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Concept sketches about how Narrators are made and specifically the nature of Rhawen's physical form that date to around college, now with hasty color.

Fully explaining what's going on here would be a lot of paragraphs, so the short version is:

The Narrators do not actually have physical bodies. (Neither do the veyah/elementals, but that's a story for another time.) Rather, every Narrator is permanently bonded to a veyah/elemental and that veyah creates a shell for the Narrator's actual self--essentially just a ball of living thoughts--to exist in and interact with Khra from. It's a pretty good system; the Narrators can look however they choose and thus can have their partner reform them to suit their needs. (Rhawen primarily focuses on Raeth, so she tends to be in a raeth form, but if she needed to make an excursion to Nassab and take on a human or dryken form, she could.) But it does have some limitations: as a being built of flame, Rhawen would never be able to swim, for example.

Or that was the idea at the time of these drawings! I am sorry to say that they are out of date, as I have completely changed the magic system at play in Khra so that it is no longer element-based. Changing the magic system so fundamentally also means changing the veyah/elementals completely (as they're the source of magic), so I am currently deciding how much this alters the way in which Narrators are made. (Essentially, "I am willing to have a Phoenix who is not a fire fox?" is my current dilemma. If I'm not, I need to rethink the entire Narrator origin story.)

Regardless, I like these sketches and the moments they suggest, so I am still considering how to incorporate the best parts of these ideas.

Description
Concept sketches about how Narrators are made and specifically the nature of Rhawen's physical form that date to around college, now with hasty color.

Fully explaining what's going on here would be a lot of paragraphs, so the short version is:

The Narrators do not actually have physical bodies. (Neither do the veyah/elementals, but that's a story for another time.) Rather, every Narrator is permanently bonded to a veyah/elemental and that veyah creates a shell for the Narrator's actual self--essentially just a ball of living thoughts--to exist in and interact with Khra from. It's a pretty good system; the Narrators can look however they choose and thus can have their partner reform them to suit their needs. (Rhawen primarily focuses on Raeth, so she tends to be in a raeth form, but if she needed to make an excursion to Nassab and take on a human or dryken form, she could.) But it does have some limitations: as a being built of flame, Rhawen would never be able to swim, for example.

Or that was the idea at the time of these drawings! I am sorry to say that they are out of date, as I have completely changed the magic system at play in Khra so that it is no longer element-based. Changing the magic system so fundamentally also means changing the veyah/elementals completely (as they're the source of magic), so I am currently deciding how much this alters the way in which Narrators are made. (Essentially, "I am willing to have a Phoenix who is not a fire fox?" is my current dilemma. If I'm not, I need to rethink the entire Narrator origin story.)

Regardless, I like these sketches and the moments they suggest, so I am still considering how to incorporate the best parts of these ideas.