The Shapers Guild

We are a lore-based Fan Site for the upcoming MOBA Dawngate created by Waystone Games.

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We've come full circle: The Dawngate Roundup for this week has arrived with Waystone goodbyes, Rezen lore, and more!

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Best Desecrator World is this weekend!  Registration is now open for the final Best Shaper World tournament.

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Today's Dawngate Daily talks Lore, fan art, and goodbyes from the community.

[alena-draws]

A friend asked for a drawing of this guy here so I made a quick thingie.

Voluc from Dawngate

Fanart (c) verschwendete-kreativitaet.tumblr.com

[sketcheachday]

So I’m super bummed that Dawngate is closing. I’m not a MOBA fan, but I realy tried to get into this game because the lore is soooo good. If you want that Firefly-esque feeling of “wow, this is awesome; we’ll never get any more of it” then I highly recommend the Dawngate Chronicles webcomic. The art is beautifully drawn and colored, plus the characters are so expressive and well done. Ironically, it makes their in-game counterparts seem 1-dimensional and lifeless by comparison. I hope one day these characters and this world get to see the light of day again, hopefully in a game more befitting of their richness and nuance.

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This week's final Dawngate Daily talks Chronicles, eSports, Crafting Currency, and awesome art.

[nicholaskole]

AND, as just released on the  Chronicles main page- the final pages of the Dawngate Chronicles as they exist, now that the project is kaput.

We managed to finish up the Zeri/Kahgen arc (and in style- two pages I’m pretty proud of there). So the technical ending of the comic leaves us outside the city walls with Zeri, unable to return. "Aw, Crap."  APPROPRIATE, N’EST PAS? HOW LIKE LIFE.

The next arc was planned to follow the two groups of envoys as they arrived at important meetings in the East and the West to discuss the implications of Eidlous’ Dawngate and the ways the world has changed.  Raina and Zalgus arrive late to Anzerani manor to be greeted frostily by the Duke and treated to a healthy helping of good ol’ Maridian misogyny.  Renzo and Zeri join the moot at Lhan Getur and encounter Viyana. The penultimate page is a brilliantly bizarre dance of flirtation between Renzo and the big demon lady. My favorite line from that script: “Some look disgusted, others awed, and Renzo looks…transported.” My OTP. You could cut the sexual tension with a knife.  Thanks for reading, comic fans- stay tuned here for the next adventure! It’s going to be a doozy. And the silver lining? I’ll probably be on tumblr a lot more, now…

[cirathiel]

the end by Cirath

be a joke plsssss

[johnloren]

Alas, “The Dawngate Chronicles” have come to a close. I collected some of my favorite background and color work from our 87-page run.

Many thanks to my partner-in-art Nicholas Kole and our writer Chris L’Etoile. Thanks also to the team at Waystone, and everyone who played the game and enjoyed the comic!

[nicholaskole]

Sundry unreleased Dawngate skin and shaper sketches- I spent a good while on the project, but now since Dawngate is no more there’s no sense in withholding the art-that-might-have-been from the internets. I spent a while jamming on skins and ideas- these are all in various stages of completion- explorations in reliquary Vimpunk, tree-people, spectral Zeri, Nightmare dibs, Jellygirl, and Plunderchest Desecrator. Enjoy the doodles- more art shortly…

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Today's Dawngate Daily drops early because why not? Tons of info about what might have been along with awesome art.

[skyphu]

Faris [Dawngate]

commissioned work

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WIP

[nicholaskole]

Dawngate is over, boys and girls. I’m still collecting my thoughts, but it’s been a joy to make this webcomic with you guys.  Stay tuned.

[yearofthedoodle1]

#DawngateNoPENber 001 Amarynth. A no pen month of art dedicated to the Amazing moba that is @thedawngate which is going to be closed down way before its time

[yearofthedoodle1]

#DawngateNoPENber 002 Moya. @thedawngate You never wanna be suplexed by this sneaky otterkin