You know the drill! Vote on the next character you'd like to see focused on for this month's short story! Thank you as always for your support, and I hope you enjoyed Lavinet's story! <3
2020-03-02 07:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
“Are you going to marry Pendric?” Lavinet’s youngest sister Estora asked that morning at breakfast. “Everyone’s saying so, and I say he seems awfully interested in you—”
She was cut off by an unladylike slap of a silk fan against her wrist; this was delivered by Lavinet’s other sister, Camilla, who gave an angry toss of her honey-blond curls and hissed: “Our dearest sister is not going to marry anybody, least of all Pendric D’yer!” She cast a hasty glance at ...
2020-02-29 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs always, answers are divided by General, Spoilers, and NSFW for those who want to avoid answers of any kind! Thank you as always for sending your questions in! ❤ You all really like the sex memes, haha...
And also: thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone! I really appreciated them, thank you so much!!!
Anonymous: Dearest Lena, happy early birthday (in like a week lol)!!!! I was wondering how the ROs would react to the...
2020-02-29 09:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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 2/27 at 11 PM EST.
For those of you who don't already know the drill, send in your questions by either commenting below or using the ShoH Tum...
2020-02-25 21:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi there! I wrote about 7,000 words of Chapter 4 this week; we have celebrated another holiday, arrived at the Reach, and met Naolin, and Halek is coming up in the next scene!
As I did with Chapter 3, I'm going to wait until I get to the juicy stuff to drop the next update; but in the meantime, here's a poll to finally decide Trouble's callsign!
Here's the spiel on callsigns if you haven't read it before (just skip ahead if you have):
Callsigns...
2020-02-21 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here he is, the Archmage of the Veiled Circle!~ His hair isn't quite as vertical as in his character sketch, but I do love his expression and his outfit (and the magical runes and arcana)! ❤ In a set of all the cards, his usually goes first because... I like making rainbows, and of course Red had to have a red background!
I hope you enjoy, and don't forget to vote below on the next art you want to see in March! <3
2020-02-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRed's character card won this month: what art would you like to see next month?
2020-02-20 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAyla won the commissioned art poll by just two votes over Blade! Now it's time for the final step: deciding what kind of art you'd like to see her depicted in!
I've listed some of the most common-sense options that I could think of below; if you have any suggestions for poses, subject matter, or another type of medium, please feel free to comment below, and I would love to take it into consideration! Please also keep in mind that it will take some time for me to find an artist depending...
2020-02-18 23:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I took some time to go through things in Chapter 3 again and I'm ready to post the update! (Click on the link below this post to read it!) It's still not my best writing, but I'm vastly more happy with it than I was last week (after several revisions, lol) and I felt this way about the last two chapters too, so I'm ready to start tackling Chapter 4! (And meeting Halek, whoa!!!) My main gripes right now are pacing and detail, but I also got wildly experimental with the form of ...
2020-02-14 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThings in this update:
Some of these updates are f...
2020-02-14 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's goody, I've updated the map of Blest to reflect the new and shiny ignifex version. I've also added lots of art and visual references to many of the locations, including Haven, Capra, and others--so please hover and click around to check those out if you'd like to get an idea of ShoH's physical settings and locations! The map is now more interactive and vi...
2020-02-11 08:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostIf you've played the latest alpha update, you know the world that the next Faceless Lord inhabits--a world of nightmares and dreams--is referred to by Red as "the Phantom Shore." I'm not committed to this name, so I'm letting you vote on that as well! (The 'shore' or ocean part is kind of integral, though, because I made a metaphor about it in the chapter and now I don't want to change that part, lol.)
What do you think?
2020-02-07 23:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post...well, as complete as it's going to be for now!
Hi everybody! I hope your first week of February has been off to a great start!
Thanks to your support here on Patreon, I was able to take the last two days off to devote 100% of my energy and concentration on writing ShoH!
As a result, I managed to write about 17,000 words and completed Chapter 3! (Excepting the flavor text for non-Circle Mages when Red is introduced.)
🎉👏🎉👏
However, for whatever reaso...
