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Smite Skadi Skin (Dragoon/Dragon Tamer Skadi)

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So, I play Smite. Of all the MOBAs, I enjoy that one the most because of it's action-based combat and skill shots, instead of clicking somewhere and waiting for the character to move there. I also don't like moving the camera away from my character- because players are EXPECTED to do that in games where it is allowed.
Anyway.

I normally play Hunters, and I sometimes dabble in Mages. I'm not really good at the melee classes...
Skadi is one of the newer Hunters, and she's pretty awesome. She has a pet mechanic which is new- being her wolf, Kaldr.

I liked her a lot, and I was a lot better playing her than Medusa.
Though, once she released, I immediately thought of a Dragoon/Dragon Tamer skin for her. I had just been too lazy and too busy to do anything about it until now. And here is my thought!

In this design, I wanted to keep some of her normal designs present, but change them to fit a new theme. So, the cape, the tattoos on one side of her face, the large pauldrons, the half-skirt, Kaldr's pointed ears, and such.
Skadi's armor is inspired off of Monster Hunter- since I love the armor designs in the game. I wanted her throwing spear to be a spear/lance like the Dragoon class in some games. Kaldr, is obviously a dragon to go with the idea, and I thought red for his dragon make-over. I was thinking of either red, green, or some thing... Red won-out since there are already some dragons in the game in other colors. Accented with gold, because I thought it'd stand out nicely.
Skadi has hunted other dragons or beasts- which is why I wanted to have scale armor on her too. And to make her match Kaldr, design-wise.  I replaced the antlers behind her with metallic wings instead, as I thought that might fit her base design, and give a dragon feel.
I also wanted Skadi to be light skinned and red/orange haired. I wanted her to have a northerner feel. Something Irish-ish. Blond is used a lot, so I thought I'd give orange-hair some love. I wanted to keep her cold blue eyes though. I was tempted to keep her blue skin and white hair.... So the eyes at least stay. In place of Skadi's facial markings/tattoos, I wanted paint. Like she used red face paint and just smeared her fingers across one side of her face (where her normal tattoos are). I wanted her cape to be burned, thus making an irregular shape, to look similar to her normal hide cape.

This would be a special skin, so her moves would also change to match. Kalder, I assume can still keep a spectral form (Dragons are magic! :'D), and I'd think small licks of flame on the spectral form, but that's not necessary. Skadi's '1 Ability' would be a fiery spear throw, and enemies would instead glow red or orange. Her '3 Ability' would be either Kaldr's dragon spit, fire circle, or a lava circle. But, honestly, I like the dragon spit idea more. It makes more sense why Deities would slip across it, and it's give more idea of Skadi's companionship with her dragon. That and it's funny/icky. xD I would hope the dragon spit would be one fire a little- as to show the intense heat of a dragon's spit- that and so it also makes some sense as to why standing in it does damage. Or maybe it's just acidic dragon spit. It'd also make a sound fitting to a liquid-y-slime, instead of the icy sound it normally does. And Skadi's '4 Ability', her Ulti, would be a Fire Storm, instead of a blizzard. Just really, swirling fire. Massive swirling fire.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun with this, and I really, REALLY want this to become a real thing. I would buy this skin, and I would hope others like it too. :'D
I will be posting this in the Smite forums, hopefully to garner some attention and love for the design- as I have hopes it might eventually become a reality. I also have ideas for the newest Deity, Izunami. Might not be what you expect! I'll be working on it next- I want to get on the idea before other ones come out. :P
Enjoy~

edit: The hope is that it would be a Tier 3 or 4 skin- so it'd be purchasable with Gems. I'd like to acquire it, as I HIGHLY doubt I'd get this for free. Being Tier 5 and such... makes it so I couldn't own it and use it. D': I can't do the Odyssey thing, and I don't have a lot of funds to spend freely- especially with exchange rates the way they are right now. That and I don't know how the Odyssey and betting things work... >.> So- I was hoping it's be always available and there to acquire.
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