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Inside Burial Cave

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Dralnok's Burial Cave
Client: Virtrium LLC
Software: 3ds Max, Photoshop
Format: AGF (native geometry file), AGHs (native texture files)
Credit: Ghost model, environment textures (Virtrium LLC)

This cave model is located within Istaria's first underground adventuring area. The model is placed within the terrain to create a hidden cave where Dralnok's men buried King Dralnok Hammerfist after he fell in battle. It is an improvised burial, where Dralnok was buried in the ground along with his weapons and shield.

As the Iron Guard explored and fought through the labyrinth-like caverns, they encountered a large force of undead. But these undead were not beaten and routed, they were fresh and they were coming from deeper in the Labyrinth itself! The force set upon Dralnok and the Iron Guard and if not for the presence of Ganesh, all would have been slain.

Unfortunately, it was here in the darkness, with his task unfilfilled, that King Dralnok of Aughundell fell at last. A great chamber was constructed about him, burying him in stone to fulfill ancient burial rites, and secure his place in the afterlife. Buried with him was one of the greatest artifacts of the Dwarven race, an artifact forged by the near-mythical smith, Weylan Hammerfall, in the early days of the Dwarven people.

The burial cave model totals 596 polygons and uses 5 shaders (2 created for this model).