Song of the Eastern Sands (Teaser 3)
Sorry for the delay (following the other delay)! Didn’t want to leave everybody hanging this long, but I was stuck at the studio all day and wasn’t able to get this little teaser post up until now. The next Western Deep page will go up at the regular time on Saturday.
So! You’re probably asking yourself who this fellow is! His name is Rook — a Polcan ex-pirate (turned ex-slave) who works alongside the young Lutren and older Vulpin we’ve seen in previous teasers. We’re getting closer to Song of the Eastern Sands, and we’re really excited about it. There is, of course, one more teaser image to share before we launch the story — meaning there is one more character of this core quartet on which the story centers. We’ll get around to sharing that later!
This week, some Eastern Sands-flavored guest art from SaraaLuna featuring Cain and Yurk! As mentioned when we introduced them a little while ago, these two aren’t actually characters in the proper tale, but they do star in a fun little 4-page mini-comic we’ll be posting up during the break between chapter 2 and the beginning of Song of the Eastern Sands.
Thank you so much for the image, Saraa! It’s so awesome seeing your take on our cast, and these two guys are a lot of fun, even if they’re not really part of the larger overarching story.
It’s actually one of the things I continue to love about the world of Western Deep — that even the smallest background characters feel like they deserve their own stories and adventures.
See you all on Saturday!
That art style! Hnnnng it’s so detailed! I’m beyond excited!
Breaking racial boundaries. This next adventure will NOT disappoint. I absolutely love it! I cant wait to see all these characters and how they tie together with the narrative. I’m wondering who’s the protagonist going to be though, unless you guys will be pulling a Final Fantasy VI and mix the point of views around.
A Lutren? Way out there in the desert?? Poor guy! Though I’m not sure that Polcan are much more comfortable out there…
Clearly after meeting during their lives as slaves, they had to stay out in the horrible dry desert since neither of their homelands would take kindly to their friendship.
Poor GAL actually :)
Ahhh … :) At least that I have a little longer wait, production costs me these beautiful graphics :D ^^ – in particular I really like Saraa Luna graphic – beautifully painted, and for me, this is like a symbol that we can forgive each other, break the border and live in harmony and friendship :)
And this image looks very promising with “Song of the Easter sands”; I really like this type of drawing style ^^ :) – as for this new comic confirm this please do well I think – Now for a week/a few weeks so to speak Ounlan, Dakkan and Kenosh “go on holiday”/”to heal the wounds and the mental and physical”; and will the new comic, and then when you finish it, action will return in the 3 chapter of BWD? :)
Alex, don’t get offended please – for me it is important stuff, but “Saturday”, do you mean Saturday evening for you? :) (If so, it’s going to be, it’s good ;) )
Haha, yes, when I say Saturday, I mean Saturday for us.
If for you saturday on evening that is very good, because for me this is sunday morning, and in this sunday I have free day, and I will be all day on Salmon Party XD :D (I work all saturday and I just wantto know that will be on mornig or evening for you ;) )
Wait, so Cain and Yurk aren’t part of the normal run of Song of the Eastern Sands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
One other thing I’m curious about:
You say there is one more teaser image to go for the core quartet of characters, but if Cain and Yurk aren’t members of the quartet, that leaves Mr. Lutren, Mr. Vulpin, and an unknown personage who haven’t been previewed yet. Will the last image have all three?
Rook looks fun! And he’ll be the first named Polcan character in all of BWD!
MS. Lutren actually! :) And there will be one more teaser page showing the final character, then perhaps a piece with all four protagonists.
As for Cain and Yurk, they show up in the background of the first scene, but are otherwise not involved in the story of SotES. But as I said in the post, have no fear! They star in a little side-side story Jerome and I put together that we’ll publish here before kicking off SotES proper.
So what are Ms. Lutren and Mr. Vulpin’s names? Is there any interesting backstory for either of them?
. . . and this is an awesome video that’s somewhat relevant because it talks about wolves and this ties into BWD because the Canid are anthropomorphic wolves, so it works.
