DassaultMirage
Minstrel
Hi, I just want to hear opinions regarding basing one's character from an existing characters from whatever mythology. My example would be this, a team of my world's most powerful earth practitioners :
Narkiso - From Narcissus, the guy who was transfixed and starved to death by staring at his own reflection - I have no idea yet what he would look like, but he would be beautiful. His magic was flower-based, particularly summoning giant flowers from the riftlands that secretes gasses with euphoric properties, transfixing everyone within the area of effect by injecting illusions of seeing oneself redoing their darkest deeds.
Erhickton - From Erysichthon, the man who cut down a tree and cursed to be forever hungry - He's a barbarian with tattered armor, mouth sewn shot and the overall image of poor hygiene. He wields a battle axe with arcanic inscriptions all over it that would summon ensnaring vines and/or triple the weapon's size. This weapon earned him the title "Earth Tearer” (the actual meaning of his name). Erhickton has a huge mouth on his belly that has to be shut down by magical threads, otherwise it's hunger would never be satiated and would force Erhickton to feed his own limbs into it by impulse. Whatever corpse he killed would eventually be fed to this other mouth.
Zicksyfuz - From Sisyphus, cursed to forever carry a boulder - Zick was a yet-to-be-given-an-avatar character, but he would have four arms, two of which would be constantly carrying a boulder made entirely of diamonds. His other two arms would be the one doing the spell circles. Unlike the rest of the earth practitioners, Zick's magic could only control this boulder and he was the only one who could somehow control diamonds. However, every after battle, the diamond boulder would reform and could never be put down. I'm going to work on the diamond being some sort of a royal artifact entrusted only to Zick, hence he would never put it down to his last breath.
Prokcrstes - Procrustes (just look him up xD) - Prokcrstes also has no image just yet, but his weapons would be the most unorthodox: thirteen slabs of bed-shaped rock of various sizes. These rocks travel underground and has dormant spell circles in them. When activated, these circles would suck, position and glue the nearest human unto the bed in a crucified position. However, controlling the thirteen beds would be taxing enough that Prokcrstes would not be able to move. Prokcrstes main job was to capture outlaws or high-profile targets, so he would not do actual fighting.
Madis - Midas, please don't tell me you have no idea who Midas is - Madis would be a woman, no image yet, but she would have the ability to shoot streams of burning gold from her hands. I would not want her to be the stereotypical touch-and-turn-gold Midas. Madis would complement Prokcsrstes, after that medieval form of torture where they pour burning gold over prisoner’s mouth.
Please just please tell me wucha all think
Narkiso - From Narcissus, the guy who was transfixed and starved to death by staring at his own reflection - I have no idea yet what he would look like, but he would be beautiful. His magic was flower-based, particularly summoning giant flowers from the riftlands that secretes gasses with euphoric properties, transfixing everyone within the area of effect by injecting illusions of seeing oneself redoing their darkest deeds.
Erhickton - From Erysichthon, the man who cut down a tree and cursed to be forever hungry - He's a barbarian with tattered armor, mouth sewn shot and the overall image of poor hygiene. He wields a battle axe with arcanic inscriptions all over it that would summon ensnaring vines and/or triple the weapon's size. This weapon earned him the title "Earth Tearer” (the actual meaning of his name). Erhickton has a huge mouth on his belly that has to be shut down by magical threads, otherwise it's hunger would never be satiated and would force Erhickton to feed his own limbs into it by impulse. Whatever corpse he killed would eventually be fed to this other mouth.
Zicksyfuz - From Sisyphus, cursed to forever carry a boulder - Zick was a yet-to-be-given-an-avatar character, but he would have four arms, two of which would be constantly carrying a boulder made entirely of diamonds. His other two arms would be the one doing the spell circles. Unlike the rest of the earth practitioners, Zick's magic could only control this boulder and he was the only one who could somehow control diamonds. However, every after battle, the diamond boulder would reform and could never be put down. I'm going to work on the diamond being some sort of a royal artifact entrusted only to Zick, hence he would never put it down to his last breath.
Prokcrstes - Procrustes (just look him up xD) - Prokcrstes also has no image just yet, but his weapons would be the most unorthodox: thirteen slabs of bed-shaped rock of various sizes. These rocks travel underground and has dormant spell circles in them. When activated, these circles would suck, position and glue the nearest human unto the bed in a crucified position. However, controlling the thirteen beds would be taxing enough that Prokcrstes would not be able to move. Prokcrstes main job was to capture outlaws or high-profile targets, so he would not do actual fighting.
Madis - Midas, please don't tell me you have no idea who Midas is - Madis would be a woman, no image yet, but she would have the ability to shoot streams of burning gold from her hands. I would not want her to be the stereotypical touch-and-turn-gold Midas. Madis would complement Prokcsrstes, after that medieval form of torture where they pour burning gold over prisoner’s mouth.
Please just please tell me wucha all think
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