Karthun Concept Art: The Illyn
One more post of concept work to hold you over while I freelance this week. I cleaned up and added color to a few sketches and I thought you might like to see them with the Karthun Kickstarter in it’s final days.
Today I present the patron race of Elinar, The Goddess of music, light, and beauty: The Illyn (Eye-line) and their estranged siblings, The Diminished.
Elinar and Valkyre (now the Mother of the Dead) were once sisters. Technically they still are but when Sehad was attacked and left for dead, Elinar was the first to discover Sehad moments from death. The Lady of Light did everything within her power to save Sehad but she was too late. Valkyre arrived moments after Sehad’s final breathe, falling into a grief-driven rage and accusing Elinar of incompetence and jealousy over she and Sehad’s love. Elinar pleaded with her sister to see reason but Valkyre’s rage boiled over and she attacked her sister, scarring her face badly (scars she still carries) and swearing a promise of vengeance on The Lady of Light that The Mother of the Dead still intends to fulfill someday.
The new arc begins on Monday and we’ll be back on schedule.
And as anyone who has ever read Greek, Norse, or any of a zillion other mythologies can tell you:
The best pantheons are just sitting in the waiting room, waiting for their turn on the couch.
For some reason I read Panty-thons. But thats a whole other set of myths.
These sound awesome. are they races in any table top or are they currently of your own design. If they are I would love to get all the specs on them. They look like they would be awesome to play
It’s his Karthun setting! It’s in the description, but here’s the kickstarter for you anyway.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandandsteam/karthun-lands-of-conflict
If you see this Brian I have just a quick thing to say.
I do apologize if this is going to be annoying on any side of this but Im one of the folks who asked about the paypal support for the kickstarter for your Karthun setting and there seemed to be something wrong with it, though possibly just for me, I dont know.
I got a link from you over facebook and someone also posted one to one of my comments here but for whatever reason, maybe its just me, but the when I click the button on the page all it does is take me to paypals website rather than the pay-page I would normally see when sending paypal money and there is never anything there indicating that I am trying to send funds, its just their default homepage or if Ive logged in my account as it is.
For reference I clicked the adventurer international one since thats the level I wanted to back and I live in Canada.
Given that theres only a couple days left I still would like to put my support in if at all possible.
Its possible that for some reason it only is a problem for me, I honestly dont know I just know that it is still occurring as of my writing this.
And again I do apologize on the chance this could be irritating to fix or anything.
Not irritating at all! Shoot me at email brian at d20monkey dot com and I’ll get with Tracy to get you set up. Sorry for the hassle!
Thanks to both of you for taking the time to fix it.
That’s all kinds of awesome. Everything I see from you guys about this makes me more and more glad I got in on the kickstarter.
So…The Mother of the Dead is the baddie, then? IF so, hasn’t the trope of Death God = Bad been done to…uh…been over-used? Howzabout a death-deity (spirit, psychopomp, whatever) who, though feared, is nonetheless considered “good”, and in its own way, beloved, because it ultimately brings relief when suffering can no longer be borne?
Just spitballing, here.
Pathfinder has a Neutral Death Deity that is for the most part viewed that way.
And I think it is less of her being evil as it is simply she is more revenge oriented. A wonderful sign that even the gods aren’t flawless.
The Mother of the Dead isn’t specifically mustache-twirling evil but she is cold (as death always is) and she carries a grudge (a few actually). She is a goddess once devoted to valor who lost the love of her life. Grief is a powerful emotion for mortals, so imagine the effect it has on a goddess. That’s what I am going for with the pantheon: They are just as flawed as the mortals who worship them. The Mother reigns over death and she is feared, but most of her warped sensibilities are born of a desire to protect. She truly sees herself as a mother, overly protecting the souls of the dead once they cross over into her domain.
That could lead to some pretty interesting cults and take on the death thing. Splinter groups that are actually all right with dying because they know they’ll be loved and embraced on the other side.
I wonder if the Mother has more sympathy for lovers seperated in similar situations as she was seperated from her beloved.
Wait, this is going to be resolved with six friends and the elements of harmony, right?
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Loving this, Brian. Can’t wait for the full book.
I’m thinking four friends and that one weird guy that uses “Heart”
“By your powers combined, I am Captain Karthun!”
Played, of course, by Don Cheadle
Pretty cool stuff. Looking forward to reading about it all eventually.
So… now I’m picturing a Diminished decked out in jewellery made from Illyn Heartstones…
Hello, I’m a new addition to the readerbase and I was just wondering if there is a way to purchase the Karthun sourcebook or pdf version of it once it releases or if it is now impossible since the kickstarter has closed. Apologies if this question is constantly asked I just couldn’t find an answer thusfar.
Absolutely. I’ll make an announcement once we have the books in hand. We ordered extras.