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wip (wanted to try some interaction stuff. Here's Ossie with Simon!)

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Faymen u_u (is just an idea of his design. He looks so grayed out!)

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Shamiren expressions

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Here they are side by side!

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Colored Simon!

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Shamiren!!

an oldish artwork I made of her.

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Colored Ossie + Extra Stuff

I put some color on er! I have a green variant of this design, though I feel like I like the brown/orange better.

Green Version ^ The brown/orange verson kinda speaks to her personality a bit more in my opinion. In the culture of the people of Neyhos, green represents new beginnings and red represents bravery. So, I thought a redder color scheme suited her best! Also, an extra thing:

This is Fiyat Neyhos- translated to "The Celebration of the New Home". The people of Neyhos wear gowns reflecting their journey from the Godlands to Neyhos. The black pants are for the suffering mortals endured through their migration, the red represents their bravery, the green represents finding their new home (and a new beginning), and the gold represents a "self divinity" of some kind. On to some popular foods! Yodis Pan- a sweet and soft bread made out of rice flour, it's typically filled with meats and steamed veggies and topped with a rich sauce with an umami taste. Sprinkled on top are kep seeds. Sturn Pui- is a sweet treat eaten during Fiyat Neyhos. Its likeness is after the famous Archival Towers. Sturn means tower. This sweet treat is soft with a thick, flavored filling on the inside. Borafis- Rainbow Fish. It's only eaten during Fiyat Neyhos, the capture and consumption of the borafis is illegal during any other time. It's popular for its blue meat and interesting taste. It's said that witnessing a lone borafis with shiny scales brings good luck.

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Ossie Design Evolution

Ossie was an interesting character to develop, I was actually going to cut her from the story completely! She was supposed to be some rambunctious hunter kid, though most of that kinda stayed the same.

Here is her first design: (She's the one on the right). She was actually supposed to be Virian's sister, but there were some complications with her character VS the story, and I almost decided to remove her entirely at this point. In this version of the story, her and Virian are supposed to be the kids of the chief warrior of their village. Ossie is completely comfortable with where she lives, but Virian wants more. I really wanted Ossie to join Virian on his adventure, but I wasn't sure how to make her do that. Some changes would have to be made.

Ossie's second design is here: (She's to the right again, ignore Virian.) I aged her up a bit (she's probably 20-ish in this iteration, but with the art style she looks like a teen). I thought it would be cool to lean more into that hunter vibe by giving her different pouches and weapons. Instead of a monkey, she was now a honey badger. I gave her the desire to kill gods, because (in her words) she wants to know what a god tastes like. I also gave her an animal companion, which would help the group travel places faster, though I don't know where I can find any artwork of the animal at this time. My inspiration for this iteration was Link from botw, and Toph from Avatar. However, I still wasn't totally happy with how she looked.

Whenever I imagined Ossie. I imagined her to be larger than the other two of the group. She needed to look strong, but also pretty heavy. I was not used to drawing characters of this body type, so it was time to start learning.

The art here is an exploration of her body type, and the type of clothes she'd wear. She was still too thin for my liking though, but she was getting closer to what I imagined her to be. As for her style, I still wanted to keep the hunter appearance. I kept her wild hair but I didn't like her bandaged shoes so I gave her sandals. I feel that she would now be the type to not worry too much about footwear that covers her feet entirely, she's a honey badger, she's got thick skin. You can also see me experimenting with her hairstyle. I though short hair would suit her fine.

Here, I have a close up of her face. I don't quite like it much. It doesn't quite match the vibe I was going for. You can see that her shoulders are a lot broader than they were in the previous iterations of her, and I was experimenting more with the ponytail (not quite a ponytail though, is it?). She still had a bit of ways to go design wise.

