Golden State Garrisons Villain: Lobus (Patreon)

Alright guys, time for a brand new Golden State Garrison Villain, and this one deals into the fantasy side of NRG! Meet Lobus, leader of a large Orc tribe from another realm who targets the overpopulation of the Earth realm to feed him people!

ORIGIN

In one of their earliest adventures together, the Golden State Garrison had been called in to investigate the disappearance of many homeless camps within the metropolises of California such as Vaudeville. All leads had pointed to billionaire realtor tycoon Samual Lark who had bought the properties the camps had been housed on just before their disappearance. Originally the Garrisons had fear that Lark had made some sort of arrangement with the Think Tank to clear the homeless camps, but what they discovered was much darker- 

Through unknown means, Lark had come into contact with a leader of a clan of savage, barbaric Orcs from another realm. The Leader, Lobus, an Orc warlock-warrior descendent from a line of dark elves, had been struggling with their slowly dying world to obtain food to feed his people and fuel to feed their forge fires due to an uneasy peace that existed between the other realms for centuries. When Lark and Lobus met, a dark deal was struck to allow Lobus and his people to raid the homeless camps in secret at night to capture the helpless victims to be used as food for his people and their belongs fuel for their forge. Though the deal had originally meant to be within California alone, Lobus had learned of the Earth realm’s overpopulation and saw endless resources that could be used to feed his people and forges; and had already planned to betray Lark and launch a full on scale invasion of Earth realm with the other Orc Clans. And no one, not even the humans with “vast magical abilities” who stopped him once, was going to prevent him from feeding his people.

Powers/Abilities:

In addition to being one of the mightiest and fiercest warriors of his people capable of going toe-to-toe with many of Earth’s superheroes, Lobus is a decendent of dark elves with limited dark magic abilities that allow him and his people to invade the human realm.

Sooooo, yeah, this one is kinda dark. But, hear me out:

So, as I mentioned with previous GSG villains, I really want to build up the team's rogues gallery with villains really focused to them, not just a bunch of other, greater NRGVerse villains they will share with the rest of my world's heroes. So, with that in mind, I've been brainstorming and researching ideas for unique villains that the GSG would specifically face. One thing I considered was their location as the Golden State (California)'s protectors, as they don't just protect one city in the state but the entire state itself (and occasionally the greater west coast). So I began researching into California for inspiration for things the build villains off of for the team to specifically face in California, and eventually I decided to do something with how the state is home to the Country's biggest homeless population. To me, all these poor people with no safe place to call home would be easier targets for villains, but as to what kind of villains was a bigger question as I didn't just want to reuse the Think Tank or Unknown Circle who already plays on the homeless for their experiments or rituals.

The inspiration came from Lord of the Rings of all places. I had been wanting to explore the Fantasy side of NRG's Superhero World more, and while Orcs are a common foe and creature within Fantasy Genre, to me the really villainous versions of Orcs have always come from J. R.R. Tolken. When I was a Kid, I was totally freaked out by the scene in the Two Towers where the orcs feast on their own kind like barbaric cannibals. So I came up with this idea that the Orcs have burnt through most of their food and fuel within their realm, and are now targeting the overpopulation of the mortal realm to feed their people. This would of course put them into conflict of Earth's heroes, especially in vastly overpopulated regions like California, and make them natural enemies of the Golden State Garrison.

And THAT is what led me to creating Lobus, as while there are going to be hundreds of orc tribes raiding homeless camps across the world, I wanted one central Orc leader who would set the story up within the NRGVerse and become a reoccurring enemy to the Garrisons. So Lobus is the mightiest of his people and is the one who initially struck the deal with Lark to kidnap and slaughter California's homeless population to be used as food so that Lark could build up his realtor empire. The Garrisons stopped him, but of course he returns constantly. As I mentioned in Lobus' bio, he is the mightiest and strongest of his people, but he's not just all muscle. He is a warlord with a mastery of strategy which is how he was able to pillage so many homeless camps for so long under the heroes' noses. And this military know-how allows him to continue to do so. In addition, 1/2 of Lobus' bloodline is descended from Dark Elves, so he has a limited knowledge of black magic to aid him in battle and allowing for easy entrance and escape into the Earth Realm. Lobus is easily one of the Garrisons' darkest enemies and he sees nothing wrong than using humans to feed his people, seeing them less than nothing compared to Orcs. Suffice to say, peace might never be an option for the GSG in dealing with Lobus.

Big shout out to our Artist TonyTempest for his amazing work in designing Lobus! Give him a follow if you can, and if possible shoot him a message for your own characters to be designed by him! Let us know what you guys think of this new GSG enemy with a comment below!

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Design by TonyTempest

Art by Danilo Cassonato