[Player Appreciation Month] Design An Epic Boss

[Kyle Katarn]

For my last entry, I submit to you the Jikininki. I tried to stick as close as possible to the Green Gaki but gave it the name of a human shaped Japanese spirit. I changed the exposed muscle on the back to rocks, gave it spurs and a straight tail, and reversed the color scheme. The picture below is only one of two colors that I chose. This one is Green with brown rocks, the other one would be black with purple gems. (I just added the alternate color.)

The Jikininki
http://imgur.com/QLpmP2X

Here's a possible armor set, Gree could probably do better. (Via Request)
http://imgur.com/cwNtJR7

Jikininki (Black)
http://imgur.com/nE2HWb7

Here's another possible armor set. Geared towards the black version. (Via Request)
http://imgur.com/0dh5BO7
(Due to a technicality, these possible armors will have shields.)

So for a questing backstory. The Jikininki used to be abundant in the mountians near the kingdom. The people admired their appearance and grace and painted pictures, wrote poems, and even made statues of them. Then one day one was injured and stumbled into the kingdom before dying. A young man and newcomer to the kingdom found a stone broken off from its back (gem if it's the black one) and was able to craft something out of it. The stones were pure and extremely lightweight and became known as Air Stones (If you go with the black one, the young man found one of the gems and made a price of jewelry out of it. The gems were extremely compact and pure and became known as Pure Quartz.) That young man became the first Jikininki hunter. First they were hunted for their resources, then for sport, then out of fear when the Jikininki became hostile. One day the young man was bringing back a dead one to the kingdom when they were pronounced extinct. The kingdom's society went into turmoil for a period and everyone became sorry that they had hunted the Jikininki. Finally the kingdom fell apart and everyone split up. Little did they know that there was one Jikininki left. He hid out deep in the mountains, he was more intelligent than most. He trained hard so he could exact revenge on the hunters and even learned a small amount of the human language. He grew to an incredible size and finally started his search. The hunted became the hunter. He eliminated every Jikininki hunter except one. Finally he shows up outside the Hero's kingdom. Everyone is trying to figure out who the hunter is so you have to go to the arena and ask around. Finally Lance confesses that he was the young man, he learned how to fuse by using Air Stones (Pure Quartz). He is sorry for killing off the Jikininki and asks if you can try to convey that to the beast outside the kingdom. After defeating it he realizes that Lance is sincerely sorry and ends his rampage. But before he leaves he challenges you to a rematch.
So his elements would be Air/Earth (Earth/Spirit or Earth/Air for the black one). His special attack would be him darting past you really fast and a rock explosion (gem for black). He would drop the Air Stone (Pure Quartz) and I haven't decided what the craftable armor would be. I'll probably leave that up to Gree. He is more of an attack monster than defense. I would like to know if people would rather see the Green or the Black one? Gree can choose Green or Black, or they could use both, if that's possible? (This is my favorite of my entries and I know Gree could make this one amazing!)

Name: Kyle Katarn 101
Friend Code: XBW-HCY-BHF
Guild: Jesus Is God