Ascala Spotlight - Concrete Heroes

Hello. C J here. Production is underway for Five Million Strong. I have lists of things I’m doing for it and I’m doing them in the order I get to them in. The Starter Set is still under production as well. Expect updates about the Starter set to be interspersed with these ones here about the city. First though, concrete. Okay, so strange sentence there. Concrete. Most modern day cities are built out of it, including Ascala itself. Five Million Strong details the entire continent but today we’re looking at the central city itself, which is also named Ascala.

How was it built? By construction workers, how else? I want to represent every civilian job on the continent in the cards here and so I’m working today on the five decks of ten heroes each that the Expansion needs. Each of these five decks is for one of the five playable factions of Ascala the continent, two of which are in Ascala the city itself. These are Ascala the city, the corporations, the Interior, the Empire of Vantara and Oiwan. The themes for these five are modern day culture, industrial engineering and technology, rural and desert life in modern day, modern day British Isles and finally modern day Tokyo, Japan.

Concrete though. It’s stone, which means it’s governed in the Legend Setting magic engine by earth magic. What happens when you put an earth wizard in a city made of concrete? Well, you get a mage who leads a construction company. Here we have Head of Operations Coal Tempest, our new corporations hero character. He’s a behemoth breed of all black wolf and is a member of the all black wolf family House Tempest. He owns a construction company and is a mage. See? Concrete can be worth talking about.

I only need now the other nine characters for the ten heroes for the corporations deck. And just to remind you all, this art here is concept art. I’m redoing the character, jacket and all, in hand drawn line art in fountain pen for the final game. Next up we have another corporations hero, Jessica Soundwolf, Head of Research at Aqua Vita Labs. Aqua Vita Labs is a corporations that is older than the city itself and makes alchemy, mostly healing and medicinal varieties. This is the head of research for the corporation and is one of its most public members, its true leader preferring to have no one in the city know her face. This character is not a mage but at her rank she probably has some combat training and alchemy at her disposal. That’s all for now.

C J Mcpherson

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