It was after I made this strip that I decided that all extras must be grayscale. So, this guy is going to be showing up later, mainly because he can talk (I’m thinking extras have only punctuation in their speech bubbles). Also, I like consistency, even when it comes to making changes to the appearances of things.
This is also the point where I’m starting to use sound effects for some actions. Not sure how it will work, still playing with those.
You’ll notice I changed the outfit of the Mask of Winters. Basically, this came from some really good feedback that the MoW wasn’t really that obvious as a Deathlord. So, I created a slightly different uniform, then used Glorious as an excuse why it changed. Why he made the change to both the armor and the throne room should become more obvious as the character develops. *gasp* I know, I have a plot or something!
I always loved the idea of a baby Deathlord. Yeah, they are actually powerful Solars who made a Bad Decision™ when they died, but frankly I like the screwed up view. Plus, the cute adorable eyes. How can you hate the cute adorable eyes?
The initial comic. This came with one of the things I find most amusing about the second edition of Exalted, a typo in the Mask of Winter’s entry. In the first edition, he has a Lore 10 which makes him more intelligent that pretty much all of Creation, the Underworld, and Yu-Shan. In second, they forgot to add Lore entirely, so it looks like he doesn’t have any dots of Lore (Exalted, p. 321). And, if you use the rules (Exalted, p. 108), he can’t read. Which doesn’t make sense if you know the character. I mean, he’s suppose to be one of the nastiest creatures a character could expect to encounter, and they shouldn’t survive the encounter. So, it sounded like a good starting point to learn how to make this comic.