Black Guard

Author:  Flosha
Created: 25.03.2024
Updated: 08.09.2024

SGD Armour, Redering by Bloody

Content:

Background

In the Sequel we find two different kinds of demonhunter armours, three in the game files worn by members of the DHT guild, the other presented in the main menu (which is actually not contained within the Sequel build; whatever is available online is based on a reconstruction by David, one of our team members, only the texture is contained). Both textures are signified as DHT, which led people to believe them to belong to the same faction.

But based on the Sequel story and the design of the armours we have no reason to assume that the main menu armour would have been an upgrade to the three demonhunter armours that we deal with in guilds/Demonhunters. They are stylistically consistent and belonged to a faction of the same name, consisting mostly of former members of the anti-royal New Camp, the “king-haters”. While the other armour, which we are dealing with here, is totally different in style with no similarity to the others; it is in fact based on the paladin (royal guard) armour with which it shares many stylistic details. We assume that this armour was meant to be a special late-game armour for the player if he would play on the royal side, probably exclusively made for him, when he did not belong to the anti-royal demonhunters. The player would be confronted with demons either way; but on the side of the king he would finally become a “royal” or “imperial” demonhunter, which is why we describe it as such.

But due to its intimidating appearance we thought that the armour would be wasted and would work much better and be used more effectively if the player would be confronted with NPCs wearing it (it can seem very intimidating) - other than that players knew it already from the concepts and the Sequels main menu, which didn’t lend itself well to a late-game armour either. I wanted others to have it too and so we had to think about who could wear it and why. Thus we invented the black guard in the context of the Inquisition - it is not an idea from the Sequel. But by doing so we did not really divert from the Sequel concept, we just developed the idea of “imperial demonhunters” further, as the armour is still connected to the royal army, the black guard one of the royal factions and hunting demons still one of their jobs.

Attire & Equipment

Sequel Armour

Inspirations


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