As part of building my corner of the Turnip28 map, I have started sketching out ideas and plans for a small settlement called Sunsold which I will expand in further posts but I put together a test villager for Sunsold which I wanted to show off first.
The Hermit roots are parasites that infect Boulder Snails. They start off small and spread throughout the snail and control it before absorbing it and taking over the shell for itself. The Hermit Root will then drag itself around looking for other snails or larger shells to inhabit. Hermit roots live off small animals and birds that are attracted to its smell which is like rotten meat. The stench is partly due to the root and partly due to the slowly rotting and digesting corpses that nestled in the shell and roots. The roots can be harvested and have a tough meaty texture like beef jerky.
Tobias is a Root Herder and tends the Hermit roots that graze beneath the perpetual shade of Sunsold. He has lived in Sunsold all of his life. His only joy and sadness are in his red hat which his daughter Agrave gave to him before she left the village to follow a soldier who she had fallen in love with.
The base figure was a Gripping Beast Arabian with a scratch-built basket on his back and suitable roots, tufts, and dirt.
The Hermit roots were made with Garden Snail shells and Dandelion roots that had been dried and sealed with superglue.
The Hermit roots are parasites that infect Boulder Snails. They start off small and spread throughout the snail and control it before absorbing it and taking over the shell for itself. The Hermit Root will then drag itself around looking for other snails or larger shells to inhabit. Hermit roots live off small animals and birds that are attracted to its smell which is like rotten meat. The stench is partly due to the root and partly due to the slowly rotting and digesting corpses that nestled in the shell and roots. The roots can be harvested and have a tough meaty texture like beef jerky.
Tobias is a Root Herder and tends the Hermit roots that graze beneath the perpetual shade of Sunsold. He has lived in Sunsold all of his life. His only joy and sadness are in his red hat which his daughter Agrave gave to him before she left the village to follow a soldier who she had fallen in love with.
Tobias and his herd of Hermit Roots
A Corpse of Hermit Roots.
(The Collective noun is Corpse after the foul smell they give off.)
Root Herder Tobias
Root herding on the edge of the Wasted Sea
The base figure was a Gripping Beast Arabian with a scratch-built basket on his back and suitable roots, tufts, and dirt.
Inital tufts, twig and baking soda
Added a basket as the character started to emerge
The Hermit roots were made with Garden Snail shells and Dandelion roots that had been dried and sealed with superglue.
