Happy Spooky Season, everyone!  This month's dev update is a bit shorter, as we have several large things that are still in progress. But we have some lovely tidbits to show you in the meantime!

The Writing/Coding Department:

I'm still working on writing Robin's route and plotting the Sherwood routes in general. We got some great feedback from our Discord backer community about a heist scene I'm working on. The three Sherwood leads will have unique roles in the plan, and you'll get to accompany a different lead on each route. 

I'm also finishing up Geoffrey's lore story for the Mega-Guide (I finally figured out what to do with it!) and making some large edit's to Robin's lore story. Both of them will be posted to our beta testers on Discord as a preview shortly. If you're a beta tester and haven't connected with us on Discord yet, please feel free to join us and drop me a note in the #i-need-beta-access channel!

The Art Department:

I'd like to introduce two more of our backer-designed characters! Arraspo has done a lovely job translating our backer designs into characters.

Here's Nell, the Sherwood rebellion's tailor, who you've probably met in the Sherwood demo. Backer Oui Je Danse supplied her design concept and a very cool backstory that you'll learn about in the unpublished part of the Sherwood common route.

And here's Roan, a changeling who has joined the Sherwood rebellion out of curiosity about the human society they've just joined. In my world, changelings are made by choice, and are either adult humans who have been chosen to live in Faerie or fae who have chosen to forsake their immortal lives and live as humans. Backer Charlene C. gave Roan their design concept and decided that in their former life they were a fox beastling fae. They certainly look foxlike!

Our final two backer characters are Hugh, the leader of the Grey Wolves faction in Nottingham and Issa, who is Lord Geoffrey's cousin from Nibiru. They will be completed during our Nottingham development phase.

We also have a preview of our gorgeous tarot card designs, by Lawrichai.  This sure does look better than the blank screen we have in the current Nottingham demo! I love the way Lawri mixed Avalon and Nibirian cultural concepts in the cards.

The final tarot reading scene will have animations and cards that are a bit more defined against the background.

That's our main news for October. November should have more substantial news. We do have some art progress that I'm not showing y'all, because I'm holding some things back for release. Our background and creature artist Sandra is currently working on some super neat stuff, but it's a secret.