Horizon has Triangle Design Motif. Those are the House Matrons.

Redkey, Trocka, and Earthstone, and Jur have a Square Design Motif. Those are the House Patrons. 

Tarko has a Circle Design Motif.

Trug has a Square Design Motif.

Turch has a Triangle Design Motif.

Turok has a Triangle Design Motif.

These are the Rhygear Brothers.

Mathias has a Triangle Motif.

Razus has a Square Motif.

Windchime has a Circle Motif.

These are the Mindblade Siblings.

House Ei has one Child.

Wind has a Triangle Motif.

House Razorblade has one Child. 

Nightraven has a Square Motif.

This is a Square Motif.

This is a Circle Motif.

This is a Triangle Motif.

Characters are defined by their Silhouette.

Reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtCrit/comments/etdbz9/some_concepts_for_a_character_design_im_doing_for/

One rule I would implement is, when I have a set number of shapes for a character, I do not increase or decrease the number of shapes for that character. I simply resize the shapes as individual Layers for the purposes of showing different perspectives on the Character, and different Poses.

There is also Clothing Design to consider. Making everything skin-tight like it was painted on is just lazy. There should be a consistent design for Clothing too.

New changes to my Story!

There are 8 Chapters in "Cerrus: A Legend of Wind"

There are 4 Parts to the Book, dividing the 8 Chapters into 2 per part.

Light, the first focus, makes the Subject of those first 2 Chapters an Exposition of House Mindblade.

The Parts are Light, Darkness, Creativity, and Logic.

So, the Subjects, which each contain 2 Chapters, are:

House Mindblade

House Razorblade

House Ei

House Rhygear

A Hero's Journey in 17 Parts is structured within each Chapter, so each Part gets 2 Story Arcs for it's House.

There is also a Main Story Arc which is Structured as The Harmon Circle among the 8 Chapters.

So, there are 8 Progressive Sub-Plots under a Main Plot.

I will build a Beautiful Pattern.

New changes to my Story!

This involves the Cerrus Arc.

Child Turok Rhygear has 3 Brothers: Turch, Trug, and Tarko.

He also has a Father named Trocka, and a Mother named Tarcia.

I'm making a change to House Razorblade. Since the 4 Metaversal Empires were based on 4 Ancient Cerrus Nations,

then I'm changing House Razorblade into a Cerrus Family instead of a mock surname Razus created because he was

angry for being banished.

Razus's Wife in the Metaverse is Nightraven Razorblade, who is the Child Nightraven Razorblade on Cerrus.

So, after being banished, Razus ends up marrying Adult Nightraven in the Metaverse, and taking her surname, making

him Razus Razorblade.

Child Nightraven Razorblade has a Father named Redkey, and a Mother named Bloodwraith.

House Mindblade now has a Mother named Firestone to compliment the existing Father "Earthstone".

Windchime Mindblade is no longer based on Holly, and Firestone is not based on my mom. My mom's old character was

originally "Flamewing", but I'm not basing these characters on family members anymore. Flamewing is reformatted into

Firestone.

House Ei is the only Family in the Cerrus Arc that does not have a connection to a corresponding Ancient Nation. New

Akashmiran starts out as Wind Walker destroying an existing Fascist Empire and building her own Empire in it's place.

The connection to the Old Cerrus Magic Empire is something influenced by the Wizard Orbius after New Akashmiran is

established for a while.

The Drift Empire, or simply called “The Drift” is codified with a Symbol comprised of a Circle with two internal perpendicular lines with an attached dot.

All Citizens of The Drift are Transhumanist, in that they are Technologists, Scientific Thinkers, Critical Thinkers, and seek the constant development and optimization of their Technological Empire.

Life is improved through Automation, and that includes the Human as a Machine that is vitally connected to their Environment, which is also a Machine comprised of a Collection of Smaller Machines. The Human and their Environment, then, are a Game Engine as a Modular and Autonomous Component of the Larger Machine of Reality.

