Dust Devil

Alejandro Roja wasn’t an honest man. He was a thief and a cattle rustler, a brawler and a gambler, but he wasn’t a killer. Unfortunately, some of the men he rode with were.
They left Alejandro for dead one night in the desert, but he was too stubborn to lie down and die. Alone and wounded, without water or food, he stumbled toward a shadow looming on the horizon under the burning sun until he could go no further.
Roja’s lifeblood soaked into the dry sand as the vultures wheeled overhead, but when the shadow of Magic Mesa passed over his lifeless form, something happened. Roja’s body and spirit melted into the desert sands, becoming one with them. Alejandro Roja was gone, but something else arose in his place. That night, the bandits who betrayed and murdered Roja were trapped in a terrible sandstorm. Their bleached bones were found only days later, picked clean in the desert.
Ever since then, the elemental guardian known as the Dust Devil has watched over the mystic nexus of Magic Mesa, protecting it from poachers and thieves. Within the creature of shifting sand dwells a human spirit, seeking peace and understanding of his new existence as a force of nature. Dust Devil looks like a humanoid shape formed out of sand, sometimes taking on more distinct features, like those of Alejandro in life.