• Home
  • Guides
  • Resources
  • Privacy Policy
  • Blogroll
  • Contact
  • Authors
  • Tree Shirts
  • Subscribe via RSS
  • Subscribe via E-Mail
  • Tree Shirts
  • Recent Comments
  • Mana Regen Calc.
  • The World Tree

I <3 the
Nostromo N52TE

Favorites

  • /hug
  • 4 Haelz
  • Banana Shoulders
  • Big Bear Butt
  • BigRedKitty
  • Gray Matter
  • Greedy Goblin
  • Leafshine: Lust for Flower
  • Of Teeth and Claws
  • Out of Mana
  • Think Tank
  • Tree Bark Jacket
  • Unbearably HoT
  • Yet Another Warlock Nerf
  • View Full Blogroll

Recent Achievements

Blogroll Highlights

  • Foofy’s Cupcake Factory
  • Treebound Cat
  • Magickly Moo
  • A Moonkin and His Blog
  • Chrille

Categories

Archives

Resto4Life is regularly featured at the Daily Druid!
I blog Azeroth. Do you?

Creative Commons License

Featured Post

Featured: WotLK Restoration FAQ

Wrath of the Lich King made a number of fundamental changes to the game, many of which went through so many iterations that it can be difficult to get the facts. You can find a summary of these changes as related to the Restoration Druid in this extensive FAQ!

Read More | All Featured Posts

Recent Posts

  • The Sprout(ed) Seed
  • Phaelia’s Vestments of the Sprouting Seed
  • Resto4Life Farewell Photo Album
  • Resto4Life Says “Farewell” on Twisted Nether

Phaelia Andrige’s Tree of Life Wallpaper

Published on March 14, 2008 by Phaelia
Artwork, Community
16 Comments

Courtesy of Andrige, creator of the beautiful Druid form skins highlighted earlier this week, I have a gorgeous new desktop wallpaper to share with you! This wallpaper features the Tree of Life surrounded by her perennial peers, the Ancients of War and Lore. It’s my desktop wallpaper at home and at work (the two can so rarely agree), and I know you’ll love it as much as I do!

Tree of Life
by Andrige

I was actually fortunate enough to be asked for an idea for this new wallpaper. Here’s what I described:

What about a Tree of Life (in the gorgeous skin you created) standing in the middle of a semi-circle of the Ancients (the big trees that wander around Darnassus and Cenarion Expedition). So it would be like the Tree of Life had been accepted among her peers, despite her diminutive size. And maybe they’d have come to her for advice on these "short-lived humans" or something like that. Surely we’d have a useful perspective on something they would want to solicit. =) The background could be a forest like the one in Teldrassil or Ashenvale. Maybe they could be meeting in a clearing or at one of those stone shrines like the "Grove of the Ancients" that’s south of Ashenvale.

I can’t imagine a more beautiful execution! Thank you, Andrige!

» View all Andrige’s wallpapers

Related Posts

  • Media Frenzied Regeneration
  • Andrige’s Tauren Tree of Life Wallpaper
  • Featured Artwork: Commision Night Elf
16 Comments
Categories: Artwork, Community

16 Comments

Make A Comment | Set My Avatar
  • Gravatar Lapyx

    That is a beautiful background and I would love to make it my background, but… A more Tauren friendly version would be needed =D

    But besides that, it is actually a tremendous background and the quality of work is excellent.

    10:59 am on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Andrige

    Tree of Life is originally a shared model, but with my pack I can distinguish them, which I think is better too (ToL, cheetah and aquatic shouldn’t be shared to begin with tbh). Probably gonna have to make a Tauren Tree of Life in the near future with my own skin again, of course.

    Glad you liked the interpretation, Phaelia :)

    11:13 am on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Nebelmond

    This is gorgeous. Guess what – today I got a new wallpaper! :-)

    Thanks for creating such a beautiful background, Andrige & thanks for sharing it with us, Phae!

    12:49 pm on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Syll

    ooooo! wallpaper ftw!!! can’t wait to get it up!

    2:59 pm on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Eranthe

    I want a widescreen version! :<

    8:23 pm on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Ermengol

    …

    I can only /bow. Great job, Andrige!

    8:30 pm on 3/14/08
  • Gravatar Inwë (formerly Silmae)

    Powerful
    Mighty
    Strong
    Beautiful
    Full of Wonder

    I am making this my desktop now :) It is amazing. I really wish Blizzard would implement his skins/ hire him!!
    I am too confused by how to download them… I know its against the term. But I just don’t know. I would hate to do something wrong with the downloading of skins and have to delete the game, redownload/etc..
    Thanks again Phae!! Lovely!!

    4:37 am on 3/15/08
  • Gravatar Andrige

    I think I’m gonna make a ToL for the Tauren skin taken in Aszhara, sadly Taurens don’t have the same grandieur as the Nightelves when it comes to world environment and Druids, maybe adding those earth-giants that roam about in the background for somewhat of an equal appearance? (Ancients are basically only Nightelves so I can’t use that again).

    (Well not really Resto4Life related but there were one or two guys wondering about the Tauren skin… *cough*)

    7:42 am on 3/15/08
  • Gravatar Shinano

    That IS a tough one, I think you got the right environment with Ashzara, but as for background characters.. hmm. How about the Firbolgs at Timbermaw Hold? It’s a bit of a contrast from the Nelf Tree. With the Tauren, HE’s the big one imparting wisdom to all his furry disciples.

