Tag: kurosia

Name : Iaagnbol (Ee-yung-bal), translates to “hands demon hound/hellhound”

Description –  horse sized beasts with dog like bodies, however their necks are made up to 3-6 arms that hold up a decapitated head. They appear to have thick, matted fur clumped with mud, twigs, and other forest debris, but some are completely nude. Their appearance slightly differs depending on their ecosystem.

Behavior and Ecology – The Iaagnbol do not need to eat or sleep, instead they wonder all corners of the Kurosian Mountains, being more populated in swampy wetlands.

Their main drive is to always have a head, and their search is very obsessive. They often go for already dead creatures, but if they cannot find one, they will attack and tare heads off living hosts. The heads they do find appear to keep the souls of the creature, their eyes stay wide open but they cannot speak of their own accord, only groan and moan with mouths gaping. The heads slowly decompose, once skeletal the soul seems to leave the head and it is discarded.

Iaagnbol wonder in small groups of 3-5. They speak to each other using the heads, or jerky hand claps when they do not possess a head. Their intelligence isn’t grand, but good enough to manipulate those with kinds hearts to get close enough to ‘help’ them, mimic victim’s cries, and develop ambush strategies. The language they do use is made up of groans, whimpers, cries and whines, no pattern. It isn’t known how they can see, smell and hear with or without a head.

Mythology – Yet another creature symbolizing the weakness of heart, and the stupidity of the over-zealous. There are countless folktales of Kuros falling victim to the Iaagnbol by wanting to help ‘a poor helpless creature crying for help’, following a single Iaagnbol to show off how brave they are only to be ambushed and killed, and many more. The Iaagnbol don’t hunt Kuros particularly and avoid most, but they are still one of the many ‘boogeymen’ among Kurosia’s landscapes.

Trivia –

  • The idea of the Iaagnbol was first conceived when Imagine Dragon’s song “Demons” was released. There was a storyboard I was planning (now long cancelled), of a little girl who fell victim to a demonic stalker. At one point, the demon sends out hounds holding human heads to chase after the little girl. Not much has changed design wise from those original hellhounds, only now they roam Kurosia.
  • A little inspiration comes from the Skinwalker myth where these creatures can use calls via the heads they’ve collected to lure more victims. The fresher the head, the more believable the call. “Only a desperate fool believes the call of the Iaagnbol”

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UM…….OOPS! I completely forgot to upload this O-O’’’ so sorry! Since I’m on a little bit of a hiatus, I figured I’d post this in the meantime! 

~Weird Hyenas, mod

THIS WAS TIME CONSUMING AS ALL HELL but it was fun 😀 

I kind of dipped a little into what un-spyroized Kurosians would look like in this post a while ago, but I couldn’t resist trying a pre-spyoized char as an original Kuros. Voteil was a fun go! He still looks a bit more cartoony, but he’s still a bab so he’d have those big cute eyes we all love ❤ Though, he probably wouldn’t be very tiny; maybe a size of a regular horse. 

As for an original story, I never really worked one out. There wouldn’t be a purple dragon cuz that’s LoS’s thing. When I think Kurosia, I just think of the world, the culture, I haven’t taken the time to really make original Kurosia it’s own solid thing. But I am getting closer to that, as so much of the Spyro/Skylanders canon lore is less and less appealing to me. Weirdlanders is what Kurosia would be like thrusted into the Skylander world, changing a lot of the canon so things would be more seamless, but that is proving harder to do.

But if I did a story, I think Feuriah would still be in it, her story being fairly the same. Voteil would play a big part too, and I’d like for there to be a Cynder, but of course she is a copyrighted character and would have to be changed. I think it would be about the Fall of Kurosia, and the journey it would take to rebuild it. How losing control of evils and darkness weighs the entire world down, effecting all beings and creatures. Feuriah’s grief and need for revenge would possibly make her an untamed villain making things worse, and it’s up to ‘Cynder’ and a band of other creatures to make it to Kurosia, wake the Gods, and bring back the Kuros.

~Weird Hyenas, Mod

Lost Queen : That would be the Ukaros, a creature that could or could not have been real. It was a creature of folklore and told stories of, but it’s existence was never proven.

