Hello, now that I've finished the zine I want to make a little guide for those of you who want to convert/make custom characters within the Darkeaten setting. Kitbashes, Ocs, rpg characters, etc. As always, this is just a stencil, and take these tips as you'd like. Rules are meant to be broken.
A good way to come up with a character is to simply randomize them on the on the document below! just roll a few d6s and boom you have a character. it's easy and free to use for when you have no clue where to start.
If you're more interested in specifics, I got some more info below.
My first tip when making a character is to determine what kind of character they are, a hunter, infected, pyromancer, something inbetween? this will determine the aesthetic design of the character in general, as they all have pretty different looks.
Any church based character will normally be clad in red. Red is the holiest color, as it is the color of blood, so use it as much as you can to show the holiness of the character. Any armor plates will normally contain lots of curved aspects to them as well, as curves denote holiness. Of course, you need blood, bloody makeup, dripping from the mouth, on the hands, wherever. Pennant characters tend to have lots of barbed wire around their bodies, and may even exhibit the pointed pennant helmet in some occasions. Add runes here and there, do whatever you see fits the concept.
Infected are much more fun, as you're free to do almost anything you want. Infected can be anything from standard zombies to canine beasts to even trees or metal. Infected can even look completely normal, with only warped minds and insides. The only constant with infected are their orange eyes. Orange is the key color of infected, and should be used to accentuate certain infected parts of them. Other than that, go wild! make something crazy and monstrous. Create your own custom strain with their own dreg lord to lead it. Do whatever you want
Fleshmelders are another opportunity to get creative, as they can have weird additions to their bodies and strange metallic growths going in different directions. Not all mechanical parts on their body have to make sense, or even lead anywhere, many have wires that flow in and out of their skin needlessly. Additional arms and syringes containing strange fluids also are commonplace, as is the use of warped bones on the outside used of the body as armor or augmentation. Skin stitched clothing is also very common, even sometimes containing faces of those harvested. Other than that, just place metal spikes where you see fit, jutting from the skin in random directions.
The only other tips I can give are to make your character exhibit their city. Characters from Invale will be wearing heavy clothing, and characters from Agota will wear light clothing. Many citizens exhibit their cities, as it's were they will spend their entire life, so get creative with it! Also, anything gothic or punk adds a lot, corsets, studded belts and bracelets, lots of piercings, crazy hairdos, etc. Those are optional but add to the aesthetic of the character, darkeaten is a punk fantasy setting after all
That's all for now. Go make some characters! If you do, send them over to me at any of my socials so I can see them, I'd love to see what you make! And feel free to ask any questions you've got, I'd love to answer any character creation conundrums you have.
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