Mariachi of Ragnarok (Moose Rebellion)
Posted: 2005-09-07 07:30am
Something I was doodling whilst waiting for a rather large document to scan in at work and decided to share. It's no marvel of artistic ability, certainly not up to the high standards of SDN artisans, but it's more of a celebration that things are finally starting to gain character and concrete images in my mind for the Moose Rebellion.
The Mariachi of Ragnarok are the special forces of the Crustacean Alliance, for a reason which I haven't quite decided yet. Their origins are based in norse mythology, they were strong warriors in viking times, blessed with long life, bad tempers and technological brains fair in excess of their times, branding them sorcerors in viking culture. This then is part of the origin for the norse mythologies, but they are both a product and a source of that mythology, taking ideas from that mythology whenever they feel like it.
Eventually, they were driven out, in a mark II viking fjord cortina. Or more realistically, a long boat and headed for the new world. There, they hid in secret, disguising themselves as a mariachi band and roaming the Americas for centuries until they fell into step with the clattering exoskeletons of the lobsters in their battle against the Moose Rebellion.
Tough and difficult to destroy at the best of times, their signature tools are the heavy duty combat sombrero, capable of deflecting even heavy pun cannon fire, and the multipurpose body armour poncho.
Exhibit A seen here with a poeton guitar and underslung grenade launcher.
Ok, so I'm a bit bored, but on the other hand, I'm making real progress with this writing lark.
The horns were admittedly a tack-on at the end, but there's definately an enormous beard hiding under that sombrero.
