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Description time:
A seventh member of the elemental creatures of Okoto. Fornax is believed to be the original candidate for the envoy of fire. But legend says his love for excavation, finding ores, and forging simplistic creations made him unsuitable for the position. Fornax embodies vigor and the drive to discover new things. Those who unite with this creature are imbued with great persistence and will never give up, no matter how bleak the situation is.
So I built this MOC with the idea that I was going to build a uniter version of my self-moc: Will-ron, Master of Iron. It didn’t work out, but the creature I made did, so I kept him together. And I have to say, I love how he turned out. And yes, I did take inspiration from other elemental creatures
Fornax element-wise is a little weird. It’s kind like a mix of fire and iron.
Now i have to make something named Fornax thanks.
Great creature build. I really like the colors of this guy. but he doesn’t really seem like much of a creature to me as he does a goblin. I don’t know why but I see a fire goblin when I look at this guy.
Anyway:
Making him silver and gunmetal would work better than gold and gunmetal. It clashes. Other than that, it’s more or less a standard fare thingareenie. Nothing really special, although it would be nice to say what he’s based on. Is he a bear?..
I don’t see Hau though (hue) if anything Melum is similar to terak and similar to malum in name, and Fornax doesn’t sound anything like Terak to me.
Anyway I really like the name you chose for this MOC, don’t know why some don’t like it, it’s quite clever. And as for the build it’s fine but all too similar to Melum and Terak (in build)
The name sounds fine to me. Actually, it sounds more like thornax to me. Anyway, it looks like a fine creature, but the hands make it look weird when it’s united to Tahu.
No I am not. Get your mind out of the gutter, those words (If we are thinking the same word) barely sound a like.
To be fair I did subconsciously base him off of a fantasy-style dwarf.
The biggest issue with this idea is that there is no orange-melded silver headpiece. Plus I like gold and gunmetal. I think it has a nice contrast. Also I feel silver (used as a major color) doesn’t work for a fire theme.
Someone could make the argument that I should change the color scheme based on the silver feet, but I like to consider those iron boots Fornax made for himself.
He is dwarf based.
Thank you Pekekoa.
Fornax and Terak both imbue their uniter with persistence. He also has a similar elemental theme with Terak. And Ikir and Melum both imbue their uniter with courage.
I don’t think they would work with the MOC. I tried putting armor there and it didn’t turn out well.
Looks cool, but I would suggest a name-change or even a bit of altering the name, you see, Fornax is literally forge in Latinic. My friend also named a MoC like this, and changed. Still, looks really cool, 11/10, would see again.
So far the only thing I see translating Fornax into Forge is google translate (yeah… GT isn’t exactly accurate as I have observed). Other sources say Fornax can translate into furnace, oven, or kiln. In fact, I see “Furnace” as a regular result when googled.
Plus “Creature of the Forge” is just a title. If Fornax was not interested in metal work, he would be Fornax, Creature of Fire. And this is Okoto we are talking about. Kulta translates into Gold and the only gold thing about Kulta was when he had the mask of creation.
