the great thing about a lot of the original spm designs is that they’re so abstract you can do anything with them
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the great thing about a lot of the original spm designs is that they’re so abstract you can do anything with them
So i was going through old SPM art and found this post again, and decided ya know what? WHAT IF I DESIGNED THE SAGES. So uh. I did. And Now i miss my wife (spm is my wife. i miss her, guys)
If you wan like. Ask me questions about the designs I can give you my thoughts. Assuming I have any thoughts.
Lord Merloo, Ancient sage, author of the Light Prognosticus. ☀️
Went for something a little more 3D because it felt right for this piece 😅
Um so I've been really into the Ancients recently-
I think the Shaman characters are super cool looking so I wanted to give them cool designs/translate them into my style (I love you mirror tool) I’ve also been doing way too much research into their lore and society
The main Flipside/Flopside gang
The old guys from Lineland
The Four Sages
The Merlee depicted in the mural in the Pit
A character I made for a thing I'm writing (based on that unused character in the game)
And Bonus!! The TTYD guys (including Dazzle cuz I think he's a Shaman too)
Dimentio in an ancient-style fit (Mermentio? Mertio?) + 12th pixl
in my lore post, i talk about how i think dimentio was merloo’s mentor. I like to imagine he was very lowkey and his presence was lost to time, deliberately overshadowed by his student. He mentored merloo so as to get him to write the light prognosticus as a means of countering the dark one and creating a vulnerability in the prophecy for him to exploit later in the events of SPM. I additionally talk about dimentio's mask originating with the dead pixl who died during the events of the pixl war. these are just designs going off ideas from that post
Design notes under cut
Super Paper Mario Timeline:
This has actually been done for quite some time, I just forgot to post it, but here is a decently comprehensive timeline of the important events of the 1500 years preceding Super Paper Mario. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_sWU5LxkszlbWLoqTJRhTvuYY9AAU8pUnMbHtCNxCc/edit?pli=1
I may eventually get around to the rest, but the periods of 3000 and 2000 years ago are more unclear and contentious than the era of the Sages, as well as having less concrete information to draw from, so those probably won't be done for a while. Feel free to leave any feedback and ask any questions, I'm always happy to respond!
dimentio got his priorities straight
Magician’s family doodles