Illuminating the Warring Factions

Our first book release, War Unleashed, will have as part of its content information about the world of Edath.

We’ll be divulging a little of the history leading up to the current state of affairs as well as taking you on a tour of the world as it stands.

After many years of conquest the Dzaa have once again to deal with uprisings and rebels and other Factions testing their borders.

To illustrate these Factions and Countries in the book we have now, I took an old idea we had and updated it.

Ages ago, as in years, we were putting together a book which was the Edath RPG. It was still in the playtesting stage before being introduced to the market with the tactical wargame taking the first steps. Actually, come to think about it, it was four books. One of which gave details of the world. In illustrating the cultures I put together some pictures that showed the architecture, environment and sometimes the Gods of the cultures in a semi-design-like style, like sketch versions of tapestries, sort of.



This format wouldn’t fit in the new book (the above illu is cropped along the top and the left) and many of the cultures have been refined aswell since then so those old pictures are archive material now. But they gave me a good place to start.

The space I have to work with is a little less than before, but what I came up with is somewhat similar.

It's more design led, showing more clearly certain distinct things, rather than an ambling landscape (which is still nice for its part)

These are old and new Faction illustrations for comparison. As each Faction is represented on the website they'll get a banner illustration, also inspired by the old archived landscape style and closer to the old style than the book illustrations. You can see the Ang and Dzaa ones online at this time (the Nuko, Chune and Qoya have incomplete, sketchy ones which will get finished as they get released in game form).

As you can see, the old had no airimal aircraft, instead having a balloon type craft. This is because airimals didn’t exist back then (early 90s). What the new one shows is the attire of the faction aswell as cultural icons (like airships or such), not just the environment.

So in less space you actually get more for your buck, though I bet you’ll be pleased to hear that we’re not charging a dollar per illustration included in the book as that would make it rather expensive.