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I call it Shar-Makai. It's a beast born in Chaos. I captured it myself and brought it here, changing its body and bending its mind to make it loyal to me until the end. What do you think?
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~ Janos
The Shar-Makais, named by their discoverer and later master Prince Janos of the Other World, are a hostile race of serpentine creatures born in The Chaos between both worlds, and one of the 6 playable characters in the indie fighting game The Black Heart. They're also the brothers of the game's false antagonist, Final.
The Shar-Makai's are creatures born in a dimension between our dimension and The Other World, called the Chaos, that is presumed to be the primordial state and final destination of every existing dimension. Janos, trying to find more conventional ways to seize every country in his dimension with ease, found a crack to The Chaos and discovered this curious beast. He captured it and modified its body with the help of black magic, transforming it in a destructive, murderous beast that will only respond to his bidding. He sought to use the entire species to replace his own army.
Events in the Game[]
Shar-Makai's chapter starts with a flashback. Janos presents one of the Shar-Makais to Ananzi, one of his daughters.
He is fascinated on how these beast will later become the new soldiers of his army, while Ananzi is disgusted by the look of the monster and states that finds everything out of Chaos to be repulsive. Ananzi grew a grudge against the Shar-Makais forever on, and makes her main goal to grow even stronger than them.
The Stolen Heart[]
15 years later, Janos father is killed and his heart stolen by a Chaos beast named Final, and sends his complete army of Shar-Makais to end him and retrieve it. Behind the curtains, he also made a deal with his daughter Ananzi in which he would kill off all of the Shar-Makais if she retrieved the heart first. This is was just one big plot to take down Final with all of his resources so Janos could finish a weakened Final by himself, and take all of the heart's powers for him alone.
While the Shar-Makais slaughtered everything they had in front, Ananzi would fight the dire beast of Chaos, thus weakening him, leaving him no chance for survival once Janos arrived with his complete army.
A Dark Plot[]
Everything went as it was expected. Unfortunately, Final showed Ananzi who the true murderer of her grandfather was: her own blood and father, Janos, leaving him no chance but to finish her off.
With a wounded Final, the only thing to do was to let him be slaughtered by his own siblings, born from the same Chaos he was.
Final states that the Shar-Makais were nothing to him anymore, and insults Janos for his cowardice, not being able to face him even in his weakened state. Janos' assumptions were later justified, as its shown that Final had the strength to fight most of his army of Shar-Makais, even after his fight with Ananzi. However Final succumbed to the numbers at the end, having no strength to continue anymore.
While they were fighting, Janos realizes that Final actually swallowed the heart, not being able to actually release the powers it had within. Taking advantage of this, he tries to make a deal with Final to give him the heart, and in exchange he would let him live. Final denies it, saying how Janos was a control freak that only wanted to own it all, that killed his own father in a lust for power and made a complete genocidal crusade to conquer the lands his father shared out, but states that he couldn't own the fate of all worlds: The Chaos, which was the destiny of all dimensions and would be Janos' fate too.
Final uses his last desperate tactic to take down the Prince of the Other World, and awakens all of the Shar-Makais from the mental control Janos had over them. Soon, they all start crawling over him and piercing his flesh with their enormous sword teeth. However Janos had the strength to dismember all of them with ease, also giving him the chance to pierce through Final's stomach, getting the heart, and so ending with all worlds chance of salvation.
Appearance[]
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Janos: Shar-Makai will be my new soldier, much more aggressive and efficient than our old army. Ananzi: But dad, any of our soldiers could crush this creature in the blink of an eye. Janos: That's how it looks at first glance....
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~ Janos and Ananzi about the Shar-Makai.
Shar-Makais are muscular beasts of pure mass, meaning that they have an incredible strength that they use at their advantage. Their tails (which are their main weapon) end in a big red spike that they use to pierce with ease through their victims bodies. What makes Shar-Makais so dangerous is the fact that they can change their size at will, changing at the length of their embryo state (which is the size of a normal snake). They rarely use this tactic to lure their victims, as people who are aware of what a Shar-Makai is can kill them with ease, and they use it more to pass undetected between troops, changing to their normal sizes and kill their victims.
They have powerful jaws shaped as a sinister grin, and their bite is powerful enough to split a person in half. However their teeth are not made for that purpose. These sword-shaped teeth are big enough to prevent Shar-Makai's from closing their mouths, and their main purpose is to pierce through the victims flesh and bones with ease so they can inject them with different amounts of Embryos (the normal standard is 3-4 per victim) inside them. These embryos have extremely fast metabolism and will pierce through the victims stomach when they're big enough to feed themselves. Something that can make them multiply even faster, is the fact that a pack of Embryos is stored in the stomach of every Shar-Makai. When they die, their stomach will burst and more Shar-Makais will be born.
Shar Maka's diet is unknown, but it's implied (thanks to their role as barbarian soldiers of Janos' army) that they are purely carnivorous. What it is known is that they usually feast on carrion, which can be seen in various of their victory poses. Shar-Makais are not prone to kill other members of the squad for food, but they don't seem to have problems in cannibalizing the corpses of fallen instances.
Shar-Makai's saliva is a green, viscose substance that is highly corrosive and can melt things like flesh or metal with no effort at all. They can also puke a huge amount of this saliva to their victims and attack them at distance. Shar-Makais have no visible eyes, ears or nose, and it's currently unknown how they detect their prey, but it is implied that by earth's vibration.
Hierarchy and Personality[]
Despite their role as mindless beasts, Shar-Makai do show some signs of intelligence. They know how to difference between friends or foes and are completely lloyal to their master Janos (product of their brainwashing). They are brutal and barbaric beasts with their foes and they kill for more than following instinct for food, but also for pure and primitive sadism.
Shar-Makais seem to possess a hive-mind between them (and possibly with other beings born from the Chaos). They can communicate with each other and like to attack in groups, althought they don't have any problem with attacking for themselves. Normally, the formation of Shar-Makais consists in a fully grown Shar-Makai that commands Embryos to attack (Embryo Shar-Makais can jump on their preys and have the same characteristics like a fully grown Shar-Makai, making them just as dangerous). This hive-mind seems to be exploited by Final himself, who can still communicate with them despite their brainwashing, even managing to break their corrupting bond with Janos. Something curious on Shar-Makai's society is the fact that two of them can engage in a dominance fight for the control of the squad, using their sharp tails to try to behead each other.
Gallery[]
An example of Shar-Makai's dominance fight
The Black Heart (PC) - SHAR-MAKAI STORY MODE - Chapter 6 - Playthrough Gameplay Longplay
Playthrough with Shar-Makai in the 10 Years Edition of the Black Heart
Trivia[]
According to Andrés Borghi, creator of the game, his name comes from the Makai' (魔界), or Japanese Hell, the world of demons in Japanese folklore.
Shar-Makai as seen on Necropolis.
Shar-Makai's complete concept was actually from Andrés Borghi 2001 zombie horror film Necropolis, in which the Shar-Makais were the main antagonists. In this film, they were actually demons who came from a "red world" and used corpses to attack people on the day, as they were weak against sunlight. He reused all of the concept and changed it for the Black Heart, also changing the red world to be The Other World. The same Shar-Makai's growl FX's were re-used for the game as well.
