GrimLewd #2 - Happy Inquisitor || version 2 || (Patreon)

Here's the thing about worldbuilding in small increments. Sometimes your earlier designs end up not aligning at all with where the world ends up later down the line. 

One such case was the GrimLewd #2 - Happy Inquisitor. I do really like the caption and the colors, but Inez's design was kind of boring. Not to mention the face is all sorts of goofy:

Additionally, Verakost evolved a lot in my mind since these early designs. It went from "Weird catholics" to "Crazy people obsessed with ingesting body parts of a dead god and killing anybody who points out that it's kind of cringe to do that". I needed to update the Inquisitor order a bit to fit that change.

With that in mind, time for lore:

Inquisitor Order: One of the four main powers within Verakost. Tasked with maintaining internal order and purity within the kingdom. As well as destroying any internal threat from monsters and corruption. When no monsters present themselves for exterminations, usually a peasant village will do. Inquisitors firmly believe in preventative punishments.

While the Templars control the sources of God's flesh, the Inquisitors control access to the bones. The use them to craft their weapons and burn them to make ash they mix into the ink of their tattoos giving themselves powers over fire.

Four powers: the Church, the Templars, the Inquisitors and the Noble Families. While deeply intertwined and allied against corruption, they fight internally for control over the kingdom. Each trying to secure power for themselves. Be it political, military, economic or access to divine materials.

TL;DR: Crazy fire people with hot tattoos and bone swords. Fun times for all.

Right now, I consider GrimLewd to be in an Alpha phase. I am trying things out and seeing what works. At some point in the future I'll look through all of what I have so far and trim out/change whatever doesn't fit the whole anymore. So far there isn't much I would outright get rid of, but having that option in the future makes it easier for me to try out different ideas.