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Next piece in my chess project: the rook (sometimes called the castle).

My take on this piece (at least for the Western Europe, Byzantine and Persian sets) was inspired by the wizard chess set from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which the castles in the film version were depicted as castle towers with a man-at-arms perched on the battlements. I have siege towers standing in for the actual castle towers, with the forward façade decorated to look like the castles they're meant to be aping (almost certainly artistic license on my part, as I'm unaware of any such decoration with historical siege towers; most I can find is some towers being draped with hides, and that was more of a practical consideration to safeguard against fire arrows and the suchlike).
As to the Indian set, some of the Indian tongues (chief among them Hindi) refer to the piece as the elephant, whereas others (e.g. Malayalam) call it the chariot. Luckily for me, there are records of elephants pulling chariots, so I was able to combine the concepts and put a rider on the elepant's back (again, partial artistic license, since the elephant chariots in question seem to be more of a ceremonial thing as opposed to an actual warfare tactic; what's more likely- as borne out in documentation- would be a sort of platform on the elephant's back from which the mahout would steer and any soldiers along for the ride would fire arrows or throw spears).

TLDR, lot of artistic license up in here.

I didn't bother coming up with names for the men-at-arms on the siege towers nor for the mahout. Though I might call the elephant itself Ballava :-P (hopefully someone paying attention to this project has picked up some sort of pattern on the Indian names by now).

Special credit to  archaeologist92 for encouragement, and  ohs688 for reference materials.

(PS, if I've made any hiccoughs in scale here, I apologise.)