#telkhines

Running a Hades themed D&D game and figured I’d share some art I’ve made for it.

1.) Diocles and Pericles.

Telkhines brothers who run a traveling shop called “The Gobbler’s Gab” they sell magic items and spell components to the players when they meet up, but any items they don’t buy get used by monsters in the dungeons

2.) “Stupid Sexy Zotikos”

The party took a skull from the resting place of a real shitty ghost so he followed them as a disembodied head. In Elysium he possessed an Exalted’s Light Sword and got a body. And a beefy one at that.

3.) Orion

The hunter was called by Elysium guard to hunt the mortals that were spotted. He happily hunted the party and when Zotikos slipped away to “protect” the party? Orion and Zotikos made a pact to kill them together. They became the final boss of Elysium

4.) Eris

Reflavored the Efreeti Bottle item. Instead of an Efreeti it summoned the goddess, Eris.

This game is a sleeper ngl, not big story game but more like diablo but greek mythology, very addicting. they wild to make the Telkines the main villains

incredibly underused monster.

History - Telkhines were the original inhabitants of the island of Rhodes, at least according to popular mythology.

Their parents were either Pontus and Gaia, or Tartarus and Nemesis, or else they were born from the blood of castrated Uranus along with the Erinyes (the Furies). In another story there were nine Telkhines, children of Thalassa and Pontus; they had flippers instead of hands and the heads of dogs and were known as fish children. They were regarded as excellent metallurgists, artisans and smiths: various accounts state that they were skilled metal workers in brass and iron, and made the trident for Poseidon and the sickle for Cronus, both ceremonial weapons.

The Telkhines were entrusted by Rhea with the upbringing of Poseidon, which they accomplished with the aid of Capheira, one of Oceanus' daughters. Another version says that Rhea accompanied them to Crete from Rhodes, where nine of the Telchines, known as the Curetes, were selected to bring up Zeus. The Telkhines were associated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls and Curetes. They were often portrayed to have a rivalry with them as who the greatest smith was.

They were believed to bring about hailstorms, snow, and rain at will, to assume any shape they pleased, and produced a substance poisonous to living things.

The gods eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes; particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants/ Accounts vary on how exactly they were destroyed: by flood, or Zeus's thunderbolt, or Poseidon's trident, or else Apollo assumed the shape of a wolf to kill them. 

Since then they have sided with the Titans, in both of the titanomachias, the battles between the gods and the Titans.

Physical Description - Telkhines are roughly seven foot tall and very broad when they are fully grown. They have faces like dogs, with black snouts, brown eyes, and pointy ears. Their bodies are sleek and black like seals. They have stubby legs that are half flipper and half foot, and human-like hands with sharp claws. They have been described as an example where if you blended together a Doberman pinscher, a human child and a sea lion, they'll look like a Telekhine. Telekhines bark and growl, and they waddle instead of walking because of their flippers. 

Strengths- 

Excellent swimmers due to their bodies and flippers.

They’re very strong, strong enough to forge weapons for the gods.

They’re resistant to fire.

They’re excellent smiths.

Weaknesses - 

Like almost all monsters they’re vulnerable to Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold and Stygian Iron.