Chapter 5 Special
Chapter: Chapter 5: The Inverted Eye
It always feels a little weird to me to draw characters with a different hairstyle than their norm.
There will be two more specials covering the daemons. At the end of next chapter, we’ll be learning more about their elemental abilities, and the chapter after will cover society and culture. Oh, yes, and if you don’t remember the term ‘freezing,’ it’s covered in chapter four’s special.
Heh, judging by the look on that demon’s face no amount of mystic powers can compensate for getting frozen as a teenager for the rest of his (un)natural life.
Also, really enjoying your colouring work on Shivae, particularly Mura’s pretty orange stripes.
Well, Anor has a naturally grumpy face, but yeah. When I first started work on this story (way, way too many years ago) I didn’t put a whole lot of thought into that aspect of it, but as I got older I started thinking this was one of the most evil things I have ever done to characters in my stories. Forget all the blood, death, and monsters, the true horror they face is being a permanent teenager. It actually has had effects on their society- age is everything! Those who froze at older ages (such as the late-twenties crowd) enjoy a higher social status than the teenaged daemons. It’s not an official hierarchy that’s enforced or anything, it just happens since the ‘older’ daemons are more emotionally mature and therefore seen as more reliable (which is not always necessarily true).
Ah, and thank you! I’m glad you like my Shivae colouring! It’s a lot of fun to work on. 🙂
What happens when a daemon speaks a pun involving words that don’t sound similar in the listener’s language? Could things like that result in something like a “static”/ “break” equivalent for tongues?
Things like wordplay could either: a) default to something similar in the listener’s language or b) if there’s no similar equivalent, it just wouldn’t make sense, kind of like trying to run a joke through google translate.