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by GameOfKingsThe Game of Kings an exciting collaboration of RB artists coming soon.
Episode -0.001 / words: Danny / graphics: Scott Robinson / Logo: Quigonjim / An exciting new design fest that begins on Red Bubble soon. / Featuring some of the best graphic designers on the web. / Watch for more over the coming months.
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The White King / Artist: Scott Robinson / Biography: Danny The White King’s Story The king had surrounded himself all his long life with men of power, spirituality and ambition building a Kingdom over the millennia to rival all those that surrounded his borders. / With the help of a fallen Angel whom he had tricked into servitude he has built and commissioned the University of the Gear, to create new and wonderful machinery and search the murky waters of mysticism to create weapons and soldiers. His beautiful and young wife picked for her ability to survive rather than love, had proved to be a winning hand and it was she who ran the royal house with an iron fist. With this choice, the King had opened up a Pandora’s box of intrigue and ambition that would play in the background without his knowledge. The King also knew his limitations, all his life he had built up this vast society that placed him at its apex, but in reality he was a hollow man with no real talent. He was not a great general; even a soldier and his faith, even in old age could be considered heretical. For the truth hid a different story. The King himself was a fallen Angel expelled from Heaven because of pride. The white king had never learnt his lesson and over thousands of years had hidden the truth of his origins and taken over the whole kingdom. But as the bitterness and years ate away at him his thoughts had moved onto more perverse spiritual matters. The King had been building up an unstoppable army for centuries and knew how to apply for challenging rights to the battlefield of the Ancients. By nominating for the Cosmic battlefield he could prove once and for all that his God had made a mistake and would welcome him back through the gates of Heaven. / All he could do was watch and wait for the game to play out. / That game was his life and that of all those he ruled.
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The White Queen-Bishop’s Pawns / Artist: rubyred / Biography: Danny Because of his position, the Bishop is also expected to lead in any Military assault. / He has therefore had the University of the Gears gene splice his werehounds with prisoners and captives to produce his Battalion of Hounds. / These soldiers are savage and are under exclusive command of the Bishop who has had a specific gene implanted to guarantee unswerving loyalty, similar to the King’s personal guard.
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The Black King’s Knight / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Excellence in military studies and on the battlefield gives the ordinary soldier a chance to become a Knight for the King the Black Spear. Generations ago it was discovered “breeding and class” had no place in determining one’s fitness to lead on the battle field. / Those chosen as the best are sent to be “improved” by the Shaman. These Centaur type warriors can leap over the dead and the fighting and have two hearts to steer their massive frames. / Selection is considered a great honour and a privileged life greets those that achieve this lofty acclaim.
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The White King’s Bishop / Artist: Quigonjim / Biography: Danny Artist Interview: Quigonjim Though it is rare for angels to be expelled from Heaven, when they do they are more often than not found in the employ of ambitious Kings and Overlords. / Extremely wise and powerful these fallen angels are also unpredictable. / Ignorant royalty often think that they will do their bidding no matter how evil the deed, but an Angel is the model of God’s will and even though they have been expelled from heaven doesn’t mean it was evil traits that led to that expulsion. / An Angel will never reveal its reason for expulsion and will often cling to a firm belief they will be forgiven and return some day to Heaven. / This often means they take on higher stations of the church as a secondary role to their employment. / Angels may have power, speed and knowledge but they are also mortal to a degree and carry great guilt. / They will not pass over bodies in their path but are great commanders in battle. / Angels will sacrifice themselves when needed and considering it to be for the greater good and ironically a way to return to heaven. The King who was a higher order of Angel than the Bishop seized on the opportunity that expulsion presented and tricked the Angel into his service, knowing how to manipulate the powerful figure but never revealing his own true origins to it.
