Here’s the second batch.
[details=Summary]jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:00 PM
Only things I’ll really say there is that he’s not a robot. He’s not Jennerit. He is Kemessian.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:00 PM
While we’re on lifespans…they live like 300-400 years
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:01 PM
So much fun stuff. I love the Kemessians. The kelvites are fun too. As well as the varimorphs.
I’d love to do a novelette on the varimorphs.
candy cane conservator - 12/15/2016 at 1:01 PM
Is there anything non spoilery that you can share about the Varelsi? :x
wesdianboston - 12/15/2016 at 1:02 PM
ah on varimorph jythri since they shapeshift are they genderless?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:02 PM
@candy cane conservator Hmm. Ask me a question and I’ll see if I can answer. 
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:02 PM
We definitely talk a lot about the Varelsi and darkening and such in “Heart of Ekkunar”
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:03 PM
@wesdianboston They have genders. How many, and how they reproduce…that’s something that needs some exploration. One of the reasons I’d love to write about them.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:03 PM
from the AMA stuff
What hierarchical system do the Varelsi use? Emperors/Empresses, King/Queen, HiveMind, Electoral.
Kaleidodemon - 12/15/2016 at 1:03 PM
Are the Varelsi one race or a collection of races that have been corrupted by the Void? There’s a question that I’d love to see answered but am pretty sure will have to wait a while.(edited)
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:04 PM
@Kitru We’ve never said. They definitely HAVE organization, though.
wesdianboston - 12/15/2016 at 1:04 PM
ah i see so orendi is definitely female then not a blop of dark goo? hehehe
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:04 PM
@Kaleidodemon Both.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:05 PM
@wesdianboston Orendi absolutely identifies as a female.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:05 PM
@wesdianboston Currently, at least. 
CosmicGayces - 12/15/2016 at 1:05 PM
Why do Miko and Kelvin refer to Mellka as “Lost Little Eldrid”? I know that it’s her lore title, but before I heard their callout dialogues I thought that it was just that
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:06 PM
@Garland It’s been one of my brighter areas of fun on this project, yes.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:06 PM
@CosmicGayces Mellka is our other half-breed.
CosmicGayces - 12/15/2016 at 1:07 PM
Yee that I knew from her lore
Father was a human born from the Penarch system and her mother was an Aelfrin refugee from Eshteni I believe
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:07 PM
Does Phoebe still flirt with Caldarius. Thats the important question
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:07 PM
@CosmicGayces And she’s kind of our “child of two worlds”. She’s half human, and she’s always had close associations with the Peacekeepers. But there’s something deep within her that calls to her Eldrid heritage.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:08 PM
@Garland more importantly, does Caldarius flirt back?
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:08 PM
YES!
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:08 PM
So, the more “core” Eldrid, like Miko, would see that as wandering from the true Observer spirit of the Eldrid.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:08 PM
@Kitru Ha. I think he does NOW, at least in my head.
wesdianboston - Today at 1:09 PM
hold on when you say human doesnt that mean its from earth orar there other planets identifies as human species?
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:10 PM
it would be awesome to see some “deep dive” social interaction dialogues for various characters
Thorn + Montana and book club
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:10 PM
@wesdianboston Human is just the species that most resembles you and me. We don’t include “earth” per se. As far as the denizens of the Battleborn universe know, humans inhabited several thousand worlds, and have over time broken into demi-human groups, like the Jennerit and the Aplians.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:11 PM
@Kitru Oh, then you should play “Montana and the Demon Bear”
General Pandacat ??? - 12/15/2016at 1:12 PM
Most sci-fi includes a “human” race, usually for the main character, as they’re easiest to identify with, and also easy to write for and design
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:12 PM
@General Pandacat ??? Exactly. You usually need to have a center of relatability to help the audience get acclimated.
General Pandacat ??? - 12/15/2016 at 1:13 PM
Maybe he’s like the alien from MIB, a little tiny dude piloting a mech suit
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:13 PM
that would ruin a serious character
danny phantom did that with that hunter ghost guy right?
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:13 PM
why would it ruin Caldarius as a serious character?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:13 PM
whistles innocently
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:15 PM
Heh. Shayne lived in a mining base for a time named “Septimus Six”
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:15 PM
for Thorn, her geneology list is basically matriarchal with a single mention of “(Graft of)…”
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:16 PM
my guess was that it meant marriage or adoption
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:16 PM
@Kitru Yes. The Aelfrin are very matriarchal. They trace their genaology through the mothers, because they feel they make a bigger contribution to the genetic makeup of the being.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:16 PM
what does the “Graft of” mean, though?
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:17 PM
was more of the question
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:17 PM
"Graft of" is just their way to say “child of”, really. In some ways, sexual reproduction is very similar to “grafting” a tree, right? Take a part of this, put it forcibly into that, get a new fruit.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:18 PM
then why is it separate from “Daughter of”?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:18 PM
Oh wait…yeah. that’s right.
Sometimes, I can’t quite keep every little touch in my head.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:18 PM
and the Graft is where the familial name changes
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:18 PM
(I wrote it DOWN so I wouldn’t HAVE to remember…)
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:23 PM
we all wait, with bated breath
Kaleidodemon - 12/15/2016 at 1:24 PM
Waiting sucks.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:24 PM
Huh. So I did make a big deal with “graft of” in that lore.
I’ll have to think about what that means, precisely.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:25 PM
OH
I know what it meant.
Kaleidodemon - 12/15/2016 at 1:25 PM
Thorn was adopted?
