War Golem Foundry

In much the same way we ended up using the Chronolord because of art that Sergei gave us for Merge Dungeon, the war golem you see in this art came from that game as well.  We figured a worthy upgrade to the stone golems we had in the original set was a metal golem, and it just played very well with what we had.  We actually had an alternate version of the war golem, which we’ll perhaps show off as a part of the Kickstarter when it comes time.

Disintegration Field

Disintegration Ray was one of those cards that was gentle, and we sort of liked that it was that way.  Even though these are torture chambers, we didn’t want to go too crazy with the changes.  Instead, we just added a qualifier where, if the adventurer this card damages dies, the party’s trip through the dungeon continues.  Any time you might trigger additional chambers is risky, after all!

Plague Rat Den

Our lowest damage chamber from the original set also gets a new upgrade.  Changing our rats to plague rats was an easy enough aesthetic change (and again, we pulled from our Merge Dungeon game for inspiration).  We also just added a point of damage, and increased the mana cost to make it competitive with other cards in this set.

Red Dragon’s Lair

The Red Dragon joins Quantum Quest’s heavy hitters, standing tall enough to eat some of our adventurers in one bite.  With a qualifying mechanic that allows the chamber to deal up to five damage to an adventurer, this one is no joke.  And of course, even if the player does have the prerequisite to avoid the extra damage, they still take three.  It’s pretty rough!

Well, that’s going to be it for us for now.  We’re still working on getting the Kickstarter together, so keep your eyes peeled for that.  If you’re looking to stay updated, you can subscribe to the Black Furnace Games mailing list here.

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We’ll start off with the sketch of Kelvin.  Now a lot of people who have seen the Reinforcements box art will notice that it’s an older Kelvin who we featured, and he didn’t have the green domino mask.  So why give him one here?  Well, when Kelvin was younger, he wore the green mask as “The Emerald Adder” – and sure, there’s no reason why he should have had it with him if he was babified, but hey… I’m having fun with this so it works!

Then let’s look at the next step, a black and white version.  You should totally check out Cristiano’s artstation site at the bottom there too.

Here you can see all the green you’d expect, mixed with a fair amount of brown that really works for the character.  Some day I’ll get a version of this where he has his green cloak, but the cloak itself won’t have shrunk, haha.

And here we have the full version with a nice background that’s reminiscent of his adventurer card from the Reinforcements pack.  Cristiano did a lovely job with this one.  Just don’t forget—we have one last piece of the set to show off!  Stay tuned in a few weeks and we’ll be back!

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We’re leveraging the talent of Cristiano Reina once again, and he comes right out of the gate with another awesome look at one of our characters.  Suja is a troll assassin, but she looks positively adorable rather than deadly in this piece.

The color Cristiano uses just 100% pops, making Suja look like she’s having a great time.  Her outfit is perfect, and she has just the right amount of sass.

So it’s just a quick post today, but of course it’s an awesome one.  Suja leads the pack with her confidence and snarkiness.  I’m very excited to show off our other two characters!  Check back in about a month and we’ll have a new one to show off!

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So, regrettably, Hozure doesn’t really have the availability to work with Tellest anymore.  He got an incredible job offer, and that meant that we had to move on from his exact style.  That said, I think we found worthy successors in both Dennis Van Kessel, and in Cristiano Reina.  The latter was the one who we picked up for these cute little chibi versions of our newest QQ Babies.

He did a remarkable job bringing our characters to life.  That said, there were still a few things we had to tweak here and there…

While Bho’zak is an orc, he isn’t the traditional green-skinned one you might see from older fantasy works.  He has brown skin, so we needed that reflected properly.

Here’s our little orc geomancer in all his glory.  He’s just the first of our four box art characters to be turned from an adult into a baby, and we could not be more enthusiastic about the new style.  Cristiano did a great job, and we’re excited to show off the other adventurers.  Check back in a few weeks to see them!

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Those first three are all characters that have been written about, and the fourth character received her very name because of an ancient queen who once ruled in her country, so there’s a lot of established lore to fall back on.  Let’s see more about them.

Conrad the Blessed was mentioned as having things that he was accountable for in As Darkness Falls, but he became a bit more important in The Enemy Within before he was given his own story with Blessings and Curses.  He has a lot that he’s going to have to do in the future, so it’ll be interesting to write about him—but will it be more fun to play with him in your party?  You’ll have to wait until QQ Blue is released to find out!

Kelvin Drakos is one of the oldest characters we have in our game and our series.  Along with Alicia Mane, he’s been around since the beginning.  Most recently, he’s been the protagonist in the Silver Serpent debut novel, as well as the upcoming Heart of the Forest.

Lucinda is a relatively new character, comparatively speaking.  She debuted in the sequel to Mageborn, Transformed.  This saucy older sorceress is a master of transformative magic (though less so than making lewd comments to handsome gentlemen).  I like having her in the game, since it goes to show you that heroism comes in all forms and ages.

Finally, we have Ylva Tychos.  Tall, slender, completely new to the Tellest universe.  That said, her namesake comes from the old dwarven queen in Rhianna DeAngelo’s Midwinter Requiem.  This Ylva has got her own stories to make, and it’ll be interesting to see if anyone picks up that writing task in the future.  We’ll see!

That’s it for our human heroes from this new set.  I hope that if you liked these characters from the books, you were excited to see them show up in Quantum Quest.  We’ll be back in three weeks to show off the Kaja, a quartet of new and varied heroes from around the world of Tellest.

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We have a fun treat for you today.  We’ve already shown off the cover art of the Quantum Quest expansion on the Kickstarter for the original game, but what we didn’t show off was the process to make it as awesome as it is.  Well, we can change that right now!

We gave Leo the four characters that were going to be getting the star treatment (as well as the new headliner background) and he gave us a rough sketch.  We could already tell we were going to love what we were working with.

A little more detail made everything pop that much more.  The magic effects look even cooler, and our two ranged adventurers look ready to throw down with the best of them.

Here you have the full piece.  Leo truly outdid himself here, and we were blown away by his work.  We’re very excited to show off more from this game over the next few months, so keep an eye out!

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