The Drift wear the Sigil of “Claw of Turok” which is the aforementioned Symbol of The Drift Empire. This identifies them as Drift Citizens. All other Identification is known in the Abstract, through Information Networks, which provide all relevant Data and Information to all other Drift who may converse with another Drift. This includes Age, Sex, Religion, Education, Sexual Preference, Vocational Record, Medical Record, Relationship Status, and all other Data Points that may be inquired upon. This transfer of Informational Identity is Heavily Encrypted as a Token Social Transfer between those who engage in Socialization through Work and Play.

The Level of Access to such Information and Data is based on a Social Equity Score that rises and falls with the Emotions of the Human in relation to other Humans. Trust is a Score that is improved through Positive Social Experience and reduced by Negative Social Experience. When these Scores reach Zero, the Human in Question can no longer identify you in any way, and no longer functions in your Actionable Environment. This System is Enforced by a Automated Government that Regulates Optimized Healthy Socialization in Work and Play between all Drift Citizens.

Emotions are read and interpreted by Brain Control Interface Devices and Machine Learning Agents to Qualify and Quantify the Feelings and Thoughts of a given Human living as a Drift Citizen to determine all Scores in Real Time for functional use within the Socialization System.

Who are you? What are you? Who are your Friends? Who are your Rivals? What do you know? What can you do? What do you like and dislike? Where is your Joy? These things are Qualified and Quantified by the Socialization System, and Tasks are assigned based on Automated Machine Learning Psychological Evaluation to give Specific Work and Play Experiences to those who would most Benefit from them, and would produce the most Productive Good for The Drift.

Everyone is valued for exactly who they are and what they can do. Nobody is left out. All have a function within the Machine of the Drift Empire.

The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs is incorporated into this System to achieve, for all Drift, an Optimized Life in all available years from Birth to Death.

Let's talk about Mathias Mindblade. On Cerrus, we establish him as a boy from a noble family, and what that nobility

means. We also establish his relationships with his family and friends, as well as the dynamics between these

characters.

When he migrates to the Metaverse, he is taken under the wing of Orbius and his small army of Rebels to fight against

his brother's Empire of Koretoretos.

At this time, Koretoretos is one of two Cerran Empires in the Metaverse. Old Akashmiran was Native Metaverse(non-

Cerran), as well as Old Drift, which was taken over by House Rhygear as a part of the Cerran Colonization of the

Metaverse(Less violent and more of a cultural shift).

Wind Walker took over Akashmiran by Force. Turok took over the Drift by using Ideas.

Mathias should be establishing his Empire with Ideas as well. Razus is not doing wrong by his people. His Empire is

flourishing.

What is the rebellion based on? What are the good and bad reasons to found the Empire of Loporia in the first place?

What is Orbius thinking? Things need to have valid reasons.

"He's the Bad Guy!" is not a logical explanation.

Razus was kicked out of the family for something that wasn't his fault, so he started a new family somewhere else. Then, Mathias comes over and starts messing with his family and business. Razus has a reason to be angry, and Mathias is not in the right here.

Mathias is the Golden Child, and Razus is the Black Sheep.

Black Sheep aren't allowed to have nice things, apparently.

So, Wind Walker ended up hating Mathias because of his high and mighty attitude as well. She adored him growing up,

but she was forced to rethink her feelings when she saw him ruling an "Empire of Light". She escaped Loporia. Mathias was tyrannical.

Turok never had a problem with House Mindblade on Cerrus, but decided to attack both Koretoretos and Loporia for

some reason.

You don't start an Invasion over a Magic Flute. More likely, he had built up his Military and Population to the point wheretaking over two Empires seemed like a logical next step. The side with superior numbers decides when a war begins.

Turok is doing extremely well for himself, but Old Akashmiran is still too much of a threat. Loporia and Koretoretos are

not.

The Main Difference between Koretoretos and Drift seems to be Natural vs Forced Racial Diversity. Wind Walker took

over a Fascist Empire by Force and made it into a Healthy Society. Mathias was a Golden Child who became an Elitist

Tyrant, which leads me to believe he might become a Fascist. Loporia promotes Creation, Peace, Love, and Lifeblood,

but why and how?

