The Selection - Ch2 Intro 01

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Even gods make mistakes.

So I decided to go with a rather prominent decision I've been pondering on for awhile now. I really really enjoyed making that first intro to Chapter 1 because I really love creation stories. The only problem? Everyone and their mama puts creation stories in their comic intros. Like, seriously. If you look at most comics - stories even - on dA, they will have an intro something along the lines of "This is how stuff was made" and "but things went wrong so this happened to fix it". The only difference is mine doesn't end in two "light" and "dark" entities turning on one another like a good portion of people use this trope. But either way, it's a bit cliche and overdone so I considered scrapping the idea entirely. However, I decided to stick with it and morph it a little - from now on every chapter will have some sort of brief 3-page or so intro illustrating an excerpt of a part of history according to the religion following Creator (this is not simply limiting it to creation stories then). Some will not have much relevance to the chapter or story, but some of them will give very subtle hints. I already had one major hint in the first intro.

Another reasoning for this is because it's somewhat of a trick to avoid having the characters exposition such things in the story itself. There's really no time plot-wise for me to sit down and fit in some way for the characters to talk about the religion they already follow, especially since it's not plot-relevant most of the time. But my worlds and the religion in said worlds is a large part of the culture and I feel it's important to at least briefly touch upon it in manners as this next to dialogue exchanges and visual hints in the comic itself. So this is my defense for choosing to do this and hopefully it will be interesting even if generic.

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That spiel out of the way, here is the second intro and continuation to the first chapter's introduction! So we saw Creator make all these critters... but what happened afterward? Apparently not good things.

Also because everyone got mistaken on this last intro - "creator" is meant to be lower case. It is not referring to the god by name or title, just that it was the one who made stuff. The name "Creator", I like to think, was taken from these texts and given a title position. Just like most deities in our society it has different names too and that was just the origin of the main one.

I tried to make this style a mix between the original intro's style and other styles from our own cultures (because a few people suggested last time the style wasn't "ancient" enough). In this case I took inspiration from Japanese Woodblock prints, or Ukiyo-e. It was a little difficult sense the prints vary so much - some are incredibly detailed and realistic while others are flat-colored, stylized, and almost airbrushed-looking. I leaned a bit more with the stylized version since I preferred those.

One more thing! This week there will be a different update schedule due to this. This week updates will be Monday (today), Wednesday, and Friday. Mostly cause it'd be read strangely with this intro being so spaced apart. So I fix this!

Enjoy weird trees and dying things~

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