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Our Guardian of the Void is supposed to be a pseudo reference to one of the characters in the short story Keeper of the Void, which sort of bookended the other stories in Tales of Tellest. \u00a0In that tale, a fellow named Vedas with cobalt skin and golden armor led the thief Rhys through the Void, which is a central place where time flows through.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, our description ended up making the game’s guardian look a little too much like the Night King from Game of Thrones. We decided to make this guardian a different color, and we messed around with some of the colors a few times before we landed where we wanted to.<\/p>\n Because the guardians aren’t necessarily evil, we decided to go with a bit of white along with the copious amounts of red. \u00a0Above all else, they’re supposed to protect the stream of time. \u00a0With all those heroes coming from all over Tellest, and from different points of time, this fellow has a lot of work ahead of him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hand of Fate<\/strong><\/p>\n Hand of Fate is one of our special cards. \u00a0It isn’t one that can be owned, and it has some game-changing effects. \u00a0It essentially removes one of the heroes from the living dungeon, and swaps them out with another one from Tellest’s vast timeline. \u00a0It can be incredibly helpful if you’re doing poorly, but if you have a tight, well-functioning group, losing one of you more important pieces can be a real pain!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Icy Aetherite<\/strong><\/p>\n Tellest’s aetherites are a magic-based race that essentially make up the genies and a few lesser known people. \u00a0We may see these characters crop up as playable adventurers way down the line, but for now, there are a few who have been trapped in the living dungeon for far longer than they would have liked. \u00a0That kind of isolation and punishment can drive you mad, and this poor fellow has no problem letting out his frustration on the adventurers who want to control the dungeon in order to ensure their survival.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ironbark Arborescent<\/strong><\/p>\n This was\u00a0another one of the chambers that we ended up changing a little bit. \u00a0The arborescents are Tellest’s treefolk, and it makes up things like treants, dryads, and so forth. \u00a0This particular tree person is a big, mean sentinel in the dungeon, suffering the same madness that our poor aetherite is.<\/p>\n We needed to make a few changes to this dendroid, however. \u00a0He has his face a bit lower than what I would have expected, and he’s got a little bit of a butt on him. \u00a0As it stands, too much of his head is in his torso, so we ended up asking Sergei for some changes.<\/p>\n He ended up touching up the arborescent nicely, and thinned him out as well. \u00a0The change ends up making him look a little peeved off, too, which just ended up helping us with the feeling we were trying to convey.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Guardian-of-the-Void.png\")
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