Term 7 - Malcom

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This will be for my personal project.
Project Core Gem

Hopefully with some community help I can make this project better and better so don't be shy to ask me questions on anything and giving suggestions.

Quick NOTE: I will be writing a lot of lore stuff below and editing as I go along. You can skip reading this and go straight to the characters which I'll provide mini lore for.

"Setting"
Imagine a fantasy like world but in the future. The world is similar to earth but with its own distinct features such as having 2 moons and 2 suns among other things
"The World"
There are 5 main nations of power. (names still a "Work in Progress")
Regit(Re-git) Safari like land
Sumadan(Su-ma-dan)
Rio Ora(Ree-oh-Or-ah) Water Land
Zaigo(Zai-go)
Tanrudia(Tan-ru-di-ah)

People born with Gems can wield magic and summon spirits in battle.
Each of the nations have there own warriors called "Paragons"

"Paragons..."
Are people born with the ability to use magic and gem power. An easy way to distinct a paragon from any ol regular person is by the the gems embedded on there bodies(sketches of this to come in the future) Paragons have the ability to use different Gem types:
Elemental, Special and Common (System is still a Work in Progress)
Elemental Types: Fire, Water, Lighting, Nature(grass), Earth, Air, Stars, Dark, Light and Ice
Fusing Types can make for more abilities in battle.
Special Gems: Teleportation, Dimensional shifting, Healing
Common Gem: Flight, Enhancement and (I need more ideas)
Playing with different ideas
"They are born with being Emitters, Conjuring, or enhancers"

Spirits:
There are 4 Spirit types
Legendary Spirits, Beast Spirits, Titan Spirits and Common Spirits
Common spirits are the spirits most Paragons have access to and are the easiest to control.

This is the world up to this point. It took me a little over a month to find something I like and hopefully stick with. So far things have been fun. The first post in this thread will be host to Lore related bits as I will update this in the future so stay tuned.

Story ideas will be posted below to allow people to chime in and vote on what they like best.
Thank you for reading this if you did. Any thoughts, opinions, ideas you may have you can let me know.

Next post story ideas

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The campaign/Story ideas

A large world with at least a couple of distinct and varied cultures
Several hidden places, varying from ancient ruins to entire hidden nations
Airships! (but only later in the campaign)
A bad guy empire that heavily relies upon technology and magi-tek
One or two very strange races (possibly for player characters)

More to come

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Here's some art to start with.
Things will change as I go but these are some initial ideas to start off with. Let me know who you like so far.

Some Human Designs: Advanced humans. They love tech. Use AI to help them fight along with spirits

Paragon Warriors

Native Designs Locals
They live in a water nation and some in the snowy mountains. They mainly love fish food

My version of elves: They live in jungle/Forest areas in main lands. Most people come from the Native island called βίος / Bios

Notes on the side are the brief I kinda worked with.
This is a warrior race that love battle. Mainly use hand to hand weapons in battle. There very prideful people.

And for fun here is an early concept piece that made me love this series of characters more

I was thinking of this series as an RPG so here's how it would look like if it was turned based.

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Update on blue Paragons

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New update for the Paragons in Blue. Next Step are the colors

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How 2 of my paragon groups look so far

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Haven't updated with new stuff here in a while so here are all the latest works

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[chiara.arcidiaco]

I love the girl with long tourquoise hair, that tint is so pleasing to my eye hahah just kidding apart from that it's an awesome project!! How long have you been working on this? This characters are so damn good are you planning to do also some environments?

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Thank you very much. I've been working on this off and on for the pass year and a half now. The project lost its direction a bit so i'm trying to find a new one(mainly due to the magic system and world setting). If you have any ideas no matter what they are I would love to here them. I do plan on doing environments for this project though. For now I have a few more character wip shots I may share on here as well.