Pachi Lei

This illustration is from my Kickstarter project to create drawings of all of the friendly nonhumans and land animals from Professor M.A.R. Barker's wonderful Tékumel (aka Empire of the Petal Throne) role-playing world setting.

"These beings dwell along the forested coasts of western Tsolyánu and eastern Mu'ugalavyá. They are doughy in appearance and have eight articulated limbs, using the first four to eat, fight, etc., and the remainder to move and balance in the trees of their jungle homes. They use all weapons and magical devices easily. The Páchi Léi normally ignore humans but are occasionally friendly. They will serve as docile slaves but always want to return to their own kind. They have a good chance of detecting secret doors and passages as they pass by them, and their huge, platter-shaped eyes give them nocturnal vision. Páchi Léi have often become citizens of human nations, and one or two examples of Páchi Léi generals over human troops are recorded in history."

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Check out my Kickstarter project to re-create color paintings from the covers of classic AD&D adventures A1 (Slave Pits of the Undercity), A3 (Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords), and C2 (The Ghost Tower of Inverness)! Backers get prints of these re-created paintings! www.kickstarter.com/projects/j…