Update From Howly (Khemia, Arches) (Patreon)

Hello everyone, howly here.

Since it’s been a while, and you might not know/remember who I am, I wrote Adastra, Arches, and I was one of the co-writers for Echo.

First of all let me start apologizing for the incredibly long silence on my part. Not much can excuse my absence during what was supposed to be Adastra’s comeback year, in terms of updating the novels. I also want to say thanks to all of you who have stuck around, still interested in the stories I write.

Khemia

Khemia is back in development, but it’s been slow due to those working on the VN having an extremely awful 2023. On top of that, Haps has been busy with a rather large workload. However, we now feel it’s possible to begin work in earnest again, and we should have the first build out in March. The opening of Khemia is going to get a moderate re-write, as themes originally meant for Khemia found their way into Arches, so while it won’t be all new, I hope the new ideas I have for the story are still exciting for you guys.

Arches

Arches will receive its final update at the end of this month. To keep its official release more neat and clean, I’ll put some thoughts I have about it here. To me, Arches is the most important story I’ve written, and now that there’s been some time for it to settle, I’m happy to say that it still means a lot to me. I loved writing it every time I was able, even though it was usually a fairly tense experience. Dev and Cam will always hold a special place in my heart. I do hope I can do more with them in the future, because writing their interactions felt more natural to me than any other couple I’ve written. And of course, it wouldn’t be a visual novel without the incredible artists and composer that worked on it, and I’m really proud of what we created. The entire team put their whole hearts into the novel, and it really shows.

I also want to thank the teams working on TSR and Glory Hounds for keeping up the fantastic, quality work. As for the final release, Arches will receive some general editing, along with a short story that might just continue a certain storyline a bit further.

Below is a very early WIP for said story, with art by the wonderful Paintfox.