Six Ages: Lights Going Out advisor speculation
(Reposting this without the outbound links.)
In the most recent update on the Six Ages dev blog, there’s a gorgeous image of a shaman with drum and spirits:
I’m always excited to see a shaman in this series! But this one in particular interests me.
I think we’ve seen her before...
Here’s a crop with just that one advisor portrait.
Doesn’t that look like the same character? Which is interesting--because the only times advisors have shown up in the scene illustrations of these games, it’s been because they were preset (entirely or partially) characters. Heroes with grand stories, like Ayvtu and Yatakan and Beren (or Theya and Kallyr from King of Dragon Pass, for that matter), or simply people with unique backgrounds, like the Wheel adoptee. I’ve always loved those characters, and I also love shamans, so I’m very excited about this!
And next to her in the original picture there’s another advisor, a woman with the Death Rune on her cheek. Humakti, probably? (The game’s official twitter has had a mention that Humakt’s temple is going to be important in the game, so we’ll presumably have his worshippers around too.)
They look rather alike to me—same eyes and chin, anyway—enough that I wonder if they’re siblings.
I looked over art teasers from previous posts on the blog, and I found another image that interested me: a warrior woman named Kerenna (at least, that’s the name of the image file!)
Again, she looks a lot like a Humakti. (I want to say that Humakti can even pick up sacred obligations to not wear armor on particular parts of their bodies, which would explain her strangely unarmored left leg.) And—while I didn’t pick up on this before—she looks very much like that second advisor, albeit perhaps a few years older. Exact same hairstyle. She doesn’t have the Death Rune on her cheek (which is why I didn’t notice a resemblance before)—but this is an uncolored ink drawing, and it looks like that rune went in at a later stage. So it could be the same character!
(I really hope they do turn out to be connected; it’s fun when advisors have relationships with each other.)
