Winged Guardian Sentinel

So, there's this anime series, Bakugan. It's your typical monster-against-monster plot, Human children controlling huge mechanical self-aware monsters that transform into tiny orbs when not needed. I didn't watch the series much, but when I did, I saw a dragon-like monster named Altair.

Sentinel was heavily inspired by Altair. It was designed by techno mage Ciaran Ena'gavan to be used as protector and peace keeper. However, he feared that the military would use his design as a weapon of war, thus he decided to not create it. However, Sentinel did appear once, playing a vital role in helping Kimiuar Anderall, the True God, to regain control over Paradise after Rhuul, God of the Underworld, took over and banned Kimiuar from his throne in the Inner Circle of Paradise. Using the abilities granted to him by Paradise, Ciaran managed to think Sentinel into existance, calling him and ordering him to aid Kimiuar in his battle against Rhuul. It was Sentinel's power added to Kimiuar's which allowed them to defeat Rhuul and banish him back to the Underworld. When Ciaran returned from Paradise, Sentinel stayed behind as guardian of the Inner Circle in case of any retaliation attempts from Rhuul.

Sentinel is controlled by a complex AI and is armed with a tightly focussed high-yield plasma cannon allowing him to fire plasma beams of about 5000°C temperature. This cannon is located in his "maw", imitating a dragon's fire breath. It can overload, firing a beam that is even stronger and hotter, but has to cool down afterwards. It also features a vortex generator, which is basically a modification of its gravo-diffuser. The gravo-diffuser allows Sentinel to hover, while the vortex-generator creates a rotating gravity field. If an enemy gets caught in this field, it starts to rotate with high speed, loosing orientation and control. Sentinel has to use the vortex generator at melee range, it is designed to keep enemies at distance.
Sentinel's strongest weapon is the feedback attack. Its shields not only deflect shots from energy-based weapons, but also absorb some of the energy of these shots. This energy is stored until a certain amount is reached. It can then be discharged as one single attack from the tail. Over time, Sentinel manages to adjust its storage capacitors to the weapons used by the enemy, improving the weapons efficiency. Simply put, the more often it is used, the stronger it gets. Each use will increase the discharge strength by 10% to 30% until the attack has about 500% of the strength of all accumulated shots.


I didn't give Sentinel any great textures as I think it looks just fine the way it is. It has been sitting on my HD for quite some time, I'm glad it's finally finished. I'm quite satisfied with it, it looks exactly as I wanted it to.

Here's Sentinel using its plasma cannon: [link]