Monarch Mobius XXXV teaser (Update 08.06.2015)

The background story for Mobius / Dirk is that he's from Norvale, a frozen kingdom far to the north, he appeared in a couple of my other books, but his own story was told in 'Successor to the Frozen Throne."

Basically in it, he's the heir to Norvale, but he's more or less useless and his sister Genevieve (Also known as Maeve Yukimaru) is the one who keeps the Kingdom running as she makes all of the public appearances, stands as the Judge in the crown court, etc due to their father's failing health.

Which in turn is due to Dirk merely because he was born.

In the story, there's ancient runes that were given to the royal line by the Impure Gods, which allows them to channel magical powers and have a significantly reduced ageing process, but when you have a heir born, your rune is passed onto them.

At which point, any injuries or ageing that should have happened come back at once, which could be fatal and kill the host instantly if they lived an unnaturally long time or suffered great injuries that they used the rune to recover from.

However, his father was taken to an advanced age and the only thing keeping him alive is artificial mana being injected into his body by a machine.

He has not the strength to stand, and he keeps going until he can pass on everything that his son needs to know.

Officially speaking, Genevieve is the acting Queen in all but name, and Dirk, not realising the sheer importance he has, decides to take a break for a couple days (no more than a week) and he disguises himself as a commoner and hangs around the city and after seeing that there was no immediate consequences in his leave, he took his disguise to the next level after meeting with a noble and seeing a 'Hume' for the first time.

(In his world, Humans are more or less sold as slaves or food, they're considered to be poor quality ones when compared to Mannequins (A specially made doll using body parts of humans and given a specialised purpose, such as a cook, bodyguard or a lover.) and he altered his appearance to be the same as a Hume and wanted to travel for a few weeks.

Unfortunately, he came across Ruari, a man employed by the Alchemist who works to ferry humans between Earth and Terra and round up any stray ones.

After a fight broke out, Dirk ended up killing him by accident when his royal rune activated as a defence mechanism, and now that he killed someone, he couldn't simply return to Norvale as he became a wanted man.

I won't say too much more in case anyone wants to actually read Dirk's story, but in short, because Dirk left, something that was sealed underneath the capital was allowed to wake up and weaken the barriers on the others, which in turn allowed a very bad man to return to power. =P

I was thinking it would be interesting to try to make FF6 style sprites on Dirk and Maeve and include them as a cameo in something, since I'm already working on a (reasonably) big project and I don't have the time or resources to do one about my books.

I'll finish the base one, and work on the other design, which should be interesting since he has entirely different poses for me to add the cape to when compared to Siegfried's.

In fact, I can probably do a spritesheet for Genevieve pretty easily, since her design is just a white dress (with light blue trim) and long dark blue hair.