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Glad you guys are liking this thus far! 
I'll confess, this part was probably the most difficult to decide how to do 
. I think it's a function of how important early development is since I need to carefully establish the original standard for all of them so that changes that occur later have some sort of context.
Well, I think he's cute . I don't know, it just kind of came off the end of my pencil, and I like it a lot, even though it's just silliness 
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. Truth be told though, Umber's just as liable to have people's flesh on the menu as Desunius is. He doesn't look nearly as Evil as most, but a lot of that can be put down to how light he is; nevertheless, his extreme lack of pigmentation is actually as much a trait of Evil as Edge's horns or Verdigris' spikes . And they can both be pretty friendly at times, though Umber is, for the most part, a jackass. Oh, that's absolutely no surprise at all. We know that Desunius and Edge are cannibals and it would further extend by inference that the whole of the leadership of Syvoria engages in at least ritual cannibalism. Brings a whole new meaning to eating at Azteca..Pick wrote:Thanks Noble Ire and Ford Prefect! I'm glad people like it :luv:
And thank you too, Duchess :D. Truth be told though, Umber's just as liable to have people's flesh on the menu as Desunius is. He doesn't look nearly as Evil as most, but a lot of that can be put down to how light he is; nevertheless, his extreme lack of pigmentation is actually as much a trait of Evil as Edge's horns or Verdigris' spikes :). And they can both be pretty friendly at times, though Umber is, for the most part, a jackass.
We've seen more of the leaders of Syvoria than not; shall we go back to the Shining City Upon the Hill and take a look at their opponents? Starting with the drillmaster from Chapter One so easily flattered by Edge, since I don't think we've seen her yet.Also, to everybody now, what/who would you like to see me sketch from my set of characters? I'm in an artsy mood.
Indeed, they do seem a bit under represented so far in your works. I'm curious to see varied traits the forces of good bear, beyond the current group.We've seen more of the leaders of Syvoria than not; shall we go back to the Shining City Upon the Hill and take a look at their opponents? Starting with the drillmaster from Chapter One so easily flattered by Edge, since I don't think we've seen her yet.
. In fact, it's rather flattering.. In fact, this was the first time I'd ever even drawn her. She's a Basal Key. The Basal Keys are the four primary servants of the Monarch, if I haven't mentioned that before. As a minor aside, there's always four. They operate as generals, pretty much. Bemia's older than Kamina and Zixer. Her hair is light blue.
. She is quite possibly the cleverest of the characters on Good's side. The country does well under her care. Her hair is white.
). His hair is green! His eyes are gone now, so he has two synthetic eyes (one main, one auxilliary) to help him out. His hands are also webbed, which he finds highly inconvenient. He also tends to dribble out of the side of his mouth, and his saliva is quite toxic. Yes, he's still teased about it . Chances are extremely good that he would become Monarch if Selia were to die.
. Fvier and Nozomia both do not carry governmental positions.
!... though I did forget his horns again Yep, yep! Actually, I tried to make all of these pictures representative of the respective character's personalities insofar as one tiny sketch can capture (consider it me trying to give them the proper first impressionsNoble Ire wrote:Zixer is a very interesting looking character, and even just these sketches seem to convey a good deal about his personality.
.) Well, Caia's isn't completely at the moment, but it's one factor of her nature, certainly. She's not as easily characterized as some others (I like her quite a bit.) Actually, that's a really, really, really good questionCan Llanlleians adapt their body structure depending on what their role in life is? Or are their traits simply inborn and random? A bit of an odd question, I suppose...
. Traits develop depending on your actions/motivations toward Good and Evil. Also, no --you have no control over which traits you gain other than the fact that Evil will spurn different kinds of traits than Good will (for instance, why silver horns would be okay in Llanlleia, but red and black ones wouldn't, or why claws would be bad where thick, spaded fingernails wouldn't.) Zixer, for instance, would never choose to drool poison if he could avoid it. Talk about curbing your love life, eh 
? Role in life has no effect. The traits that different individuals can/will develop depend on their family background. For instance, no matter how Evil he might get, Alder would never get bony spikes like Verdigris; no matter how Good Verdigris might get, she would never have multicolored eyes like Alder. Yes, the Basal Keys are essentially comparable to the Councilors, but notAnyways, I look forward to reading about him. And I have been wondering what a Basal Key was for a while, since you keep on mentioning the position.
! Hmm... somewhere around "not exactly" with a leaning toward "no." Hard to explain, and too much explanation leads straight down the path to extremely massive spoilers.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:So the forces behind the two nations are not cynical manipulation but related to the function of the universe, or at least to the function of the thaumaturgical arts as they are applied in these lands?
However, as complicated it might seem (or eventually seem), it's probably actually more complicated even that that . Or maybe it's not. I'll still consider it difficult to explain. Thank God I'm finally getting out of the tedious background stuff... soon. The Council rules Syvoria, and all councilors are supposedly equal in power. There's no greater monarch, like Llanlleia has. Llanlleians, however, lacking a council system, don't really appreciate the title of "councilor" as much as "Queen", "King", "Prince", etc. Therefore, they give their own titles to important (scary) Syvorians to give it more of a punch.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Is Desunius actually in charge of Syvoria or is there a higher sovereign? Also, are their titles the names of places? I was sort of assuming so.
I think Desunius is kind of funnyNice work in setting their character, regardless. They're an amusing group for a savage, bloodthirsty lot. And Desunius has a bit of Vader in her in a less.. Methodical.. Way.
.Anyway, there was one sentence which seemed total nonsense, I'll post it another post here once I go back and find it.
I know, a couple sentences in there are awful! I went through and proofread this morning. I'll update the new version of it once I'm done (and have a few more pages, since they write much more quickly now that I have a weekend.) I really have no idea why I posted it without doing so, but I'm going to blame random impaired judgement (which is also responsible for some really weird word choices I've been fixing.). He definitely carries an extremely heavy tie to why the Council's composition isn't usual (even by Syvorian standards.) Glad you enjoyed it! )
Every time I come in here, I'm so Impressed I think of printing out photos and making a mini shrine.