The Teir’Dal are the Everquest dark elves. The character designs needed to reflect personality, culture, and environmental influences unique to this race. They needed to be pale skinned, attractive but edgy, nimble looking with a strong and heavily muscular lower body, and dressed with carapace armor from arachnids of their region.

Tonally the Teir’Dal had a naturally evil look. The overall shape and silhouette of the character is a triangle with the base being wide with strong legs and a slender, elongated neck and head at the top. The designs had to be sharp and pointy and look dangerous to touch.

These female designs explored the use of spider silks for clothing and web shapes for accents and texture.

The following designs emphasize a more sensual look while maintaining the design goals of the race.

This was a finalist for the male wizard Teir’Dal character design. It embodied the triangle silhouette, an angular carapace armor set, webbing accents, and pointy bits that make the Teir’Dal deadly to engage in combat.

This finalist for the female tank design is lighter in armor to give her more agility that is fashionable yet deadly.