Well to give a run down on this toon;
Iago’s life as the only child of a homeless Stratholme prostitute would’ve likely been short and scared had he not been born with a genius intellect. As a child his fascination and prodigious skill with alchemy and engineering landed him a fairly lucrative apprenticeship that rescued him from begging in the streets.
As he rapidly outgrew teachers he became annoyed with his colleagues objections to his often dangerous and amoral experiments. He’d seen first hand that their concerns about justice and sanctity of life were a thin facade that applied only where convenient. For a time however he kept his experiments tame for the sake of social expediency.
This changed when he discovered the Cult of the Damned which he eagerly joined despite having zero interest in their message or goals. He used the Cult’s resources to his own end, incidentally developing Scourgetech and eventually becoming an assistant to Dr.Krastinov in Scholomance. With the rise of the Forsaken however Iago saw the writing on the wall. He delibrately infected himself, became undead and slipped into their burgeoning nation.
Quickly associating himself with RAS, he became an aid de camp to the Dark Apothecary Dr.Carnifice Bile, eventually replacing said doctor after his mysterious disappearance. Later deployed in Pandaria during the war Iago became fascinated with the Pandaren martial arts. It was precise and clinical, unlike the messy Warrior or Rogue ‘arts’ he’d debased himself with in the past. He quickly ingratiated himself to the Pandaren and was trained in their arts atop Kun Lai summit. His thorough knowledge of anatomy giving him a critical edge over his compatriots.
Thing is I want him to be a legitimate monk. Who legitimately respects the pandaren and their way of life.
To tall an order?
Edit: Woops, meant to post this on WET. That’s what I get for sleep deprived phone posting.
The idea is Kaligari gets along with them because of their focus on zen, which he’s always at because he’s a lunatic.
But I want to play with the idea that he’s a legitimately good monk who respects the Pandarens.
This utterly deranged mass murderer being legitimately regarded as a hero and teacher on another continent strikes me as interesting.
I mean you can do whatever you want but mass murder is very much so against Pandaren culture and does not lead to their version of “Zen”.
But just because they wouldn’t agree with you doesn’t mean you can’t respect them in your own deranged way.
Twas merely for the purpose of knowledge. Dispassionate and workman like. And, at the time, quite inevitable one way or the other.
He sounds like someone who would cheat/beguile his way into a school and get by through superior ‘acting’ skills rather than someone who could truly embrace the Pandaran way. In short the deeper mysteries would probably elude him, unless his monastic experience actually changed him and forced him to re evaluate his outlook on the world.
That’s a fair assessment. Honestly I’m still a little confused on what Monks are precisely. I’ve read what lore’s available.
Honestly I was going for the mad scientist karate master type character you see a lot in schlocky 70s Hong Kong movies.