[BFC Challenge] Dragon Age SteamPunk

A steampunk version of Dragon Age characters for 's steampunk challenge.
For Art: redesigned versions of characters, monsters etc. to fit a steampunk environment. The deadline is November 4, 2012.
There is a fiction category as well.
And here's the link for full info:

BioWare Fan Club Challenge: Steampunk ReinventionIt is a time of great excitement in the world. Science has made astounding breakthroughs in the fields of medicine, steam technology, and mechanics. Explorers this very moment are embarking upon magnificent adventures, and charting grand new courses of human history as they discover new life and new cultures across the globe.

Into this alternate history world of steampunk, where the dominant technology is steam and mechanical-powered devices, we challenge our members: recreate a BioWare game in a steampunk setting!

What is Steampunk?

Steampunk is a stylistic aesthetic, a fictional universe, an alternate history, and a subcategory of scienc

Gosh, this challenge made me realize I suck at mechanical drawings!
The templar automated-armor is like... 30% original and 70% borrowed from various reference images I googled.
Anyway, I had fun redesigning each race/class and writing the 'steampunk'-ized descriptions.
Mages are even more oppressed in this parallel steampunk world.
They're like... imprisoned slaves and their magic is exploited as an energy source. In addtion to that, the mages themselves are used as research subjects by the chantry scientists.


<Credits>
*The game Dragon Age and all characters belong to Bioware.
*Rusted metal sheet texture: [link]
*Bronze texture: [link]
*Blue quartz on sword: [link]
*Design reference for the sketch on BG: [link]