New Character idea: The Sand Ninja

love the idea , hate the names :P also, instead of a ninja (yeah I know the irony since my nickname is ninja :P), I would totally welcome a masked Desert warrior in the roster. for his name I'd recommend Djinn. if not that, something in egyptian maybe that would be the word for Demon or Warrior or something like this.
 
Whoa whoa, I hate to be the actual-factual guy that points little things out, but Ahriman is the name of the polar opposite of Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism. It is the embodiment of evil, whereas Mazda is the embodiment of all things good. Zoroastrianism and the faiths that brought it about were from Medea and Parsa, in northern and southern Iran. Pars province in Iran is not sand; its mostly mountains, plains, and valleys, and the areas known as Medea in the Caspian region of Iran and Azerbaijan are greener than some places in Europe. Unless this sand-ninja is some embodiment of evil, Ahriman is a pretty unfitting name. It would be like calling Scorpion Akuma or something. I mean, there already is an Akuma, but if you're going to name this guy Ahriman then he'd have to be Quan Chi's baby daddy or something. Even if it was just a "cool-sounding" name it's pretty unsuited; Iran's a pretty green and temperate area. The reason Iranians/Persians get lumped into "sandy" category dates back to Herodotus; back then Darius' Persian Empire stretched from Arabia and the Levant to Northern India. And Darius used a lot of Arabians/Semites as conscripts before throwing real Persians (like the Immortals) at the Greeks. Since the Persians ruled by satrapy, most foreign fighting units wore their own stuff, like the Arabs and Levantines would wear their "sandy" type clothes and rags, and the Greeks would generalize them all as Persians. Man... I digress. But no, Ahriman isn't too fitting. But, if you're going to make this guy a djinn type character, try Arabic names. Because djinns are exclusive to Arabian mythology and Islam, not Zoroastrianism or Persian culture. Sorry, I'm just a big, prying prick for ancient and Iranian history, being Persian and all.

"Iblis" in Arabic means "demon"... sounds kinda cool

Oh, just got an idea- check out the Hashashin, or the assassins. Different powers used them for a while to silence critics and secure regional interests. They were famous for being a pain in the ass to the Seljuks and for being involved in the Crusades. They were pretty badass. They also smoked a f--- ton of weed and hashish, hence the name. Perhaps a sand-ninja with twin scimitars and plain Kabuki-style facemask?
 
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Fox17 said:
I bring back this thread from death so we can discuss it again.

Unnamed sand ninja FTW!
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good, this is too awesome of an idea to leave behind in the dust.......uhhh....sand


And I always imagined Ermac hailing from the desert, his costume and how he had dark skin in UMK3 all. Like an evil Aribic Sorceror.

It would be cool to see Ermac and this Sand Ninja fight in ancient desert ruins.you know, cool shit like that.
 
I had some concept designs I made while in highschool but I ditched them forever ago, I have a lot of mortal kombat, tekken, SF ect characters somewhere in one of my thousands of sketch books, if I find them ill post them, I already have an idea for a sand ninja and how he could look, he could have that raggy hood like megatron Had in transformers 3;)
 
One of his fatalities could be teleporting through the sand and devouring the enemy...like this:

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but what to call this ninja...the above image is really giving me an idea for a name but i just can't put my finger on it . . .
 
This is what i came up with for an Egyptian Character, on the picture i named him Ahmad for specific reasons and i gave him two weapons that i kind of made up, the Kopesh of Inpu (Anubis), an egyptian sword, and the Blade of Ra, which is a small daggar (Chose the two gods because they are somewhat polar opposites, yet work in harmony). However, this is only if the weapons are welcome for inclusion, as he would probably be okay with just his clawed gauntlets

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Sky Valley said:
artwork of just the sand ninja? or him fighting another mk character?

if you do include someone else, then I recomend Smoke or Ermac
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With artwork I meant a draw, like a concept, Ill make him satnding alone since is easier and takes less time.
 
Trilogy said:
This is what i came up with for an Egyptian Character, on the picture i named him Ahmad for specific reasons and i gave him two weapons that i kind of made up, the Kopesh of Inpu (Anubis), an egyptian sword, and the Blade of Ra, which is a small daggar (Chose the two gods because they are somewhat polar opposites, yet work in harmony). However, this is only if the weapons are welcome for inclusion, as he would probably be okay with just his clawed gauntlets

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really cool, great work! Love the gloves and pointy shoes. Has abit of Ermac and Rain in him

and those weapons are badass. kind of reminds me of this old power ranger toy I used to have
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this was suppose to be hotaru but it could work for a desert ninja his name should be like a pharaohs name or Anubis
 

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this was suppose to be hotaru but it could work for a desert ninja his name should be like a pharaohs name or Anubis
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Looks good and Anubis sounds like a great name. He should originate from Egypt. Note that Tremor is brown also and Tremor should have some moves that a sand ninja would have but who knows but you should make the sand ninja orange or tan.
 
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