Here's her newest iteration! It's not fully colored yet but I'll get to it. For this design, I gave her longer hair. I really like the look of long, wild hair on characters, and since the other two of the group have shorter hair, I thought that a character with long, wild hair would help her stand out a bit more (as if she doesn't already). There, you can see my different clothing design ideas for her. I can honestly see her wearing all of those, just for different occasions. My favorite of the clothing iterations is the top right one, where she wears a fur coat. Did you know that she made that weapon herself? It's one of her hobbies to create her own hunting weapons. Sometimes its out of the bones of her prey. I'll probably keep tweaking it a bit more, but this design is the one I'm happiest with at the moment!

Special Mention!!

This is Ossie's travel companion. She named her Simon when they were both young. I realized that the group was missing something for faster travel (because this story involves a lot of traveling), so I decided to create a large animal to help with that. Simon is a omnivorous, fire-breathing goat creature. I don't exactly know the species name, but they probably just call them goats. She's smart and loyal and seems to understand a bit of speech. Though she can also be a bit aloof. These types of goats require a stern, yet loving owner who's willing to properly train it.

So, that's about everything! I hope you enjoyed having that journey with me! Now, it's back to work.

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Super super super sloppy height chart of these demigods. Sylphen is obvious outlier being the largest and most different in design. When it comes to these people of the world, they're all anthropomorphic animals, and then there's humans as well (like Shamiren is a human, so is Elifhian, but her demigod form gives her deer legs.) The anthropomorphic animals and the humans are all considered one people, just different races (not different species). They are able to mix, but probably don't do it often.

I made it this way because I was originally inspired by Cult of The Lamb, and because it had cute animals, I wanted to use the same concept. I was also inspired by Hollow Knight. So those two were my original inspirations for the worldbuilding and magic of "The New World Prophecy".

The original concept was basically: Gods have a race to collect the most followers and gain the most power. I didn't have a concept of how many gods there were in the world (I do now). The main characters were "Angel", a silent character named "Mossbog" who is both based on a mosscreep from Hollow Knight and Leshy from Cult of the Lamb, they're a follower of the "Moss and Earth Demigod", who apparently used to be the "God of Nature" until her sister stole that title from her in a battle. Then there's a character named "Braidy", she was supposed to be an edgy character who's goal is to kill all the gods.

All of this was what the concept was supposed to be, but of course it all changed now. Mossbog is no longer the main character, and Braidy turned into someone completely different. The Moss & Earth Demigod no longer exists, and "Angel's" name is now Shamiren.

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Finished Design of Shamiren at the moment! I stayed up a bit too late for this.

Some sketches on Shamiren. I put "soul magic" in quotes because that's just a placeholder name. "Soul Weapons" are also a placeholder name for what those are (they are weapons, but they're probably not called "soul weapons.")

I like the sketch of her summoning the "soul weapons", so I may create a full art piece of it when I can.

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Old design here! I had two named for the character. Mayohori, or Angel.

I called them Angel as a placeholder name. At this time of the story, I wasn't sure about the gender. I am much more certain about it now.

Newer Design, but I did not work on the wings much. I decided to give her the name "Shamiren". Which, in her old culture, comes from their goddess "Shamira", who created the entire world.

Also, I figured out what gender she'd have after some time of consideration.

Here's an artwork of her and her lover. I decided to change the design of the lover a little, (her name is Elifhian.) I will work on Elifhian's design eventually!!!

Newest wing design of Shamiren. I decided to model her wings after sparrows, I like the shape, and I think it looks nice on her. Now I just need to create a colored version of this design. __ Shamiren and Elifhian are both "demigods".

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Virian- a 14 year old kid. He is supposed to be the main character (or one of them) of the story. He lives in the city; Neyheimus, in what the gods call "The Godless Territories" or "The Mortals' Land". The people who live there just call it Neyhos. Ney- new

Heim- home

Hos- from 'hostel' meaning territory or land

Concept art of Yin-Tuk (the Demigod of Nature.) They were a bear who changed with their environment.

Concept art of a dead god. It's rather inaccurate in my opinion, they should be a lot larger maybe.

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Some recent character designs! (They have been altered a little bit.) They belong to a little tale I may or may not finish, huehuehuehue... Was in an art stump for a while, these guys got me out of it. :)