The Marrowkai, also known as the Kai, is the Lord of the Dead and a unit in the Chaos Empire. Seen as the spellcaster of the faction, the Marrowkai uses many magic abilities to disarm and eliminate his foes.
In Stick War: Saga, he succeeds Gargos/Medusa as leader of the Chaos Empire.
Appearance[]
The Marrowkai is a skeleton with a visible heart. He has no visible teeth and has a wide gaping mouth. He wears a black mantle with spike-like protrusions on either side and carries a staff composed of bones.
In Stick War: Saga, the Marrowkai now has glowing red pinprick eyes and two scars over his left eye. His mantle is now brown with wider spikes, an his staff has been replaced by a golden scythe, giving him the same mantle and weapon as the Deadkai.
Abilities[]
Reaper[]
Marrowkai will chant "Vultiosis Tandio!" and then slam his staff into the ground summoning a reaper. The target unit takes damage and is forced to move toward the casting player's base.
In Stick War: Saga, the Marrowkai does not chant and uses a different animation, beckoning toward the enemy with his hand instead. Reaper does not deal damage in this game and automatically targets the frontmost enemy.
Hell Fists[]
Marrowkai will chant “Abyssus Pugnus!” and slam half his right arm in the ground, summoning multiple fists in the targeted direction. In Stick Empires this ability needs to be researched before use. In Stick War: Saga, it deals 15 less damage and has a higher cooldown of 30 seconds but now stuns all units it hits.
Summon[]
Marrowkai raises 4 Summoned Deads to fight for him. Like other Summoned Deads, units created by Summon are uncontrollable.
This ability is exclusive to Stick War: Saga.
Drain Health[]
While damaged, Marrowkai passively absorbs 5 health from a nearby friendly Dead every 2 seconds to heal himself. This ability is exclusive to Stick War: Saga.
History[]
Stick War II: Order Empire[]
The Marrowkai are first deployed into battle by the Chaos Empire in the stage Bone Pile: Marrowkai summon war. They continue to fight for the Chaos Empire in subsequent stages.
In this depiction, the Marrowkai are presented as a group of spellcasters serving the Chaos Empire.
Stick War: Saga[]
In this game, the Marrowkai is retconned into being a single individual, and is Medusa's right-hand man. After her defeat at the hands of the Order Empire, the Marrowkai took leadership of the Chaos Empire's remaining forces.
He appears in the opening cutscene of the Order campaign, ambushing King Zarek and holding him hostage with his scythe after Zarek retrieves the treasure map in the Chaos capital. However, due to the intervention of a Fire Elemental and Water Elemental combining to cast Scorch, he is knocked away and only succeeds in obtaining a third of the map.
The Marrowkai appears in the cutscene after Stage 21, speaking with the captive King Zarek.
He is encountered as an enemy in Stage 27. Instead of attacking directly, the Marrowkai will hang back and summon Deads to harass the player alongside his ambushing troops. After a certain amount of time has passed, he is scripted to leave the battle while two Juggerknight Generals attack the player.
Trivia[]
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- At the end of the beginning cutscene of the campaign of Stick War: Saga, the Marrowkai can be seen on the Kai Rider giant, which further points that the Marrowkai is the Deadkai.
- In the Stick Empires game guide, the Marrowkai are described as skeletal mages able to summon reapers and cast rows of fists.
- In Stick War: Legacy, the Marrowkai is referred to as the "Dark Lord of the Dead".
- They are the offensive spellcasters of Chaos.
- There is a bug where if a Marrowkai casts reaper on a statue, the statue still suffers damage, but the reaper symbol stays stuck on the statue for the duration of the match.
- It is heavily implied the Marrowkai in SW3 is the former Spearton leader Adicai, resurrected from the dead, with hints being shown especially in the campaign.
- The "cai" in Adicai is pronounced like "kai", which is an obvious nod to the Marrowkai.
- Adicai's shield is shaped like a Juggerknight's shield, and considering the Marrowkai commands them, it would make sense if he simply used his shield as a design for their shields.
- It also somewhat resembles the mantle on his back.
- Adicai's spear is very similar to the design of the Marrowkai's scythe.
- The scars over the Marrowkai's eye are in the same position as the face paint worn by Adicai.
- While Adicai fought with Atreyos in the tournament, it seems that Atreyos won the battle but ends up badly injured, but Adicai managed to come back to life as a DeadKai and become Marrowkai
- This theory has been partly confirmed by Crazy Jay when a Stick War 1 modder named Waterbug asked about this theory, Crazy Jay responded with a parody of the Into by The Order Empire.
- In Level 27 of the campaign, the Marrowkai is implied to know Atreyos (his brother) personally, as he refers to him as "daddy's boy" and "that backstabber", which he would not say if he was merely an enemy. Considering Adicai was the former leader of the Speartons between Spearos and Atreyos, it is possible that Atreyos was fighting with Adicai, likely unintentionally.
- His insult of "daddy's boy" to Atreyos implies he knew that he had a more familial connection to Zarek, further proving he personally knows Atreyos. His insult also implies Adicai was jealous and resentful of the attention Atreyos received over himself, likely contributing to his more fierce comments about Atreyos.
- During the cutscene in between Levels 21 and 22, the Marrowkai is seen talking to King Zarek, and his attitude is noticeably more mellow and calm towards Zarek, implying some form of previous relationship or at least respect that an enemy would normally not give. Notably, when Zarek talks about his son, Atreyos, the Marrowkai immediately assumes he is talking about Adicai, and leaves without a word after Zarek clarifies it is not, which may be a sign of him being emotionally hurt.
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