Arcanians: They're wizards who tried to draw too much power for a spell and ended up being consumed and reanimated by it. That definitely belongs on Athas!
Cave Fishers: Are perfect for annoying PCs that aren't picky about their shelter.
Forsaken: Created by the death of gods that could not return their essence to the Astral Sea, these could be used in a plot about gods that were killed in whatever event has caused divine power to be absent on Athas.
Gargoyle, Obsidian: Monsters made of the useful material!
Howler: Feeding on fear, these could be excellent psionic monsters for Athas.
Imix's Cultists: Might make good elemental priests of fire.
Meenlocks: Are also crazy mutant-like monsters and easy to give psionic flavor to.
Nagpa: Their attacks might fit as defiling spells.
Ogremoch's Cultists: As Imix, but earth.
Thri-kreen: More variety of Thri-kreen can't hurt.
The MM3 primordials are sillier, flavor-wise, only because they have an hint about them of being...people.
Fluff can be changed to be what you want it to be and you don't need to call them lords or anything like that. I just think as high-epic level bosses, primordials are a nice option for darksun. I'v been working on the "GreatOne", as an obsidian primordial in the deadlands.
The only problem I can see with the primordials printed, is that they generally encompass more than one element, which is fine if you use para-elemental stuff. So I may just use the printed primordials as a foundation and make my own once I see how the elemental chaos (or elemental planes) works with darksun.
It's IMO better than water vs earth vs air vs fire, vs all the other paraelements, they too fighting among themselves.
-I can imagine Allabar from MM3 (the living planet) as one of Athas moons! Forget the Far Realm stuff, just make him a huge experiment of the Lifeshapers. Maybe Ral or Guthay was made of the coral they used. He awakes becose of some spell. And that moon is psionic. Entire populations go mad. Only our heroes can stop it.
-Apocalypse Spell are left over of the Cleansing War. Maybe locked away in ancient ruins.
Mind if I steal that idea?
-I can imagine Allabar from MM3 (the living planet) as one of Athas moons! Forget the Far Realm stuff, just make him a huge experiment of the Lifeshapers. Maybe Ral or Guthay was made of the coral they used. He awakes becose of some spell. And that moon is psionic. Entire populations go mad. Only our heroes can stop it.
-Apocalypse Spell are left over of the Cleansing War. Maybe locked away in ancient ruins.
And instead of killing it, you put it back to sleep at zero hp. So you get to have the adventure, fight the boss and keep both the moons.
Personally, the moment I saw Allabar, I thought of FF9. So I don't think I'll be using him in darksun. Eberron, YES! But not darksun.
Dark Sun: Champions attempt to exterminate a number of races, wielding powerful magic that uses lifeforce as fuel.
Dark Crystal: Skeksis attempt to exterminate Gelflings; they like extracting the essence of other creatures.
Just don't give the last surviving gnome girl a pair of wings. Even if that was some of the cutest dialog ever. "I don't have wings!" "Of course not. You're a boy."
(By the way, someone pointed out in another thread that the Nagpa art has a purple crystal near its foot.)
Chamberlain! Mmhmm...!
Dark Sun: Champions attempt to exterminate a number of races, wielding powerful magic that uses lifeforce as fuel.
Dark Crystal: Skeksis attempt to exterminate Gelflings; they like extracting the essence of other creatures.
Just don't give the last surviving gnome girl a pair of wings. Even if that was some of the cutest dialog ever. "I don't have wings!" "Of course not. You're a boy."
(By the way, someone pointed out in another thread that the Nagpa art has a purple crystal near its foot.)
Yes it does.
MM3 has (under another name) a Skeksis. They botched the art, but you can tell, even the text supports it.
The art has a purple crystal behind it and a small hand that looks suspiciously like a dead Gelflings as well. They were 100% certain of what they were doing there.