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[wanderingmakers]

Watchers and wanderers,

Did you miss us? We were quiet, but hard at work.

To catch you up to speed on what we've been up to, we just released the third issue of our periodic Newsletter.

Happy holidays!

Read below:

[wanderingmakers]

This is Lillian, a cute porcelain Darkner who disappeared from the sky city many years past.

Not many people know what happened to her.

Sometimes, though, you might see her around.

But it's not Lillian anymore.

There's something... SOMEONE else. Behind her voice. Her actions. Her will.

She won't recognize you, either. There's only one thing she talks about: shattering herself into pieces.

Rumors spread stigmatically. "If she breaks, it will set free a demon within her."

In a distant past, a group of Lightners concocted a dark ritual to transform someone into a monster.

Leave behind all that is human of you and store it away for no one to find.

Wretched hands sprout from beneath the cracks in the walls.

The battle takes place in an abandoned train station. (We've been working on the same battle background for over a year.)

As it is our Chapter 4 shadowboss, you will play in the Purple SOUL mode.

(A few idle animations)

Lillian and the demon within are an expansion of @/soaresskl93's amazing design from years ago for a Church World shadowboss! We owe this character entirely to them.

And that's all! Lillian is a character you may encounter in the full release of Pantheon of the Discarded. And while you'll find a different track than the original one we posted, please check out OnlyAnAlex's remix.

Stay tuned for a final showcase of our most unspoken shadowboss yet.

[wanderingmakers]

In the depths of the Ice Palace, beneath the ground, there is a trick you can do. It requires luck, skill, and a healthy fear of the unknown.

You'll find yourself staring at a deep darkness, an endless abyss just beyond a doorframe. But sometimes... the Abyss stares back.

A truly colossal being of ungraspable size. Just beyond the usual darkner, far darker, and much further from reality. And it wants to exist, by whatever means possible.

Fraktur is our shadowboss for WM's Chapter 5, in the snow fortress. They are special among shadowbosses by virtue of being a Goner, a native resident to the Abyss.

The battle will partly take place on top of them. The player will hop across flying bones with the Blue SOUL mode.

Insofar, we don't have a lot prepared for Fraktur (as opposed to the Blossoms or Lillian), but you will still see them as a future battle in Pantheon of the Discarded. Please pay witness to the concept art we have to show.

Some previous names we thought for Fraktur:

Silverdrake

Titandrake

Bonedrake

Gonerdrake

(We were really adamant on the Drake part, or at least until we came up with Fraktur)

This marks the end of what we have to show for Fraktur, and thus the end of our shadowboss showcases. Thank you for reading and accompanying thus far! We hope you will like confronting these characters in our fangame Pantheon of the Discarded.

And... Stay tuned for some big news very shortly...

[wanderingmakers]

Two years ago, we had brought alive the "Immortal Hydrangea", an educated guess as to what the future held.

And now, we stand at the edge of truth, ready to find out what Chapter 3 truly holds for us.

In honor of the post-Chapter 2 era of fan-content, we will very soon showcase a third, final version of NOT FORGOTTEN, which will appear in the fangame.

It has been a long journey, and it won't end just yet. Pantheon of the Discarded will remain in development, and we will still share what we have with you whenever we can.

Thank YOU for listening to "NOT FORGOTTEN", and giving the Blossoms what they so much longed: LOVE.

Until then...

Stay tuned!

[wanderingmakers]

Hello, Blossoms!

Let's talk a little bit about them.

The Blossoms can be found at the end of the Garbage Grounds, an underground network that runs beneath all of Startropolis.

It's a nifty place that even Mike calls home! (He doesn't like it very much.)

The Blossoms are very warm and polite to any and everybody, looking to find someone to love them.

Could you believe the look on their many faces when Kris appeared?

... You know how well that went, anyway.

But they weren't always like this! In fact, it was long after Mike took to the sewers that he began hearing wistful melodies echoing across the tunnels.

He could hear melodies faraway, almost every day, like a routine.

Usually there was only one voice, but sometimes, there were many melodies playing at once, clashing against one another.

Sometimes he couldn't hear any singing.

Sometimes, he could hear screams.

One day, the Blossoms were held by a dark embrace and were told the truth of their eternal heartbreak.

Their hatred formed a colossal body from the garbage and plant matter.

They concocted a plan, and held onto it since, for the one chance they would get to enact it.

Now, the Blossoms aren't completely rational.

They come from far away, for the sole objective of finding a way to be loved and appreciated.

When they couldn't find it, it all came crashing down.

And that's that! The Immortal Hydrangea was by far our most consistent character yet, although there were many doubts as to how risky it would really be to make them part of a prediction.

They look a lot like Flowey, right?

The difference in the petals was their latest change.

To sprite the Immortal Hydrangea in the battle, @beruki learned Blender all by themselves and created an entire model — two, in fact! That background comes from a 3D animation as well — so that we could use it as reference to paint over with pixels.

We were once really set on redesigning them sometime after their reveal, but...

In the end, we didn't find anything we could revamp on them. So for their appearance in Pantheon of the Discarded, they'll stay mostly like you've seen them already.

They've come so far...

And that's pretty much it! We wanted to delve deeper into our one shadowboss that predated the Pantheon. As for our 2 others from the prediction, we think the game'll do a way better job at doing so :)

(Despite that, stay tuned for a HUGE concept art showcase of the two later!)

[wanderingmakers]

* You are lost in the strange architecture all around you.

* Stone hands, strange markings, and an eerie darkness cover the temple.

* Everything seems to take form the instant you look at it.

[wanderingmakers]

Farewell to an era of DELTARUNE fancontent!

We have a heartfelt gift to YOU.

When the truth is revealed... Will you remember it?

NOT FORGOTTEN [v3] has been released.

DELTARUNE・WM | NOT FORGOTTEN [v3] (Immortal Hydrangea)

The Immortal Hydrangea.A concept for a DELTARUNE Chapter 3 "secret boss".The third and final version of NOT FORGOTTEN, to play officially in

... Thank YOU, for listening, and for staying tuned one last time.

[wanderingmakers]

Watchers and Wanderers, it's been a while.

We've been working on something that tells you everything we've been up to these last months.

Presenting: the official Q1 2025 Pantheon of the Discarded Newsletter: Newsletter of the Discarded, for everybody to read!

Tune in (it's not live) for news about both DELTARUNE · WM and Pantheon of the Discarded, as well as several secret surprises and some visual details that we put in that we think you'll find pretty cool!

We'll also post new ways to be recruited into the Wandering Makers very soon, so stay tuned!