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Finding cool four-armed characters with fully developed backstories is always awesome, but a whole headcanon? Bonus.
Larger version here! Artist is Menaceatrois.
The following details are very watered down and removed of the meat that makes this side-story so delicious, but I’m derpin’ today so what can I do. I’ll elaborate more another time!
Iddol is a cannibal. In some cases, he eats other engott just for the fun and euphoria of it, others with the intention of “absorbing their power.” In all cases of the latter type of consumption, the victims are always high-ranking or promising individuals from what is now a brutal military force known as the Judovaal’ior. While they may have been powerful allies, Iddol sees them as more useful when their strength and energy is absorbed into himself. Of course, the idea that consuming another’s body grants the imbiber increased strength and vitality is incorrect. In this case, the burst of energy Iddol feels after feeding upon another engott is wholly psychosomatic. Iddol feels more powerful because he believes himself to be.
Kejecht is the exception to everything. Whereas any other Judovaal’ior would be consumed without a second thought, Iddol feels confused restraint when he considers devouring Kejecht. Many Judovaal’ior despise the Kasskani - their sworn enemies; a resistance force of rebel engott seeking to overthrow and destroy Iddol’s tyranny - but none hate them quite the way Kejecht does.
Kejecht had a childhood friend - Eipaa, who trained with Kejecht from the beginning to the end, both successfully becoming skilled Judovaal’ior. Kejecht had never been closer to anyone before. The bond they shared was as vital to Kejecht’s living as breathing. When Eipaa was killed in battle against a Kasskani force (which also removed Kejecht of his eyes and left him with many physical scars,) Kejecht’s sanity shattered completely, reassembled in seething hatred and an unstoppable determination to wipe out the entire Kasskani population and all their allies. Through this hate and rage he rose from infantry guard to commander, as highly respected and feared as the grandmaster of the Judovaal’ior - Odaain.
This mutual and extreme hatred of the Kasskani brought Kejecht and Iddol together, enabling Iddol to truly respect and even trust another for the first time in centuries. It is for this reason that he cannot bring himself to consume Kejecht, no matter how much it might empower him, but instead only fantasize about it.
This is the beginning of that fantasy.
