Happy Halloween!

Hey folks!

Happy Halloween! In honor of the holiday, I thought I might post up a creature concept by Alan Gallo. This is one of the Shuen creatures that will show up in our print comic, the Rise and Fall of Pileaus.
Enjoy the holiday and have a happy Halloween!

More on The Torn God and an Open Call for Writers

The Torn God is Baeg Tobar's main storyline - it's the tale around which we're basing everything else we do. Current plans call for the release of one comic page per week, augmented with one short story, one novel chapter, a map place, and at least one entry from the Resource Guide.

What does all that mean for the reader? It means if you meet a new character in The Torn God, you get to read more about him in that week's short story. It means you get more information about the setting through the map place and the Resource Guide. It means you get to learn all about the past of our main character, Boruin, through weekly updates to his first novel appearance, The Unmade Man.

It means we're going to have a ton of related content throughout the site, and it means you're going to want to come back everyday to see what's new.

Jeremy's already teased you a bit with an art preview, so let me whet your appetite a little more with the introduction to the first chapter of The Torn God:

Emperor Pileaus is dead. Lesser factions battle to improve their standing as the Empire struggles to right itself under the guidance of an inexperienced regent. Freed from its decades old fear of the Emperor’s stern hand, a continent wracked by war and expansion tilts even further toward chaos. Those familiar with the otherworldly source of this new discord are few and fearful.

And yet, despite the strife, business is still business, and the business of war booms loudly as ever for experienced mercenaries like Boruin and his crew. The Empire’s border with Ommany is where the money is – but it’s also the focal point of the continent’s most devious machinations, as Boruin discovers when he’s incorrectly charged with the murder of Emperor Pileaus. Luckily for Boruin, the runes on his arm and the library in his head make him more than just some common merc...

I'd also like to announce an open call for short story writers. Prose production is chugging along nicely, but adding a few more writers would help us all sleep a little better at night. Writers will be given a choice of topics relevant to the events of The Torn God. Stories should be 3000 words or less. Payment is $15 per story. We've got the first ten months or so of story ideas planned, so due dates are still somewhat flexible.

I'd like to mention one added bonus: since I started working with Baeg Tobar, my writing has improved considerably. I can say the same for everyone who's been with us since the beginning. We aren't going to just take your story, edit it, and be done with you. We're going to welcome you into our community and try to help you become a better writer. And we're going to pay you for it!

Interested parties should email me at scott@baegtobar.com. Please note that your first attempt to email me from a particular address will get caught in our spam filter; simply follow the instructions in the automated response to prove you're a real person.

More updates to come!

Art and News!

Hey folks,

Well, it has certainly been quite a while since we last updated the blog, but, that's about to change. We're going to work diligently to keep this thing better updated - I know it's been quiet and I keep saying that we're working on a lot of stuff in the background to get ready for an entire relaunch of the project. It's hard to believe when there is nary a word to be heard out of the project, isn't it?

Anyway, I just wanted to show you a sample of what is to come. This is a pin-up for our first print project, The Rise and Fall of Pileaus.
The book is going to be penciled by Alan Gallo and colored by me (Jeremy Mohler). We've got 15 pages completely penciled and just waiting on me to color, which I plan to tackle in late November/early December.

Aside from that, Shannon Potratz is busy working on The Torn God, our web comic, and it is coming along quite nicely as well. Shannon is doing all the pencils and colors for that and it is looking quite sharp as well. Here is a preview of one of the pages he just completed.
I'll be posting up some more artwork in the following weeks as we draw closer and closer to the relaunch of the project. Please stay tuned!

Also, just as a quick note, we now have a variety of Baeg Tobar related imagery available as wall papers for your mobile devices (cell phones, PDA's, etc). You can download them here - http://www.playphone.com/Outland-Mobile/

Thanks!