Beasts of burden

[Marauder Moe]

(thread formerly titled "Mounts")


Found this and some more on this site.  Looks like official images from a book somewhere, but I wasn't able to find an actual art gallery with these images.

EDIT: I suppose mekillots aren't really mounts, but they are used to pull wagons.

[Hymwen]

The mekillot looks embarrased...

[mansa]

I had a mekillot mount me.

[Angela Christine]

I don't think that is an inix.  Aren't inixes supposed to have shells?

[Larrath]

I'm not completely sure, but I believe an inix is basically an oversized lizard with a long ridge of 'shell' running down its body from head to tail, and that this strip is the inix shell.
That would fit about right with the picture.  I'm not sure about the beaks though.

[Xygax]

This is very good art, btw.

And yes, an inix is a very very large lizard, not a creature with a shell.

And, the mek looks embarrassed because he's totally being groped by that human standing next to him.

-- X

[Larrath]

And that kank is standing awkwardly close to awkward places with potentially wayward intentions.  That awkward situation is probably why that mekillot looks so awkward.

[Yokunama]

This is very good art, btw.

And yes, an inix is a very very large lizard, not a creature with a shell.

And, the mek looks embarrassed because he's totally being groped by that human standing next to him.

-- X

Yea, the inix would be much larger than that, but it is still good art.

Maybe they did not have enough room for the nude pose they had planned for the inix, thus drawing him/her/it smaller. Don't ya think?

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Both the Mek and the inix are sized about right, I think. When it says that a mek is the size of a small house, remember that Houses in Armageddon are small.

[jcarter]

Both the Mek and the inix are sized about right, I think. When it says that a mek is the size of a small house, remember that Houses in Armageddon are small.

Deep down, I'm disappointed that mekillots aren't the behemoths I pictured them to be.

[Alamos]

Both the Mek and the inix are sized about right, I think. When it says that a mek is the size of a small house, remember that Houses in Armageddon are small.

Deep down, I'm disappointed that mekillots aren't the behemoths I pictured them to be.

I'm not or else it'd be all the more jarring when a 1 or 2 man superstar team brings one down.  I think that's a reasonable size.  Though I am disappointed it's embarresed.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Not the beh...what?

Man, that thing is big. Look at the picture again.

That mul in front of it would slip right on in its mouth with no chewing.

[Larrath]

I admit, I too used to picture mekillots as being the size of a two-story cottage, but if you look at the scale, really...  It's not about the size as much as the sheer bulk.

Here's some comparisons for how I now view the size of each animal:

Erdlu - an ostrich
Kank - as tall as a horse but very broad.
Inix - a small hippopotamus-sized lizard with a ridgelike shell.

Mekillot - the height of one-and-a-half large African elephants.


So maybe a mekillot can't step on someone without noticing them, but just think about how an elephant, a 10 ton animal, can uproot a small tree without too much effort.  A mekillot is considerably larger, bulkier, and looks pretty damned muscular.  It's probably in the vicinity of 90-120 tons.
The mekillot in this picture is basically large and robust enough to stand in the middle of a carru stampede and bat aside an elephant.

I think that's plenty large considering people hunt these things down with stone and bone weapons.  They're not Godzilla, apparently, but at least Godzilla is so huge that it wouldn't be able to really notice a single human.

[bloodfromstone]

Nice pictures. I always pictured inixes as thicker and bigger, but they look cool in that picture, so whatever.

[Medena]

Personally, I find the scale of both the inix and mekillot a bit small for Zalanthan standards.  The back of the inix is only at the same height as the man standing in front of the mek, so about 70 - 80 inches. Now try to picture a half-giant riding an inix of that height.  The HG's feet would be dragging along the ground. It'd be like a very large man trying to ride a child's pony.

[Manhattan]

 

[LucildaHunta]

Those are great drawings, the only one I never imagined was the mekillot because when I actually encountered one......

*beep*

I see a few other pictures of things I recognize or at least things the way I imagined them.

*holds up a magickal looking glass*

I see a mul....

I see an erdlu...

I see a gith...

I see a braxat...

I see a raptor...

[amoeba]

The tembo is incorrect. It should have eye-stalks.  This is biased but this is how I saw it.

[Yokunama]

The tembo is incorrect. It should have eye-stalks.  This is biased but this is how I saw it.

That looks like a giant, muscular slug.

[Larrath]

I don't have a picture to show for it, but I always pictured a tembo as a brownish-yellow cross between a large pitbull and a crocodile with two opalescent brown eyes on stalks.
Something like, uh, 4 foot tall, 6 foot long and with a bad temper.

[Dalmeth]

Actually, that mekillot has a shell, shouldn't it be a bahamet?

Also, the inix are way too small.  I had a characer with two of them and they were both at least two times taller than he was, if not three.

EDIT :  The character was a human, by the way.

[SpyGuy]

Actually, that mekillot has a shell, shouldn't it be a bahamet?

Also, the inix are way too small.  I had a characer with two of them and they were both at least two times taller than he was, if not three.

EDIT :  The character was a human, by the way.

Meks have a shell, but not the same type as a bahamet.  Bahamets are a bit more turtle/gurth like, a Meks shell is just body armor.  All the photos are more or less accurate, sadly not the same as what's in my mind's eye half the time  :?

[Manhattan]

Also, the inix are way too small.  I had a characer with two of them and they were both at least two times taller than he was, if not three.

EDIT :  The character was a human, by the way.

that's height with respect to the shoulder.
you see how long inixes are?

[Vesperas]

Heh, that inix is totally crouching.  If it stands up, I'm fairly sure you'd have to do a little neck-craning.

[Angela Christine]

Personally, I find the scale of both the inix and mekillot a bit small for Zalanthan standards.  The back of the inix is only at the same height as the man standing in front of the mek, so about 70 - 80 inches. Now try to picture a half-giant riding an inix of that height.  The HG's feet would be dragging along the ground. It'd be like a very large man trying to ride a child's pony.

Not necessarily.  A half-giant is only twice as tall as a human.  Ten times as heavy, but only twice as tall.  So it would be more like a large man riding a donkey, which is plausible.