The second illustration of a 16th century “Landsknecht” Pikeman I retouched to feature the colours and coat of arms I designed for House Williamson, the ruling family of The Kingdom of Aquitaine in my low-fantasy setting. This artwork was designed as part of a low-fantasy setting of my original conception with technology equivalent to the late medieval and renaissance periods, where formations of heavily armoured and mounted knights fight alongside armies of pikemen and matchlock musketeers, where medieval-style stone castles are gradually being outsourced in favour of both lavish country estates and devoted military fortifications due to the advancements made in artillery technology, and where rising nation-states in the form of Kingdoms and Empires look beyond the boundaries of the known world in search of greater wealth and territory. In context to the lore of my fantasy setting, House Williamson is the ruling family, of foreign origin, to The Kingdom of Aquitaine, or my fantasy setting’s rough equivalent to The Kingdom of France during the medieval and ancien regime periods of French and European history.