General Pandacat ??? - 12/15/2016 at 1:25 PM
I like it, it makes the Eldrid more exotic, like when Boldur calls Mellka “little oak”
Kaleidodemon - 12/15/2016 at 1:26 PM
Grafting a branch from one tree onto another tree. That’s what it makes me think of.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:26 PM
No no…I think tha tTeshak Emeksiku had no daughters.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:27 PM
No. Wife of the son. Not a natural daughter. Daughter-in-law.
dspaws - 12/15/2016 at 1:27 PM
speaking of thorn, there was this concept art i saw with her and this scaly dragon-like dog with her. what is that?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:28 PM
Aw. the scalewolf. 
Now I’m sad.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:28 PM
I think you’re refering to Pemenukia, actually
not Teshka
Pemenukia was the Daughter of Teshka
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:28 PM
Pemenukia is the daughter-in-law of Teshka, not the daughter.
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:29 PM
How do Kemessians reproduce?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:29 PM
Very carefully.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:29 PM
Thorn, daughter of Ebrynneth, daughter of Vimadaam, daughter of Masha, daughter of Elessamorn, graft of Pemenukia, daughter of Teshka, daughter of Azienna(edited)
wesdianboston - 12/15/2016 at 1:30 PM
so aelfrin is not demi-human?
Leaddybum - 12/15/2016 at 1:31 PM
Evolved from the aztanti like the jennerit
A race that all look like vegeta apparently!
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:31 PM
You know, I never did an evolutionary time line of all the races.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:33 PM
We definitely establish that Eldrid and Jennerit descend from the Aztanti
Sorry. Aelfrin, not Eldrid.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:33 PM
I consider Aelfrin the “core” Eldrid race. But the Eldrid are comprised of hundreds of races, in truth.
wesdianboston - 12/15/2016 at 1:34 PM
whatabout ambra is that a glove or her actual hands?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:34 PM
Glove.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:34 PM
Hmm.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:35 PM
We’ve released old Thorn concepts before, right?
Kitru - 12/15/2016at 1:35 PM
yes
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:35 PM
This one?
Leaddybum - 12/15/2016 at 1:35 PM
WOAH
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:35 PM
that’s new to me
Leaddybum - 12/15/2016 at 1:35 PM
never seen that!
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:36 PM
Her Ult, if you watch the very first demo video we did, shot out a wolf instead of a green energy ball.
jythri - 12/15/2016at 1:36 PM
We modeled and animated that thing. ANd then cut it, because it was hard to read on screen, and …you know… AI is hard.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:36 PM
btw, are we going to get more info on the Magna Carta
?*
and what’s up with it now?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:37 PM
@Kitru Not in this round of operations. If I have my way, that’s a major theme for the future.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:38 PM
I think that was the first concept for thorn.
What you’ve probably seeen is…
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:40 PM
Gotta slow down a bit on the new concept releases.
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:40 PM
I’m pretty sure its a lizard at this point.
What I really want is Concept References of Caldarius’s armor for drawing refs.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:41 PM
Caldarius was an interesting concept. He was concept in a modeling tool (zbrush), not on paper.
TL_Kasteron - 12/15/2016 at 1:41 PM
A quick question relating to Kleese, actually: there’s a video by MentalMars where Kleese has a voiceover introducing the characters, and he mentions that he wrote vampire fanfic of Rath: can you confirm this as canon?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:41 PM
Yes. Kleese wrote vampire fanfic of Rath to mock him.
Garland - 12/15/2016 at 1:42 PM
It does not help that Caldy’s character render is not a really good angled one. You guys should show us his pose from his Skin selection sheet
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:43 PM
Yeah, Caldarius in still is very VERY hard to make look good.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:44 PM
can you explain why the Great Severance happened in sync with the Darkening of Jennar or is that something that will be explained in future ops?
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:45 PM
also, how old is Boldur and how old do Ekkuni dwarves get?
(and is Boldur an extreme example of one or pretty representative)
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:47 PM
@Kitru The short answer on the Great Severance is that is when the Magna Carta deemed the chances of the universe being saved had just gone to hell. Future profit projections were suddently so dismal that it detatched itself from the magnet.
Kaleidodemon - 12/15/2016 at 1:48 PM
Ah, so the Magna Carta did not get sucked into the Void as some people have assumed.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:48 PM
@Kitru On Boldur. He’s 2,533. Born in 17,425 c.r.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:49 PM
@Kaleidodemon Maybe. I never said that. But that wasn’t the day he caused the Great Severance. The fate of the Magna Carta remains unknown.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:49 PM
OH…OH OH OH OH
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:49 PM
By the way, everyone…
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:49 PM
Happy Solus Day.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:50 PM
The Heliophage was destroyed on 19.958.350. In our terms, December 15th is day 350 on our calendar. So. Today.
CosmicGayces - 12/15/2016 at 1:51 PM
The Heliophage was destroyed 3 days before my birthday that’s coo
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:51 PM
3 days before your birthday, like a million years in the future.
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:54 PM
Shhh.
The Magna Carta - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
Gearbox people are almost mythical here, it’s like a unicorn (scooter quote if i recall)
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
or Sith like
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
Are you calling me horny?
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
no, he’s saying that you fart rainbows 
wesdianboston - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
so jythri who is the oldest and the youngest of all the available battleborn so far including beatrix!
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:55 PM
Oh. Well. That’s absolutely true.
Youngest is Shayne, I believe. She’s 16.
Kitru - 12/15/2016 at 1:56 PM
oldest is Ambra?
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:56 PM
Yes. Ambra is 11,753
jythri - 12/15/2016 at 1:59 PM
Now…Miko in some ways -could- be considered the oldest.[/details]