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The Black King-Bishop’s Pawn / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny The right side of the Shaman’s brain, the masculine, is represented by things more natural and organic. In any effective army, the most efficient use of resources will always provide a distinct advantage. Knowing this, the King’s Shaman often recycles a variety of waste products including Bullrock droppings and the remains of the vanquished, and sends them back into the battlefield in a multitude of forms. While on the whole less effective on the battlefield due to their lumbering pace and ramshackle physiology, these muck golems serve a purpose both as expendable cannon fodder and biological weapon. More often than not, those who have met their end while fighting the Shaman’s foot-soldiers are smothered and engulfed as opposed to being beaten in combat. :
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The Black King’s Bishop (The Shaman) / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Descendants of an ancient race, the Shaman have links to the old ways, ways observed before man was the dominant species of the world. The shaman is spiritual overlord of the army and is answerable only to the king. Legend has it the ancestors of the king tricked the shaman – even then a dying breed- to serve him and in doing so bound their loyalty to all kings that followed for all time. / Shaman have become an intricate link in the chain that have evolved into the Armies of the Black Spear and it’s development into the warrior nation it has now become. The Shaman through majik and selective breeding have created the Black Knights, Monoliths, Basilisk and Pawn Spawn / The Shaman does not regret or harbor resentment for things past and is totally loyal to the king and the betterment of the Army of the Black Spear. The Shaman splits itself into two distinct personalities when it enters the battle controlling each body with either side of its brain. Left for Queen – Right for King. Read more of the Shaman here
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The White King’s Knight / Artist: No Frills Art / Biography: Danny The Knight’s Tale Nothing matters more than experience in battle. This the White King knows only so well. Once again drawing heavily on the University’s archives and powers, fallen Generals are recalled over and over again to relive battles that they have been participants in. The White Army Generals have long fought or fought under past greats and every career soldier dreams of being immortalized forever- literally. / Though the King’s knights are products of the Supernatural Wing of the University, the King likes to keep them close at hand . This belies his faith in the both Queen and the outcome of some of the experiments. / It also gives him a way to keep his history masked by controlling any Generals who have been reanimated, and who may have loose tongues.
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The Black King-Knight’s Pawn / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Leapers. or Spring Booted Knaves, are notorious for their quick starts into battle. / Like all pawns they are soon abandoned to look after themselves on the field of battle thus giving them firm grounding on the rules of battlefield survival and the road to being a General Knight.
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The White Queen-Knight’s Pawn / Artist: Jordan Clarke / Biography: Danny The Equilord and his race, though no match for the White King’s enhanced and magically assisted army were no slouches in battle in their glory days before the rise of the Army of the White Wing and the Equilords amalgamation with it. / History will all show the Equilord as a peaceful and enlightened race but not one to shirk away from a battle if needed to defend itself. / The equine based lifeforms had also the knowledge and capacity to perform quite a few battle tricks of their own and it is these that the White King was so keen to have them as valued allies. / One major battle tactic of the infantry was to create illusions bordering on hallucinogenic, these would include the army morphing into schools of Hippocampus (horse/fish) complete with massive waves forming before it. / This of course was affective as any trebuchet or archery onslaught to the hapless foot soldiers usually facing the field opposite them and cause the opposition to scatter in wild flight.
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The Black Queen’s Bishop (The Shaman) / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Descendants of an ancient race, the Shaman have links to the old ways, ways observed before man was the dominant species of the world. The shaman is spiritual overlord of the army and is answerable only to the king. Legend has it the ancestors of the king tricked the shaman – even then a dying breed- to serve him and in doing so bound their loyalty to all kings that followed for all time. / Shaman have become an intricate link in the chain that have evolved into the Armies of the Black Spear and it’s development into the warrior nation it has now become. The Shaman through majik and selective breeding have created the Black Knights, Monoliths, Basilisk and Pawn Spawn that take to the battlefield. The Shaman does not regret or harbor resentment for things past and is totally loyal to the king and the betterment of the Army of the Black Spear. The Shaman splits itself into two distinct personalities when it enters the battle controlling each body with either side of its brain. Left for Queen – Right for King. Read more of the Shaman here
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The White King’s Rook / Artist: LilyM / Biography: Danny The King’s Flank are guarded by a an ancient stone giant (Titan) that was summoned from sleep by the Scholars and practitioners of the University of the Gear. Over the years and with collaboration with the ancient rites, structures were able to be built upon the titan and secret instructions whispered through its thoughts to protect the King should the occasion arise. /
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The Black Queen-Rook’s Pawn / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Due to enormous size of the Black Queens Basilisk flank creature, they are able to support parasitical minions that sweep before them in a wave not unlike locust on the wing. / Combined they make a formidable force as they stream across the battlefield, but will often separate when the fight is underway. Due to their fast swarming movements they are often referred to as “The Stain” /
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The White King’s Pawn / Artist: Scott Robinson / Biography: Danny Barely human but loyal and savage / The King prefers to have those under him effective but expendable. / He has never let anyone grow close to him, even his Queen is a necessity of protocol. / His Majesty had the University of the Gear create the King’s personal guard from his own genes because of the high loyalty and devotion to the King this factored into their being. / Ironically though, they are not taken from the King but come from the Queen after it was discovered by the University that the King’s gene structure was abnormal and did not allow any cloning or modification in any shape or form. / A secret the Queen and University hold close to their breasts. / These fanatically loyal servants believe themselves to be children of the King and would lay down their lives with a mere whisper from the Him. / Extremities such as wings stubs and sexual organs that grafted on by the University staff to both hide the fact they are born female and as homage to the winged coat arms that the King insists appears on everything he rules.
