#kildeau

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Went back and colored these three :) awful awful people

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im dumping a bunch of screenshots of rhetoric being fucking SCARYYY under here because i want everybody in the trenches with me. but it's long. hence the cut.

you guys like scary purple giants though right? i know you do. here. take it.

take it. just take it it's fine ta-

ok anyways

i need you guys to have this in your brain before I show you the next thing, okay? i need you to understand why im crazy

ok are we all on the same page? cool. here's this

take this one too

okay one more

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RESIDENTS OF KILDEAU

Since Chase is rolling our their Kildeans and I haven't had the chance to draw most of mine yet, I wanna put them somewhere on the blog >:]

I've already introduced Rhetoric and Mediator, so I'll just focus on the citizens for now.

First up: YULIAH WILDES and MILTON "MILO" BEASLY (Both designed by @mik-mania!)

Two clowns (facepaint designs pending) who live in the city and attend the church. Yuliah is your typical rowdy subjug, while Milo is a more quiet and laid-back laughsassin. The pair of them are roommates, and they spend most of their time hanging out together.

Yuliah is usually the one calling the shots, as Milo prefers to stand back and follow rather than lead. Where Yuliah dreams of becoming a Grand Highblood when she's older, Milo isn't really sure what he wants. For now, though, they're on mostly the same page, wanting to be an asset to their church and support the big guys in charge.

Next: DARCIE RUDRED and WYDISS "WYATT" PIXBEE (Designed by @indig0trolls!)

Darcie is the owner of Cee's, a popular cafe in Kildeau situated near one of the busier streets leading to the church. Clowns and civilians alike can often be found popping in, and Darcie has found herself an object of romantic interest for a surprising number of them. She'd rather just serve their coffee.

Wyatt is an Apiarist who cultivates and distributes a street drug commonly known as "Buzz." Made from a diluted form of mind honey, psionic users who partake often find their output increased by the stimulant. Wyatt prefers not to indulge in his own product.

Now: LENNOX ZALRIC and AIDULA DELPHI (once again, Newt's designs!)

Two members of Kildeau's little rebel problem, both these trolls are very good at staying under the radar.

Lennox makes for a perfect messenger, their lax demeanor and excellent intuition helping them avoid detection even by the most convincing of class traitors. They never leak info to anyone they shouldn't, and even in the rare cases they arouse some suspicion, it is always easily dispelled.

Aidula, on the other hand, is most beneficial to the cause by way of her foresight. When looking at someone without obstruction, she can peer into their future and see how their paths and others intersect. When her glasses come off, she has an impeccable track record for keeping her comrades away from traps and traitors.

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Just realized I never posted these three???? Probably because they're not technically finished but like. We've already talked about them a bit, they should be on the blog

Here we have the heads of Kildeau, a Grand Highblood pair stapled together by Zerkev to cancel out each other's most glaring flaws. To make sure they didn't rip one another's throats out, he also assigned them an intermediary.

Introducing: His Indomitable Rhetoric, His Unshakable Presence, and Their Dutiful Mediator :)

(Presence belongs to Chase, but all three were designed by me ^w^)

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How would two ghbs even divide up the work?

"I would like to answer this, please."

"Both deal primarily in fear. First is the fear of us, the church. This is where His Unshakable Presence thrives. The subjugglators report primarily to him, and he directs them to terrorize through action."

"And second is the fear of your neighbor. What His Indomitable Rhetoric fosters. Anyone could be aligned with us. Anyone could be watching you. We laughsassins typically report to him. Our job is to breed unease. Quieter kills. Targeted.

Maybe they were reported. They might have been a rebel. Did someone you know turn them in?"

"Thus the church becomes protection. The dissenters are discouraged from congregating. There are no allies but us.

There is more to it, of course. Things to be done within the church. Politics. Smply put: Words and actions. One promises. The other delivers.

Rhetoric is known to interrogate rebels through brutal means. Presence acts on what is learned. Just one example."

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Kildeau is a city with a roiling rebel underbelly, which is what its Grand Highbloods are primarily interested in dealing with.

Unlike many places in Alternia, lowbloods are welcome in the church, encouraged to turn on each other for protection from the Subjugglators and Laughsassins that hunt them in the streets.

Though tasks are not outright divided between the two Highbloods, one can mainly expect to see Presence leading the slaughter and Rhetoric planting the seeds of social control within the city. One all talk and the other all action, they balance out into one terrifying iron fist.

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what sets kildeau apart from other places?

"The Grand Highbloods, most obviously. Historically, some churches have had up to three leaders, but this is atypical, and they are almost always working beneath the order of a Grand Highblood, not occupying that role themselves."

"There is also the culture. We grant lowbloods a place in our church. We discourage community that does not come from us. It is subjugation disguised as mercy, but the mercy is not fake. That is unique."

"But maybe it's all the same."

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What are they like? How do they lead?

"Like motherfuckin' exemplars is how. They're a perfect team. All strength, no weakness."

"You make yourself worth somethin' to them, and you're set. Even a dweeby ass lowblood can find a role servin' the messiahs.

And if you don't prove your worth... they'll either yank a use outta ya or put'cha down. This place'll be cleaned up real soon, just you wait."