#fantasy objectoc

Image one:

Pericarp (egg) formed in a hatchery inside of an Abbey, a place where young curios are born and raised. It takes five months to incubate, then it hatches. A team of altrices (nurses) led by a Mother come to collect the hatched baby curios and begin caring for them. After five months, the curios go through their first shed and their ichor limbs become more developed. One year, and the curios have a fully formed face and learned to walk and speak. Their cores at this point are a little more refined per shed.

Three-year-old curios can speak full sentences and their limbs are fully developed, allowing them to shift their ichor more easily. Teen curios at the age of thirteen have larger cores and fully formed fingers. They are capable of casting magic at this age. However, fragile curios must begin wearing suppressors to keep their magic from harming them. Hardy curios can go without one unless there's evidence they need it for protection.

Curios are adult objects at eighteen years of age. They are old enough to leave the Abbey and work for a living. They can do apprenticeships under the watch of their Guardian (parent figure), too. As adults, their cores and ichor structure remain the same throughout their adulthood, unless modified by refitting or permanent core and ichor injuries occur.

At 25 years of age, hardy objects can apply for specialized jobs that require refitting (core and ichor modifications), such as becoming an war-object, blacksmith, builders, etc.

Second Image:

Object lifespans. For fragile objects, 40-50 years. Later advancements in magic (thanks to Gwuenevere's discoveries) allow for an additional 20 years. For hardy objects, 90-100 years, with refits living up to 100-120 years. Monoliths can live for over 100 years but no more than 300 years. Elemental objects, 100-200 years. Past 200 they become immobilized or fuse with their environment. There is no revival possible at this point.

Elderly objects lose the luster of their cores and begin shedding material more frequently. Ichor shifting is more difficult. Limbs may shorten or wither away. Past core injury scars become more visible. In their twilight years, elderly objects begin to suffer Crumbling. Their limbs grow weaker and more difficult to move. Their eye's pupils dilated permanently. They are more prone to falls and breaks. If severe injury or death occurs, revivals may not entirely heal any new injuries. Crumbling worsen over years.

End of life. At end-stage crumbling, elderly objects lose limbs if enough of their core sheds away. Their mental state is lost in past memories and dreams of their progenitors' lives before them. They are given hospice care in an Abbey.

True Death. Revivals are impossible at this point because the kernel yielded by the deceased is withered. The germ is extracted and put in a material pile in an Abbey's hatchery. The deceased's remains are then donated to the material pile for future baby curios.

Quick supplemental note!

That reminds me, I still need to research how material composition may affect anatomy, function, and durability! Along with environmental factors, too. Still researching the topic of alchemy for my magic system.

For the first image:

Object anatomy in its most basic form is easy. But I still like some subtle details like "ichor pooling" to affect how their limbs and facial features work. An object's ichor in its most base unraveled form is a mess of slime-like tendrils. The texture of an object's ichor would feel slightly damp, but not soggy, clay.

Second image:

Head shapes are going to be very interesting to design. It's pretty straightforward with basic shapes but gets weird with irregular shapes. Like, I can see how a hammer can work, what about a halberd??

Look at this pointy boi!

Last image:

The sketch thumbnail I used for Prince Luther and Gwuenevere illustration inked and a few sketches figuring out my sword anatomy. I wanted the swords to float to move around, both in and out of combat, but I need to figure out where their hands and limbs go. Originally, their legs would be their handle. They use their legs normally when walking around, but while fighting other swords or war-objects, their legs become the handle and their hands would grab it, using themselves as an actual sword.

Wing anatomy was something I was stuck on for a bit, mostly because I was bouncing between robotic wings vs a more naturalistic bird-like wing. While designing this, I realized that polearm war-objects like Pyroblast would need some protection on their wing joints and shoulder. So I added a pauldron over the should joint that overlaps with the start of the wing and a segmented couter(?) at the elbow. I also added segmented bands over the metal primary feathers of Pyroblast's wing.

As for the material makeup of a polearm's anatomy: Both flying and ground polearms are made of strong light metals and wood. The wings of a flying polearm are made up of aluminum/thin steel sheets (still researching this) enchanted with spells to strengthen them for combat, flight, and high temperatures. Pyroblast is a Heavy Class General Dread-torch, so their materials need to handle stress from high heat from their fire magic, extreme turbulence from the dynamic flight, and from any attacks from other Dread-torches.

Lower rank war-torches are mostly for aerial attacks on ground armies, while Dread-torches are castle destroyers. Castles would need defense against Dread-torches, either from using Dread-torches of their own (provided from their kingdom's capital, usually for heavily targeted castles) or using other means of anti-air defense.