Hello! So our artist is still working on Blade's character/reference sheet, which won our polls last time! Let's get started on voting for our next commissioned art piece! <3
If you're new to this, first we vote on a subject category (seen below), then on a more specific subject within that category, then on the medium/style/art form itself!
What subject should we focus on this time?
2020-08-10 23:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostOops, I forgot to post this at our usual time! If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support and I hope you're having a lovely start to your August! <3
2020-08-10 23:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostSo it looks like the main cast wins for more short stories! :D Whose second story would you like to see featured this month? (I'm swapping out Mimir for Caine because he's, like, 12, so he doesn't have that much life to cover lol!)
2020-08-10 23:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Say hello to modern fashion AU Briony and Lavinet, courtesy of psychedelikats! For no real reason other than I felt like it lol!
2020-08-06 20:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I know we just voted on this , and here's my news: I just talked to the artist who made the Briony and Croelle character cards, and I'm on her waitlist for her to make Blade! However... her waitlist extends to February 2021 at the latest! :D
I'm also on another artist's waitlist, but they have no concrete date on when they'll be ready to reopen tarot card commissions and will email me when they do!
... 2020-08-05 20:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello! So, as with the character art, we've also gone through one round of the character short stories! Vote below on if you'd like to see stories about other characters in the story (I'm thinking Moonsilk, Prihine, Mimir, Chandry, and etc.) or more stories with our main cast!
2020-08-03 03:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostHello, it's time to vote on what you should think Riel's callsign should be! Spiel on callsigns below if you're new to this!
Callsigns are codenames or nicknames that the Shepherds assign to each other, generally to refer to each other in incognito/coded messages or to address each other in the field when identities should remain a secret or a mission is being conducted subversively.
I'm not great at coming up with these types of names, so I'm leaving the ...
2020-08-03 03:48:53 +0000 UTC View Post[CONTENT WARNING: Bullying.]
Everyone knew the school was in a bad area if even one of its classes was being taught by a Mage. And Shery’s school was taught mostly by Mages, or Hedgewitches—people who could have gotten away with pretending to be Norm, who had no magic at all, but who were marked by the unfortunate genetic predisposition of having half-glowing eyes or some other thing that set them apart. Often, these people had no choice but to take up teaching reca...
2020-08-01 00:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Next month (after a few days off) I'll be resuming work on the alpha build. If you've played til the latest update, Chapter 5, one easy way to help me out would be to tell me these 3 stats in your playthrough! This way I can have an easier time determining the difficulty of the upcoming chapter. 😉
Please tell me your:
Physique stat:
Magic stat: (psionic, astral, and arcane would be awesome as a bonus)
Main weapon stat...
2020-07-31 22:21:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt looks like "remaking an old character card" is winning in this poll, so let's get a head start on determining whose card we will remake first! As I've stated, the last character card--Mimir's--will be featured next month at the usual time, but I figured we'd get a head start on whose to do after that, as artists who do tarot card commissions fluctuate in availability and production time. So let's get a head star...
2020-07-31 22:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are all the revealed character cards that we've shown here on Patreon. Captains and above have voted to remake or update these cards rather than make new ones for different characters: please refer here when deciding which character card to remake next!
2020-07-31 22:13:11 +0000 UTC View Post@dizzy-tx won this month's newspaper drawing as a result of being in the Vice-Commander tier! She's written two articles to be featured in the game's gossip column, so that will appear in the next update! 😊 Thank you Stephanie!
The tool used to draw winners was the Random Name Picker. @dizzy-tx will not be in future drawings, and the next time we pick a winner will be next month on the 25th! Stay tune...
2020-07-30 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I bring good tidings!
I am DONE WITH EDITING MY NOVEL MANUSCRIPT FOREVER!!!
It's in my editor's (and God's lol) hands now and I hope to never have to look at or think about that thing again... until publication. That'll be in July 2021, and I'll post here if I have any updates!
Due to being busy with the novel, I was a bit crunched on time for ShoH this month, so I wasn't able to accomplish everything I wanted--but next month I can absolutely get back to it with gusto...
2020-07-30 05:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostAnonymous: Which final fantasy characters would the shepherds be the most similar to personality wise?
It's been a long time since I've played a FF game, so please forgive the roughness of these answers...
Blade: Cloud and Vincent Valentine (FF7)
Trouble: Squall (FF8), little bit of Cid (FF7) and Barrett (FF7)
Shery: Aerith, little bit of Shera (FF7)
Tallys: Lightning (FF13)
Chase: Reno...
2020-07-28 09:50:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline (but please keep in mind that we have 8 questions left over from last month to answer, too)! Any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&A! ❤
The deadline for this month will be Monday, 7/27 at 12 PM MST. I will not save or answer any questions sent after the deadline.
For those of you who don...
