Creating Ozm Nazi

    Ozm is a character I created for Dungeons and Dragons. Originally, I had planned on creating a grey elf character but, later, I decided to make him a Drow to make his character more interesting.

    Ozm is named after German physician George Simon Ohm which also happens to be the symbol for electrical resistance. Jules is also named after a unit of measure.

    His personality is mostly based on aspects of myself along with my beliefs of how a typical male Drow would act. Any resemblance between Ozm and Dilandau (from Escaflowne) are strictly coincidental.

    Ozm became a Nazi when I was designing his outfit; I will explain. I searched the Internet for pictures of Drows to get costume ideas but, the results were disappointing; nearly all the pictures were of that female Drows in revealing clothing or Drizzt Do’urden (from Forgotten Realms) without a shirt on. Neither was suitable for Ozm’s outfit. All other pictures varied too much in style, so it wasn’t very helpful.

    I decided to design his outfit based on what little I knew about Drows at the time (pretty much the info in the D&D Monster Manual). I considered their appearance; white hair, red eyes, and black skin. I assumed that the black skin was not referring to Negro brown skin based on the official pictures portraying Drows with grey skin. Grey skin would be closer to white. Then, coloured skin, combined with the white hair and red eyes gave me the image of an albino, though my good friend, Randy, stated that Drow eyes are entirely red. I found this to be true when re-examining the official pictures. I discarded this fact because it made Ozm’s eyes too inexpressive.

    Back to the point, the closest human racial traits to that of Drows would be those of albinos. Regretfully, there is no society of albinos so, I reconsidered. Red eyes are closest to pink eyes (no pigment) which are close to blue eyes (low pigment) and white hair (no pigment) is close to blonde hair (low pigment – I learned this in high school biology). This made me think of Hitler’s pure race, Arians. This led me to believe that a Nazi inspired uniform would be ideal for several reasons:  

·        I wouldn’t have to modify the uniform too much because Ozm is a wizard and doesn’t wear armour.

·        Nazis are evil – so are Drows

·        Nazis are racist – so are Drows

·        Nazis blame the world’s problems on other people – so do Drows

·        Nazis oppress weaker people – so do Drows

·        Nazis killed millions of innocent people – I’m sure Drows would too

    Of course, this doesn’t work so well with a lot of the details of the Drow culture. I know this but don’t feel like explaining this any further.

    This concludes the process I went through to create Ozm.