Raiders and Beasts!
It’s time to melt cold Winter days with the flame of our new character – Drake!
Short backstory
In the article about Vampire, we’ve talked about how we came to the decision to make each character unique. Still we left something unmentioned: for each Raider we’ve chosen the element. Electricity coupled perfectly with the steampunk and fitted to the lore of our first Raider. That’s how Zelus, a scientist of the Industrial Revolution, was created.
As for Udoku, her poisonous gas was very suitable for the look of World War I anti-sister of Mercy.
Drake concept
After we’ve created two characters, we started to think what element should be chosen for the next character. The answer didn’t take long – fire! So, we started creating some concepts for Drake in the style of steampunk and even dieselpunk.
Then we’ve decided to make the design closer to the era of the first half of the XX century. The main reference for this was The Rocketeer.
Also, as the source of the inspiration, we look a lot at WWI aviators’ photos.
Drake’s design was good, but the eye sockets of his helmet were too similar with the Zelus’ glasses, so we’ve changed Drake a little.
Abilities
Concept is ready, element is chosen, but what’s about his abilities? We can’t show all of Drake abilities right now, since we’re still testing them. Something new is changing, adding or removing, so it's a work in progress. But there is something we’d like to share with you! Since we were creating Vampire along with Drake, we’ve decided to add him a jetpack, as a sort of “reaction” to Vampire’s gliding.
Conclusion
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The Beast will come!