For ages now, I've been trying to figure out who/what Mandoom is in that line of toys (the second release, one of the Battle Masters). He was clearly not human, but I didn't know what it was. I finally found a clear picture of the text on his figure's card:
Mandoom is a very fierce warrior from a very strange place. He has golden skin, square eyes, and appears to be made of stone. Mandoom is often called to this world by magic users who need his help in battle. He always carries gold weapons and wears golden armor when he goes into battle against enemies of the magic users.
). The best research I could come up with was this concept arthttp://www.toyarchive.com/Dungeons&Dragons/Prototypes/Art/MandoomArt1a.jpg
Since hill giants were going to be a feature in Western Alliance, and he looked 8'+ in the art, I just went ahead and retconned the guy as hill giant.
-OldDawg
Travis
KELMAIN
FREQUENCY: Very rare
NO. APPEARING: See below
ARMOR CLASS: 2
MOVE: 12"
HIT DICE/POINTS: See below
% IN LAIR: 85%
TREASURE TYPE: H
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: By weapon type
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to petrification and paralysis
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Very
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic neutral
SIZE: M (6')
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
Attack/Defense Modes: Nil
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: Variable
These creatures are a savage race from the dimension of Limbo. They have golden skin that appears to be carved out of rock. They are humanoid in shape and have square eyes. The Kelmain fight in golden-colored armor and usually wield gold-colored broadswords. When summoned, they will fight on the summoner's plane until the battle is won, and then keep the land they have fought over. They appear in fighting forces of 10-10,000 depending on the power and desires of the summoner (and the referee's discretion).
The bulk of the army are 1st level fighters. Additional leaders are as follows:
(Now if I can only get a decent scan of Skylla's card, with her picture and the text that accompanies it...)
The one currently on ebay looks pretty good. I'm sure I've got some of the words wrong, but it seems to say something like:
"Male wizards are the most powerful of magic users, the female must be considered even more special. In a world where every head is turned against her, she turns them in a field that is difficult indeed. Able to cast magical spells of awesome power, she will go to any lengths to win her private battles."
"Male wizards are the most powerful of magic users, the female must be considered even more special. In a world where every head is turned against her, she turns them in a field that is difficult indeed. Able to cast magical spells of awesome power, she will go to any lengths to win her private battles."
Yeah, that's the one that I've been looking at these past couple of days- best scan I've ever seen. You got a lot more of the words than I could, though- good eyes!
I'm not sure if that says "Male wizards" or "While wizards" though- the first sounds awful sexist to be on a toy, and I think the second might be more correct.
I'd thought that might read "every hand is turned against" but couldn't make out the part after "her, she". I think your reading is probably what it says, though.
Sweet, now I think I've got her complete description (just for the record, can anyone read the French to compare- mine is too rusty to be able to be sure, at the size of that scan.)
As an aside, I've often wondered why they used a picture of Charmay (LJN character from the coloring books) for the AC1 and XL-1 pictures of Skylla rather than the one on her toy card. Kind of weird.
(I'm currently trying to track down a better picture of Skylla on that card. It looks like an Elmore, so I'm checking to see if anyone recognizes the piece and knows if he did any more or has a picture of that. I know that he's used the Charmay figure in more than one of his pictures, and possibly Mercion as well.)
Could it be Zarak? (third picture)