Tusk as a Pictish warrior

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@Archonate79

This last picture is the Pictish scout from Conan. (Hence the Arnold standing next to him.)Notice the common theme of muscular, tattooed, bladed weapons, leathers and furs, the last one has a boney ornament. I see no reason to assume they wouldn’t know what a tusk is.

Why should Tusk be Pictish?I think Picts make a good foundation because they weren’t around for very long and rather little is known about them. This allows all the creative liberty IG might want to make use of.

So what would Tusk’s story be? How did he get to the future?I mentioned this in the previous forum. Let’s say a certain tribe of Picts discovered Gargos. The best they could do to combat the imminent threat was to train up a group of elite warriors, among which Tusk was the largest and deadliest. They end up fighting Gargos and despite their losses, (perhaps this is how the Picts disappear from history) they drive Gargos back to his realm. Tusk pursues him and the portal closes behind him. Gargos imprisons Tusk in shadowy stasis as a trophy, and as revenge for foiling his plot to rule the world… Or whatever.Kan Ra blunders in by ARIA’s design and opens a portal into Gargos’ realm. Gargos wasn’t expecting this. With the portal opened, not only does Gargos gain access to our world, but Tusk is also released from stasis into our time. A specially trained, enormous, muscular, tattooed barbarian with an equally enormous sword forged to slay a shadow god. And he’s angry.

By the way, I’d love to see pictish symbology engraved into the blade of Tusk’s sword. Something like these authentic Pictish stone carvings:

Man, I really love this. Great stuff I hope IG consider this concept, I would put this #1 idea for background story of Tusk