Dev Diary #13 – Sirin

In our last developer update, we introduced you to the Spires of Terratus – your base in Tyranny. For this week’s update, we’re going to introduce you to the last of your potential Companions – Sirin, Archon of Song. Sirin caused the death of more people before she was seven than most soldiers do in their…

Dev Diary #12 – Spires

In our last developer update, we introduced you to Kills-in-Shadow (affectionately known around the office as “Killsy”), one of your potential Companions and a member of the Beast race on Terratus. For today’s update, I wanted to talk more about the player’s base mechanic, which we revealed yesterday during a live stream. Two of the…

The Songbird

During the year I’ve spent writing Sirin’s dialogue, I’ve gotten very attached to (and protective of) her. This is a weird thing to say because every time I sit down to flesh out her story, invariably something horrible happens to her. I can’t help it, I want to see how she’ll react to the terrible…

Dev Diary #11 – Kills-in-Shadow

In our last developer update, we introduced you to Eb, Tidecaster of the Tiers. For this week’s update, we’re going to introduce you to another of your potential Companions – the Beastwoman known as Kills-in-Shadow. Kills-in-Shadow is a monster. She’s frightening and hairy. She stinks of wet animal and has an insatiable bloodlust for violence…

Dev Diary #10 – Eb

In our last developer update, we introduced you to the Beasts and the Bane, two races that inhabit the world of Terratus alongside humanity. For this week’s update, we’re going to introduce you to another of your potential Companions – the Tidecaster Eb. Eb is a member of an order of mages that study manipulation…

Carved of Shadow, Crept from Darkness

When I sat down to write Carved of Shadow, Crept From Darkness I had a couple of goals in mind. The first was that I wanted to write a short story from the point of view of a Fatebinder during or leading up to the years of Kyros’ conquest of the Tiers. I wanted to get…

Dev Diary #9 – Beasts and Bane

In our last update we introduced you to another potential Companion, Sage Lantry. For this week’s update, we’re going to tell you about some of the creatures that inhabit Terratus: the Beasts and the Bane. Beasts of Terratus The Beasts of Terratus are a race of partially-humanoid creatures whose history is as disputed among humans…

Dev Diary #8 – Lantry

In our last dev update, we introduced you to Verse of the Scarlet Chorus. Originally we intended to discuss the Bronze Age nature of our world for this update, including some talk of itemization, but unfortunately I didn’t have time to put that together this week. So instead, we’re going to introduce you to another…

Trial by Iron

Greetings from the Narrative Design team! I’m here to bring you another story from the world of Tyranny. “Trial by Iron” showcases Barik, one of the Fatebinder’s companion characters first introduced in a prior Dev Diary. As the entry describes, Barik is trapped in a rusted-together suit of iron scrap. He’s a mess. The literal…

Dev Diary #7 – Verse

In our last update, we introduced you to Barik of the Stone Shields, one of your potential Companions. This week, we wanted to show you the other side of the coin, so to speak. Meet Verse, a fierce warrior with ties to the Scarlet Chorus. Verse represents the bravado of the Scarlet Chorus. She’s constantly…