Kohany was designed as a companion for a fictional, space-faring Ukrainian woman named Svetlana as an exercise for my visual design for games class. She is a descendant of Laika, the first dog in space, who survived Sputnik II in this universe.
Rothgar the bird-headed man. He's a horrible experiment gone wrong with a shoe-bill stork head and a crotch eyeball that shoots lasers that he conceals with a loincloth.