Hope you’re all doing well, I arrive in your inbox and upon thy screen with a reward for your wonderful patience, news most jubilant:

It’s been a very intense month as we finish things up here, and I won’t lie it’s only going to get busier as we approach final release. In truth we could toil over this book endlessly, such is the nature of something so special to us, so instead we are announcing it here and holding ourselves to that deadline! Thank you all for your patience as we marched toward finishing this thing, what a journey it’s been!

Now I can’t yet tell you what specific date it shall release, that small morsel of flexibility is something I shall clutch desperately to until the very last minute, but you can rest assured the book will be in your (metaphorical) hands within the next 13 days. 

When we announce release we will also let you know more information on further fulfilment, including physical, as well as details on our celebratory release stream! 

That’s all for now, short and sweet, I’ve got to get back to painting and Aston’s busy finalising some balance tweaks and correcting all my egregious spelling errors. You likely won’t hear from me now until our release update, so keep a weather eye on your inboxes!

Hail and Well met adventurers!

Just here this week to let you know that we're still on track and working hard to meet all the deadlines Conor set forth in the last update! We've been toiling away in our respective caves going over the final details and finishing touches of the book!

We've also had a couple of questions about placing orders etc, up until we explicitly close Pre-Orders you are still more than welcome to place last minute orders and you'll still be included in the upcoming distribution! The same goes for any backers that want to make specific changes to their existing addons etc, we can't offer refunds but if you want to pick up an addon that you previously didn't have the funds for we're more than happy to accommodate! For any queries or requests regarding orders or anything for that matter feel free to chuck me an email at [email protected]!

Now for the bulk of this weeks previews, last update Conor gave you a peak at most of the gorgeous painted art pieces in the book. Today I'm bringing you some in situ previews of the layout as well as some of the gorgeous pen and ink illustrations dotted throughout!

Magic and Miscellany:
First we have a preview of the equipment and one of the spell-list spreads! One small note I'd like to share about the equipment page is that that helmet is a Conor original design but he designed it so that it is entirely functional! The art throughout this book is so full of small details like that, things that not everyone that reads Faerie will fully appreciate but shows just how much of a passion project this is for us!

The spells and magic item pages will also be similarly dotted with spot illustrations like the Hexenwolf one, something that isn't done too often in RPG books but does provide some more room to show off Conor's gorgeous art! (Internally we call these Vibe Illustrations!)

Arms and Armorial:
Okay, so the Armorial is something that Conor has been playing with for such a long time and seeing the finished version I think you can tell! The various Blazons of each of the major and minor houses follow rules that were once used for the real house heraldry! But not only do they follow design rules, they are also illustrated in a way that makes them look authentic too!

I think we can all agree that there is something just so gorgeous about pieces of art in a book that look almost like they're in universe, sketches like the equipment included in the Witch Knight pages are similarly dotted around the book to give an almost 'prop' feel, like some of these pages could be taken directly from tomes found within the realm of Faerie!

Fealty:
A sneaky little look at some of the deeper mechanics for the fealty system here, I'm sure there will be plenty of you zooming into these pages to try and scrape as many details as you can. Fear not though! For it will not be long until you have the entire fealty system in hand and you and your companions can swear your loyalty to one of the major forces of Faerie!

Where are we?:
Finally, the map of Faerie! The land of faerie is a whimsical and ever-changing place, it takes the mind of a madman to fully map these lands and keep track of their denizens. And I think that says more about myself and Conor than I care to admit! But we present to you, Faerie in its entirety!

We draw ever closer to getting Faerie into your hands and I, for one, cannot wait! This book is so full of small details from functional armour designs, to lore nods to British folklore but also is something that even the most casual of fantasy enjoys will (hopefully) love!

As always, thank you all for reading and I'll see you soon!
Aston

I arrive today with some more art previews, news, and timeline updates! Before anything too wordy, take a look at some more of the artwork that you’ll soon get to see in full glory on the pages of Faerie:

The book is going through its final stages now as we prepare for digital fulfilment and to send off for print! Originally we had hoped that our Summer 2025 fulfilment date would land us firmly in the month of June, but it is now looking like it’ll be the end of July. Which is slightly later than we had hoped, but it should allow us to finish everything up to a standard we know you’ll appreciate without too much crunch on our end. Once digital goods have begun to fulfil it will also mean physical goods will have begun manufacture. As always we will keep you well informed on all the goings on from our end, as well as the general goings on in the fulfilment space (tariff updates for example).

Once we reach that point we will be sure to let you know with weekly updates, and you can always pop into our community Discord if you want to join the discussion or ask any questions!

We’ve been getting a lot of requests for another stream, and since we enjoyed the launch stream so much we figured why not! So, as celebration on the release of Faerie we are going to have a little live shindig over on our YouTube sometime in August. More details on that to come soon, but you can look forward to joining myself and Aston as we go through Faerie page by page, take questions, and perhaps finish off with a tease of our next project!

That’s all from me for now. I meant to put out a small post on the solstice, but it entirely slipped my mind; so I’ll say a very belated happy solstice to you all now instead, I hope you’re all well and enjoying the season!

We will be back in a couple of weeks with another update, so I’ll see you then.

- Conor

Hail Wonderful Wanderer's!

A public update this week to ensure as many people see the information as possible!

Firstly and most importantly, as we near the end of our development cycle on Faerie and move swiftly towards production (and distribution!) we need to start locking down our numbers for physical goods.

The following message is ONLY relevant to Pre-Order customers, not original campaign backers!

As of today, we will be locking existing Pre-Orders so changes cannot be made to them. As of friday this week (7th June) we will be charging ALL cards on those orders. If your card fails to charge, your order will be entirely forfeit, so please get this fixed ASAP (Reach out to me at [email protected] for any support here). If you rectify this after we send our final numbers off to our manufacturer then you could potentially miss out on recieivng any physical rewards from Faerie at all!

Due to the nature of Backerkits Pre-Order capability this will mean we will stop taking digitial Pre-Orders too but we will replace this with a link to our digitial storefront where all of our PDFs will be available (including a Faerie Pre-Order right up until publication!). More on that in a later update to come!

Okay, now the housekeeping is out of the way, a general update: In a previous update we mentioned a tentative June distribution deadline and as you may have guessed we haven't hit that, however there are no major delays you need to worry about. We are still on track for our original more general Summer distribution start!

However, as you all know I never like to come empty handed so I have delved deep into the bestiary and torn some pages a sunder for you to view! I present the official art for three of Faeries Fearsome Foes:

The Shellycoat - A strange creature that collects bits and pieces from fallen warriors, covering itself in their armour.
The Screaming Skull - A particularly horrifying brand of undead that pulls on the numerous british myths of cursed relics and skulls across the isles.
The Wulver - Strange Lupine Faeries that don't shift back and forth like a werewolf but permenantly exist in a horrifying amalgamation of beast and man.

Those updates are all for me for this week! As always if you need any support with your order, feel free to reach out to us via our support email [email protected]. Or if you just fancy a chat we'd love for you to pop over to our Discord!

Have a wonderful week guys!
Aston