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WIPWednesday - The Forsworn First Mate
🕑 Added 2025-12-18 03:45:12 +0000 UTCHey Critical Crew!
Here's your next sneak peek into next month's "Debauchery in Derelis" - traitorous pirates on the torturous high seas of the Deceiver's realm! Check out the Forsworn First Mate for WIPWednesday!
We showed previously in "Morgus - The Realm of Screaming Flesh" that Perjus is ripe with torture and misery. But what happens to those who earn the favor of the Deceiver, rather than his enmity? As the idea for the Forsworn took shape, we wanted to move the pendulum away from Humanoid and further toward Monstrosity. The crab seemed like a perfect choice.
In life, they were traitors, vagabonds, pirates, bandits, scourges of the sea, liars, despots, and backstabbers... these mortals gained the respect of the Deceiver, master of Perjus. Instead of being trapped, devoured, or tortured within the webs of the skies of Perjus, these souls are transported to the seas of Derelis, their bodies transformed into horrid crab-like monstrosities.
Each forsworn that is "born", appears on a vessel of the Deceiver's choosing, and is meant to take control of the ship as the second in command (or kill its captain and take control of the ship for itself)...
The final product felt perfectly representative of the horrid setting and the miserable existence of the few who rise to this higher position (and the background reveals a preview in itself of the Derelian Pirates! Stay tuned for more!)
We hope you're getting ready to raise the anchors and take to the cursed seas!
-Cameron
