Gonna go with the Clanks. Robot space knight away !

Are the Uknauq Humans with fur, scales, feathers? Or do they actually have animalistic features like talons, digigrade feet, beaks, etc.

Are the Uknauq Humans with fur, scales, feathers? Or do they actually have animalistic features like talons, digigrade feet, beaks, etc.

Ah well, the second as seen in the reference images provided in the last post!

To make a long story short humanity well old humanity before they blew themselves up took literal rats, dogs, cats, falcons, parrots, turtles, crocodiles, you name it and went up altering their DNA making them more humanish I.E making them bipedal and the like. Most if not all before the Long Silence served as 'pets' rather than those of say the Jotun who were used as soldiers. Some for simple companionship and others for well more let us say intimate relations. Many of those Uknaqu that did survive the cataclysm of the Long Silence, did so in the bunkers of their human owners and so the twisted dichotomy of ownership or at least its fundamental ideas persisted. There was hope for a time that these new circumstances could provided for hope or something new, a chance to prove themselves but such preconceptions are hard to shrug off and it is no real surprise that in the society of today they are still looked down upon. And after the Uknauq Wars many have given up on civilized society in its whole, seeing cooperation by this point being nothing more than a child's dream. To that end there suffering will only end once those that have caused them to suffer have all been killed or driven far away.

Those that do cooperate with the rest of the Reclaimed World, are ostracized by their own people the word in the Uknauq dialect for them is the same word for Lost. And yet they are also not really accepted in the civilized world either. Outsiders to both worlds. Kinda like the City Elves in Dragon Age if you ever played that series.

@vietmyke
They are an interesting bunch. They have the most outwardly displayed baggage at least and have the joyous honor of being the second most hated race in the Reclaimed World after the Clanks if you want to consider them a people group, which for all extents and purposes they basically are by this point. Sure the Cellva and the Jotun have their own problems, in terms of trying to established their own cultural identity and continued failures to unite or build a strong civilization as they are too busy killing themselves respectively. And hell even humanity is struggling to reclaim their lost glory after they've been set back millennia. But even then the Uknauq do get the short end of the stick, probably because the others are still probably pissed off from them trying to kill them all and burn down their cities. Though they did have a pretty good reason for it But oh well. History is a messy thing.

@Nariata
I mean that is one way to become a Clank. Sometimes it isn't a choice as more of a, "I must do this thing to live and now everybody is going to hate me. This is great."

@boomlover
Robot space knights are best space knights.

@Tessaract

Thematically, with it being low fantasy, what would you say this is most akin to? Would a gunslinger be a feasible character type? Not necessarily old west, but around those lines in terms of style (revolvers and such)

@Tessaract

Thematically, with it being low fantasy, what would you say this is most akin to? Would a gunslinger be a feasible character type? Not necessarily old west, but around those lines in terms of style (revolvers and such)

That is a question I also wanted to ask. If someone, such as a clank, had the resources, could he feasibly own and operate an old style gun that was in operation around the time of the fall of civilization?

Imma quickly join the clank question ban wagon and ask if they can look a tad silly? if not that's fine but im finding a crapton of the picture from a game named spiral knights that would fit the description for my character like a bloody glove.

No lie, spiral knights are cute af

Oh fuck yeah they are :)/

Dang, now I want to be a clank/spiral Knight

@Tessaract
Huh, hadn't realized those were links. Yuup, definitely going with a Lost female feathered Ukanoq. Thinking of her rolling with the moniker "Tango" instead of her actual name given the circumstances. A name she chose after a particular herb that is said to give people the ability to eat a tree... or at least they try to anyways. A real sweet heart and chipper compatriot... till the thunder starts. Then it's just pure violent tendencies. She might have had a history of trash talking, and flaming her foes in battle.



Also contemplating if she has the ability to speak or not. Either from an injury to the throat, making her mute. Or just an oath of silence.

@Tangletail ooh ooh. If you're also going to make an Ukanoq, do you want to make traveling companions? Having yours have an oath of silence would be interesting too, as I planned on making mine a more crass and brash sorta fellow- would be a great foil.

Thematically, with it being low fantasy, what would you say this is most akin to? Would a gunslinger be a feasible character type? Not necessarily old west, but around those lines in terms of style (revolvers and such)

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That is a question I also wanted to ask. If someone, such as a clank, had the resources, could he feasibly own and operate an old style gun that was in operation around the time of the fall of civilization?

Well, the first thing that comes to mind really is Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, but with the Science Fiction elements highly present instead of just implied. I call it low fantasy really because of where I project it to be tonally and thematically. It isn't high fantasy, the scale and scope of conflict we are talking about here isn't huge, there is no evil dark lord trying to take over the world it's just a bunch of adventuring mercenaries trying to make ends meat. Good and evil are more subjective there aren't bad guys or good guys, just people with motives and reasons for those motives. Yet it isn't Dark fantasy either this is not a world of darkness and dread, the world ended but it got better. There is a place in time for both cynicism and optimism. And most importantly there is hope. That is what drives these people forward hope and persistence. They've all been knocked down but they sure as hell are going to try and get back up.

But yeah a gunslinger would be fine. Revolvers and such are totally fine though considering firearms haven't be "reinvented" yet by the Reclaimed World yet as they are still at very much a medieval level of their own technological development to put it into prospective they just figured out how to make simple blast furnaces again and the closet they have to guns are very basic cannons and ribauldequins, so a gunslingers weapons would be salvaged tech. Meaning instead of having say a revolver that shoots bullets, they would have a revolver that shoots well lasers or another form of a direct energy blast. Sure they can have an actual ballistics based weapon, but most of those during the period before the Long Silence were antiques then so finding one that actually works is rare and finding the parts to fix it well it is also kinda a problem.

@boomlover
I don't mind that much! I care more for the written description than I do the image that accompanies it!

@vietmyke Now don't you go stealing my idea's! ;)

@Tangletail ooh ooh. If you're also going to make an Ukanoq, do you want to make traveling companions? Having yours have an oath of silence would be interesting too, as I planned on making mine a more crass and brash sorta fellow- would be a great foil.

They would get along so well... XD

Your's would probably be saying everything "Tango" can't say in a fight.

@Tangletail It'll be like Rocket and Groot, except instead of saying 'groot' she says nothing at all.

@Tessaract

"I'm Sorry, you can't have revolvers..."

:(

"UNLESS IT FIRES LASERS!"

You okay their dude ?

@Tessaract

I can work around that, the character I had been developing was based off a picture I found of a soldier with what looks like a Battle Rifle in his hand; would you be okay with a single shot laser rifle of sorts? If not I shall recover ;)

@Nariata
Yeah that's fine! Probably be more like a laser musket than anything else. Though a note on laser stuff, they tend to overheat a lot because the cooling cells that used to be built into them kinda are mostly shot by this point. So everything would be either single-shot or revolver style. As automatic laser weaponry kinda has a tendency to be used once than explode or melt or both!

How do these lasers work though? Are they like warhammer 40k lasguns? Or like star wars 'laser' guns? Essentially is there any kinetic energy behind these lasers?