Holding the bow

[Hisdon]

elvaan males are just pistol holtin' gat toltin' killin' people stabin' people straigh up gangta'

[Macht]

Originally posted by Mursk
If you notice, truly only the Taru and Elvaan men have unique forms of firing the bow, the others are not so dynamic enough to warrant there own style.

Dispight Elven Grace the ment have a very lackluster way of firing, it does not lend itself well to aiming or arch of motion.

Taru Taru on the other hand have very original forms of firing Arrows, they may be tiny but the style is very much like Ancient Zen Meditative Archery.

Actually from doing Archery and being in an Rifle team. Posture is a huge deal, and each one does effect. Even foot positioning as well as bow angle, shoulder and waste positions, all make them defined enough to be considered different stances.

The only thing with the Elvaan and Taru ones is that their stances are two extreems different from normal stances. What I did have wrong is how each stance is though for the other races.

The Elvaan Female is the closest to doing the Kyudo Stances (Japanse stance heavily influenced by Zen Archery, It's the only one that's truely consider "Heavenly Archery")

The Mithra is doing a classical Square Stance, commonly used by people begining archery since it's the easiest and most effective stance to learn (It has the best accuracy, but the arrow strikes will less force).

The Hume Male is doing what appears to be an Open Stance (but bow angle is slightly off), more recommended for Advanced Archers because aiming is harder in this stance.

The Galka seems to be also doing an Open Stance but the bow is in the proper angle.

The Hume Female is doing something of an odd stance, her left foot is pointed straight out towards the targets and she's leaning way to far back.

The Tarutaru it's not really a Zen Archery stance, the foot positioning is wrong as well and how the bow and arm position are off. The Tarutaru stance is much more that of a person struggling to Draw, Anchor, Aim, and Hold the bow.

Ofcourse finally the Elvaan Male is doing an unorthidox stance, a clasical stance in movies and such to give a more finess appearance though aiming like that is very horrible in actuality. Also with this stance when the bow is drawn it's drawn under the arm so the graphically it is accurate. The reason you would draw it under the arm is because it provides move force so the arrow strikes with greater force (However if not accustomed to that stance it's as hard to aim with as it is doing it in the Kyudo stance).

So in relation to each Races ability with Archery their graphic stances almost are related to what their stats start to state.

[Spider-Dan]

StarvingArtist, you don't happen to have a bigger version (e.g. 1280x1024) of that same pic, do you?

[Mursk]

Actually, Zen Archery is done Kneeling with a Bow to their front pointed to their side while either looking forward or looking down (to fire the bow without looking most times) in this case the Bow has a very large Pull on it and is often 6ft in hieght. unfortunatelly Taru cannot Kneel, their hieght however is asequate enough to pull it off..



For reiteration, here is a picture of the Zen Archery position. Knelt with the bow infront of your chest facing forward.