Let’s talk about Windchime Skyblade. 

Windchime is a foil for Turok within the Drift Empire. She also has the same dynamic with House Mindblade as her brother Razus. 

Turok was born to House Rhygear on Cerrus. The Rhygear Family was all about Technology to an extreme level for a long time in Cerran History. The Drift Empire is just a Metaversal version of an Ancient Nation on Cerrus that was deep into Tech. So, Turok had a reason to build his Empire the way he did. 

Both Windchime and Razus left House Mindblade for different reasons. One was a scapegoat, and the other a traitor. Razus formed House Razorblade, and Windchime formed House Skyblade.

Razus was more of a victim at first, and grew scornful at his father for banishing him. Windchime was just straight-out evil from the start. Not the obvious kind like Razus, who you could see a mile away with his roguish aura. This woman was a hidden evil, the kind that sweetly surrounds you with poison mist while boosting your ego. Nothing about Windchime suggested anything but perfection and light. She shared that glory with Mathias, and bathed in that light for much of her upbringing. Nobody suspected her betrayal at all, and it wasn’t even uncovered until she appeared in the Drift Empire as Chancellor Windchime Skyblade.

Windchime is a foil for Turok in the Drift Empire because she’s responsible for building her new house into a Borg-like Hivemind. That divided the Drift into two factions. Rhygear and Skyblade. 

House Rhygear believed in using a Wireless Brain Network Infrastructure as a regular benefit of Civilization, just like Travel and Agriculture Infrastructure. It didn’t take over your Mind, but you could reach out by Free Will and use it as you liked. 

House Skyblade believed in using that network to cluster Humans together like Supercomputers, completely, as a Forced Massively Multi Human Organism called “Fleet”. Windchime became so enamoured with Technology combined with Avarice that she became enslaved to something she herself created, and spread out like a Virus among the Transhuman Drift Citizens. 

Those following Turok quickly formed a defense against that Virus, and those that fell to it, joined mindlessly with the Living Botnet of House Skyblade.

It was the Wizard Typhus who stole Coin’s Time Machine and gave Windchime a path off of Cerrus in the first place, throwing her into a world with luxuries she hadn’t dreamt of. That rich world consumed her, and led her down a path that would transform her into who she became as an adult. 

Chancellor Windchime.

The reasoning for calling the forced Hive-mind "Fleet" came from my impression of the Anti-Individuality Sentiment of the USMC, and the slow brainwashing factor that made a person useless to civilian society because they could progressively no longer be anything but what the Marines made them into.

It was one of the reasons I didn't want to reenlist. Indoctrination doesn't stop with boot camp. It creeps in on low power over your years in service. The regular military job after MOS School was "Fleet". I called Turok's Army of Living Starships "Fleet" in my original version of Legends of Wind written in High School, but the deeper meaning didn't occur to me until I had experienced the US Marine Corps.

"Windchime" was an undeveloped character at the time I invented her, and she was supposed to be the Metaversal Version of my Sister. It was supposed to be a gift to my family to give them characters in my story. I did a similar thing with my Mom in the character of "Flamewing". But, given that Windchime is being developed into an Antagonist, I retracted that offer, since I don't want to describe my beloved Sister in such poor taste. Flamewing is being cut out entirely because I would be having too much fun turning her into an even worse Antagonist, and I don't need to rile myself up any further with my feelings concerning her real life namesake.

I was going to gift my Father with "Bluestar", but I recently decided to give him the character of "Earthstone", as the Father of Mathias and Patriarch of House Mindblade. He is respected on Cerrus and serves as one of the High Lords of the Power Gates in the Heavenly Realm of Domminna.

