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Commissioned Art Poll #4 - Subject

Hello! So our artist is still working on Blade's character/reference sheet, which won our polls last time! Let's get started on voting for our next commissioned art piece! <3

If you're new to this, first we vote on a subject category (seen below), then on a more specific subject within t...

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Credits List (August)

Oops, I forgot to post this at our usual time! If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred by Hosted Games (over us...

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Short Story Poll (August #2)

So it looks like the main cast wins for more short stories! :D Whose second story would you like to see featured this month? (I'm swapping out Mimir for Caine because he's, like, 12, so he doesn't have that much life to cover lol!)

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Modern Briony and Lavinet

Modern Briony and Lavinet

Say hello to modern fashion AU Briony and Lavinet, courtesy of psychedelikats! For no real reason other than I felt like it lol!

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Art Poll (Remaking a Character Card)

Hello! I know we just voted on this , and here's my news: I just talked to the artist who made the Briony and Croelle character cards, and I'm on her waitlist for her to make Blade! However... her waitlist extends to F...

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Short Story Poll (August #1)

Hello! So, as with the character art, we've also gone through one round of the character short stories! Vote below on if you'd like to see stories about other characters in the story (I'm thinking Moonsilk, Prihine, Mimir, Chandry, and etc.) or more stories with our main cast!

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Riel's Callsign (Poll)

 Hello, it's time to vote on what you should think Riel's callsign should be! Spiel on callsigns below if you're new to this!

Callsigns are codenames or nicknames that the Shepherds assign to each other, generally to refer to each other in incognito/coded messages or to address eac...

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Shery's Story - Prayer

[CONTENT WARNING: Bullying.]

Everyone knew the school was in a bad area if even one of its classes was being taught by a Mage. And Shery’s school was taught mostly by Mages, or Hedgewitches—people who could have gotten away with pretending to be Norm, who had no magic a...

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A Way to Help Out

Hello! Next month (after a few days off) I'll be resuming work on the alpha build. If you've played til the latest update, Chapter 5, one easy way to help me out would be to tell me these 3 stats in your playthrough! This way I can have an easier time determining the difficulty of the upcoming ch...

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Art Poll (Remaking a Character Card)

It looks like "remaking an old character card" is winning in this poll, so let's get a head start on determining whose card we will remake first! As I've stated, the last character card--Mimir's--will be featured next ...

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All Revealed Character Cards

All Revealed Character Cards

Here are all the revealed character cards that we've shown here on Patreon. Captains and above have voted to remake or update these cards rather than make new ones for different characters: please refer here when deciding which character card to remake next!

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Winner of the Newspaper Drawing!

@dizzy-tx won this month's newspaper drawing as a result of being in the Vice-Commander tier! She's written two articles to be featured in the game's gossip column, so that will appear in the next update! 😊 Thank you Stephanie!

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Alpha Preview Update (July)

Hello! I bring good tidings!

I am DONE WITH EDITING MY NOVEL MANUSCRIPT FOREVER!!!

It's in my editor's (and God's lol) hands now and I hope to never have to look at or think about that thing again... until publication. That'll be in July 2021, and I'll post here if I have any updates!...

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Author Answers (July)

General:

Anonymous: Which final fantasy characters would the shepherds be the most similar to personality wise? 

It's been a long time since I've played a FF game, so please forgive the roughness of these answers...

Blade: Cloud ...

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Author Q&A (July)

Hello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline (but please keep in mind that we have 8 questions left over from last month to answer, too)! Any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&...

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Shery's Childhood Bully (Name Poll)

Flash poll! If you've played the alpha and spent time with Shery, she mentions a childhood bully who spent a lot of her youth tormenting her--this is part of the reason why Shery is so shy and afraid to speak up for herself, though she was also naturally quiet and timid. (Surprisingly, this chara...

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Art Poll - What's Next?

So, we've finally revealed all of the existing character cards for the game (Mimir's is last, so hers will be next month)! Now it's time to decide what we do next!

Option #1 - We keep revealing "secret art"--this is generally older sketches of the characters that would lurk in the dark anna...

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Character Card #12 - Shery

Character Card #12 - Shery

Here she is, our sweet Shery!!! Why does she have a clock in her hands, though?... 👀🕐 I guess this is the month of Shery, since her short story is coming up this month, too!

Look above for a poll concerning the art shown here moving forward!

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Briony's Callsign (Poll)

Hello, it's time to vote on what you should think Briony's callsign should be! Spiel on callsigns below if you're new to this!

Callsigns are codenames or nicknames that the Shepherds assign to each other, generally to refer to each other in incognito/coded messages or to address each ot...

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Halek Portrait

Halek Portrait

How's this for a pick-me-up? The wonderful @dizzy-tx commissioned the artist @loghace to do this portrait of Halek! With her permission I'll be using it on the ...

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Update (July #2)

Hello everybody! We're already halfway through the month: I hope your July is going well!

Brief update for this week: obviously the public demo has been updated to Chapter 2, so my last week has been about hunting down some bugs and continuity fixes. I've also been able to work a bit on Cha...

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July Goody - Art Page

 

Hello! For this month's goody I'm debuting a secret, special art page to show off all of the commissioned art we do here on Patreon as well as any side commissions I make on my own! 💖 The View Post

Playthrough Surveys

Playthrough Surveys

Hello! If you haven't seen these floating around already, here are some short playthrough surveys so I can see how readers' choices matched up with others (if the overwhelming majority of people picked to go with Chase and not Riel, for example, that's something I probably need to know). Please f...

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Update, Sneak Peek, and Poll (July #1)

Hello! I hope you had a great start to your July: I know I did! I successfully baked my first double-layer cake, we (by we I mean my partner's family) are thinking of getting a puppy, which means all the fun and no responsibility for me, and my best friend proposed to his partner while we were th...

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NEW: Vice-Commander Tier and Merchandise!

NEW: Vice-Commander Tier and Merchandise!

Hello, everyone! I'm very excited to announce some wonderful news for you! Our next goal here on Patreon is to unlock Shepherds of Haven merchandise for everyone. We're on track to meet that goal, but seeing as how we're coming up on a year since this Patreon went public, I took the liberty of ma...

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Short Story Poll (July)

I hope you all enjoyed Briony's story: it was so interesting to explore the culture of Elinden through her, and I hope you look forward to seeing what happens to her next! Why did Ronan abandon her? What happened to him and Kerri? How did she end up on the southern shore with no memories--and whe...

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Credits List (July)

If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), but you can send in ...

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Author Answers (June)

General

dizzy-tx:

Which character would you:

[ ] Want to cook supper with

Shery, because it’d be fun and relaxing, or Halek, because he’d be patient and show me techniques or methods that I didn’t know!

[ ] P...

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Briony's Story - Blood Ties

[Author's note: This story is the longe

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Author Q&A (June)

Hello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline! Any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&A! ❤ 

The deadline for this month will be Saturday, 6/27 at 12 PM MST<...

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