Mountains shook, pebbles scattered, loose cobbles and tiles hopped in place as footsteps easily half a dozen times the size of a man's, bare an taloned, clomped slowly down through the throng of the market place. The size of this creature alone easily parted the hefty crowds of people, but it was much more then that.
A face that not even a mother could bare herself to love; craggy, pitted, scarred, off greenish in hugh, thickly corded with muscles and heavy creases. Two eyes, both deep set beneath the hairy ridge of a broad brow, they looked like the beady kind that belonged to a doll. This was the face of Throx Skullcrusher, the unconventional Ogre.
Unconventional for the fact that while Throx was walking about in a hewn-stitched pair of leather pants and a vest that barely reached the upper barrel of his scarred and hairy chest, over one shoulder, hanging from one claw, was a large, finely tailored suit. And those claws, they were carefully cleaned and clipped, his lumpy head and face perfectly shaven. Unusual indeed.
The Ogre was headed towards the far end of the market, one hand coming up to scratch at the scattered nest of curls on his scarred and tattooed up chest. There, at the edge of the business district, where the string of nighttime cafes and restaurants began, stood Throx's place of employment; The Bronze Calf.
"YO! Throx!" Out came a fairly friendly call from the flurry of help that was busy readying the ritzy establishment for their busiest time of the day, night. It was a man, though small by comparison to the Ogre, was fairly tall by Rhydin's standards. "Good to see you again man, just starting to form the ranks for the night. Selma said we're supposed to be busy tonight-"
"Yeah, I know." Throx interjected as one talon came up to push at his misshapen nose. "I could smell the new ships in the harbor..." Fierce teeth split the Ogre's thick lips, they were scary things, uneven and sawtoothed, the kind of teeth meant for shredding sinew and bone; yet here they were flashing a friendly, off kilter smile.
"Yeah, smells like money, doesn't it' Ha!" The little man just laughed at the Ogre, spreading an arm open, ushering him in the building. "Come on big guy, time to change into your monkey suit."
"Wha', I thought maybe go o'natural tonight?" Was that a mountainside moving" No, that was the rumble of the Ogre's laughter, guffawing heartily at his own tasteless joke.
A face that not even a mother could bare herself to love; craggy, pitted, scarred, off greenish in hugh, thickly corded with muscles and heavy creases. Two eyes, both deep set beneath the hairy ridge of a broad brow, they looked like the beady kind that belonged to a doll. This was the face of Throx Skullcrusher, the unconventional Ogre.
Unconventional for the fact that while Throx was walking about in a hewn-stitched pair of leather pants and a vest that barely reached the upper barrel of his scarred and hairy chest, over one shoulder, hanging from one claw, was a large, finely tailored suit. And those claws, they were carefully cleaned and clipped, his lumpy head and face perfectly shaven. Unusual indeed.
The Ogre was headed towards the far end of the market, one hand coming up to scratch at the scattered nest of curls on his scarred and tattooed up chest. There, at the edge of the business district, where the string of nighttime cafes and restaurants began, stood Throx's place of employment; The Bronze Calf.
"YO! Throx!" Out came a fairly friendly call from the flurry of help that was busy readying the ritzy establishment for their busiest time of the day, night. It was a man, though small by comparison to the Ogre, was fairly tall by Rhydin's standards. "Good to see you again man, just starting to form the ranks for the night. Selma said we're supposed to be busy tonight-"
"Yeah, I know." Throx interjected as one talon came up to push at his misshapen nose. "I could smell the new ships in the harbor..." Fierce teeth split the Ogre's thick lips, they were scary things, uneven and sawtoothed, the kind of teeth meant for shredding sinew and bone; yet here they were flashing a friendly, off kilter smile.
"Yeah, smells like money, doesn't it' Ha!" The little man just laughed at the Ogre, spreading an arm open, ushering him in the building. "Come on big guy, time to change into your monkey suit."
"Wha', I thought maybe go o'natural tonight?" Was that a mountainside moving" No, that was the rumble of the Ogre's laughter, guffawing heartily at his own tasteless joke.