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The Black Queen’s Knight (The Amazonia) / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Like the Black King’s Knights the Amazonia are equal in rank and strength. Their allegiance is to the queen and when not preparing for battle they are the Queen’s personal guard. Amazonia consider themselves better than the King’s Knights mainly on the premise that they can accompany their Queen in actual battle.
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The Black King-Rook’s Pawn (The Spawn) / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny You will find them stationed around the pens of the monolith and they are used to maintain the health and well being of the King’s favourite beast. Crab-like creatures, they are used during times of inactivity as cleaning device for the Monolith, keeping it free of fleas and other parasites. Initially able to launch a longer-range assault by hurling highly-volatile Monolith dung from their excretion glands, their effectiveness is soon reduced to that of foot soldiers and cannon fodder during battle. /
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The White Queen / Artist: thickblackoutline / Biography: Danny / The White Queen, Her Bishop and the University of the Gears… Artist Interview: thickblackoutline The Queen of the White army are bred to inspire and lead in Battle. Incredibly powerful, she has the King’s ear on all matters and her scepter gives her limited control over the Angel as well as the University’s supernatural creatures. / The Queen is in constant communication with the University due to the large role it plays with the army flank ultimately under her control and she is privy to much information. / The least of which is her knowledge that the King spawn are actually creations from her own gene pool predominantly mutated and rejected versions that hold no resemblance to herself. In a Kingdom that means exactly that. A King –dom. A Queen is expendable no matter how skilled or loved. / With this thought always plaguing her she is also wise to the fact that the King is in an almost self-destructive mode and offering up the kingdom to fight in the Galactic Battlefield – an unhealthy state of affairs for their survival. Fighting for your borders is one thing, fighting for your world’s very existence another entirely. /
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The White Queen’s Bishop / Artist: rubyred / Biography: Danny Having an equal who is a fallen Angel can be hard on the status and having the ability to prove it without question takes some doing. The Queen’s Bishop is an extraordinary man who has complete faith in his abilities, his king and those that he has in charge. Dean and Principal of the King’s University he has built a school of unsurpassed knowledge that has given creation to the great flank engines of battle. Though mortal he has commissioned professors to find elixirs of longevity and never travels anywhere without his protective werehounds. /
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The Black Queen-Bishop’s Pawn / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny The left side of the Shaman’s: brain, the feminine, is represented by metal and machinery Forged of metals, the origins of which have long been forgotten, and imbued with eldritch energies from within the Queen’s Shaman herself, these cold steel hulks are highly effecient in close-quarters combat. Initially capable of bursts of high speed, the Doomhammers wind down to a more sluggish pace, limited to striking at those foolish enough to get too close. /
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The White King-Rook’s Pawn / Artist: LilyM / Biography: Danny Descendants of the original keepers of the Great rock Titan after it was tricked into the King’s service. / They eventually over time became the Titan’s people as opposed to it being their prisoner and become it’s protective army. / Due to this development the knowledge of the secret instructions to control the Titan are now held by the King for his protection against the Titan should it ever eventuate. The Titan’s Story /
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The Black Queen (The Warmother) / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny The Queen of the Army all-powerful and mother of the heir to the throne but ever expendable. The King may have many Queens in his lifetime, each drawn from a pool of Amazonia Knights. It is the highest honour any Queen’s Knight can aspire too but one’s ambition is never to be revealed whilst a Queen still reigns. The Shaman often mind probe to make sure mutinous thoughts are never realised. In a Warrior Tribe love is never an option /
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The White King-Knight’s Pawn / Artist: No Frills Art / Biography: Danny Like the Skeleton General these reanimated soldiers are the elite of times already passed. They are risen from the dead with no memory of their past lives other than their military glory. They survive only to follow orders. /
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The Black King’s Pawn / Artist: Simon Sherry / Biography: Danny Since all servants of the Black King train for war from the age of three, there is a massive pool to draw from as front line Infantry. The culture of the Army of the Black Spear deems that to die in battle is to die a glorious death but this doesn’t mean that soldiers should give their lives away easily.
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The White King-Bishop’s Pawn / Artist: Quigonjim / Biography: Danny Artist Interview: Quigonjim The Angel Bishop was always conflicted by the blasphemous works of the University and it’s loyalty to it’s King. It stemmed some of this anguish by creating its own religious order of devout, some say fanatical soldiers. Many feared the Bishop’s priests , something the King encouraged to keep other sections of his army in line.
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