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Andrige’s Tree of Life Wallpaper
Published on March 14, 2008 by Phaelia 
Artwork, Community 
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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!
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| 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!
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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.
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
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!
ooooo! wallpaper ftw!!! can’t wait to get it up!
I want a widescreen version! :<
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I can only /bow. Great job, Andrige!
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!!
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*)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Haha, getting that feature on WoWInsider was kinda insane, got a full side of watches/comments/favs on my DevART after that.
w00t!
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
(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