    9:13 am on 3/15/08
  • Gravatar Andrige

    Furbolgs are actually also more familiar with Nightelves than Taurens.
    They were allies a long time ago and protected what was Felwood if I remember correctly, and they even helped out in a war sometime with the Nightelves.

    Taurens lives in another part of Kalimdor, so I doubt they have much in common.
    Not that the stonegiants are that particularly better than the Furbolgs, but they aren’t considered intelligent or have their own real culture at least, and it gives the wallpaper a bit more majestic feeling… but anyway, I won’t rule out the idea of yours, it’s just a wallpaper so it could be fun to make a nightly camp with a Tauren ToL standing at a camp with several Furbolgs around.

    9:51 am on 3/15/08
  • Gravatar Lapyx

    Perhaps something in Mulgore with Carin Bloodhoof or ArchDruid Hamuul Runetotem. Or even the Barrens maybe with a tranquility graphic around the Tree of Life as if to heal the land. Those are the only real Tuaren areas I can think of offhand. You could use Moonglade but thats basically just Night Elf territory when it comes to a theme. Aszhara fits the autumn look of your Tauren skin but unless there is something I’m not aware of Taurens have little to no history in that zone as it a Night/Blood/High Elf area. Then again I may put too much importance on lore for a background =)

    Whatever you decide on I’m sure will look great.

    11:10 am on 3/15/08
  • Gravatar Drude

    Could somebody host the background somewhere else than devianart :( My works Firewall is rejecting the host ;(.

    Its very good! :) Props on the whole site too. Very informative etc.

    7:21 am on 3/21/08
  • Gravatar Andrige

    Haha, getting that feature on WoWInsider was kinda insane, got a full side of watches/comments/favs on my DevART after that.
    w00t!

    9:42 am on 3/21/08
  • Gravatar Relinor

    I play a Tauren Restro druid for a mid-way MH/BT guild. It would be great to see a Tauren version. I’ve still put this one as my background as it is still very nice :P (Shhhh, don’t tell Relinor tho!)

    You could probably set the Tauren one in where ever you think is the most suitable area. If it was a late evening setting with orange/pink skies it would probably keep enough to the Autumn setting I guess. Perhaps late evening Mulgore with the Bluffs standing high in the background.

    Anyway, thanks for the background. Looking forward to seeing any more you decide to do :)

    4:03 pm on 3/22/08

Trackbacks

  1. Andrige’s Tree of Life wallpaper (and others) | WoW Blog - WoWHype.com
  2. Andrige’s Tree of Life wallpaper (and others) | Warcraft-News.com

Comments RSS Feed   TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

CommentLuv Enabledshow more
 

Recent Comments

The Sprout(ed) Seed (87)

tkc
15 short years till he wants to borrow the car! Cheers!

Phaelia
As much as I loved writing Resto4Life and am enjoying playing again (even if in a very limited capacity), I don’t have the time to devote to blogging anymore. Instead, I’ve been learning2play from Keeva at TreeBarkJacket.com and Lissanna at Restokin.com. :-) I am excited that BRK is back, though!

tkc
Soooo, with BRK back in action, I’m wondering if Phae will get recruited too.

Jezi
CONGRATS on such a cute little one! <3 Jezi .-= Jezi´s last blog ..VIGIL =-.
The Belkin Nostromo N52 TE (73)

Marc
Hi, Too bad this blog is no longer maimtained. Thanks for you post though. I wanted to address the issue of lefties. I am on, and use the N52TE. I use a trackball with my right hand and the n52TE with my left, no problems.

Costo
I didn’t read the pages upon pages of comments so I don’t know if these issues have already been hit, but I can think of two things as a boomkin/tank druid that have helped immensely with my nostromo. First off, turn off the diagonals on the D-pad. Wow kindof accounts for these innately by combining vert/horizontal key presses. Having the nostromo keyed to do this is redundant and screws up movement. The second is key spam macro’s. I have my nostromo 6 buttom set to...
Andrige’s Shapeshift Skins (72)

Asher
Sweet thanks for sharing! And i thought I was the only one disappointed in WoW’s art and character customization! Let’s hope Cataclysm has more in the works of real visual art like this instead of middle school quality graphic farts!
Direct Healing in Wrath (103)

Phaelia
@Otta: This article is out of date and no longer relevant. I understand Nourish is now the preferred choice over Regrowth, though you should keep a RG on your tank for its HoT component. As the methods for finding this information are explained, someone should be able to apply them along with the new values to create an updated comparison. I, however, am not that person. :-)

Otta
Ok, just found this post, and it’s long and interesting, quick dumb question tho, the numbers for nourish with hots, is that the healing both by the nourish alone or also the hots that are running? I used to use regrowth and now use nourish, debate is whether to switch back. I also am specced into tranquil spirit – am guessing thats weird comapred to this info!
Resto4Life Closing Its Doors (260)

Bruce
:( /cry I love you, ty for everything.
© 2009 Resto4Life. Some Rights Reserved. Original theme by Dezinerfolio. Respecced by Phaelia.