2020-07-25 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFlash poll! If you've played the alpha and spent time with Shery, she mentions a childhood bully who spent a lot of her youth tormenting her--this is part of the reason why Shery is so shy and afraid to speak up for herself, though she was also naturally quiet and timid. (Surprisingly, this character actually plays a role later on.) As usual, I'm letting you pick her name!
What do you think the bully's name should be?
2020-07-23 22:44:44 +0000 UTC View PostSo, we've finally revealed all of the existing character cards for the game (Mimir's is last, so hers will be next month)! Now it's time to decide what we do next!
Option #1 - We keep revealing "secret art"--this is generally older sketches of the characters that would lurk in the dark annals of time, along with the occasional commission, either older or recent, left up to me! (This means no more voting every month.)
Option #2 - We start voting on more tarot/character cards to be ...
2020-07-21 02:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here she is, our sweet Shery!!! Why does she have a clock in her hands, though?... 👀🕐 I guess this is the month of Shery, since her short story is coming up this month, too!
Look above for a poll concerning the art shown here moving forward!
2020-07-21 02:13:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello, it's time to vote on what you should think Briony's callsign should be! Spiel on callsigns below if you're new to this!
Callsigns are codenames or nicknames that the Shepherds assign to each other, generally to refer to each other in incognito/coded messages or to address each other in the field when identities should remain a secret or a mission is being conducted subversively.
I'm not great at coming up with these types of names, so I'm leaving the ones...
2020-07-17 21:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post
How's this for a pick-me-up? The wonderful @dizzy-tx commissioned the artist @loghace to do this portrait of Halek! With her permission I'll be using it on the character tarot page and posting it on the new art page! Thank you so much again!!! ❤ This totally got me motivated to work again, lol!
2020-07-15 21:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody! We're already halfway through the month: I hope your July is going well!
Brief update for this week: obviously the public demo has been updated to Chapter 2, so my last week has been about hunting down some bugs and continuity fixes. I've also been able to work a bit on Chapter 5--a lot of set-up has to be done since MC has been gone for so long!--and some fun stuff to happen for the three new recruits (Red, Ayla, Halek), including CAMPING!
I've also devoted some ...
2020-07-14 19:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! For this month's goody I'm debuting a secret, special art page to show off all of the commissioned art we do here on Patreon as well as any side commissions I make on my own! 💖 The tarot character page was originally going to be where the character sheets ended up, but sadly you can't see them in fu...
2020-07-10 19:41:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! If you haven't seen these floating around already, here are some short playthrough surveys so I can see how readers' choices matched up with others (if the overwhelming majority of people picked to go with Chase and not Riel, for example, that's something I probably need to know). Please feel free to join in if you have the time! Thank you and have a great rest of your day!
Hello! I hope you had a great start to your July: I know I did! I successfully baked my first double-layer cake, we (by we I mean my partner's family) are thinking of getting a puppy, which means all the fun and no responsibility for me, and my best friend proposed to his partner while we were there, which is all very exciting!
Despite all that, I've got a lot done on the game: we're well underway into Chapter 5, I've implemented some continuity fixes in past chapters, and beefy gamblin...
2020-07-06 20:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! I'm very excited to announce some wonderful news for you! Our next goal here on Patreon is to unlock Shepherds of Haven merchandise for everyone. We're on track to meet that goal, but seeing as how we're coming up on a year since this Patreon went public, I took the liberty of making some early as thanks to all of you! Thank you very much for making this possible! ❤
News 1: I've partnered with Patreon to automatically give Patrons of a certain tier th...
2020-07-01 21:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you all enjoyed Briony's story: it was so interesting to explore the culture of Elinden through her, and I hope you look forward to seeing what happens to her next! Why did Ronan abandon her? What happened to him and Kerri? How did she end up on the southern shore with no memories--and where is the Lightning-Cutter? All things I'm excited to explore in the game!
Whose story would you like to see this month? Well, Shery is the last one we haven't done, so maybe a poll isn't really...
2020-07-01 19:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support and I hope you're having a lovely start to your July! <3
2020-07-01 19:40:03 +0000 UTC View Postdizzy-tx:
Which character would you:
[ ] Want to cook supper with
Shery, because it’d be fun and relaxing, or Halek, because he’d be patient and show me techniques or methods that I didn’t know!
[ ] Play a prank with (who gets the prank played on them?)
Probably Briony lol: I know the impulse was to pick Trouble or Chase, but their pranks are generally too extreme/risky for me. Briony’s pr...
2020-06-29 23:27:46 +0000 UTC View Post[Author's note: This story is the longe
2020-06-29 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline! Any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&A! ❤
The deadline for this month will be Saturday, 6/27 at 12 PM MST.
For those of you who don't already know the drill, send in your questions by either commenting below or using the 2020-06-25 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post