I am looking forward to this chapter since we will be covering some new material that we never really explained or showed in the original roleplay. This is more of a thoughtful re-imagining to fill in the gaps.
Poor Dallas can never catch a break it seems.
Don’t worry, the next page (first page, second issue!) is in the works, so we’re nearly to the end of our filler pages!
This time we’re showcasing the Archmagister, Tenaryth Willowquille, the head of the Magister’s Consortium.
“Magic is just technology we don’t yet understand” is the theme behind the Magisters of Kowloon. Magic in the Shattered Universe is a weird and fickle thing, often relying on a series of circumstances unachievable to the average Tatiya, and neigh-impossible for the human populace, to the point where the arts have gained a mythology all their own.
The Magisters are chartered to bridge this gap – to study magic, and implement it into a technological form. Most of Kowloon’s ships employ some form of the Magister’s art, whether in the form of living trees that act as the heart of their space vessels, in navigation systems that ply the Delphic Flow, in intricately detailed guns that can throw sorcery as bullets, or even in enchanted body armor capable of stopping them.
When the Humans came to the Shattered Universe, they discovered a wealth of systems that did not operate on their conventional rules – and understanding those new rules, and manipulating them to their advantage, is how the Kowlani Tatiya Hina have maintained their authority, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
Hey folks, here we are again with filler week 3.
Like I said; we’re coming up on issue 2, moving like clockwork. There’s only one more week of downtime before we launch the first page of issue 2, and I’ve been particularly enjoying working on it. It’s the artwork that does it for me; it’s great to watch Nicoy turn our script into magic.
Some things to look forward in issue 2;
And that’s just a few of the things we’ve got coming for you this issue. 😉
So this week we’ve got another filler page – but don’t worry your pretty heads about that one. We’re coming close to the end of our filler months, and we’ve got most of the character references ordered. Just one remains.
Now I expect you know what that means – issue two is going to be a bit more of a ride than issue one, with a few more characters and a good deal more shenannigans. We’ve been working on the script for the next five pages, and I have to say I’m very proud of that script. I think we’ve learned a lot from issue one, and we’re getting towards the story’s main conflict in issue two.
Look forward to it. I do.
It’s a been a fun Issue! I wrote this roleplay scene with Mike over a year ago and our setting was named differently. But, this is still our writing. We made a lot of little changes but the story is mostly intact, some of the visual are different, mainly involving Voss and Sintija. But I enjoy this comic as its own beast. Issue 2 is actually getting into some things that we never roleplayed out so it will be new material that hopefully explains some of the things that are to follow!
We affectionately call this whole segment of “Song of Asteria”, the “Song of Hope” since these installments are focused on Lukina and her mentality.
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