ToGgle and scribble

I've figured out a title for the fucking story! "Tower of the Gods," which is both silly and cliched, and shall henceforth be shortened to "Toggle."

I did a sketch page of most of the major Toggle characters- scribbly things, ahoy. It was originally just going to be Blaine and a random snake, but then I realized that I can't actually draw full bodies without them looking like crap. So I cut off his legs and doodled everyone else in the whitespace.

The rift horror may look all cute and squishable, but it'll melt your face right off if you get too close to it.

Greymalkin is supposed to look kind of terrifying; he's a lot like Silverlock, only without the charm, the restraint, or the good intentions to counteract his overwhelming sleaze and creepiness. (He's one of the very few people Silverlock will never, ever sleep with. Ever. It's the principle of the thing.) He's part demon of some sort- in D&D terms, he'd probably be considered a tiefling.

Ayanna DeLavrey controls Rianna's Tower, which makes her the most powerful woman in the world. The Tower has been in the care of the DeLavrey family since the First Era, when the creator (who has a name, I swear) entrusted it to Rianna DeLavrey. Apart from being at the center of the worlds creation mythos, the Tower acts as a command center for the entirety of the Godhead; whoever controls the Tower has the powers of all of the gods, including the Radrezarian ones, at their disposal. It is, essentially, all the power of creation. It's only been opened a few times since the First Era, and then only to keep the world from blowing up.

Ayanna is a general in the army by birth and by merit; she's the sort of person who doesn't take shit from anyone, for any reason. (She may or may not be Silverlock's half sister, just like Varun may or may not secretly be the patron deity of tentacle sex. AUGH.) Officially, she has no political influence, but she tends to ignore the family tradition of noninvolvement. She's something of a loose cannon; she makes a lot of people very, very nervous.

Mandhatri is, like, twelve, or whatever the equivalent is to the Naga. He's a nice kid, really. Just a little...misguided. And psychotic. He's directly responsible for the dead assassins; he has them kidnapped, tortured, diced, and sent back to the Guild in bags. At some point in the story, he cuts off one of Silverlock's hands, just for the hell of it. (It gets put back on. Eventually.)

Blaine (who really ought to be a lot paler- he lives in a frickin' cave, after all) is saying "tits!" as in "Varun's tits!" It's his favorite curse (he's been saying it in my head since long before I really knew who Varun was)- it gets him all kinds of strange looks, though.

(Silverlock: Waitaminute- does Varun even have tits?
Blaine: Well, actually...uh...sometimes. We're really not sure why- it just happens.
Silverlock: Huh. That's kind of hot.
Blaine: *facepalm*)

Varun is a fairly popular deity- any god that promotes free healing tends to get a lot of support from the general populace. He was originally a Naga deity, but there are very few Naga left, and his followers have become more diverse.

Natash'Azaun is a dual deity; Natasha is a luck goddess, and Azaun is a death god. Assassins and thieves tend to have a very personal relationship with both of them, for obvious reasons. Azaun is responsible for the Guildmaster's immortality- it's still unclear whether or not this was meant as a blessing or a curse.

Joshel is probably the most popular deity in the country. He doesn't have very many actual followers, but he gets a week long celebration every spring that everyone takes part in- it's a little like Mardi Gras (or the Radrezarian Festival, without the historical connotations). Lots of drinking and dancing and nakedness. Joshel is the patron of slaves, the oppressed, and half-elves; his holy symbol is a pair of interlocking shackles with a broken chain.