Saturday Devlog (May 15)

Hello hello! Happy Saturday once again. :D Lots of things to talk about this week!

I'll start with a piece of bad news first, just to get it out of the way: I will most likely have to reduce the wordcount goal for this month's update. :( I apologize! I had been confident that the holidays would provide me enough time to write a lengthier update than the last, but my professors have collectively decided to dump a boatload of coursework on me right before Eid. Damn you, higher education!

With consideration to the circumstances, I'm setting a new wordcount goal of 20k-25k words (equal to last month's goal). I'll still try my best to reach the 25k-30k range in the meantime, but for now looking at my schedule for the weeks ahead this is the limit of what I'm comfortable promising. The good news is that I'm roughly on track to meet this new goal, having knocked out another 5k words of writing this week, bringing the total update length to 10k. Furthermore, I think many will be happy to know that Eli's reunion scene is fully written now! I'll have to make a bunch of edits before I'm satisfied with the end product, but overall I'm quite happy with how it turned out. :D

Next on the docket is the poll results from last week. The runaway favorite from the side story poll is on the subject of Ilya and the Saintess's Letters, so that's what we're going to be tackling for this month's side story. It's tentatively titled The Alviar Records, and will be told through the perspective of a historian who painstakingly assembled the saintess's personal documents in the months after the burning.

Regarding the results of the portrait poll, the order that Arcanists have settled on is Falco -> Tahlia -> Flyss. They'll be next to be worked on pending the completion of Yurui's portrait.

Lastly, the arc antagonist poll from last month yielded the following results for our dear murder twins: olive skin, white hair, and golden eyes. Unfortunately, this would make them very similar to F in terms of coloring, so I've taken the liberty of swapping the hair and eye colors with the second-placers: black hair and violet eyes. There was also a tie in the personality department, so I picked the one that would personally be most interesting for me to write: ruthlessly competent male and deceptively friendly female. There will be a sneak peek coming soon after this devlog that will show these characters off!

Lastly, in the art department: I've received the draft version for Yurui, one finished snapchat story, and one finished patron tweet piece. I also received designs of characters that will appear on the game's cover art; these, I'll show off as an Art Preview soon after this devlog goes up.

Please let me know if I missed anything, and as always, thank you for following the development of A Mage Reborn!