Violet Dawn: Exile – Issue 5, Page 9

Violet Dawn: Exile – Issue 5, Page 9

on March 25, 2019
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The boy Kaszek is guardian of the city of Ayul–a city built deep within a rocky fastness, ancient home of the Last People and sanctuary from the chaos of the legendary “world beyond.” Blessed with strength and trained for violence, his duty is to protect Ayul and carry the burdens others are forbidden to touch.

Recently, the mystic Sarth of Ayul revealed a troubling truth to Kaszek: the Great Seal to the world beyond is cracked, and untamed magic seeps through and threatens Ayul. The Sarth has bound the foreign magic to a talisman left by Ayul’s creators, and tasked Kaszek with carrying the talisman to the world beyond and releasing the magic back into the abyss.

For a brief time, Kaszek believed he had found the Great Seal’s mythical keeper–but he soon learned that the strange entity who aided him was something more treacherous, if equally ancient. After learning of its all-consuming desire to escape to the world beyond, Kaszek left the entity behind and continued his journey.

On the boy’s thirty-eighth day out of Ayul, he trekked through the Jungle of Faces.

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Two Weeks Down!

on November 30, 2018

We just wrapped up our second week of the comic and released my favorite page from the first issue. Today we got a glimpse at Kaszek’s home: the city of Ayul (eye-OOL). We did a ton of concept sketches and put a lot of thought into how an underground society would function. How do they live without a source of wood, how do they tell time, and a myriad of other questions which we will possibly explore in future updates.

Today’s Patreon update is free to the public and shows some designs of Ayul done by Louis Sollune. If you’re a Patron, not to worry, we have some full color concept art of Ayul which will follow shortly in another update.

Thanks for sticking around with us. Next week, we’ll learn what Kaszek’s quest is all about and discover his purpose.

The Journey Begins

on November 20, 2018

Violet Dawn is an ongoing digital-first comic series from WayWalker Studios, telling the epic story of the realm of Avadnu. The Last People fled the legendary “world beyond” long ago; now, a young guardian leaves the only home he knows and discovers the true nature of an alien and wondrous land. The webcomic iteration is free to read and normally updates Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; all told, you’ll see one 10-page issue about every month for the length of our first storyline, “Exile.”

This is a project we’ve been working on for a while! We’re proud of the team we’ve assembled and the vision we’re presenting. There are a lot of fantasy comics out there, particularly in digital format–but we hope that in both style and substance we can offer something new. Something novel. Something that feels, well–like we said above, “alien and wondrous.”

Somewhere down the line, we’ll go more into why we chose this format (the team has created both digital and print comics before–with Violet Dawn, we’re going this route for a mix of creative and business reasons). If you’re interested in purchasing digital copies of the comic for your e-reader, we’ll have more on that soon, too; and we encourage folks to take a glance at our Patreon if you prefer to donate monthly. We’re going to need all the support we can get.

But! All that’s for the future. Right now we’re up and posting pages and just seeing what works. In the tech world, they call this a “soft launch”–we’re building up our readership even as we adjust things here and there.

If we’re lucky, it’ll be a long time before things stop changing entirely. Change is healthy. And Violet Dawn is all about change.