J'lmood
A #SwordsWithoutMaster Rogue
J'lmood is a towering Qurn, a rare race of nomads from the high plateaus and savannahs. He is on a pilgrimage to the end of the world, where the spirit-talkers said he could destroy the artifact that had torn his tribe asunder.
All that Deserves a Name
Mokohu - J'lmood's crash, from whom he is in self-imposed exile.
The Coka - An artifact of the sky gods, which J'lmood has sworn to destroy. He allows none to lay eyes upon it, lest they suffer the same dark fates as some of his crashmates.
The Sky Gods - Inscrutable deities above the clouds who cursed J'lmood's people.
Feats Heroic
Jovial: J'lmood bellows forth a great howl, his stomps shaking the very ground itself in his passion.
Glum: The lumbering mokohu warrior snuffs and shakes his head sadly, thinking of home.
Trick
Inevitable Foe: Clayton, a wily poacher who has killed other Qurn for their horns and hides. He has tracked J'lmood since an oasis some time ago, and is out for blood after J'lmood gored one of his henchman.
Art from here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4Y4 ; Pluses for anyone who catches any of the references (there's -3- 4).
ReplyDeleteWell, there's definitely some The Gods Must Be Crazy in there.
ReplyDeletePossibly a distant relation of Keith Stetson's rogue Tamen Na: https://plus.google.com/113990765511580864989/posts/jedCpoN9ZAc
The Gods Must Be Crazy is the primary reference, yup.
ReplyDeleteThe best rogues are anthropomorphic.
ReplyDeleteTarzan reference on the inevitable for?
ReplyDeleteThat's the second one, yup! The other two are really tricky/obscure and I'll post them in the morning.
ReplyDeleteMichael Miller beat me to it. He's Tamen Na's long lost cousin!!
ReplyDeleteKeith Stetson It's canon now. :D
ReplyDeleteThe other obscure references required foreign language knowledge (I know Arabic):
ReplyDelete-"Qurn" is Arabic for "Horn", and part of the compound noun for "rhinocerous".
-"Jalmood" is Arabic for "Boulder", or "Rock" more generally... He's "named for" a big rampaging rhino warrior from pop culture: TMNT's Rocksteady. :D