The Accursed Getinmahbeli from Khurasan
The Getinmahbeli tribal elders couldn’t figure it. The women of the tribe, normally svelte and weight-conscious, were hungry, very hungry, and had long since devoured all of the domesticated animals and eaten their way through the bush meat, yet still had a look of demented famishment in their eyes. It was, to say the least, disconcerting, the way they complained about ravenous appetite despite obviously being quite excessively full from all the recent gobbling.
What the elders, or indeed any of the Getinmahbeli men, did not know was that many of the women had recently emerged from their stilt-huts to taunt and mock a traveling old hag. The hag, who it turns out was, inevitably, a witch, had cursed these slender women to have all-consuming hunger, now and forever, until they ate so much they exploded.
Another thing the men did not know was that this was to be their last night on earth, for the women, by now driven to madness by hunger, would arise in the night and devour the men, dispatching them with their own headtaking axes, then boiling them up with the few remaining herbs.
The Getinmahbeli men are gone, so the women are on the move, looking for new sources of food. Looking very hard, in fact: an unstoppable shock front, stripping one area after another like rotund locusts. Oh, the hunger, the hunger….
This is the first of the native warbands of Mystri Island. It covers the strangest of all the human tribes, the Getinmahbeli, or at least what’s left of them (they had the men for dinner and the children for dessert), cursed to suffer from hunger despite the obvious surplus of nutrition they are taking in. This leads to a nonstop rampage through the jungles and settlements of Mystri Island, waxing ever swollen as they devour their way across the island, confronting and consuming new prey.
Design note: these are essentially Kalinga headhunters, and use the weapons, shields, and dress of those people, although of course the historical Kalinga headhunters are extremely fit men who generally fight nearly naked! They were fashioned so that, in addition to the accursed tribeswomen, they can used as a humorous take on the DBM Polynesian and Melanesian list for the Moluccas. (As such, for those so inclined, a discounted price is available for large batches of the Getinmahbeli.) While these are sculpted as 15mm, because of their proportions they would make terrific little female pygmies in 28mm scale as well! Well, “little” in terms of height anyway ….