The tale goes that there was once a deranged, banished kurosian female called

Kalabaul

that wondered the mountains in her lonesome. What she was banished for changes depending on the storyteller, however she was consumed by hatred for her own kind as a result. The banishing mark kept her from entering Kurosia, keeping her from revenge, so she decided to bare offspring to send in her place. She allowed herself to be taken by an Uka, and the blasphemous Ukaros was born. However, the beast was mindless, unable to understand what it’s mother wanted of it, so she allowed it to eat her heart and gain the devilish will. Kalabaul began to rot away but her soul stuck to her bones, as Bhailiu refused to take her, but she is unable to move from her dreadful cave among the mountains. 

Now, with the bloodthirsty will, the Ukaros crawled into Kurosia, and haunts it’s streets, feasting on the hearts of Kuros that dishonor their families.

It was a tale parents would tell children as a lesson to always honor their bloodlines and or people, otherwise the Ukaros would come and eat their hearts. There are many varying versions of this creature’s origin, some make the creature as some sort of vampire that drinks the blood of Kuros that secretly don’t honor darkness or their people, some say they work like werewolves in that a bite from it will turn the Kuros into one too. There’s always stories of Kuros seeing one but never proven true.

kurosianfamily:

Goldie, like all badies as an army of minions, though these minions are not something you want to see or deal with.

Soldiers of many different armies, nations, and creeds can be seen in the ranks of Goldie’s army, however all of them are nothing more that husks of rotting dragons that loyaltly serve Goldie. How Goldie created their army though is  quite simple; by making armour.

Living in

Kurosia

and have a thirst for knowledge, Goldie saw and learned how such great armor was made. Once Kurosia fell Goldie started an Empire that would produce nearly identical armor of

Kurosia strength and light weight that could fit almost any dragon that many lands paid top coin for it.

However, the armour is a sort of trap; it will kill the wearer of the armor if the soldier did something unethical, like trying to kill innocent kids and such. The armor will kill its host and trapping their soul. They then would go to Goldie’s lair waiting to be assigned a task.

Since this has been going on for so long Goldie’s army is quite large, they act mainly robotic, and are all trained killers whose souls are nothing more then the power source for them.

The only downside to such a massive army that don’t even flinch when they are shot at is keeping them all hidden and the stench of rotting flesh. 

OOC : Omg the concept of the killer armor is freakn awesome, jebus christo. I freakn’ love this so hard, morbid in a way that fits the lore perfectly >:D this is AWESOOOME!

Hello Weird! I was just curious if you had any maps of the Kurosian mountains, and possibly of the layout of Kurosia city. :3 I have a hankerin’ to attempt at fan art.

OOC : My greatest artistic weakness is architecture, and though I have not given up getting better with it, I know for sure there is no way I can properly express how I imagine Kurosian buildings to really look like. The best I’ve been able to do is link examples, and although I never found one that was exactly what I imagined for Kurosia, I’ve found MANY that come close. 

The posts where I’ve talked and shown visuals of Kurosia can be found here.

 To describe it, the Kurosian city is MASSIVE. Flying into it, you can look both ways and just see a sea of buildings, homes, temples, stadiums, colleges, parks, etc. It’s the central, most important city, so it’s almost unfathomably huge. Even looking down from the castle, you barely see the whole city.

The city slow rises up like a hill, and in the distance, you can see the castle looming high over the city as if perched on a ledge, and although there’s docks at the very entrance to the city for trade, the castle has it’s own docks as well. 

The way the buildings are built aren’t like normal buildings, since they’re mostly for dragons, many visitors that don’t have wings often have to wear special enchanted things to keep themselves from suffering vertigo. The buildings have ledges and stops for dragons to fly to and from.

Since there is no real sky, the sun never beats down on Kurosia, so the city is often in hues of purples, deep blues, greens, and rarely oranges. The sky that hangs over Kurosia is thought as special and holy to the people, and it has it’s own biome behaviors for summer, fall, winter and spring. The weather outside of the Veil is often different, and if there weren’t catacombs leading out of Kurosia, most think that it’s in a dimension of it’s own. The mountain surrounding the city is incredibly cold all year round, since the city is on the highest peak of the mountain.

The Kurosian Mountains themselves are the equivalent of the Rocky Mountains. Kurosia is found in the middle, but the mountains spread out across a massive amount of lands forming an almost octopus formation. This I can probably doodle one day, as the mountains themselves have many empty kurosian villages and cities speckled acrossed it, as well as civilizations of other dark, evil beings like the Umbracorns. There are countless lakes, and rumors of deep, deep underground seas.

I uh, hope that helps! Honestly though, I don’t mind creative liberties taken even if there was solid references of Kurosia!