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Icon Clearinghouse 2. Part two features dozens of animal-based icons.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Nov 2, 2023 01:08 AM UTC:

Methinks you've misassigned the ‘aanca’ graphic: in post‐Betza usage ‘aanca’ almost always refers to what we now call a manticore or rhinoceros — hence the four bishops in the icon; there's a corresponding four‐rook icon for the gryphon you seem to have missed.

Only one move apiece comes to mind for the Bat and the Panda: the former is a root‐65 leaper (8:1 or 7:4) (I'll concede it's mostly limited to Savard and Gilman due to its long leap, and the name is used for a few other pieces, but most of those are games far enough outside the usual (things like Halloween Knight Court and Capt. Spalding) that they almost don't count for this; which basically leaves H.G.'s large games, where it's as much a neologism as Raven is for its piece), whilst the latter is a slip‐rook (much better attested, with apparently only Onitama being an exception there; it's one of the pieces that might merit a Piececlopedia entry imo)

Of the PD images only the whales (particularly the second) and maybe the second ibis appeal to me; the others are either too detailed (a problem shared with some of alfaerie's arthropods, f.ex.) or a bit cartoonish to fit in with the rest

And I really like some of the new Cazaux icons; fsr I'm particularly drawn to the Tapir :‌)