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This is the totally nude, fully rigged, base mesh model for Acheron style Vanara characters. Extra bones are provided to control the naughty bits, if needed. An exchangable texture with 16 color palettes is included. You can easily add your own, or mix and match to create a unique character for your unique project. Male and female can each use all colors.
OBJ, FBX and DAE are provided, but for full functionality, please use the Blend file.
The Vanara were a race of human-ape-monkey hybrid primates who lived in the wild jungles of Dandaka. They built an impressive capital city inside a forest cave, and lived off the land in harmony with nature. They are most famous for assisting the Avatar, Rama, in his war against the Rakshasa who had terrorized earth, heaven and hell. They went to battle weilding boulders and tree trunks as their weapons, and fought fearsomely against their supernatural adversaries. For the most part, the Vanara retained a simple child-like or animal-like innocence. When the Vanara hero, Hanuman, infiltrated the palace of the Demon King Ravanna, he had been warned that its many luxuries were so tempting that people who saw them would become supernaturally distracted and forget themselves, but because of he was a simple monkey, they had no effect. Only the sight of Ravanna's extensive harem was enough to give Hanuman pause in his mission, but ultimately, his devotion to Rama was more powerful. Eventually, as humankind conquered the wilderness, the Vanara were left without lands to call their own, and either died off or integrated themselves into the shadows of society.
In the Middle Kingdom, a similar race known simply as monkey demons or magic monkeys found themselves on the opposite side of heaven's wrath. They were led by Sun Wukong, a magical monkey who had hatched from a stone, as though it were an egg. Sun Wukong became obsessed with the pursuit of immortality, and eventually angered the gods who tried to exterminate him and his monkey followers. Sun Wukong fought so ferociously that he held off the armies of heaven singlehandedly, until eventually the Buddha himself was bothered by the commotion and put a stop to Sun Wukong's rampage. Scholars suspect that Hanuman's Vanara and Sun Wukong's monkey demons share a similar ancestry.
Alternate Identity: Satori
In the unsettled mountaints of Yamato, there lives a curious yokai known as the Satori. It is a man-sized monkey gifted with powerful psychic abilities. Smaller or weaker Satori will easily sense the busy minds of humans and avoid them, but other Satori actively hunt down humans that wander into their domain. When they hear the thoughts of a human, Satori repeat them out loud like a parrot. Satori hunt down humans not to feast on their flesh, but on their psychic presence, leaving their victims as brain-dead husks. When a Satori prefers to avoid confrontation, they sneak up on travelers in their sleep and steal their breath, causing them to die shortly afterward. As primates, Satori are close enough to humans that they sometimes take a liking to attractive specimens and capture men or women to keep as pets, trophies or slaves. Because Satori rely so heavily on their psychic senses, they are incredibly fearful of anything unexpected. Masters of Zen can empty their minds and thus defeat the Satori, or strong psychic thoughts can overwhelm or overpower them.
Alternate Identity: Agropelter
One of the New World's least known but most deadly Fearsome Critters is the tree-dwelling Agropelter. It is monkey-like, perhaps a smaller relative of the sasquatch, but far more aggressive. When an Agropelter sees a human in its forest, it grabs a nearby branch and hurls it at the unsuspecting explorer. Their arms are like bullwhips, and they can easily launch their projectiles with deadly velocity. The Agropelter's natural prey are birds like woodpeckers, which they can snatch out of the air with their impressive arms. In the frontier days, Agropelters inhabited every conifer forests from the East Coast to the shining West, but as loggers decimated their habitat, they have become increasingly endangered, and may already be extinct.
(I couldn't think of any physical difference between Acheron Style Vanara, Satori and Agropelters, but I love all of them and couldn't decide which one to call it.)
The title loincloth is not included. Backgrounds and props are by Synty, RogCG, BitGem and Maxbugor.
