Another Mahjuti Glyph From Veil Of The Gods.

Whipjack Thraw the Cacodaemon.

*sound on

Countless ages ago a disgruntled Cacodaemon retreated from the world to seek refuge deep in his underground lair. And there he would have remained, at peace, far from the squabbling masses of humans who had crowded him out, but for the appearance of a certain Mahjee who was looking to make a name for himself.

This Mahjee worked a Mahjuti Meta-Glyph on Whipjack that bound him within a space-time bubble. In other words, he doomed the Daemon to repeat the same 30 seconds or so of his life over and over, endlessly into eternity. Without respite.

The trap took Whipjack completely by surprise. He’d just finished a poetic warning to the Mahjee that Cacodaemons are immortal and that no Mahjuti tricks could harm him, when a series of glowing Glyphs appeared before his eyes. The ancient daemon, who long ago had proved he was invincible, found himself cocooned in a veil of shimmering sky-blue light. And that was that. He was trapped.

Her name is Miko Killick. Don’t mess with her. Not if you know what’s good for you. Veil of the Gods.

Kôhô Shōda

"Fisherboat on Moonlit Sea", 1930.

These are some of the final paintings I've been working on since just before my diagnosis of stage 4 cancer. I don't have more than a week left but I'm still creating and hope to be right up till the end.

Ziggetai

Don’t mess around with Mahjuti...

The music I created for Veil of the Gods has been a wonderful journey in itself. You know, the long term plan is to transform the graphic novel into an interactive experience and an online game. So the music is very important. The track we used on the first two promo videos wasn’t the one I’d originally planned to include. This melody came to me in a daydream while I was trying to figure out a problem with a font. I picked up the low D whistle and the melody just burst out. I hadn’t actually played that instrument for about a year so I was really surprised. It was like the flute was just aching to be played again. The whole track took only a few hours to orchestrate, record and mix. And I’m pretty happy with the result. Here’s the short version without the flute.

Inspiration.

Kasamatsu Shiro (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print, 38,6 × 26,5 cm.