#dakon

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"Gorilla Warrior Groom" © Gio Sabadze, accessed at his ArtStation here

[The dakon is yet another monster that appeared in the AD&D Fiend Folio and was then all but forgotten. Maybe it's market saturation; there are so many apes and ape humanoids in D&D that one without a gimmick or any special abilities just doesn't stand out. They did make an appearance in Dragon Magazine 187, getting an "Ecology of the Dakon" article intended to rescue them from the memory hole. It didn't work. But it does have some interesting ideas to emphasize their Lawful Neutral alignment, which I poached here. I did not take the use of titles from the historical Ghana Empire from that article; that strikes me as being too close to unfortunate racial implications. My version incorporates them into Pathfinder by referring to some of that setting's ape monsters, and gives them a howl special attack because apes are loud.

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Dakon CR 2 LN Monstrous Humanoid This creature looks like a gorilla, except that it is clearly comfortable walking on two legs. It wears little clothing except for harnesses for tools and golden jewelry.

Dakons are gorilla-like humanoids with a highly organized society. They are agriculturalists and traders who value gold above other precious stones and metals. All free dakons wear some manner of gold jewelry, typically a ring displaying the name and crest of their monarch. Royal dakons go so far as to wear ceremonial golden armor on special occasions. Dakon villages are built in three dimensions out of wood and fiber, surrounded by wooden palisades for defense; dakons rarely build with stone. A village is led by the strongest warrior, and competitions of strength and intimidation occur every five years to determine who that is. All of the villages in a region pay tribute to a king or queen, who owns the gold mines in the area and taxes all trade. The miners laboring to extract the gold are never free dakons, instead being made up of convicted criminals and the enslaved warriors of their enemies.

Rank-and-file dakons rarely use melee weapons (trusting instead to their powerful fists), although they do carry a brace of javelins when expecting combat. Swords are seen as symbols of rank, and warlords and kings often wield ornate weapons. Every dakon is capable of communicating with other primates and befriending them, and as such monkeys and apes are common domestic animals. Dire apes are frequently used as watchdogs and war hounds. A dakon’s lungs are powerful and they can and do give shouts that can be heard for miles as a warning; creatures too close to a shouting dakon can be temporarily deafened.

Dakons are a proud people and wish to be seen as equals by the humanoids that live nearby them. They staunchly believe in law and order, seeing it as a powerful corrective to the chaotic nature of the demon lord Angazhan, who is seen as the primary architect of evil in their cosmology. The charau-ka are their greatest rivals, and captured charau-ka make up the bulk of their slave force. Dakons do not believe in the death penalty among their own kind; criminals are subject to enslavement or exile, and they are ritually shaved in patches as a sign of humiliation. For the most serious offenses, the shaved patches are burnt or chemically scarred to ensure that the hair never grows back. Dakon religion venerates a wide range of ancestors, nature and elemental spirits; druids and oracles are much more common divine casters than clerics.

Size Matters....?

Two anxious bird bois compare sizes of the bird they’re connected to.

Who knew ravens were that huge? Dakon didn’t. Zephyr however did some research after his first incident. Poor Dakon u.u Forever smol. it’s ok. I still love you!

Gay pinku eiga

Tatsuya Nagatomo & Masayoshi Nogami (Beautiful Mystery, 1983)

Osamu Shimokawa (I Thought About You, 1997)

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