The blue ones are called Ostriders by the Faird.

The short guys are called the Faird.  This fellow’s name is Berk.

I worked on plotting another take on a science fiction tale called Planet Z! today (between mangling installing a wireless access point, driving to the closed recycling center – duh oh! — and… hey where did the day go?!?).  I’m attaching the first (I think) drawing I did for this idea earlier in the decade.  I still like the general …