This is a version of the Night Elven Sentry unit with an owl on her shoulder. I heard a rumor that the original Sentry/Watcher unit, whatever she was called, was like this. My understanding is that this unit was a precursor to the Huntress from before she was mounted. This unit had an owl on her shoulder and as I understand this owl was the one used up and placed on a tree when she would cast the Sentinel ability.
When I looked into more I found that indeed there are old images on the internet of a model like this from some of the Warcraft III early development stages.
So, that was my inspiration for this model. But while I was on vacation and I was building the first technical demo of a multiplayer Warsmash client to play with others, I wanted to use some Warcraft III alpha style of content and I had forgotten to bring this custom model that I created. So, I created a second version. I will attach both versions below to this bundle. The second version is simpler and mostly has the owl flapping its wings. The reason for this is that I found the old "Sentinel" spell model, which I believe to be highly based on the shoulder owl in the photos above, included in Hallfiry's Warcraft III Beta archives. So, I used that owl for my model, although its wings are bigger to emphasize that it was flying, and I was lazy and did not shrink the wings to match the asset in these old photos while I was making my own version.
During the first multiplayer game of Warsmash, these Night-Elven warriors with owls on their shoulders served as my basic melee unit in my custom night elven theme race while my family members and I united in our LAN party to defeat the evil demons.
Note: Images are copied from
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Warcraft_III_evolution_guide
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