Other Character Concepts

 

These are some of the other concepts I did of characters in the Silent project. One of the goals of this game is to create a multiplot storyline, where each character has an interesting story and develops over more than a single cheesy backstory cutscene.

 

While roles change throughout, all of these featured characters play antagonists at one point in the story...

 

Aluraine	Someiran	Seron Draft
Aluraine Draft	Someiran Draft

 

Descriptions:

Someiran is the main villain, and was originally a great hero in an ancient war against the demons. He wore pure white clothes to strike fear into his enemies' hearts, as they never spilled a single drop of his blood. When his wife and child were murdered by humans, he went through hell and back to find them. But at the mortal gates, after an eon of fighting through a hundred other levels, he had forgotten his wife's name, and could not call her out of the abyss.

 

He took the cloak of Death itself, and returned to the mortal world furious. His own name long forgotten, he took on the name "Someiran" (derived from the ancient tongue's "Zhomei Reigosan", literally "Lord of Chaos"). He set about breaking the very seals to the spirit world that he had helped restore, to exact his vengeance.

 

 

Aluraine was raised by a prominent scientist as his own daughter, when a friend bet him that he could not raise a proper noble from a dead criminal's orphan child. Though her father was never as callous as the friend, when Aluraine learns of the bet on her thirteenth birthday, she leaves home crying. Losing faith in herself, Aluraine begins to accept that her blood will lead her to do terrible things. Someiran then finds her, and she embraces her past in his ancient library of black magic.

 

Years pass, and Aluraine becomes a prominent witch, assisting Someiran in his plans of destruction. Along with Cynric, the son of her father's old callous friend, they begin breaking seals to the spirit world. Later, Aluraine learns to forgive her father, and helps Aran find Someiran, whose secrecy has made his very existence questionable.

 

 

Seron is a warrior that developed a sealing technique to imprison demons. While it helped to end the last great war, the barriers are flawed, and weaken as the imprisoned regain strength. Each year, Seron must journey across the kingdom resealing the barriers, by breaking the seals and fighting the recovered demons. At the start of Silent, he is getting on in years, and the fights are becoming more and more difficult to survive.

 

Seron holds a competition to train an apprentice, and the young prince Seda wins. Seron is torn by this, as his family has a checkered past with the royal family, but the boy learns quickly and has soon surpassed his own abilities. Feeling replaced, Seron decides that his last great act on this world will be to consume the six elemental demons, and then seal himself for eternity.

 

Aran can either save him or let him carry out his final act, and the plot changes significantly depending on which action is taken.