Synonym_As_Monkier

A black swan as a supervillian? Start here. I was actually going to run a classic superhero game that's set here but I eventaully decided to do something slightly different. (Still working things up at the moment.) Most of these ideas are undeveloped and really, really basic but if they help: They help. The Kanaka. The Sugar Slaves/ The Kanaka's are a dark part of Australian History. There is some contention that they're not technically slaves, just workers who were employed under false pretenses, abused and given indefinate periods of work for terrible pay but the point remains that they were mistreated horribly. The Kanaka is the last gasping attempt to strike back at them. A vengeful spirit manifested from magic and pain and a low, intemperate rage. It's lost now, without propper form or function and without any true goal, all those whom it was born to rail against are long dead. Instead it wanders across the Queensland coast and attacks, mauling and beating and chopping at any who remind it, by temperament or appearance or role within a farm or company before returning again to drift through the world. (I don't know enough about Islander culture to be more specific and indulging in steriotype.) It manifests itself as a youth with dark hair and eyes, with oddly stretched limbs that moves with a contorted, pained gait and holding a broken wooden shield and a machete. Sugar, flour and dust that is spilled into the air around it settles on its skin in a strange amalgate pattern of many peoples. Dindima and Adnoartina. (I'm actually conflating a pair of distinct myths here. One from the Coori people and the other from the traditions of those who lived in and around Ularu. It's kind of culturally insensitive of me.) The Dindima are a group of mythological sisters who are said to be pulled up into the sky by the magic of a pair of sulpher crested cockatoos during the dreaming. They had been persued by a demon/ very bad man who lusted for them and wished to make them his "Wives" and he sent himself into the sky to contine to persue them. Forming the Southern Cross. (The Pointers being the cockatoo's, each other star being one of the sisters and the red star being the Demon/ Very Bad man.) I'm conflating them with a group of priestesses/ shamen who stand against Adnoartina. A monsterous lizard who is sealed within/ in some way spatially related to Ularu. I didn't develop the idea very far but I like the iconography. (I had a vague idea about The Demon/ Very Bad Man escaping and warping the world around him to be as it was during the dreaming. Awakening animals, turning some people into beastmen and making the healing of wounds impossible. Stuff like that.) The Old Soilder. The core idea is very simple: Jamie Mackey started as a World War 2 era naval man and a soilder in the Pacific Theater.) Who was impowered during the Battle of Miline Bay, when his mates (Blake, Johnno and Evan.) who died protecting him and refused to leave his side when they were called into the spirit world. He's remained in service ever since, they protect him, he can share his body with them to have them empower him and make him stronger and faster, more resliant to damage. THey report to him and slip him information at a distance. They've stopped him from aging, sharing what years they'd have left. They plied his fame from the war effort into a political carrier in the mid-seventies and was a strong supporter of the White Australia Policy and the barred, extremely difficult immegration from Vietnam. They're retired now but sees the countries continued diversity as a blight against the country they've strived to keep but he's less now. What political power he had been able to ply was during a period that was our least prosperious in modern memory. He's well known as a bigot, irrelivant now. Nobody listens to them. Their attempts at fixing this started as isolated hatecrimes. Beating up a gay bar in western Sydney, firebombing a felaffle house. Then he got caugth. Then the lunatic fringe got interested. The Bra Boys, Romperstomper style skinheads, nutty Biker Gangs and the awful hateful dregs of society. The gangs rally around them as a figurehead (though I would find it appropriate if he is JUST a figurehead and holds no real authority.) Flavour with your cultural dislikes to taste. Kate Kelly as an anarchistic bomber wearing a suit of power armour that looks like that her brother used. I don't think this needs much elaboration. Though in refference to her origin: She resents various government bodies, (especially the local police force to make her less sympathetic.) due to her initial mistreatment at their hands and the grotesque murder of her brother and familiy. The Bunyip (Not of Glenorchy as that's not area appropriate.) It's a piece of visual design that I like. I've had him/ her as some kind of nightmarish chimera created by one of those many experiments to "bottle" superpowers or as a national equivalent of a werewolf. Speaking of which: A version of the werewolf curse that turns somebody into a Thylacine Monster. In this instance though, I think it'd be better to tie it into the dreamtime perception of person as animal rather than some kind of monsterous transformation. There's more but they were very setting/ plot specific for the game I was doing. I hope this helps.