The left 1/3 is meant to be the front box cover, and the rest would be a fold out. Of course, there had to be room for the Logo and various text areas, too. The characters vary in origin... Firiona, the beautiful elf wizard on the left was created by Keith Parkinson, and appears on all the EverQuest covers. The knight and two dwarves in the middle are in the most powerful battle armor available to them in the game. The large Orc on the right is an amalgam of various Orc costumes and my own ideas. The smaller evil characters are Goblins, which hadn't really been rendered in paintings before (that I had seen) so these are my interpretations. The Drow coming down the stairs is loosely based on a Parkinson idea. The Archer is in the flavor of the elven archers in the game, though not any one precisely. The musician is my design.
I should also mention that Sony Online Art Director Mike Myers was great to work with!
This image copyright © 2003 Sony Online Entertainment.
