Long ago, by trying to manipulate and control Nature, the peoples of Darkvale caused a hideous cataclysm that devastated the natural world and thus brought down the fury of a certain Renegade Demoness upon the people. Those few who survived learnt the hard way that it's not a good idea to mess with Nature, many shortages facing them in the wake of the cataclysm despite their much reduced numbers, many hunting animals now hunting them for lack of their usual prey...
Thus, as they rebuilt their society, they adopted the Wolf and the Deer as their emblems, these two animals now found in art and architectural motifs throughout the region.
Wolf and Deer representing Predator and Prey, separate yet inseparable aspects of Nature where every element is interdependent upon every other. Without prey, predators starve, without predators prey becomes fat, complacent and non-alert, its population soaring without check until it overruns and destroys its own environment, taking itself down too.
To celebrate this new found awareness of the forces of Natural Order, the master craftsmen of Port Seadeep fashioned two very special statues of pure crystal in the form of the Wolf and the Deer, these now standing at the Great Gate of Port Seadeep.
Or, in point of fact, they don't yet stand at the gates, because, although the Crystal Wolf and Deer are supposed to flank the gates of Port Seadeep, in my Modules they have been conspicuously absent because I kept putting off making them. Finally got round to it... (Used my fanged version of the Dire Wolf model so it has teeth). The Wolf is standing in that "hound pointing" stance mostly because my dog, who's half Pointer, was doing it at me meaningfully halfway through doing these models which is her way of saying "Pack it in with pressing buttons - it's walkies time so let's get out there and decimate some squirrels!" Thus the pose crept into gmax. I have seen Wolves do it, but admittedly not often. Don't blame me, blame my dog...
See, this is what I like about the CCC. When the right topic comes up it forces me to do stuff I've been meaning to do for ages. The old "being poked with a sharp stick" method.
