Lately I've introduced a new character into The Wizard, the Prince, the Warrior, and His Son, a young Ogre that the healer Ketta by necessity adopts from the moment of his hatching. By necessity, but she is also a very generous and loving person, so it fits right into her character. So I'm exploring the concept (as I did in my essay 'Good, Evil, and Free Will on Ortha,' published here on NOT) of whether a member of a 'mook' fantasy race can be habilitated into a good person. His full given name (rarely spoken) is Gurrankwee (not an Ogrish name), but his baby name is Kwee-kwee, often shortened to Kwee by those not inclined to be so twee. What his 'education' would mean to those who know Ogres only as ruthless murdering marauders, or what it would mean to Ogres who despise friendliness and to whom violence is a social way of life, makes for some interesting speculation. My brother John made a very good picture of Kwee, perhaps the best picture of an Ogre we've made so far. Out of interest I developed it, speculating that if he was three feet tall and the equivalent of five years old, how would he look at thirty years old and six feet tall? I was only able to make these two animations, as Grok is running slow. Not exactly satisfied with the animation of the young version, but couldn't develop it any more. I set it at six feet, as Kwee is a Lesser Ogre; if he had developed into a Great Ogre, he'd be at least ten feet.
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