Talk:Dragon's Dogma World and Lore/@comment-98.188.116.27-20140930032604/@comment-23878607-20141003003923

TBH, looks like the artist who drew the tapestry used a basic royal or minor-godlike Greek dude from black-figure vases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-figure_pottery#mediaviewer/File:Dionysos_Mainades_Cdm_Paris_222.jpg

The beard indicates that the man is no longer a youth; he's a respected older man, but not old. The curled beard and hair is typically on artistic renditions of heroic kings, such as Agamemnon, Menelaeus and Odysseus.