Jorge Hernandez Soria answered some really interesting questions about the character models. Really worth reading, here's a little snippet:
One of the really cool features of Dragon Empires is that the landscape and sky naturally light the faces and bodies of characters. We donīt need to add shadow textures or shading on textures to highlight face features, for example, because when light falls on the face and body it gets lit naturally.
Sounds really amazing doesn't it? I'll add the image about lightning to screenshots soon.
Meanwhile, read the interview
here