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Regarding the revised Roin'esh and lore.
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Ever since the Roin'esh have changed from being furry, small-eyed, shapeshifting Klingons to menacing, Venom/Thing-ish monstrosities, how much of their lore has changed as well? Are they still enslaved to the Malvans? Are they still from Taroindar?
I ask this because I have taken to playing a Roin'esh character, and I would like to make sure I have accurate source material to work off of
Ever since the Roin'esh have changed from being furry, small-eyed, shapeshifting Klingons to menacing, Venom/Thing-ish monstrosities, how much of their lore has changed as well? Are they still enslaved to the Malvans? Are they still from Taroindar?
I ask this because I have taken to playing a Roin'esh character, and I would like to make sure I have accurate source material to work off of
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Has anyone noticed anything in Whiteout to date that would seem to contradict it?
When you think about it, there's no reason the Roin'esh couldn't make themselves look that way when interacting with other races, to appear more innocuous than they really are.
At the moment, they're just tunnel-visioned to fix their ship. They don't talk. They just crashed and everyone is reacting. Their actions also don't indicate any invasion plans currently.
From their behavior, it seems like they're just trying to extinguish any potential threats before they actually become relevant. I didn't write it though. Just observing behavior. Like I said they don't talk (not yet at least).
One plausible scenario is that they're in "hostile" territory from a Galactic viewpoint. The Gadroon are in/have been in Canada, and we still don't know why they crashed in the first place.
They possibly are just in a rush cause "something" likely shot them down from space. And they don't have time for subtlety.
That doesn't seem to explain why they broke into Steelhead to steal some unknown artifact. I suppose this will be answered in the final issue.
Also, these new forms seem to be their new natural form; There are several ingame references to their ship and circuitry giving off similar energy signatures and whatnot to the Roin'esh themselves. Additionally, if I'm not mistaken, the old-school Roin'esh could not separate into different entities, like the Commander in Issue 4 could.
As written in Champions Beyond, that's true. But PnP Roin'esh also display degrees of shapeshifting. Some can only assume the appearance of various humanoid species, while a few can take on any shape, become any substance, even raw elements like fire or water. The ability to separate could be considered another exceptional species capability.
Any chance you could give us a little post-Whiteout lore update on the Roin'esh? Pretty please?
Why would Mechanon aid a bunch of worthless, imperfect organics, the one thing he hates more than anything?
Mechanon? Really? Mechanon? You mean the guy who's PROGRAMMED to hate ALL organics.
I have -HUGE- doubts that Mechanon would acutally align himself with a race as organic as them.
In-fact I'm pretty sure he's prohibited from it.
I dunno. Can't answer that question. My gut tells me that the patron is Mechanon. It's the first thing that popped into my head when I heard that voice. Though I am sure its someone else.
Good point. One thing people never think is What if this alien is actually a mutant, magician or scientific accident among their own species? Maybe this mutant fish guy was actually a fish first before a horrible accident? Did someone enchant this robot to make it gain magical abilities?
Lots of exceptions could exist among any race in the game, such as perhaps a Qulaar Mage, Cybernetic Lemurian, or even a Mutant Sasquatch who shoots force blasts from his unmentionables or something.
Lots of variables can just make any story possible, YAY superhero genre games!
Oh, and about mechannon wouldn't be the patron, more likely would be Istvatha V'han, the Empress of a Billion Dimensions since she already controls the Gadroon and would use the Roin'esh to take out the Malvans so they would no longer be a threat to her taking this dimension.
Truthfully? I had the first idea at first. It's actually a pretty damn good mystery they've set up now. Especially since voice-changing is readily avalable to just about any alien race...could be anyone.
...Hell it'd be strangely humorous if it wasn't even a male.
Amen to that.
As Champions Beyond notes, many of the official CU alien races can have "super" members with abilities beyond the norm for their species, just as humans do. Our advantage is that we get them more often, at a higher average level of power, and/or over a wider range of abilities, than almost any other species in the Milky Way.
That's a very logical guess IMO. Cryptic may be setting up a big crossover storyline featuring V'han as her plans for Earth come to fruition. Here's hoping Book Of The Empress comes out in the not-too-distant future.
OTOH if we were to keep to the material set out in Champions Beyond, I'd suspect the Roin'esh are being used by Xarriel (the setting's Darkseid/Thanos homage), who'd also have reason to want to remove the Malvans from his path.
There are a couple of high-ranking "super"-class Gadroon written up in Champions Beyond who could be directing this project. Pruglor, aka Commander, is rather like a Gadroon Captain America, while Rongeep, known as Sky-Knight, is more analogous to Iron Man.
Can they suppress their shape-shifting?
If worse came to worst, the Malvans could simply annihilate the Roin'esh homeworld.
With such nigh-limitless power, how could the Roin'esh ever hope to get away with anything the Malvans didn't want? The trick is that while Malvan tech allows the Malvans to do most anything, they aren't very smart or organized in the way they use it. They basically take for granted that nothing could ever threaten them or thwart their whims, so they don't take even the most obvious precautions. They are an entire species of careless, complacent, entirely overconfident dilettantes, which isn't entirely their own fault (they are the unknowing recipients of a racial curse that has made them this way, magic being the one force they have never mastered). So even though they could easily install shape shifting-suppressors everywhere, or routinely test personnel for shifters, it rarely occurs to them to do so and is even more rare for them to focus long enough to carry through with such precautions. Ennui and hedonism almost inevitably draws their attention away to some more frivolous pursuit before they follow through with their intentions.
However, as incidents from the lore illustrate, it's still possible to tick-off the Malvans enough that they decide to punish the offender, and they still have the resources to make anyone -- anyone -- who angers them regret it.