Holy abysmal darkness... what an attractive mother.

That's cool.

We're gonna need a bigger boat

From a comment on the Patreon post:

For anyone not in the know, Tom gave an awesome lore drop on Willow's Mother towards the end of last Sunday's stream. Here's a summary for those who don't want to hunt on their own:

Willow's mother, whom Willow just calls Mother, was one of the first dragons to exist. As she aged, she became obsessed with mortality and horrified at the thought of dying. In an effort to make herself totally immune from death, she began to consume black mana crystals to gain their power and make herself truly immortal. As she did this, the black mana in the crystals began to replace her natural mana and corrupt her from her original draconic form.

Eventually, this corruption made her unable to fly, and so she began to split off pieces of her magical essence and send them out to bring her souls to convert to black mana and consume. These pieces became the Will-o-wisps that haunt the forest where Willow lives. As Willow's Mother still viewed herself as a dragon and a creature of good, instead of outright killing travelers, she instructed the wisps to lead them astray in the wood, where they would eventually wander until they starved or met unfortunate accidents. After this, the wisps would return the travelers' souls to their Mother for her to consume.

Willow herself is one of these wisps that spent too long away from her Mother and began to develop her own will. She wandered aimlessly through the wood until the day she met an unlucky lioness who had wandered into the forest and become lost. Willow tried to help her, but her nature made her lead the lioness to her untimely demise. After her death, Willow used her magic to create a simulacrum (like a magic golem) of her friend, which she now uses as her "body".

That leads us up to the point where we would meet Willow in the project. Her Mother would be a mysterious presence throughout the story that would only be fully revealed at the climax.

Sorry if I got any of that wrong, Tom! Super cool design! Love the way she blends with the scenery and the creepy orb hanging in the space between her horns! Thanks as always!

Really hope this one gets colored.

For anyone not in the know, Tom gave an awesome lore drop on Willow's Mother towards the end of last Sunday's stream. Here's a summary for those who don't want to hunt on their own:

Willow's mother, whom Willow just calls Mother, was one of the first dragons to exist. As she aged, she became obsessed with mortality and horrified at the thought of dying. In an effort to make herself totally immune from death, she began to consume black mana crystals to gain their power and make herself truly immortal. As she did this, the black mana in the crystals began to replace her natural mana and corrupt her from her original draconic form.

Eventually, this corruption made her unable to fly, and so she began to split off pieces of her magical essence and send them out to bring her souls to convert to black mana and consume. These pieces became the Will-o-wisps that haunt the forest where Willow lives. As Willow's Mother still viewed herself as a dragon and a creature of good, instead of outright killing travelers, she instructed the wisps to lead them astray in the wood, where they would eventually wander until they starved or met unfortunate accidents. After this, the wisps would return the travelers' souls to their Mother for her to consume.

Willow herself is one of these wisps that spent too long away from her Mother and began to develop her own will. She wandered aimlessly through the wood until the day she met an unlucky lioness who had wandered into the forest and become lost. Willow tried to help her, but her nature made her lead the lioness to her untimely demise. After her death, Willow used her magic to create a simulacrum (like a magic golem) of her friend, which she now uses as her "body".

That leads us up to the point where we would meet Willow in the project. Her Mother would be a mysterious presence throughout the story that would only be fully revealed at the climax.

Sorry if I got any of that wrong, Tom! Super cool design! Love the way she blends with the scenery and the creepy orb hanging in the space between her horns! Thanks as always!

Tom has plenty of material to grow the lore of Twokinds than one would imagine!, both Willow and "mother" are creations that should enter at some future point in the main story of the comic.

lycaon0008 said:
Holy abysmal darkness... what an attractive mother.

She is!

I wonder if she is evil mom, good mom, or "deemed evil/good, but actually good/evil"

My money is on "deemed evil, but actually good"

tsukiyomaruzero said:
I wonder if she is evil mom, good mom, or "deemed evil/good, but actually good/evil"

My money is on "deemed evil, but actually good"

She has her children lure people to their death so she can collect and eat their souls. I’m going with pretty evil.

Watch as it turns out that traces original personality is due to him having one of mothers wisps as a soul