The most feared villains in all of Skylands, Kaos and his partner in crime The Lost Queen! Dare to ask them questions, their mischievous children Havok and Hysteria, and explore an alternative take on Skylanders!
Lost Queen : It certainly wasn’t… pleasant. But no, I was much more in control of my powers back then. I had trained for decades for a situation such as that, but it happened just so… suddenly. One moment I was smiling at him, ready to take on our first real fight, the next… gone. But I had to listen to my orders, so I continued with the attack under command of our sergeants. I did fight as hard as I could to avenge Kruta’s death, I can assure you.
Lost Queen : I’m… shocked, myself, but… accurate, even by Kurosian standards. It would have been an honor for her to receive her father’s bone armor, it is a sign of the offspring surpassing their parents in both strength and wisdom in battle. But, with my personal thoughts on Kurogh… I wish she wouldn’t wear them, knowing that now. It’s almost degrading on her part. He fought for the Kuros, but fought for them to be nothing but mindless killing machines, and our people were more than that. She deserves better armor than that male’s bones…
Lost Queen : Oh not odd at all really, our metal bones have confused other species, but it’s something my people were EXTREMELY proud of.
Kuronium is one of the most strongest, if not THE strongest metal in the verse. It’s almost impossible to break our bones or even melt them. The way our blacksmiths would melt them down would be to pray to Wunjabrot, the God of Blacksmithing, while using specialized tools and magical fires. How the Arkeyans were able to melt our bones is beyond me, I never stopped to ask them.
But there are downsides to our bones. If our horns are struck with some materials, or a noise hitting the right pitch, our bones ring and can disable us momentarily. Or permanently, depending on the severity.
During the first years of the Arkeyan betrayal, the Arkeyan Dragon Hunters invented a deadly whistle. It played a frequency that could make our skulls rattle to a point it would make us deaf, blind, and unable to smell or control our bodies. That invention slaughtered many of our people, but the Kuros of the past were able to find out who invented them, killed them, destroyed all instructions to build the whistle, and burned the city. I have never heard or have seen this whistle in my lifetime, but I’m very glad I haven’t.
Lost Queen : Every soldier has a unique set of amor usually built from the bones of their own family tree or at least re-worked family armor. A typical grunt’s armor looks like this for the most part. Petrified Darkness gems are carved from the Kurosian’s own darkness aura and set into their armor to help aide them in battle and enforce both their armor’s strength and the strength of their spells. Each Kurosian has a set of battle talons added to their own claws, and knives on their wings.
We had a handful of specialized squadrons, such as the Silverwings, which had armor of just bright Kuronium instead of the darkened like shown above. The Silverwings had body types more fit for speed, therefor their armor often fit so closely on them they often appeared to have been painted on. We also had Titans, which were the more tank-built Kurosians that focused more on ground combat, and would often have crossbows or even guns attached to their shoulders.
*ahem* excuse me I’m rambling, but yes this is what our typical grunt soldiers looked like for the most part 😀
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