Loreseeker and Witness Comic

Hi! I'm Stormy! / They/fae/she/any pronouns / adult Amateur artist and experienced fanfic writer Art and comics for my story: Stormborne AU which is based on the video game Sky Children of the Light [Sideblog of my main @artemistorm]

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Masterpost

This a story (soon to be a comic) about two sky kids: Tempest, a modern day sky kid seeking to understand the truth about what happened to the ruined civilization they live in, and Terem, a sky kid who lived 500 years ago in the Sky Kingdom and witnessed it's decline and fall. It's about how despite the time between them, their lives are intertwined.

Introducing Tempest

Introducing Terem (outdated, I will update later)

Terem's parents

Terem's Story

Chapter 1 draft

Chapter 2 part 1 draft

PLEASE ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS STORY I AM SO FERAL ABOUT IT

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Technically I didn't make art today, but I have a migraine so I get a free pass. Instead, here are some older artworks I haven't posted yet of my Sky OCs' house in the Last City. My original goal was to make like 6 pictures like a real estate listing but I ran out of steam for this project. (The 3rd picture of the bed is incomplete.) Wanna know how I designed the house? You can find that out here and here!

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New art refs for my oc's. I haven't made one for Eluyu yet (I'm still messing with design details).

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Had a bad day? Emotions being annoying? The quickest way to make yourself feel better is to draw your favorite little guys.

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I'm sorting through my paper stacks in my room and finding doodles of my little guys makes me so happy. I should doodle them more on random stuff.

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:0 They had a baby! (an ugly baby XD)

So they took the face of Seed and the hair (or lack thereof) from Lookout and... it does not look good 😅

So I had to do a redesign.

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What's this? New Terem redesign 👀? I wanted to make a new outfit for them using clothing items that I have and that fit the vibe of the Last City and this is what I came up with!

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I got my ship together >:3

Moving in together with oc Terem as their child

And all of this coincidentally happened on Seed of Hope's (randomly assigned) birthday

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Falling in love (in every universe)

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What sparked Tempest's interest in the past events of the world?

Yaaayyy! Thanks for the ask! What a great question!

When Tempest was first born, they didn't pay any attention the spirits except to get their emotes, but during the Season of Blue Bird when they realized that the Blue Bird spirits are the same as the Belonging spirits and then they started getting curious about who exactly are these spirits, these ancestors as some of the older sky kids called them. That was the spark that first started their interest.

Shortly after that, Tempest had a bad day in Wasteland where they accidentally got one of their friends krilled and the friend lost a lot of wings. Tempest felt terrible about that and after their friends returned to Aviary for the night, Tempest hung out in the Wasteland sulking and feeling sorry.

While they were wandering the ruins alone, it was the first time they actually slowed down enough to really look at the ruins, the weapons scattered around, the many crashed boats and arks, and they started to wonder what had happened in the past? Why were all the ancestors dead? Why were all the buildings in ruins? How did the past civilization fall?

So they vowed to start learning everything they could about the past, the kingdom, and the ancestors.

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I've spent the last couple of hours copying outfits from Two Embers screenshots to analyze them. As you know, I'm trying to make a Two Embers sky kid picrew so that I can make characters/background people for my comic. To do that, I need to figure out exactly what types of articles of clothing they wear, what styles, colors, are most common and how can I put that together in the picrew.

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Seed of Hope is no longer standing in the Wasteland 😭😔.

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Raising a moth in the past was probably just as chaotic as it is today

(ft. my oc + spirit redesign)

I'm still figuring out how to draw backgrounds and how to make them look cohesive with and not overwhelm the subject/foreground. I love the lineless painterly style and I wanna play around with it more.

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So one of the driving concepts of my Sky Cotl AU is that the winglights that sky kids carry are the lost souls of the ancestors and that if one of those winglights/souls is particularly clingy to a particular sky kid, they can be sort of psychically linked. The present day sky kid can experience the memories of the ancestor and they might even gain some of the ancestor's likes, interests, and habits. And the ancestor gets to experience the world again through the vessel of the current day sky kid.

It's just fun to think about how each current day sky kids might have their own special winglights/souls/ancestors that they have a special connection to.

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So you know how Tempest and Terem are linked in this way? Well, I haven't really introduced them yet, but Terem's bestie is an older sky kid named Opeta. Tempest also has a bestie but they don't have a name yet. So what if Tempest's best friend ends up having a special connection to Opeta? Like this vv

It would be a case of "I love you and I'll find you in every universe."

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Messing with a new color scheme (again) for Tulio. Not sure if I like it, but I think it's better than what I had before.

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Tempest climbed into their brand new bed and lay down hugging their fox plushie. They stared up at the ceiling illuminated only by the moonlight shining in the window.

"I did it," they whispered into the night. "I made it to my first birthday."

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To be fair, no one survived from the Old Kingdom. Everyone had to meet their end at some point. Terem was born and raised in Wasteland at the end of the kingdom (they're a little younger than Stewie) so they were kind of doomed from the start.

I suppose you don't know the story that's in my head though. The big picture story of my AU is this:

Tempest born in modern times

As I mentioned here, I headcanon winglights are the souls of past people who died but got trapped on earth. One of the wnglights that Tempest picks up is Terem's soul.

When they're a couple months old, Tempest gets curious about the past and starts trying to figure out what happened, how/why the kingdom fell, what life was like back then etc.

At one point while flying in Wasteland, Tempest gets hit by a falling shard which causes Terem's memory to unlock and Tempest relives Terem's whole life in a dream.

When Terem dies, Tempest wakes up again back in present times (they had been rescued from the shard by some older sky kids).

The rest of the story is about Tempest processing what happened (dealing with grief and healing), trying to ascend Seed and Lookout to Orbit, try and find Terem's spirit (lost in the world and almost faded away) and ascend it too so the family can all be together (Tempest does succeed at this), and trying to fulfill their destiny of helping to restore/heal the Sky Kingdom (the destiny of all modern sky kids).

So the whole story is about grief, healing, destiny, family, and remembering and honoring the ancestors and about how no matter how small and short, every life is worth living and the story of every person is worth telling.

So even though Terem dies, it's not the end of the story--Terem lives on as a story/memory and as a winglight soul within Tempest (and later as a spirit that can be interacted with and ascended just like any other spirit).

I want to write this as a comic, but unfortunately I am in university so my time is limited and my art skill is not up to snuff yet, so for now I just have to tell it as an outline, random art and worldbuilding, and comic drafts.

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Tempest climbed into their brand new bed and lay down hugging their fox plushie. They stared up at the ceiling illuminated only by the moonlight shining in the window.

"I did it," they whispered into the night. "I made it to my first birthday."