Coin

1. Born from a Leather Pouch filled with Domminnian Coins that is transformed by Creationstone Avatars into a young girl.
2. Travels with Jinn-Lir around the Metaverse to empower a Small Army of Supersoldiers to help fight against the Drift.
3. Fights battle with young Typhus and his master Wonn-Lir(Lost)
4. Timewarp of being kidnapped by herself in a Time Machine, saving her last Domminnian Coin to empower herself with a Truly Human life of her own.
5. Timeskip to Adult Coin.
6. Coin helps forge the Circuitstone.
7. Coin helps forge the Galestone.
8. Coin helps forge the Redstone.
9. Coin Helps forge the Greenstone.
10. Fights battle with Old Typhus(Wins)

Circle Oaennar

1. Born in Oaenalia.
2. Became Peacestone Avatar.
3. Became a Circle Mage.
4. Summoning of, Training, and Betrayal of “Zero”.
5. Ascended to Domminna and became God.

Taeeran Bloodstone

1. Born from the Fusion of Matthios, Dark Onyx, Claw:Mechos, and Diana.
2. Unfused by choice.

Rezda Locke-nor

1. Born from the Fusion of Mathias Mindblade, Razus Razorblade, Wind Walker, and Turok Rhygear.
2. Unfused by choice.

TAO

1. Born from the Fusion of Wind Walker and Turok Rhygear.
2. Created “White Fire” and redesigned the Metaverse.
3. Defeated and Unfused by Coin and an Alternate Universe(Cerrus never Colonized Metaverse) Razus Razorblade(Pirate Captain)

Wind Walker

1. Born on Cerrus to the Ei Family.
2. Trained with Mathias Mindblade(Boy).
3. Trained and Abandoned by Mathias Mindblade(Man).
4. Brought into the Metaverse by Lord Lynxblade.
5. Fought in a War that United Loporia and Koretoretos.
6. Galestone is forged with the help of Jinn-Lir and Coin.
7. Rebelled against Emperor Mathias Mindblade and escaped to Old Akashmiran.
8. Old Akashmiran beats Wind Walker within an inch of her Life.
9. Wind Walker becomes Fire Walker(for a small moment), and Destroys Old Akashmiran(All 4 Planets and the Star they Orbit).
10. The Lady Void and Circle Oaennar consult with Wind Walker and help her rebuild Old Akashmiran into New Akashmiran as an Empress(Solar System reforged/People Saved/Reinstatement of Fascism prevented).
11. Marries Lynxblade.
12. Has her first Child(Spiral).
13. Has her second Child(Zephyr).
14. Fusion of Wind and Horizon Walker into Diana, who Ascends into Domminna(Becomes Goddess)
15. Diana becomes The Lady Void, and goes back in Time to lead the People of Cerrus into the Metaverse in the first place(Instigated by Coin).
16. Final Fusion with Circle Oaennar(God).

Mathias Mindblade

1. Born on Planet Cerrus to House Mindblade.
2. Grew up on Cerrus with his Father,Siblings, and Wind-Ei.
3. Migrated to Metaverse.
4. Participated in a Rebellion against Emperor Razus Razorblade.
5. Greenstone is forged with the help of Orbius and Coin.
6. Founded the Loporian Empire.
7. Married Sentura Locke-nor
8. First War between Loporia and Koretoretos.
9. Had his first child(Maximus).
10. Second War between Loporia and Koretoretos(Lost, and takes his Family into hiding)
11. Had his second child(Monique).
12. Leads 2nd Rebellion to take back Loporia(Wins).
13. Reunited with Wind Walker(formerly Wind-Ei).
14. Loporia and Koretoretos form a Unified Coalition against the Drift Empire.
15. Crowns Maximus Mindblade as the 2nd Loporian Emperor.
16. Fusion with Wind Walker into Witch of Deep Genius(Temporary).
17. Fusion with Razus into Marrion Bloodstone(Temporary)
18. Fusion with Turok into Black Staff(Temporary)
19. Fusion into Rezda Locke-nor(4-way Fusion)(Temporary).
20. Evolves into Matthios and Ascends into Domminna.
21. Fusion into Taeeran Bloodstone(4-way Fusion)(Temporary).
22. Evolves into Matthew of Hurricane.
23. Final Fusion into Circle Oaennar(God).

