Hello!! If you've been following me for any length of time you might remember that I've been busy working on my debut graphic novel! Today, I can announce the series title: DRAGONFORGED! And Book 1 is Sword of the Champion!
Above are pics from the Advance Reading Copy, which I received from my publisher over the weekend. (The final book will be in full color, but I thought it'd be fun to give you guys a lil taste.)
Dragonforged is set in the kingdom of Draeland, which fell to the evil Fiendlord 100 years before the main story. But the Goddess who watches over this realm has chosen a new hero to banish the darkness...
It's a story that harkens back to some of my favorite stuff growing up including games like The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest and old-school Final Fantasy, combined with my love of fight scenes and silly faces, lol.
I hope to share more in the coming months!!!!!!!!!!
so @askzloyxp gave us like 5 minutes of chef content in the DragonForge and I immediately raced to rewatch the twilight forest video. chef!sloy beloved.
Okay, a few years back I made this graphic to explain the Great Cycle. Now that I've mulled over DD2 for a few days, I'm updating it. Some of the same assumptions as before remain: The Dragonforged fought the dragon, his weapon broke, he tried punching it (lmao), but he did survive without killing the dragon, possibly there was a second Bargain offered in the face of his determination. So you don't have to kill your dragon to survive it. Also still assuming that different classes become different types of drakes because I just like that detail, even though we see nothing to confirm it in DD2 (except maybe for the wyrms in the post-game, I hope that's what those are, just a bit redesigned).
But this time, I'm making some NEW assumptions: A Great Dragon can be manifested directly by the Seneschal's will (I'm guessing this is why our DD2 dragon doesn't have a name, I suspect this dragon was created after Rothais defeated his - he didn't become a dragon OR Seneschal so it had to come from somewhere). The challenge a Seneschal poses to the Arisen can be anything; Savan gave us the opening of the Everfall and unleashed a ton of powerful monsters upon the world; but Pathfinder gave us what the world would look like without a Seneschal to oversee things. My assumption is that the Colossal Dragon that appears out of that final red pillar of light IS the Pathfinder (possibly using his will to force order back upon the world) and when we kill it, our Arisen becomes Seneschal (because Pathfinder says he won't be there to see the new world that's forming). So the challenge can be anything, not just the Everfall. I'm curious what happens to our pawn after that fight, though. And it's a much better Seneschal fight than the one against Savan, sorry Savan.
I'm also assuming that (given we see the Pathfinder rewind time and rewrite the world) the Seneschal can simply will the world into a state of being that suits them. This includes wiping memories of events. Though I like to imagine that our Arisen-turned-Seneschal didn't wipe memories of themselves or of the apocalypse-world. There was an entire plotline going through this game with Rothais and Phaesus where mortals are trying to get rid of the Seneschal and so it makes sense that they need to remember what would happen without the Seneschal's presence.
Anyway, thanks. I'll probably have more thoughts later, but this is the part that gets me most. I like to know how things work so I wanted to sort the Cycle out.
I love this game because you'll be panicking over the sudden appearance of a health bar and boss music... then the next thing you see is a griffin nosediving right into the brine.
Oh my fuck, I just attacked the Dragonforged on accident. Neither he nor his pawn did anything about it, I just heard the affinity declining sound effect. Idk it's funny for me because his whole Story is about him isolating himself out of fear of the emotional pitfalls of human connection, and now that I've attacked him I can only hear him saying "hot damn, I was right all along. This bitch just attacked me and I didn't even do anything to her wtf"