April 2020

Welcome to the first of many monthly Devlogs showcasing the progress of the newfound story of 'Eye of the Beastiary', a community speculative evolution, alternative history cryptozoology story. Eye of the Beastiary or E.O.T.B for short, fits into the genre of a Fantasy/Science Fiction television series. Well, at least that's our end goal because once our hard work as paid off, we plan to develop our ideas into a fully fledged animated series. We've only just started so far, but currently we've begun progress on a myriad of items, including but not limited too: drafts and designs for our first creatures, plotted borders for countries and ruled kingdoms, and even a first draft for our series' first episode!

Our project has a modest selection of branches for which we use to showcase our work including:


 * An Instagram (@eye.of.the.beastiary) where we post updates and illustrations made by the E.O.T.B crew: https://www.instagram.com/eye.of.the.beastiary/


 * A discord server where we do the majority of our planning and discussion with our link here: https://discord.gg/gfvne2c


 * And of course our Wikia page, which you seem to be reading right now, so welcome if you're new by the way! We use this site as a hub for all the information regarding Eye of the Beastiary.

~ So without any further delay, I present to you: April's development log for 2020!

Story
Starting off this month's Devlog we've made strides in meticulously crafting an enjoyable story for our intended teen demographic. This month has seen the drafting

Characters
We'll first be covering the subject of Character's within the story, and the Wikia articles showcasing their stories. You may have seen our profiles for characters on the Wikia before, but just in case you haven't, we're happy to announce the completed history profiles for three characters! These profiles including those of main protagonist McLauchlan supporting protagonist General J.W and token the English bull terrier- Walter. If any of you are interested in reading and or hearing about these characters backstories, personalities and physical appearance, please click on a respective character's name and it'll take you directly to their Wikia page.

General J.W
While originally starting as an in-joke with the developers, General J.W has proven to actually be a multidimensional character with flaws goals and motivations. As of current he stands as the leading general behind the Mexican royal army, and a loyal protector of his only daughter Juliana.

McLauchlan
McLauchlan is one of the story's most important main protagonists as he acts as the long suffering and strong willed naval captain of the Lochstrode. There are many things which make this character a unique and cherished part of the cast of E.O.T.B least of which, is that he is a Scottish Orc!

Walter
Walter while not technically a character with goals and personality quirks, was another of the completed profiles completed for this month. He's short, covered in a snow white pelt of fur, and is by far of the friendliest characters in this universe. And that's because, Walter, is a dog. He is the faithful companion of Morag and McLauchlan. Now there are still many characters that are going through a work in progress stage, so their character profiles have yet to be completed, however fret not! For we intend to fill every red link with rich and interesting description, and we promise that all characters will be given their own ample screen time and attention!

Script
Another interesting thing to note about this month is the beginning of script writing for a select portion of episodes, namely our pilot.

The blueprints for the pilot are in place, and through much deliberation, we've decided the episode in question will be a story based loosely on the English legend of: 'The Dragon of Mordiford'. Because of this, it would only make sense to reveal our pilot episode's name as: 'The Dragon of Buckingham'.

We have great plans for our pilot, however, only a small portion of it has been completed, namely a scene in where our young hero is left to wander at a Markets festival, and discovers a great sympathy for animals in the light of a traumatic incident. We won't give out script segments yet, however by next month we'll have the scene ready for public eye.

Worldbuilding
As Richard (@rv_imagery) is our leading man on World building, he's been hard at work this month cultivating an interesting world situation with many alternative history questions coming into play, including a disastrous French revolution lasting 80 years, an overpowering Mexican Reconquista, and several tense leading factions controlling Europe, most prominent being the Great British Empire.

So far completed Wikia articles for select Empires and Countries include:

The Mexican Empire
The Mexican Empire is one of the most diverse nations in terms of nature, geography and Cryptozoology, so it would only make sense that we reform the Mexican lands as the ruling force in North America as opposed to the USA, or in this case, the CSA!

The Confederate States of America
As you may have read, our universe holds many unique, interesting alternative history hypotheticals, and so to make our Universe just that little bit darker, we've decided to allow the South win the first US Civil war! This victory comes with many consequences for the country however, considering both Canada and the Mexican Empire immediately turn on the new found Government, taking many of their lands, Canada taking Alaska out of fear, and Mexico taking modern day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah and Texas.

These countries have as per mentioned been in a state of turmoil since the first Mexican-American war, and now that the CSA is in charge, Mexico sees fit to take back the land they once owned, so as to neuter the nation in power, and become the ruling force in North America. While we won't hear much from the America's until Season two, the lore is still highly appreciated and they both comes off as very enjoyable reads.

Artwork Showcase!
As you may have noticed on the side scroll of this page we've included several Images produced by our modest Artwork team, showcasing designs for a myriad of creatures that we plan to feature in E.O.T.B! These first few creatures have been meticulously crafted with evolutionary history and accuracy in mind, so please give a round of applause to this months artists! If you would like to see more from them, their Instagram pages have been quoted in the captions below each respective image, so give them a view if you've got the time! ~This concludes this month's Devlog, please stay tuned until June 1st for our progress in May! The devlog will be posted here on the Wikia page for all to see, so remember the date! Much love - The Eye of the Beastiary Team.