My main goal for the visual novel for the first half of the year is to create the game’s second demo, which will end at the same point as the previous demo. However, this new demo has a lot more going on, such as several new scenes, many rewritten interactions, and a handful of new characters. Here are some sketches of some of the new characters. Many of them were planned to appear later in the story, but several of them have received a bigger role, and so I want to make sure they appear more often.

From left to right:
Endra, Bleu, Slade, "Tenebris," and Downfall
I would say there's spoilers in this pic, but none of these are the characters' final designs, and I haven't necessarily revealed their roles in the story yet either.

For those of you who follow along in my gallery, you may recognize one or two of them…I’m excited to work on these designs more and introduce them to the game!