A superficial research indicates that this is a depiction of Kul Tigin, a general of the Second Turkic Khaganate.
That would make them Turko-Mongolian.
That painting obviously depicts Kyrgyz or Kazakh attire though, likely Kyrgyz.
...is that his helmet or does our hero have a severed head tucked under his arm?
Anyway i'd say his ethnicity is computergame Eastern.
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Looks like a mask helmet to me. (EDIT: Although he's carrying it weird)
Yeah this, or specific enough to be computer game steppe nomads.
It looks like there are elements from different time periods and distantly related cultures. The helmets look to me like they wouldn't be out of place in Ming Dynasty China, except for the mask helmet, and then there is clothing that looks based on more recent traditional clothing from Central Asia. The artist was supposedly trying to depict Kul Tigin. I wouldn't take this image as a reasonably accurate depiction of anything.
Asiatic features, well most definitely one of the Turkic Khaganates...
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أسد العراق Asad al-Iraq
KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!!
Under the proud patronage of the magnificent Tzar
The graves of toharians shows that technologies used by latest populations were tocarian.
Edit- that besides indo-iranians, who were mentioned above ,as scythians .
Kazakn and Uzbek hordes were parts of Mongol horde not Turkic. Yes they speak Turkic but their ethnicity is mixed .
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Fitz Salnarville, Duke William's favourite knyghte,
To noble Edelwarde his life dyd yielde;
Withe hys tylte launce hee stroke with thilk a myghte,
The Norman's bowels steemde upon the feeld.
Old Salnarville beheld hys son lie ded, 235
Against Erie Edelward his bowe-strynge drewe;
But Harold at one blowe made tweine his head;
He dy'd before the poignant arrowe flew.
So was the hope of all the issue gone,
And in one battle fell the sire and son.
I suspect nomadic groups had rather fluid ethnicity and race. A groups that was originally one ethnic group and language may have changed rather rapidly to another one as the group absorbed other groupss. For example, 16th century paintings of Mughula often showed them with Mongolian features, yet by the time 19th century, when you look at the rulers descended from the Mughula, they mostly packed those features and were.more likely to speak Persian than Turkish or Mongolian language.