>>20986117>The tail is intended to look like a war fan.War fans don't seem to have any central spike, and are generally wielded at the hands rather than the behind. The association with marine mammals seems to be much stronger, visually speaking, unless Samurott has an animation where the tail folds up which I'm not aware of.
>It rests on four legs because generals got to ride on horses instead of having to stand with the plebeian infantry masses.This might be plausible if Samurott had an additional set of forelimbs, like a centaur, or perhaps if it was given a horselike tail. Nothing about its design suggests this, though.
>The shell is a kabuto helmet.Commonly expressed opinion but Samurott's head-shell lacks the downward-sweeping neck guards that are iconic to the traditional kabuto's design, and has most of its mass behind Samurott's actual head, unless his head is shaped like a Xenomorph's. Usually where the unicorn spike is would be a crest- the spike isn't impossible but does nothing to make the helm look like a traditional kabuto.
>The scales are evocative of the overlapping armor of a samurai.But they're used to store the "swords", and they're on the part of him that would be the "horse" given the "he's a mounted general" theory, rather than his shoulder region.
