Subchief Arness has got mismatched art (original campaign, chapter 3, Fort Ilkard)

[Ragnarok81]

Describe the bug Uthgard subchief Arness has got mismatched art. His sprite/model shows a Half-Orc, his portrait art shows an Orc or Half-Orc, but his decapitated head shows a blonde human.

Expected behavior I think subchief Arness isn't supposed to be an Half-Orc, but a human. After all Half-Orcs aren't really accepted in the ranks of Uthgardts, as the background story of your henchmen Daelan, who is an Half-Orc and also an Uthgardt illustrates. So it makes no real sense, that Arness is a subchief of the Uthgardt Elk tribe, if he was an Half-Orc.

The amount of work during development, which went into the decapitated head design is way higher, than asigning Arness the standard Half-Orc sprite/model and the wrong portrait. Therefore I think his model and portrait should be changed to a human male in order to keep the art for the decapitated head. Asigning another body sprite and another portrait to Arness will be much easier in order to make the art match again, than creating a new decapitated half-orc head design.

Screenshots Arness' sprite and description/portrait

Arness' decapitated head not matching with the rest of his depiction/art at all

[Finaldeath]

Aren't that tribe mostly made of half-orcs? I wonder if it's just easier to change the item to use this icon instead?

[Ragnarok81]

@Finaldeath Not to my knowledge. In general Uthgardt barbarians are strong, tall, black haired and blue eyed humans according to the Forgotten Realms lore:

The Uthgardt is a collective term used to refer to various human barbarian tribes who worship the deity Uthgar. Each tribe was named after a beast totem of Uthgar who mediated between the deity and his people.

The Uthgardt often had black hair and blue eyes, were predominantly larger than most other humans [...]

While the tribes were almost exclusively made up of these ethnically Uthgardt humans, half-elves and even half-orcs could be found among some tribes

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Uthgardt

So it's clear that non-humans and half bloods among Uthgardt tribes aren't common at all (the wording from the quote above is almost exclusively human), but some rare cases may exist. Maybe Bioware overdid it a little bit back then with uncommon Uthgardts... after all Dealan is also a half-orc Uthgardt barbarian.

[Finaldeath]

Yes possibly Bioware overdid it, especially since the description refers to a "man".

Also for reference you can post screenshots directly into a post it'll upload fine usually.

[Ragnarok81]

Thanks for the advice, didn't know that.