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Alpha Preview Update (October)
Play the alpha herePassword: spooktober!boo ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:15,000 words of new content!New Lavinet character interludeNew Caine character interludeHave tea and learn abou...
Commissioned Art #14 - Chandry's Character Sheet
Well......... he's here......... you asked for it, so I hope you guys are happy!.................. 🙂🙂🙂I'm just kidding, lol! Truth to be told, I was far more embarrassed to turn in my character references for Chandry to our character sheet artist (cutetanuki-chan) than she was to re...
Weapon Codex Entry (The Thunderer)
Greetings! We've got another legendary weapon codex entry, fresh off the presses! I think it's so badass that your MC can potentially run around with a sawn-off shotgun, blasting holes through people like it's nothing... What do you think of this concept art? I especially love the dragon...
Credits List (October)
Hi everyone, happy first of October! I always get so excited for this month, for me to represents true fall and the spooky vibes of Halloween! 🎃 I'm going to decorate everything in our house today LOL!If you haven't done so already, please message meor comment belowif you'd like to ha...
What Lurks Beneath (Prihine's Story)
Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeThe next time Prihine saw the Shepherds, night had fallen, and Courtshore had transformed into a different place entirely. A cold, unpleasant rain slanted down from tar-black skies; a chill wind plucked greedily at her skirts. Thankfully Lady Rovaque’s promised c...
Alpha Preview Update (September)
Play the alpha herePassword: doyouremember_the21st ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:15,000 words of new content!New Ayla character interludeNew Trouble character interludeParticipate in a ...
Weapon Codex Entry (Clarion)
Hi there, here's the first of our legendary weapon codex entries, starting with Clarion, the Skyshard! ✨ Please keep in mind that these are not canonical designs, but my and the artist's personal takes, meant to be experimental concept art only! This is the vibe I personallyenvision for Cl...
Credits List (September)
Hi everyone, happy start of the -tember months, and Happy Labor Day weekend if you're in the US!If you haven't done so already, please message meor comment belowif you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over u...
What Lurks Beneath (Prihine's Story)
[Content warning: descriptions of blood]Chapter OneChapter TwoThe guards wouldn’t have let them in, Blade thought, if not for the plain fact that none of their own officers could stomach all the blood.He—and Trouble, and Chase—watched indifferently as a green-faced recruit reeled past them, st...
Alpha Preview Update (August)
Play the alpha herePassword: augustus_gloop ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:13,000 words of new content!New Briony character interludeNew Red character interludeParticipate in some animal...
Mini-Update: Break in the Q&A!
Hello everybody! I hope your Augusts are going swimmingly! 🙌🙆🏻♀️So a little quick update on how things are going... As I mentioned in my last alpha build post, I've suddenly and unexpectedly resumed work on my second novel, and in roughly 5 weeks, I've completed 50,000 words ...
Halek Emoji (August Goody)
Per your votes, we have a new Halek emoji active on our Discord as of today! Does he have a dead stare or is that just his resting Halek face? I'll let you decide 😉Maybe we'll do more emoji polls in the future to keep adding new characters or more of the main cast! Next month the codex en...
Credits List (August)
Hello everyone, happy August!If you haven't done so already, please message meor comment belowif you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over usernames like hottie69_420), but you can send in whatever you're mo...
What Lurks Beneath (Prihine's Story)
[Author's Note: ...with Blade, Trouble, and Chase thrown in, too.]Chapter OnePrihine loved being a widow.Well, hers was a unique situation: she was a widow who had never married, at least in the eyes of the law. The late Autarch had granted her a legal annulment to inoculate her from Turti’s g...
Alpha Preview Update (July)
Play the alpha herePassword: hittingyou_hittingyouwithnewspaper ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:17,000 words of new content!New Chase interludeThe end of Chapter 9Finally initiate a frien...
Weapon Codex Entry (Croelle's Whip-Sword)
Hello friends! It turns out I lied: our concept artist was able to get Croelle's weapon done in time for this month! 👀 I tried to be vague and more succinct than I usually am with the weapons for the sake of spoilers, but if you've read Croelle's short story on here, you know what'...