OMG… What a beautiful shot, beautifull and interesting movie ;) :D (Of course for me geographer ;) :) For me, there is little wolves – in world of BWD Canid of course… Only in the Tatras mountains, Beskydy mountains, Bieszczady Mountains (“Polish Wild East” – really wild beautiful mountains) and in some forests, such as Białowieża (UNESCO) or Kampinowska; and so there is little wolves … but for an awful lot of otters and especially stoats – that is real country of Ermehn XD ^^ Everywhere ;)
And some nice short movie from me ;)
Cool.
And Just one more question for this fantastic graphics from “Song of Eastern sands” (sketch of the market) – This character with the prosthesis leg – Is this our Dakkan…? O.o
LOL — she is not Dakkan, and she doesn’t have a prosthetic leg X)
What? LOL O.o
But I can see that he has a wooden prosthesis right leg (That is good that he is not Dakkan ;) )
Hi Jakub, I think you are looking at the wooden stick that’s holding up the sun cover cloth above them.
*Facepalm myself*
https://youtu.be/XZxzJGgox_E
…Actually it’s a stick holding up the sun cover cloth above them… Now I see that I was wrong… I’m sorry Alex and Mr Jerome… (I guess actually I’m blind)
I was confused too at first. Maybe you really should give the character a wooden leg!
It’s a nasty case of visual tangency. I have to be more vigilant next time :)
It would be interesting if some person had a wooden prosthesis :)
Ha, I was about to comment on the peg leg, and then I find the comments telling me to take a second look.
You know, it could e like that chick with the machine gun for a leg from that movie I don´t know the name of and never saw.
Grindhouse films are pretty crazy.
Behold the Inspector of Jugs as he performs his duty. Will the vessel in question pass muster? Only the Inspector of Jugs knows the answer and he is most assuredly not about to divulge his wisdom to the likes of us.
Jug inspection is serious bussiness, I heard forty thieves tried to sneak into a household hiding in amphoras once!
He’s not an actual jug inspector, but just nosy. And he heard a weird noise from it. And it smells funny.
Truly, the wisest sage in the story.
The Tamian behind Inspector of Jugs is tittering at your silliness, Trees.
And speaking of visual tangency, when I first looked at that sketch, I thought our Lutren lass was wearing a semi-transparent cloak billowing out behind her – until I realized I was seeing the skirt and tail of the Canid/Vulpin chatting with the merchant at his table. Maybe if this piece were in color, it would be a little less confusing and jumbled. (Not a complaint at all, mind; absolutely loving it!)
So we see another preview! I’m super excited. I’m also grinning a little at the fact that not only do we have a Canid/Ermehn friendship, but we also have a Polcan/Lutren one. Nessa really knocks down a lot of borders. Rook also sounds interesting (ex pirate and ex slave in one, hey) and I can’t wait to see more.
Next thing we know the lions will have regurgitated the Christians only to be found lying down with the lambs.
Christians in BWD?… Waht you mean about it ? :)
(I am a Christian (I personally would be cool that someone was Christians tere in BWD) but I somehow do not see it – it looked nice to but probably aroused some controversy and not fun discussions, so let them is as it is without the Christians -after that is a fantastic world ;)
I’m relatively certain that Alex and Rachel did not put real-world religions into BWD for the reasons you listed, but the seven races definitely have religions. There is an old and very good post about the Tamian god Tesque that applies.
I’m quite interested in learning more about the religions of the other races of Dunia when we get the chance.
I am also curious to know what religions believe in individual residents of the 4 kingdoms ;) That will be very interesting ;)
I’m just agreeing with Saara while mixing some metaphors. It means that in Song of the Eastern Sands species who would usually be implacable enemies have become friends.
Aaaaa…. Ok ok ;) Fine ) ok ;)
I wonder if we’ll be getting two pages or still just 1, since it’s Saturday…
I’m anticipating one. Only one fully-colored page while juggling a full time job and an actual social life is a LOT of work as it is.
He’s right it would take another week to make another page in color.