{"id":967,"date":"2022-10-22T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T02:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=967"},"modified":"2022-10-22T21:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T02:14:51","slug":"repost-meet-the-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/repost-meet-the-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Repost &#8211; Meet the Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to reveal the most dangerous creatures in Lucerna!\u00a0 First, my original notes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightmare (Generic)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Gender: Male (though kind of hard to tell)<br \/>\nAge: Unknown<br \/>\nHeight: 6\u2019<br \/>\nBuild: Athletic<br \/>\nHair: Short and Ragged<br \/>\nEyes: Reddish Orange (slanted)<br \/>\nDominant Hand: Right<\/p>\n<p>Additional Notes (Appearance): Nightmares have the same basic body structure as Angellus (humanoid with wings), though they\u2019re more feral, with claw like fingernails and sharp teeth.\u00a0 They don\u2019t wear clothing (or, if they do, it\u2019s not obvious where the clothes end and skin begins.\u00a0 Their entire body is iridescent black, like an oil slick, and seems to be melting or dripping darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Character Summary: Nightmares are strange beings which occasionally appear in Lucerna. They are extremely violent, but usually vanish only a few minutes (or even a few seconds)\u00a0 after appearing.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Nightmare refers to an entire race rather than a specific character.\u00a0 Though you might notice that the line at the top of that descriptive text says \u201cNightmare (Generic)\u201d.\u00a0 Does that mean there might be some special Nightmares?\u00a0 Well, you\u2019ll have to wait and see\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one of Hanbee\u2019s Nightmare sketches.\u00a0 It lacks the dripping darkness effect, which would eventually be changed to more of an aura and added as part of the coloring and shading.\u00a0 It\u2019s also wearing clothes (well, a rag anyway), which is a change that Hanbee made to my original design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareSketch.jpg\" alt=\"Nightmare Sketch\" width=\"627\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareSketch.jpg 627w, https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareSketch-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nightmare Sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really can\u2019t say much else about the Nightmares without spoiling some major plot points.\u00a0 Normally I\u2019d show one of the in-game character poses, but here\u2019s a CG instead.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273\" src=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareIntro.jpg\" alt=\"Nightmare Intro\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareIntro.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareIntro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NightmareIntro-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nightmare Intro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to reveal the most dangerous creatures in Lucerna!\u00a0 First, my original notes. Nightmare (Generic) Gender: Male (though kind of hard to tell) Age: Unknown Height: 6\u2019 Build: Athletic Hair: Short and Ragged Eyes: Reddish Orange (slanted) Dominant Hand: Right Additional Notes (Appearance): Nightmares have the same basic body structure as Angellus (humanoid with wings), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/repost-meet-the-nightmares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repost &#8211; Meet the Nightmares<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}