Mikome,The Minstrel Mistress

Today, I will go a little bit more in depth on Mikome.

As of today, her sprite is almost complete. Mikome will be a harp-user, with the sole purpose of keeping the party alive. She will have a small variety of powerful healing spells, and a wide variety of enhancements to the party.

Her MP-replacement is not yet finalized, but will be soon.

Mikome is the protagonist of Jade Elegy. She is an extremely likable character, despite being the most unpopular girl in her school. Up until her arrival in Lennea, Mikome is the worst enemy of Taka, and vice versa. In Lennea, they must work together to return home.


Mikome uses the harp as her main weapon, and cannot buy new harps, due to storyline reasons.
But honestly, Mikome will never need a new weapon to become more effective, as long as you keep her spells up to date, and her traits refurbished. Though, I never mentioned those systems yet. Oh well, free update tomorrow.

Mikome is the complete first person of this game. This meaning, the game will NEVER leave her point of view. A bard-healer isn't something too common in games, so we of the Jade Elegy team are hoping highly for a unique system for her.

Yeah, small update tomorrow, but they'll get bigger.

Screw the spriters, I have skill!

Like this one better?
I lied. Meet Mikome, the main character of Jade Elegy. She's not complete yet, but I just started spriting her today. This is what she currently looks like(Paint only so far, Photoshop is the next step).



I should also say sorry for not updating earlier, but I was too busy washing the cat.
Here is a bigger version of her.

Mikome is the least popular girl in her school, and when she and Taka(The most popular girl in school) gets teleported to another world, her guardian angel teaches her to fend for herself with her harp. After she learns how to use the harp, she looks like this.

I know, it's not very good, this is my first sprite.

All of the characters will be sprites, my next will be Taka, then I will probably work on Julian.

Either way, from here on in, I promise to update once every day, or at least once every two days.

Once her and Taka are done, I can probably get a teaser demo up, though I still do need to finish the tilesets. They're coming along decent so far, but I really don't like this new Photoshops interface.

The story is still incomplete, but I can promise you, this time, it is MUCH more original, and the plans for the battle system are going to be good news for FFX fans.

Well, I can't give too much away yet, I'll update again tomorrow.

The Protagonist!

Name: Kinome
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Nickname: Kiki
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: Medium
Weight: Light
Glasses?: No
Occupation: Healer
Current Residence: Kuruer
Race/Nationality: Hume/???
Best Friend(s):Barik
Confidant(s): Wants to be closer to Barik.
Antagonist(s): N/A
Any significant deaths: N/A
How did she react: N/A
Most significant person in her childhood: Barik, her brother-figure.
Favorite Foods: Vegetarian
Favorite Beverages: She does not drink.
History : Kinomi is a subconscious girl, her parents abandoned her at a young age, and Barik's father, Shun adopted Kinome at
a young age. Shun alwas tried to get Kinome to act like a civilized young lady, and Barik as a gentleman, after Shun was killed
during a battle to protect Kinome, Barik had entered the military. Barik vowed revenge, but Kinome did not want to be alone.
Kinome signed the military behind Barik's back, and studied the arts of White Magic. She became a healer, and joined Barik's
platoon, which is where the story begins.





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Yeah, Kinome is the first character to be introduced. She will be the first character you control, and she is a healer class. She uses the standard MP system, but gets a handy Seal-system. Seals are spells that cripple the target completely, but they can only have one seal on.

They do simple things like, prevent evading, or drain health from the target, etc.

Her artwork is not currently finished, but a lot of Kinome's traits are actually based on myself.

No, Kinome is not a transgendered Kolid, if that's what you mean. I'm not a blondie. :P

But yeah, sorry for the late update today, I promise I'll do tomorrows extra-early :o

Enjoy~

The Intro to the Song

Welcome to the Jade Elegy Blog! This will be daily updated to show the games progress.
Let's start off by introducing one of the characters of the game!


Courtesy of Omegazion, all project staff members will be get to make their very own custom character. And by custom, I mean custom.

You can create a fighting style idea, and whatever scripting it needs, Omegazion, the messiah of the project as I will call him, can use his 1337 h4xorz skills to bring the idea to life.

But back to the character.


This is Julian. He is a dark character, whose fighting style will include using his own health for his own abilities. His dark personality will remind you of Vincent from FF7, or Auron, from FF10.



Well, that's a nice small update for today. I shall be asking TheFlep and Nekomage if either of them have any character requests, and I'm really looking forward to that! :o

Next Update is going to include the pictures of the two planned World Maps, Aida(The Land); and Lennea(The Sky). Aida will be the FFT-style world map, but Lennea will be a little bit different. Lennea you will be able to view from the menu, but since none of the areas in Lennea will be connected, all the gateways to the Lennea-areas will be located in Aida.


Before I'm done, I'll put a little bit more info up.


Centria - The World-Trade center, it is a huge city of wealth. People come from all over to trade goods here.

Kuruer - The world military power, it is very popular here, and security is VERY high.

Tropa - The tropical city, where jobs and oppurtunity always exists, due to all the natural resources.

Teknos - The "Tokyo" city. They rely on machines and such, and alchemy. They are against Magic, completely.

Dortza - This country heavily resorts on Magic, and is against Technology, and is in a rival with Teknos, though Dortzaan's and Teknosines usually get along together well.



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Pink Waters - City that rebelled from Dortza after an incident of changing the water pink. Was formerly known as Daltza before said incident.
Krou - Pirate town, home to pirates
Horei - Wintery Medieval City; home to Dwarves
Kanbu - Swampy city; home to Geomes(Elves)