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Progress Update
8 months ago – Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 10:43:42 AM

Progress update: 

Hello Everyone,

Progress has been steady but I have fallen behind schedule a little due to many rounds of drawn out bureaucratic battles taking more of my time than I had expected over the winter (moving my business to Sweden, doing my first taxes here and the process of getting my wife residency status here). I am out the other side of all that now and so am hoping to make up the lost ground over the next couple of months. So I am just mentioning this to give an early heads up that fulfillment could end up getting pushed back a bit into August or September. I am hoping to avoid that, I will work as fast as I can - but I don't want to sacrifice quality either.


Constructs
Dotted around the islands, constructs can be found. Nobody is sure who is building them. They carry out various tasks, often acting as guardians to ruins, mazes or resources. They can be reprogrammed with arcane cubes. Constructs are powered by various fuel sources and programmed with different functions. 

Arcane parasites
Once their casters had died, powerful spells from before the flood began to take on a life of their own, self assembling into small bioluminescent hydrostatic skeletons. They replicate, veering towards increased complexity and counterfactual strangeness with each generation. No survivor has studied them yet, since being infected can lead to unpredictable and dangerous consequences.

Thanks again for backing, 
Lazy Litch

Progress update
11 months ago – Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 08:56:09 AM

Progress update: Everything is proceeding as planned. Here are some sneak peaks and new content: 

Second Tyrant: The Carrion Emperor

When you generate your wavecrawl setting with Wind Wraith, you will roll on a 'Tyrant Table'. This result will drop one of nine tyrant dictators into a throne, ruling over a cluster of islands. This tyrant will dictate trade and each will come with a different economic policy, mini legal system, fortress and army. The tyrant's realm is restricted to one area of the ocean that they have means to control. Stay tuned for more info and the other six tyrants to be revealed. The first tyrant revealed was 'The Static Empress':

The Nine Seas 
As well as 9 possible Tyrants, Wind Wraith will feature 9 types of seas. More information on these in future updates. The seas are clustered together and separated by paper thin magical boundaries despite their extreme variation in climate and conditions. After generating your setting map with one to nine types of seas, sprinkle more complexity between these locations with underwater currents, trade networks and ancient portal rafts to link disparate locations: 


Moving locations: 
Another table will include roaming locations that will move around your map such as the Capillary City on the back of this necrotic whale: 

Necrotic sea creature 'Kêtoskrill' with parasitic Capillary City growing out of its back: Densely populated, this city originally existed in a symbiotic relationship with the Kêtoskrill. But eventually growing concerns over the host's death lead the Artemia population to perform sequences of increasingly complex and time consuming rituals to prolong its life. After intentionally swimming itself into dangerous waters, the Artemia bored a connection to the creature's brain and eye socket, those involved in controlling navigation ascended as a higher class in Artemia society swore an oath to keep the city in safe sections of the seas. Division of labour rapidly increased, as the Kêtoskrill's constant process of entropy hastened. Artemia with their short life cycles have just enough time to obtain the skills to repair a specific part of the the creature's decaying form after which they must frantically educate those under them before working themselves to death. The city never sleeps, an endless conveyor belt of shift work. Increasingly inward looking, the city adopted autarky and faded from the memory of those they used to trade with. In addition to the all consuming repair work, an ideological infection has been spreading which must be tightly controlled through ever increasing surveillance and repression. The infection started with an Artemia claiming to be a prophet in psychic communication with the Kêtoskrill, saying the creature has wanted to die for many generations now - which sparked an underground separatist saboteur movement. They believe if they can convince even 3% of the population to disrupt repairs, it would lead to unavoidable cascading failures. Deep in the vaults of the Navigation Palace lies an ancient treasure from before the world flooded. It collects silt. The treasure keepers were disbanded to bolster the workforce years ago.

Another reminder that pre-orders are live. If you want to grab more add-ons, or know anyone who missed the campaign, they can now pledge here: https://wind-wraith.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
 
Thanks again, 
Lazy Litch

Surveys away
about 1 year ago – Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:03:45 AM

First of all I would like to apologize for the late update, I had some unforeseen delays. 

Backerkit surveys have just been sent out, please check your spam if you cannot find your email. Leave me a comment if you never received your survey  

Pre-orders are live! If you know anyone who missed the campaign, they can now pledge here: https://wind-wraith.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Add-on PDFs have been sent out. If you backed for Woodfall, Haunted Hamlet, Toxic Wood or Willow and have not received your PDF link from either Drivethrurpg or Backerkit, then leave a comment or send me a message. Please note PDFs of Wind Wraith won't be sent out until the fulfillment time listed on the campaign of July 2024, it is only add-on PDFs that have been sent out. 

 More updates on book progress to follow soon! 

Thanks again

Lazy Litch

Thanks to everyone and next steps
over 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:04:39 AM

Thanks to everyone who backed Wind Wraith and made this such a successful campaign! 

The next step is to set up Backerkit to help you manage your pledge and additional add-ons if you want them.  I will also be setting up a pre-order store for those who want to back late. 

As soon as kickstarter finishes processing the funds, I will deliver all Woodfall, Willow, Haunted Hamlet and Toxic Wood PDFs to those who backed for them. 

I will be staying in touch with progress updates.

- Lazy Litch

Only 2 days left - Wind Wraith Update 2 - Limited Foil Edition PDF & Tyrants
over 1 year ago – Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 11:59:50 AM

Greetings to the voyagers in the fallen world,

Thanks again to everyone who backed so far and made this project possible!

I have had a few inquiries asking if a PDF is included with the Limited Edition - I would like to confirm that it will include a PDF. 

Tyrants!

An example of one of the many generative features in Wind Wraith's toolkit:

When you generate your wavecrawl setting with Wind Wraith, you will roll on a 'Tyrant Table'.  This result will drop one of several tyrant dictators into a throne, ruling over a cluster of islands. This tyrant will dictate trade and each will come with a different economic policy, mini legal system, fortress and army. The tyrant's realm is restricted to one area of the ocean that they have means to control. The art above depicts one such tyrant; The Static Empress, a psionic tyrant who rules from a rusted spire. 

Thanks again,

Lazy Litch