Pugnacious Pack: Sam's Bear Mob

We just wanted to take a moment out of your week to share another lovely piece of work from American darling Sam Stoddard, one of our artists here at Legion. Eternum is brimming with beasts from the disparate realities ready to be mustered to your forces. Among the most fearsome... and occasionally apathetic... is the mighty bear. We want to thank Sam for illustrating this lovely Bear Mob: watch for the card, which will enlist three bears to YOUR legion. No guarantees that one of them won't be going through an existential crisis. Thanks again Sam. We love what you do!

Stick with us for information as to how YOU can help Legion get off the ground, and check out more of Sam's work at http://www.samstoddardart.com/

Sanguine Sovereign: Lo'Nial, Lunar Witch

Queen of Madness

Lo'Nial is the infernal witch - the quintessence of madness, sacrifice and darkness. From her bleak throne she rules over the realm of Kurthia, a nightmarish hellscape that remains from the infernal reality.

Air of Apathy

To those unaware of her intentions, Lo'Nial's very existence seems like a hellish plague. The Lunar Witch sows chaos wherever she goes. The blood perpetually seeping from her hands soaks the ground everywhere she treads; and wherever the blood fertilizes the earth, a devil is born to wreak havoc on everything around it. Lo'Nial pays no mind to her twisted progeny. She seems completely ambivalent to the fact that they exist. So what dark purposes occupy the mind of this eldritch being? 

Warden of Kurthia

There are angels, and then there is God- good exists in gradations; and so does evil. Beings who know less see a nightmare in Lo'Nial and her devils, but Lo'Nial is fixed on greater nightmares. Kurthia is a prison, and in the mind of the Lunar Witch, her devils are inconsequential compared to the evils she is holding at bay...

Lo'Nial in Design

The Lunar Witch was actually the first character I designed when I started working on Legion, and she has to be one of my absolute favorites. The elements of sacrifice and madness (both definitive of infernal gameplay) came to head in her grisly design. I wanted her to have a sort of horrifying beauty - enchanting and ethereal, but inspiring insanity- just like the moon. There's a grotesque beauty in her Giger-esque headdress and entrail jewelry that's entirely her own.

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From Concept to Card: Rachel's Catlan University

Worlds Apart

I've had the privilege of knowing Rachel Everett for about six years now, and I've watched her art evolve a lot in that time frame - but she's always been a prodigious story teller. Nothing that Rachel illustrates is ever just an image - her pieces are windows into unexplored worlds, saturated with details that imply character and culture. However aesthetically pleasing her work might be, a bulk of its value lies in the stories she tells with every brush stroke. 

Catlan Academy: Hub of Mysticism

 Catlan Academy is one of Eternum's most important locales, and we're going to be seeing a lot going on there in the events of Genesis, Legion's first set. We've already talked about the six domains that make up Legion as a game. Those same domains also represent six pre-existent realities that collided to create the world of Eternum. Throughout Eternum, certain regions bear more resemblance to certain realities than others, and some, like Catlan Academy, are direct holdovers. Catlan Academy is a remnant of the mystic reality, and the seat of Anahita's power.

(Anahita Concept by Taylor Jones)

An expansive and esoteric maze of monolithic buildings, Catlan Academy is a library, a place of learning, and a city unto itself. Its denizens hold fast to the pillar of mysticism: that nothing is more sacred than the attainment of knowledge and the growth of intellect. And who better to lead this city-academy than the quintessence of knowledge herself? Anahita, the Mystic Witch, presides over Catlan as a ruler and teacher, imparting portions of her omniscience to her ambitious pupils. 

Rachel gives beautiful life to Catlan in a range of teals and blues reflective of the strange, alien world the mystic reality once was. The peaceful unity of the mystic domain is plain in the marriage of nature and structure. Keep up with us here for more on Catlan's mysticism including an alternate-art promo version of Anahita done by Rachel herself! Rachel's promo, as well as other alternate witches, will be available as special rewards to backers of our upcoming kickstarter campaign. For more of Rachel's fantastically narrative work follow her at MissRacheleverett.tumblr.com on Tumblr, Miss Rachel Everett on Facebook, and @missracheleverett on Instagram.