Here's another batch of titans as weather. See part 1 for explanation. The unifying factor with this batch is that these titans interact more directly with people. The first stretches the concept of "weather" a bit.
The Hard-hearted King of Dragons
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| Logan Feliciano The artist's description is also pretty good RPG brainfuel. |
On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: Gargantuan dragon with impenetrable scales. Wings held wide, blocking out the sun.
Behavior / Desires
: The King of Dragons hoards peace and stability. In a conflict between two states, it will rush to decimate the attacking armies. It will use its breath to turn revolters into glass. And there is nothing it finds more beautiful than a tyrant on their throne.
- Sharp nailed dragon cultists on ineffable missions of political espionage.
- Piles of wicked stones, once merely gravel, now made impassibly dangerous by the Dragon King's presence.
- Woodland creatures impaled on supernaturally sharp brambles and branches.
- Beehives and waspnests grown to unreasonable size, their stingers empowered, and their queens driven mad with a lust for expansion.
Radiant Fowl
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| "The Dragon Prince" background by Michael MacRae, but I doodled a little bird on top. |
On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: Light on the horizon. Most noticeable during the night.
: A giant glowing phoenix, wispy tail trailing off towards the horizon. Or maybe its more of a glowing rooster. The details are hard to nail down because you can't really look directly at the thing.
Behavior / Desires
: Witness it! Witness its luminous glory! This titan wants to be seen, appreciated, and maybe even worshiped. It tends to gravitate towards areas with large populations of people or polished surfaces, where it perches and preens.
- Fluffy, arm-length, radiant feathers fallen on the ground. They glow so brightly it hurts to look at them. A single small barb casts light like a torch. Frequently leads to deadly conflict between rival feather-hunters.
- Cold-blooded monsters, standing still, eyes closed, basking in the ever-present glow.
- Travelling titan researchers bedecked in reflective protective suits. Despite its proclivity for precariously perching on buildings and blinding pedestrians, it's overall the safest titan to observe and study.
- Nomadic lycanthropes following the titan to avoid transformation, driven only a wee bit mad by lack of sleep.
- Basements and dungeons choked with new sprouted vegetation.
Desiccant Prowler
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| Nutchapol Thitinunthakorn |
On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: No clouds in the sky. No rain.
: A dusty striped pantherine thing, surrounded by a thin choking haze
Behavior / Desires
: Lazily tears apart magical protections, sabotages water reserves. It doesn't kill things directly, but its mere presence is hazardous, and it likes to watch things die. Stares down at entire villages or herds as the life drains out of them, and them laps up their souls like a cat drinking milk.
- Fanatical dust elementals and living stone statues, helping wage war on water-based life-forms. The titan is ignorant of their devotion.
- Arcanohazard disposal teams dragging wagonloads of janky cursed items and failed enchantments into the titan's zone of influence, hoping the beast will rip them apart for fun.
- The desiccated corpses sometimes begin to crawl around and gnaw. Don't let them get their teeth into you, or they'll steal your blood and soul. Outside of the titan's hex, they crumble into ash, which can be sold to wizards for its magic-suppressing and water-absorbent properties.
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| Kekai Kotaki |
Very happy to see more of the weather-titans.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I have one more batch in me, but it will probably be a while before it's cleaned up into a postable state.
DeleteSeeing if there was an update to this
DeleteI just posted a few more titans.
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