Razus Razorblade

1. Born on Planet Cerrus to House Mindblade.
2. Grew up on Cerrus with his Father, Siblings, and Wind-Ei.
3. Blamed for Sister being Spirited Away, and Exiled.
4. Migrated to Metaverse.
5. Redstone is Forged with the help of Coin and Wonn-Lir.
6. Founded the Koretoretos Empire.
7. Married Nightraven Bloodribbon.
8. Fought against the Rebellion, and lost.
9. Took back his Throne and fought an Equal War between 2 Empires(Loporia/Koretoretos).
10. Had his firstborn(Xandria)
11. Second War with Loporia(Won, ousted the Royal Family who went into hiding, and Doubled the size of his Empire)
12. Fought the Loporian Rebellion(Lost)
13. Koretoretos and Loporia form a Unified Coalition against the Drift Empire.
14. Crowns Xandria Razorblade as the 2nd Korotoretos Empress.
15. Fusion with Mathias into Marrion Bloodstone(Temporary)
16. Fusion with Wind Walker into Dark Xandria(Temporary)(new concept/not his daughter).
17. Fusion with Turok into Sovereign Black(Temporary).
18. Fusion into Rezda Locke-nor(4-way Fusion)(Temporary).
19. Evolves into Dark Onyx and Ascends into Domminna.
20. Fusion into Taeeran Bloodstone(4-way Fusion)(Temporary).
21. Evolves into Zandal.
22. Final Fusion into Circle Oaennar(God).

Turok Rhygear

1. Born to House Rhygear on Cerrus.
2. Migrated to Metaverse.
3. Trapped in The Endless Library of Planet Acadmium.
4. CircuitStone is Forged with the help of Coin, allowing Turok to escape Acadmium.
5. Founded the Drift.
6. Married Xor.
7. War against the United Coalition of Loporia and Koretoretos(Lost).
8. Fusion with Wind Walker into TAO(Temporary).
9. Fusion with Mathias into Black Staff(Temporary).
10. Fusion with Razus into Sovereign Black(Temporary).
11. Has firstborn child(Key).
12. Fusion into Rezda Locke-nor(4-way Fusion)(Temporary).
13. Coronates Key, the 2nd Drift Emperor.
14. Drift Civil War between Emperor Turok Rhygear and Chancellor Windchime Skyblade(Won)(Windchime revealed as Mindblade Traitor that was never Spirited Away, but migrated to the Metaverse with the help of Typhus stealing Coin’s Time Machine).
15. Evolves into Claw:Mechos and is bound to the inside of a Factory.
16. Fusion into Taeeran Bloodstone(4-way Fusion)(Temporary)(Aided by Coin, who returns him to the Factory afterwards).
17. Evolves into Claw of Turok, and ascends into Domminna.
18. Final Fusion into Circle Oaennar(God). 

These are all of my Original Characters

Zandal is the Negative Timewarp of Razus. The Lady Void is the Positive Timewarp of Wind Walker. Zandal is the Hellscape Storm unfolded from a Person into a World. It exists at the same time as Razus because it is a Timewarp. The Lady Void is a Goddess of Spacetime the size of Jupiter. She was the one who opened the Rift for the Cerrans to Enter the Metaverse in the first place. She is an Ancient form of Diana, the Goddess which formed from the Fusion of Wind Walker and her Mother Horizon Walker. In a way, Wind Walker is the beginning and ending of her own story in this way.The Timewarp is that Wind Walker was led into the Metaverse by The Lady Void, and The Lady Void aided her in the reconstruction renaissance of New Akashmiran. The Lady Void is a Full Circle Mage just like Circle Oaennar, and the completion of Wind Walker's story arc. It's kind of like going back in time and giving advice to yourself as a kid, with a knowing smile, thinking "Oh wow, do you have a lot to go through!"