For people staying up to date on their Seven lore, I was super sick through most of August and kind of just lost 3+ weeks of work. The good news is that I'm largely fixed now! Yay modern medicine.
The cooler news is that it's been a while, so I have all kinds of art to share with you!
First off, the six 'ultimate' cards! Each class got a unique card with art for their super abilities. We see the Malefact Bonecutter releasing a torrent of blood in all directions that itself can be a weapon, or can make them completely gaunt and skeletal, doing AOE damage or making you a super tank depending on your path. You'll find this is a common thing here! The Organ Eater is either gaining information from spirits of organs its consumed, or stealing their energy for a full refill of their potion juices in their bodies. The Aeon Singer is tapping into their golden heart to power a great song from their back harp to buff allies or shift and control aeonic constructs. The Trophy Collector is either conjuring the spirits of their tools to attack, or gather about their allies and defend them. The Caged Wraith is using their caged soul to grasp the souls of foes to pry them out, or to link to allies and empower them. The Maker of Hands is surrounded in a hurricane of hands, all to strike or cast spells!
These are all really neat and color coded to the class, and they got unique frames for these cards. When you draw this, you'll know!
What about a first look at a Malefact boss? These are the bone, sinew, and fleshy demons that live in the core of the world that want the Ensu to empower and raise their strange burrowing god. These creatures are horrid flesh beasts, and this one is a hunter, using its sensors and smelling tongues to find its prey-- namely you! And an Aeonic machine, a winged eye and set of rings that has settled down on its altar of organ pipes to play its godsong. To fight this one, you'll have a short number of turns to act against it before it settles on the altar. Once it does, its power will grow massively, as will its number of attacks.
There's also a new horrid boss which, when you fight it, you'll find it's not a fight to kill the thing-- it's a fight to escape. The Bleeding Eyes is a brutal creature in the vast dark which will be a themed escape battle. To win is to not die! You can see on the cliff side, our heroes are tossed around, realizing the fight is pointless. The Maker of Hands on their motorcycle made of an aeon angel's corpse looks to be the most likely to live!
And you saw the sketch of this guy in July, but the Blackened Betrayer, an Ensu hunter who hates adventuring Ensu like yourself, looks wicked!
Potions, relics, and more! I've even got newer, more recent art, but this has been 100 things already! So I'll save some for next time. Still, admire away! Salty has made some incredible work here, and this game is going to be so overly beautiful, I don't even know what to say! Stay tuned for more art next month--
