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Niklas Jansson
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Some  tricky designs.

It's unclear how Cave Swallow Men would carry their spears when flying. On their backs perhaps. They can fly so their arms have to be functional wings unless they have arms in addition to the wings. The Raw/data file is pretty brief (well, it inherits specs from elsewhere). Always hard to draw wing arms because you get wing bits pointing out.

Edit: Added a new image with another variant. Real Cave Swallows are kinda rusty brownish, and have a flat top head. It also seems -Men have separate wings so I tried that look.

The design of the Iron Man is also a question mark. If they're naturally occurring then it might make sense for them to take on approximate, wobbly man-shapes (especially since they're not intelligent). But maybe they form because of some ancient spell that's lingering, or were built by entities of the distant past for some purpose and still roam the caverns (being immortal). Maybe all golem type entities like this take on the same shape (as e.g. my Blood one). They seemingly have shape shifting capabilities (changing into a random, fancy statue upon death). Almost seems like some kinda T1000, so a typical robot look makes the least sense here. Iron Men aren't solid, but filled with some kind of noxious gas they can spew out. 

At first I thought the Amphibian Men were similar to the fish men of Castlevania, but it seems they're renamed Frog Men (from older DF). I didn't want to do a typical frog man and drew a quirky thing instead. Up above ground there are Green Tree Frog Men. But apparently the Amphibian ones are green too.

The Helmet Snake can reach 50kg so it's sizeable. The description mentions a dragon-like appearance but I wanted to give it a bit of a helmet bump so I borrowed elements from the Pachycephalosaurus.

Edit: The Jabberer is some kind of big thing and I got the feeling that it's pecking down at smaller creatures, which dictates the anatomy/pose a bit. Perhaps it walks upright normally. Since it doesn't seem to have a tail, balance might be an issue. I added a feather plume on the back and some colour gradient to suggest it's materials are expensive (described thus). The chest has no or just severely devolved arms. I'm thinking maybe it's related to the Beak Dog. The beak is supposedly wide, but I wanted it to be more stabby (similar to the official crayon drawing).

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