In Tellest, there are some things that are a bit beyond the existential. We’ve seen the Nexus, which connects the waking world with the afterlife, in addition to serving as a means for the gods to travel about the world in short bursts. \u00a0What we decided to do was add another layer of impossible to the world. \u00a0Whereas the Nexus affects space and mortality, the Void encompasses space and\u00a0time<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yes, time travel is a part of Tellest now. \u00a0In a lot of ways, it always was. \u00a0But we’ll get to that more later. \u00a0You can see that draft of the cover up there. \u00a0That’s the one we passed on. \u00a0We gave Leo the opportunity to create a character from scratch here, and he gave us two versions of a kind of “mad wizard” or “mad crone” to choose from. \u00a0We ultimately settled on our crone:<\/p>\n This is Nyrshia, the eponymous Keeper of the Void. \u00a0She’s not really female, but beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. \u00a0She (it?) chooses to represent itself the way it does so that she can interact with us on a level that we would understand.<\/p>\n You can also see the orbs in the cover as well. \u00a0These are the ways that we’ve bound all our previous stories together.<\/p>\n Here, you can see that idea beginning to take shape. \u00a0Since time is all relative, events sort of float around in the Void, ready to be observed\u2014but rarely manipulated.<\/p>\n In this version of the cover, Nyrshia has been fleshed out a little bit more, and we’ve added the other big character to the story, a lad named Rhys who is a capable soldier that happens upon the Void.<\/p>\n The orbs are filled, as well, with the covers of the stories that we’ve written before. \u00a0You’ll see that The Bindings of Fate is in there as well, though it doesn’t fit in the Tales of Tellest collection\u2014if we threw that in there, we’d have to put the other Child of the Stars trilogy books in there, and we’d be looking at around 1,800 pages worth of content, and this collection is supposed to go to paperback!<\/p>\n We took a step back to our monochrome cover just so that we could indicate which stories should have gone where. \u00a0We kept our most popular stories in the biggest bubbles, and eagerly awaited the unfolding of Leo’s own brand of magic.<\/p>\n This was the finished version of the cover, sans filled orbs. \u00a0Nyrshia is a bit more imposing in her finished form. \u00a0Leo captured the look of this character so exquisitely as someone who could be so disarmingly fragile but so powerful to behold at the same time. Rhys, meanwhile, looks a\u00a0bit more brooding.<\/p>\n![\"cover_2\"](\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cover_2.jpg\")
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