u/ToxicRainbow27

This figure at the front of the parade, human upper body, lion from the waist down. Looks like the classic Wemic description?

But this is the Paizo Dark Sun, its hundreds of years after the death of Kalak, how on earth could a Wemic have survived?

There's a thread on Vault of Pandius where someone claims this is supposed to be Hamanu, and the artist misunderstood which parts were supposed to be lion and human. Which could make sense, he's certainly got enough metal on him he'd have to be someone important so a sorcerer-king would fit.

Still seems like a pretty big mistake to have made if true.

Any guesses?

I'm not sure of this yet but some things I noticed:

-the metaplot at the time of 2e's revised continuity of the major city-states only Hamanu, Nibenay, and Lalali-Puy still rule, Andropinis is imprisoned in The Hollow and the others are dead.
-the only sorcerer-kings we get named in the announcement are Lalali-Puy and Hamanu, other cities refer to rulers but only with titles not by name

-whats up with this picture of Raam, there's giant flesh-towers everywhere? I don't remember Raam being made of giant flesh-towers, seems more like a Dregoth thing than an Abalach-Re thing, and in the Paizo 3e continuity he does take over Raam

-the Draj art also looks like it has two Moonpriests who are doing some ritual thing to a younger possibly teenage boy, he does't look like he's being sacrificed like the people being dragged up the staircase, maybe this is Atzetuk?

(I get some of these are a stretch but c'mon its fun)

It doesn't really look like Borys to me, and its not skeletal enough to be Dregoth, unless he's somehow returned from undeath?