#kalidah

[faerielogue]

Old Concept Art from my Ozward Project

Very much tied to the Baumian Oz, I would love to someday work this into a complete story, so many different cool ideas

[blancamz]

If anybody is at all curious about my sketches. Over the last couple of years I've taken to thumbnailing quite a bit on the computer. I just have these really big canvases where zoomed in I just doodledy-doodle, doing lots of different iterations of what I'm after. Once I have something I like I just copy paste it into a new canvas, scale up and re-sketch.

To create space I eventually start clustering stuff together, organizing them by general subject. Moving and moving again to create the most amount of empty space, until I end up with a canvas that's chock-full of all these tiny sketches. Once I can't create any more empty space, I move onto a new canvas.

I'm just showing Oz stuff here, but you can see how with some designs I really did a lot of different versions before I hit on something I liked. With Ozma you can see how many many many different outfits I gave her -- some of which I think I like more than what I ended up giving hero. You might even see some characters I've done some designs for but haven't worked up into final illustrations because I just don't jive with the way they feel yet.

[oriondagger]

I like Oz stuff. So I designed some Oz-inspired HorrorVale OC concept stuff.

[capnportofficial]

Oz fans, how do you pronounce Kalidah?

Kally-duh (Kally = like "rally" but with K instead of R)

Kally-daw (Kally = like "rally" but with K instead of R)

Collide-uh

Collide-aw

Voting ended onJun 29, 2023

[carasilvaart]

Conan Artwork of a friend’s character from the server Thrall Wars. :) This was a gift, and I still love the piece despite the character being... retired. Support your Artist <3 ko-fi.com/carasilvaart

[thecreaturecodex]

Kalidah

Inktober Kalidah! © Sam A. Milazzo, accessed at his deviantArt gallery here

[More Oz stuff. These monstrous beasts appeared in the original Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but were cut from the movie. In their original appearance, they were not apparently sapient. In later Oz books, they could talk, since everything in Oz could talk by that point. I split the difference by making them sapient, but not very bright.]

Kalidah CR 11 CE Magical Beast This beast is the size of an elephant, combining the most ferocious aspects of a tiger and a bear. Its coat is black and striped with white, and its head is orange.

Kalidahs are powerful and deadly hybrids of bears and tigers, larger and crueler by far than both. They are strict carnivores, and their favorite diet is to prey on carnivorous animals. Kalidahs are bullies and sadists by nature, and enjoy stalking prey over long distances, making brief and bloody attacks but retreating before they make the kill, the better to draw out their quarry’s suffering. A kalidah would rather die than retreat, which means that while they are ferocious combatants, they can be lured into traps by the clever and wary. Because of their outright contempt for other predatory beasts, some druids believe that kalidahs were created as an affront to the natural world. They speak both Common and the language of animals, but rarely say much except for taunts and threats.

Kalidah                                CR 11 XP 12,800 CE Huge magical beast Init +5; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, Perception +13, scent, sense fear 120 ft. Aura frightful presence (60 ft., shaken 5d6 rounds, DC 19) Defense AC 22, touch 9, flat-footed 21 (-2 size, +1 Dex, +13 natural) hp 161 (14d10+84) Fort +15, Ref +10, Will +8 Defensive Abilities ferocity; Immune fear Offense Speed 40 ft. Melee bite +21 (2d8+9), 2 claws +21 (2d6+9/19-20 plus grab) Space 15 ft; Reach 10 ft. Special Attacks quarry, rake (2 claws +21, 2d6+9/19-20) Spell-like Abilities CL 11th, concentration +12 Constant—speak with animals Statistics Str 29, Dex 13, Con 23, Int 6, Wis 14, Cha 14 Base Atk +14; CMB +25; CMD 36 Feats Cleave, Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Intimidating Prowess, Iron Will, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Perception) Skills Climb +15, Intimidate +16, Perception +12, Survival +11, Swim +15; Racial Modifiers +4 Survival Languages Common, speak with animals Ecology Environment temperate or warm forests Organization solitary, pair or family (3-6) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Quarry (Ex) As a standard action, a kalidah can designate one creature within its line of sight as its quarry. When following the tracks of its quarry, the kalidah can take 10 on Survival checks while moving at full speed. In addition, it gains a +2 insight bonus on attack rolls against the target, and all critical hits made against ists quarry are automatically confirmed. A kalidah can have no more than one quarry at a time.. It can dismiss this effect at any time as a free action, but he cannot select a new quarry for 24 hours. If the kalidah sees proof that his quarry is dead, it can select a new quarry after waiting 1 hour. Sense Fear (Ex) A kalidah is treated as having blindsight 120 feet against creatures suffering from a fear effect.

[blancamz]

Lurking in the dark forests of Oz are the Kalidahs, wild beasts with the heads of tigers and the bodies of bears. Like many creatures in Oz, they're both sentient and capable of speech, but their large size and general malevolence means they won't pay any heed to the begging of their prey. Their size, ferocity and lack of pity makes them among the most terrible creatures in Oz.

The Kalidahs the first real threat that Dorothy encounters in Oz. The Cowardly Lion was ready to fight to the death to protect her, though he knew that he was no match for them. Thankfully the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman came up with a plan that prevented this hopeless sacrifice.

After the return of Ozma to the throne, a good amount of the Kalidahs were tamed, though there still remain some rebellious packs that stalk the more remote parts of Oz and surrounding fairylands.

[blancamz]

The kalidahs (half-tiger, half-bear monsters) are the first legit threat that Dorothy and her crew actually encounter. Most of the so-called antagonists in the Oz books are as harmless and dopey as the other inhabitants, but the kalidahs are one of the few that will straight up eat you.

Of course the threat kinda gets lessened in the following books when Baum decided that nah nobody actually dies in Oz or whatever, so it kinda makes you wonder what happens to any creatures that get eaten. Do they “live” on as sentient piles of mush? Do they become ghosts? Are they swallowed whole and just camp out in the monsters’ stomachs until they figure a way out.

(Baum really started phoning in the last few books.)