Flotte Ashragor
(Ashragor Fleet)
Concept Art - Customizable Card Game
This picture is part of the "Ashragors" world design project which can be found HERE
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For the Ashragor Fleet, I wanted to emphasize all the might of the Demon-folk by blending their art of necromancy with their alchemical and technological superiority. I based my initial design upon the Ancient Greek heavy warships such as Quadriremes, Quinqueremes, etc. all of them being collectively known as Polyremes : gigantic warships with a great number of decks into which a great numbers of rowers and crew were present to maneuver the ship to achieve its full potential of naval destruction.
With that in mind, I have literally conceived "sea fortresses" for the Ashragor Ships : the vessels would be very large and towering, to accommodate a lot of rowers and crewmen within, plus large cargo areas to store troops and war machines.
The hull of each ship would be covered with black magical armor plates and purple metal bolted frames to reinforce it. It would use both sails and rows to face any environmental situation and be able to gain speed very quickly during naval combat, being able to use their ship ram to pierce through the hull of enemies ships ; that is why the front ram is dented and elaborated to quickly sink other vessels.
The front conning tower of each ship would be a quite large platform able to welcome siege engines such as ballistae, catapults or trebuchets to be used during naval combat and the giant skull figurehead would be able to breathe fire or gas upon the enemy decks to decimate its crew during boarding.
After having discussed with the staff, it happened that the enchanted metal used by the Ashragors to armor their ships was defined as "attracting bad luck [for others]" …to represent this, I added shark fins escorting the ships, wherever they might go, as these ships would attract all predators of the ocean, anticipating the feast ; it indicates that, even if one would jump overboard to survive an Ashragor boarding, he would be still doomed and devoured.