Author Answers (July)
GeneralI have got to know how bad Halek would tease Naolin if Naolin and MC were kinda crushing but being so so awkward about it (let me live in my delulu world for a second)Halek turned to give his brother a long, significant look, arching his brows so meaningfully that the effect was almost comica...
Author Q&A (July)
Hi everyone, I hope you all have been enjoying your July and staying cool! 😎 It's that time of the month again: my inbox is open for your questions!The ask window for this Q&A will be open for 24 hours, so make sure to get your questions in before the deadline, which will beWednesday, July 17...
Goodie Poll - Halek Emoji (Part 2)
Okay everyone, here's a flash poll until the end of the day! You all put forward amazing suggestions for Halek's emoji, to the point where I'm still having trouble deciding, because they're all so good! I even put my finalists into a random name picker and each one was selected an eq...
Goodie Poll - Halek's Emoji
Hello everyone! This month's goodie was supposed to be Croelle's weapon art, but unfortunately, our usual weapon concept artist hasn't returned to work yet, so it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer for that as well as the legendary weapons art! In the meantime, how about a fl...
Credits List (July)
Happy July, everyone! If you haven't done so already, please message meor comment belowif you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over usernames like hottie69_420), but you can send in whatever you're most comf...
The Art of Escape - A Recruits Story
Chapter I: The Vanishing ActChapter II: Sleight of HandChapter III: The PledgeChapter IV: The TurnTW:allusions to childhood abuse, accusations of insanity[Author's note:I think I'll be drawing this serial to a close with this chapter,though there'salways room for a bonus Emarynne chapter...
Alpha Preview Update (June)
Play the alpha herePassword: lightningbug_june ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:25,000 words of new content!New Blade character interludeNew Tallys character interludeNew Caine character i...
Author Answers (June)
GeneralHi Lena, I’ve recently started re-reading The Lord of the Rings and it’s got me wondering…. How would the Shepherds take to a stay in the Shire? Who is living out their cottagecore dreams and who absolutely “needs to get away from these country bumpkins!”I just have to tell you that...
Author Q&A (June)
Hi everyone, I hope you all have been enjoying your June! It's that time of the month again: my inbox is open for your questions!The ask window for this Q&A will be open for 24 hours, so make sure to get your questions in before the deadline, which will beTuesday, June 18th, 12 PM MST.I will not...
Magical Specializations Codex Entry
Hi everyone! Our weapons concept artist is still working on the last character weapon--Croelle's whip-sword--before we move on to the MC's potential legendary weapons, so this month I thought I'd share a different codex entry: the wheel of Blest's common magic schools and specializat...
Credits List (June)
Happy June, everyone! It's finally hitting the 100s here in AZ... I hope you're all surviving the heat, if applicable, where you are too! 🫠If you haven't done so already, please message meor comment belowif you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! Name...
The Art of Escape - A Recruits Story
Chapter I: The Vanishing ActChapter II: Sleight of HandChapter III: The PledgeTW: death, allusions to abuseDaren had never considered outright insubordination before.It wasn’t in Ket nature. True, he had been born in Torsari, which no longer had a true Ket government to lead it, assign its citizen...
Commissioned Art Poll #13 - Medium
what have you doneWHAT HAVE YOU DONEEEEEWHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYwhy do I now need to try to find references for this wretched clown to give to a SERIOUS, LEGITIMATE, DOES-THIS-FOR-A-LIVING-ARTIST to illustrate and try to feebly explain how to depict what is only an eldritch blob in my head??? do y...
Alpha Preview Update (May)
Play the alpha herePassword: coco_may ⬅❗️Report bugs hereView bug reports hereIncomplete routes guide⬅❗️please check if you suspect your game ended early :)What's New:20,000 words of new content to Chapter 9!Two steamy makeout sessions for the price of one! (If you're romancing B...
