Today we are quite nearly at $10,000, which is fantastic! Reminder that our next stretch goal is at $12,500, which gets us special moves from all 6 classes added to the game!
But our poll tells us there are favorites among the character classes. Well, The Caged Wraith and the Organ Eater were both at the top, and they've both been talked about in the updates already. It's time to check third place.
The Aeon Caller
The Aeon Caller has aligned their soul with Aeons. They have a bell or harp that they play, along with their singing, to empower items and machines, or call on Aeons to aid the group in combat. They seek to find harmony with the world, and are good support characters. They can follow the path of The Song, imbuing their Soul into Tools and Relics/Artifacts, making them and their allies stronger, or they can follow the path of The Hum, becoming part machine themselves, imbuing their own bodies with artifacts and power, keeping Relics in their bodies.
Now, from the artist, Salty Water:
I really enjoy the choice of bat for this one, big ears pointing to the sky, actually thnking about the composition for this one could refer to The Hermit in tarot. I'm kind of thinking that the focus on this one can be mainly on their back, instead of carrying harp hanging from their back, Im thinking of their spine replaced into mechanical structure that extend out to form a harp, and the back of their ribs opened up like that torture called blood eagle, so they store the relics from the back into their ribcage. Or the soul of them pouring out passing the string of the harp and bless the whole group with the song. Possibly good make them in a humble posture and raising the lantern high similar to that hermit style. Some more details i will think deeper when doing the rough sketches. For the clothing definitely good to reference to Eastern Orthodoxy for its form and also the fancy decoration, need to consider how to form the runic system as a language they praise their god, also for the pattern on clothes and their rings.
Overall I'd like to give them a loop/knot element on the overall design and add some key elements to the bell design and stuff design(as a lantern), and using broken wings as the structure of harp on the back. Will add some more accessories on them, thinking about let them hang like the clock pendulum. I'm still figuring on the language/rune system for this religious, the idea I was thinking of is the engraving on the rings is like music score, when the worshipper singing along with the pattern on it, the spell and music charges the magic, and can work for their machine god. And inspired by the alchemy sign and noise interrupting pattern, both for marks and the design on their robes. ... Also for the ring and oil design, I was thinking the draining of oil means the death of the Aeons, and the power contained in the rings, so the oil is contained inside the intersecting rings. Like a living creature that reacts to prayer and hymns, like music wave patterns, so the ring as the basic structure remains minimal but the oil more as some active and interactable element, although rings keep moving even partly broken.
Also back to work on The Aeon Caller, redesigned his bell+lantern again, mixed the style of orthodox candle stand design and Astrolabe design into which will make it more unique looking.
I know the other two are fan favorites already, but the Aeon Caller is fascinating design. Salty really dug into this and hit it out of the park. The Aeon angels have music waves scratched into their rings, screaming and singing as they turn, their oil is their life blood. Just in exploring the design I gave them, Salty Water crafted more of the world through visual exploration. This is my favorite kind of collaboration, when ideas are shared and malleable.
So now that you've seen the Aeon Caller and dived deeper into what it's about, what do you think? Has your vote on the poll changed? And who do you want to see next?
