wanted a sort of uniformity for design purposes and beside, how am I to know if they have a weapon of choice, so I simply went with magic. Kiyota is a no brainer with Chaos (and it's green! wohoo) Kristen always gives this cool and collected impression and, let's face it, she also has the cold hearted attitude; Ice! And Sonnac, though he does keep his cool as well - but again for design purposes - I went with fire but in a sense it fits, he does seem very passionate about his work and his faction.

Now the big question: why choose them as fuel for my creativity for this contest? Well they are the first to give new players an everlasting impression. They are our guides into the Secret World and, if we may forget the names of less affluent npcs, we never forget those three. We cling to every 140 characters messages they throw into the Twitterverse, we either look up to them or dismiss them as mere bureaucrats but in the end, we still remember them.

Welcome to The Secret World.


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