Name: Ter-Ah-SurTM
Subtitle: caustic warrior
Line: KR|Enmity
Item type: action figure - Nº 21 in the line.
Character details
Name: Ter-Ah-Sur
Real name: Kot
Classification: the reanimated corpse of a human
Sex: male
Home: Tahron
Era: 20 years before Foundation
Affiliation: Dark Legion
Rank: commander (formerly lieutenant commander of O-Kin's Golden Eagle
armed force).
Background
First appearance: KR|Enmity #3 - Notes of vengeance
Brief bio: a former Golden Eagle soldier, Kot was supposedly killed
during the last Reptonoid invasion of the feudal territory of O-Kin, caught in
a giant landslide when the young Princess Sih-Len played her enchanted flute
to eliminate the reptilian enemy. Before his corpse could disintegrate, the
underground chemical conditions hideously disfigured him and changed his body
into a shell made of a stony material filled with a corrosive ooze. His
miraculously reanimated remains were discovered years later by Duke Wordron,
when Kot emerged from a pit as an insane and unpredictable living dead.
Although he vaguely remembered his honourable life before the accident, he
more clearly recalled his suffering and, driven mad by his condition, sought
to share that pain with whom had caused it. Impressed, Wordron wanted him to
serve on his Dark Legion, and created a device that would allow Kot to survive
and harness the deadly substance he had become. Renamed Ter-Ah-Sur by his
master, he fought against the Therioms during a great battle caused by a
failed attempt to breach the multiversal walls, once again dying on the
battlefield.
Articulation
Description
Head: similar to a statue made of a cracked brownish-red stony
material, carved with deep-set devilish eyes and a wide mouth from which two
large sharp teeth protrude upward. He wears a silver helmet with nice
tarnished details, which looks like a reversed cup embellished with a white
jade stone on the front and two large side-headpieces shaped like eagle wings;
the helmet can be removed, revealing a blueish-green corrosive fluid oozing
from his seemingly empty cranium
Body: made of a cracked brownish-red stony material. While he appears
to wear
laminar
trousers on his legs, his arms only seem to be equipped with
lamellar
shoulder pads
Wearables: a dual-layer off-white (i.e., a white colour with a grey
tinge that resembles tarnished silver) protective covering, two off-white
bracelets, two off-white boots (with studded tops and riveted sandal-like
soles), a studded off-white belt accompanied by two silver tassets, and a Roman-style skirt made of white-studded silver
lappets. The torso covering seems to be composed of what, before being petrified,
were a fabric vest (presumably with furry armholes) and a lamellar cuirass
consisting of several overlapping leather plates laced together. Additionally,
the chest armour displays a silver Golden Eagle army emblem (i.e., an eagle
with two crossed axes) at the centre; similar symbols are also shown on the
bracelets, the belt buckle and the tassets.
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| Ter-Ah-Sur's stylised armour; the design at the centre of the chest piece represents the Golden Eagle armed force symbol. |
Action feature
In the comics, Ter-Ah-Sur is equipped with a chest/back armour created by
Wordron and Ignitrys, which functions as a sort of containment suit as well as
an ammunition loading machine. So, the figure comes with an additional piece
of armour
that sits on the figure's shoulders, and incorporates a studded steel chest
plate (with pointy shoulder guards) and a back-mounted tech-mech apparatus. A
seemingly flexible tube connects a round spout on the chest plate to the
device on the back, which in turn produces an ammunition belt that retains and
feed special cartridges into Ter-Ah-Sur's firearm. We can imagine that the
corrosive ooze pumped from the inside of his body flows along the hose (which
is partly black and partly translucent blue-green) and reaches the top-left
corner of the back-mounted equipment, while the bottom-right corner of the
latter is connected to the drum magazine of the rifle (more on this later)
through the ammo belt. Thanks to this arrangement, he can fictionally create a
stream of vials containing the lethal blueish-green acidic ooze and then use
his gun to fire them towards the enemies.
Weapons and accessories
Aside from the shoulder armour with the attached ammunition loading equipment,
Ter-Ah-Sur comes with the above-mentioned deadly firearm. This is a gunmetal
(i.e., a dull bluish-grey colour)
arquebus
with two over-and-under barrels designed to shoot the vials of acid; it has a
white
drum magazine, into which the vials are fed via the ammo belt, an apparently complex
firing mechanism
and an axe-like shiny silver blade, which is fixed to the bell-shaped muzzle
of the lower barrel in a
bayonet
fashion and is said to be the remainder of Kot's old weapon for use in
hand-to-hand fighting.
Additionally, the figure includes an alternative head that bears a more
human-looking countenance compared to the standard one, although it also
appears to be made of the same cracked brownish-red stony material. This head
shows, I believe, Asian traits and is carved with facial hair styled into a
moustache and a beard. It also features the oozing fluid at the top and is
compatible with the standard helmet.
Finally, there is a tattered brownish-red stony cape that can be worn by
Ter-Ah-Sur once the chest/back armour is removed.
Final thoughts
Character value: ♦♦♦♦ I was super happy to see Ter-Ah-Sur get included
in the KR|Enmity line and I’m extremely pleased with how he
turned out
Articulation: ♥♥♥♥ I’m quite surprised that those leg joints can hold
the bulk of the figure when he wears that crazy equipment on his shoulders.
Hopefully that will still be the case over time
Sculpt and paint: ♣♣♣♣ He’s a unique character and, in a line full of
crazy designs, he still manages to stand out in the crowd
Accessories: ♠♠♠ The alternate head is a kind of mystery to me, I don't
really know what to make of it. It's a "nice to have" extra piece though
Playability: ♪♪♪♪ I love how the acid-shooting gimmick has been
recreated from his appearance in the comics. It’s a pretty cool play feature
that allows you to come up with some neat poses
Overall: ☺☺☺☺ So far this line has scored a series of fine goals.
During the next few weeks we’ll see if it can keep that record rolling, as I
review the last two (or maybe three...) prototypes in the assortment.
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