Grailrunner is excited to announce the latest addition to our growing Salt Mystic Lore Card set: “Jeweled Warriors In The Merchant Wars”. Download it for free here!

Welcome to the Grailrunner Story Arcade!

If you need to know a bit more about what we’re doing with Salt Mystic, feel free to check this out here.

In the Salt Mystic Sourcebook And Core Rules, we define seven different ages into which the long history of this setting is divided. The brief snapshots there allowed us to drop maddening hints of some intriguing twists and adventures that occurred thousands of years ago, but we never really get the chance to dig in to those earlier time periods. Maybe one day these will all be their own novel series or art lines – but for now, we’re in the Guardian Age, man. It’s enough work bringing that to glorious life!

So this new lore card was a chance to flesh something out that I thought was interesting. There’s already a guy named Murmur in the Salt Flats character cards that has an Artificial Intelligence sprite inhabiting his armor that we’ve always thought was funny. This lore card was where we go big with that.

Horrifyingly big.

As for the art, as always it’s a photobash and paintover of some different elements pulled from a few sources. The background is an AI-generated image of a battlefield. The warriors’ jeweled armor was inspired by Grant Morrison’s 18 Days art book (which accompanied the web series), based on the storyline of the Mahabharata. The carbine was built in Blender as a 3d model, textured with a steel plating from Textures.com. The ruby faceplate of the guy turning on his general was taken from a freely available png – literally just googled “ruby gemstone” or something like that.

I especially love the way the smokey flames turned out, spewing from that fellow’s gauntlet-based plasma weapon. There are at least three overlays on that, all from Nucly. I wanted it to seem like he’s firing that weapon up, and his general has just now realized that he’s stepped over some kind of line.

Anyway, we hope you like the art piece and accompanying flavor text. Let us know what you think.

Till next time,