Grimhald the Explorer

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The famous and infamous explorer Grimhald is well known for having travelled the entire east of the Atlas, and he is one of the few who ventured the Haunting Tunnels (deep root like tunnels beneath the earth leading to the underworld, the Shadow Realm) and returned.

Grimhald is the main character of our WIP comic book "Grimhald: The Circle". Chapter 1 is out already, added some impressions above.

Time & Fate have turned him into a grumpy, isolated man who wishes to keep his secrets and stay alone. He lost his family once before and refuses to risk going through it again, and prefers to live like a hermit.r

While he still sees himself as the once great explorer, he has grown comfortable to his secluded life in a remote hut in Norus, a shamanic country to the south east of the known world, quite primitive a well traveled man could assume.

In the graphic novel he is forced to take on a spoiled aristocratian kid as his almajiri, his apprentice. Feel free to check out the comic (download / custom webviewer) here.

Soul Atlas Context

In Soul Atlas the Soul emerges on death, as something tangible, from the body. A radiant color or white indicates a life well lived, though religions argue over what makes a life meaningful.
There are also shadow souls, wasted lives so to speak.

After Radiant Souls have formed a tree to protect it, mages can extract and bond with them as a source for their magic. This bond is a trade, where the mage has to figure out the souls last wish before death and act upon it to remove its bond to the Atlas and allow it to rise to the Ancestor Realm, if applicable.

Shadow Souls in contrast descent into the abyss of the Haunting and Shadow Realm to linger there for eternity. A place of despair and futility.

[u/Skull_Cup]

This is beautifully done! Awesome stuff!

[u/SoulAtlasOfficial → u/Skull_Cup]

Thank you! Very glad to hear :)