It's a portrait of Gan Ning, a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Sun Quan in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
Gan Ning appeared as a character in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. Some of the actual events in his life were exaggerated or dramatised in the novel.
The description of Gan Ning's night raid on Cao Cao's camp at the Battle of Ruxu in the novel is more vivid as compared to that mentioned in his biography. Before the raid, Ling Tong led 3,000 troops to engage the enemy and duelled with Zhang Liao before he was ordered to retreat. When Gan Ning saw that, he told Sun Quan, "Tonight I'll bring only 100 men to raid Cao Cao's camp. If I lose a single soldier, this will not count as one of my contributions."
That night, he led 100 horsemen to attack Cao Cao's camp and all of them returned alive after inflicting damage and casualties on the enemy.
There are many great artists here on the forum, and i like several portraits from them, but i think my favourite is still @Troodon80 's custom portrait for Imoen:
@CField17, if you can find an original image online, I would suggest linking to that instead or trying to attach it here. Something is obviously going wrong somewhere
Thank you, @lolien, I do try. I think it came out quite well.
Btw if any1 finds custom voice set for garrus I would be glad worst thing is I need to edit my save to change from dwarf to half orc or a human as garrus portrait doesnt fit for a dwarf lol
The "Natasha Henstridge" (red robe!) and "Milla Jovovich" (black/yellow robe! at the bottom) portraits, mostly because our local guru Stefan likes them most ... the actresses not only the potraits.
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Well might as well post a few more with that last batch (especially since I know the spoiler tag command now), few of these I haven't sized yet but very happy with what I've been able to stumble upon since I starting playing again
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It's a portrait of Gan Ning, a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Sun Quan in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
Gan Ning appeared as a character in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, which romanticises the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. Some of the actual events in his life were exaggerated or dramatised in the novel.
The description of Gan Ning's night raid on Cao Cao's camp at the Battle of Ruxu in the novel is more vivid as compared to that mentioned in his biography. Before the raid, Ling Tong led 3,000 troops to engage the enemy and duelled with Zhang Liao before he was ordered to retreat. When Gan Ning saw that, he told Sun Quan, "Tonight I'll bring only 100 men to raid Cao Cao's camp. If I lose a single soldier, this will not count as one of my contributions."
That night, he led 100 horsemen to attack Cao Cao's camp and all of them returned alive after inflicting damage and casualties on the enemy.
And of course:
You know, the rock star. Sorry so big
Also, still what?
Thank you, @lolien, I do try. I think it came out quite well.
@lolien hahah lol. I am laughing my guts out
Btw if any1 finds custom voice set for garrus I would be glad
worst thing is I need to edit my save to change from dwarf to half orc or a human as garrus portrait doesnt fit for a dwarf lol
Feel free to use my portrait, garrus is badass and should be played in bioware games
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/6414/celebrity-npcs
The "Natasha Henstridge" (red robe!) and "Milla Jovovich" (black/yellow robe! at the bottom) portraits, mostly because our local guru Stefan likes them most ... the actresses not only the potraits.
Evil is just cooler I guess...lol
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(Spoilered because post contains 11 large portraits.)
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[Spoiler] I've been screwing around trying to adjust this one, not at all happy with how it's coming out thus far
Edit: Found a program for the screen cap
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@jackjack those aint that cool portraits
It's surprisingly difficult to find good portraits for a bard.
One of these or the dwarf photo.
https://hauntedpixels.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/bg1.png