Looking for Vakeros infos, lore and pics

[ludiegu]

Hi all, as far as I love our beloved Kai order, I was always intrigued from the Warrior- Mages, the Vakeros. I am trying to gather as mush as I can from the web, but any other info you experts can provide me is very welcome, particullary any pics, as it is difficult to me to visualize a Vakeros.

Thanks!
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Diego

[John Bryntze]

That was harder than I thought... but the most known Vakeros in Lone Wolf books is Paido... manage to find this image... not sure it is an official one: www.oocities.org/dragondepiedra/paido.gif

[ludiegu]

Thanks for the effort, John!

I was digging the web and I have found conflicting infos regarding the equipment of a Vakeros Warrior-Mage; on the new Heroes of Magnamund, for example, it is stated that he case use his Blue-Steel Sword but cannot wear any armor at all, while on the old Magic of Magnamund they can wear full plate.

I was wondering what is the truth

[GhostofLandar]

So the Vakeros are a strange race to me. I think it's an interesting one but I think the New Order books raise even more questions. It seems obvious that there is a Shadakine race (from the Sadi), but also "Asiatic" groups (Mythenish, I can't recall now?) in the south of that empire (and in Chai and Bhanar.) The 'indigenous' inhabitants of Shadaki's jungles seem like BOTH Amazonian and Negrito populations. The Vakeros are described as having dark skin (but is this just in comparison to Sommlending, so more brown?) and plaited blonde hair. I have no idea on facial features in terms of the "Earth" analogue. When I first read it, I thought of aborigines but I don't think that's what Joe was going for.

[ludiegu]

They could look like Aztec people, but with white/blond hair maybe.

[greylord]

My guess would be more like the Northern Turks where many have darker skin, but at the same time may also have blonde hair and blue eyes. You can see this with less regularity among the Greeks and occasionally the Italians.

You might be able to see something similar in Brazil with the myriad mixing of peoples there, where there are darker skinned individuals (not like African, but darker skinned like the natives of South America) but with blonde hair occasionally.

[GhostofLandar]

I wish we could get feedback from the writers and artists on this one. I suppose it's not super important but I have some ideas for games for LW and I'd like a canonical description of the Vakeros but also potential analogs or best comparisons for different groups, be it the Nael, the Vaderish, Lissanians vs the Masbate, etc.