Preview: The Severed Hand
Relicblade: Severed Hand Faction Set preview renders
Greetings friends,
It is already the middle of October! Sheeeeesh! It’s been kind of crazy around here. Family life seriously stalled my pre-Kickstarter progress. My beautiful wife broke her foot, so a lot of my effort went into managing the household and caring for my best friend. No complaints from me!
Life delayed the Severed Hand faction for Relicblade, and the sculptures took a couple of weeks longer than I expected. But I am excited to share this preview of these new characters.
Enjoy this special WIP look at these upcoming Relicblade characters!
The Severed Hand
There has only been the most minor reference to the Severed Hand in the past. When I re-printed the Legends 1 card pack in color, there was one open space to bring the pack up to 10 cards. I used the opportunity to make the character “Verin Six-Fingers, Captain of the Severed Company.”
The Severed Hand has existed since my earliest conception of the Relicblade world. But we haven’t seen any of them until today. It is an odd experience to have so much Relicblade in my mind, but the process of actually making things takes ages.
The Severed Hand is a Neutral faction of seafaring mercenaries.
Saber Wolf preview render.
Saber Wolf
The ancient lands of Kemora sit across the South Sea. Over the past century, Kemen Merchant Lords established vital trade routs and built a prosperous network between desperate allied cities. Transporting goods in the twilight age is dangerous work, and accordingly, it requires the help of dangerous men.
A uniquely Kemen martial tradition was born in the seafaring Saber Wolves. Saber Wolves are hearty sailors and vicious fighters. They carry massive curved swords, exotic explosives, a ferocious reputation.
Tiger Claws
There are few tradable commodities more valuable than information. Trade routs are vital lifelines for the movement of both goods and news from surrounding kingdoms. In dangerous times, powerful secrets must be moved with extreme care. The Tiger Claws are an organization with legendary integrity. These messengers are as secretive and dangerous as their namesake, the mythical tigers of the Kemen jungles.
The Tiger Claws are rogues who famously operate in teams to achieve their secretive missions.
Sea Mistress
Sea Mistresses are powerful sorcerers with an innate connection to the ocean. For seafaring adventurers and traders, there is no higher honor than serving under a magician with a mastery of the seas. When Darkness fell over the Kemora, the Sea Mistresses became key leaders of the trade companies now severed from the Kemen Lords.
The Severing of Kemora
In a cruel instant, the lands of Kemora were cursed by an otherworldly darkness. The golden age of Kemen trade came crashing down as deadly horrors overwhelmed and conquered a dozen cities at once. Skull faced monsters now sat in the seats of power. The merchant fleets, once known as Hands of Kemora, were thrown into chaos. Most companies fled across the Kemen Sea to their hidden outposts in the Alfor islands. Even with the Kemen trade fleet intact, the balance of power was destroyed.
The fractured remnants of the merchant fleet reorganized into mercenary bands. Some dedicated themselves to the service of Darkness, while others violently opposed it. There is no governing body over the the Severed Hand. The mercenary ships scattered across the south sea and beyond. Their talents were finely honed in a golden age of trade, but cruel fate has sent them into a dangerous age of adventure.
Relicblade Kickstarter?
I haven’t set a date for the upcoming Kickstarter campaign. I just finished sculpting the Severed Hand miniatures and I will start production on those immediately. But I still have a lot of artwork to do and videos to make before a Kickstarter page would be ready to launch.
I wanted to put up the campaign in October. But because of delays I don’t expect to launch it this month. I am working on getting everything ready. But there are a lot of delicate moving parts and I strive to deliver Kickstarter rewards without hitting snags. So it’s worth taking a little extra time to get my pigs in a row.
Thanks for taking some time to read through this update. Lots of love,
Sean.
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