2020-02-07 23:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostROs and Characters won by a hair in our continuing series of polls for the next piece of commissioned art for ShoH! (What a mouthful!) Vote below on which character you'd like to see depicted: the poll after that will ask in what kind of style, medium, or pose!
2020-02-01 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill! Vote on the next character you'd like to see focused on for this month's short story! (lmao it's clear based on past results which gender is more popular glfdjg) Thank you as always for your support, and I hope you enjoyed Trouble's story! <3
2020-02-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNew month, new post!
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 HG (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 February! <3
2020-02-01 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[CONTENT WARNING: there are descriptions of death and gun-related violence in this story!]
Trouble was still putting together his gun on-deck when Karzai came into view.
On all sides, razor-sharp columns of rock and ice rose up from the seawater, threatening to pierce the small barquentine as it navigated the haphazard maze lining the coast. Periodically, harsh cracks sounded out as chunks of solid ice broke against the ship, or off of the larger clumpy glac...
2020-02-01 00:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs always, answers are divided into their own sections for anyone who wants to skip some: general questions are on top, heavy spoilers are in the middle, and NSFW questions are on the bottom! Thanks as always for participating! ❤
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Anonymous: I'm curious as to how Red, Ayla, and the random Healers in Ashtown managed to learn Translocation/Wind/Healing magic. It's s...
2020-01-28 22:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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 1/27 at 11 PM EST.
For those of you who don't already know the drill, send in your questions by either commenting below or using the ShoH Tum...
2020-01-26 04:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Here's my update for this week, told in brief because I'm a bit tired:
Here he is... the man of Death... the feral Shade... Croelle!
What do you think?! Doesn't he look lovely and amazing?! 😭 This card was commissioned from the artist mafuriah, and I'm so happy with how our elusive antagonist turned out! I love the chains motif, the colors... his face!...
(And if you're wondering why he has long hair in his original character art and short hair here, he was forced to cut his hair 2020-01-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Next month is the month of love~ Which character art would you like to see next?
2020-01-20 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much everyone for your amazing support! Thanks to you, we've reached our next goal for the Shepherds of Haven Patreon, which means you've unlocked the next award: I can commission even more art for you to enjoy!!!
We'll be deciding the next commission through a series of narrower and narrower polls, kind of like a tournament gauntlet! What kind of art would you like to see commissi...
2020-01-17 18:31:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I don't have too much to update about the game since pushing out all that content last week; I've been trying to catch up on work and giving myself a rest from that mad delirious time-crunch, so there's not too much to say on it today! I'm looking forward to getting another crack at it soon, though! Instead, take some polls: these are the testing polls I've been using to gather data about people's playthroughs, in case you're interested! ❤
Now including Prihine* and Briony and Croelle and Halek!
*I know Prihine was technically a part of the quiz before, but she was really more like an afterthought... I fixed that in this new version!
Enjoy!!! Don't forget to leave your results in a comment below! Thi...
2020-01-10 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, happy new year again! (I just keep saying this because it's really exciting to me that it's a new decade! New possibilities! Fresh horizons!)
As some of you can see, I spent the last two nights working feverishly on ShoH! I wrote about 20,000 words from the hours of 1 AM to 5 AM both nights and I finally got what I needed to done so I could update the alpha build. 😅 It was a trip and it probably reads as slightly delusional, as there were parts where I was actually falli...
2020-01-06 21:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostHappy new year, I have 20,000 words of new content for you to read! 😃
Things in this update:
Hi there! First fresh credits sign-up of 2020!
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 HG (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 your year is getting off to a great start! <3
2020-01-03 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The first ShoH Holiday Contest is over! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who participated - I felt such an outpouring of love and support for the game through all of these entries, and it was monumentally hard to pick the winners this year. I'm still working on personally replying to everyone who sent in entries, and I'm so pleased and honored to announce the winners, who will receive their prizes as soon as I can make it happen! Congratulations, and thank you again for you...
2020-01-03 17:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe last poll had a very narrow margin! Lavinet's lady-in-waiting won by a hair!
She's shyer than Lavinet, more steady and down-to-earth and sensible and sweet--and is also a bit used to being outshone by her more glamorous friend! What do you think her name should be? And if you have ideas for her physical appearance, feel free to comment below!
2020-01-02 20:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post