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Those of you with an eye for patterns may have guessed the subject of today's reveal - Ham is the next core crewmember if we follow the alphabet. We first took note of Esther, better known as Egilde.Art, over a year ago with these gorgeous Siri and Shallan illustrations - a little before she went and, impressively, completed all of 2021's Cosmere Inktober challenge; not to mention that her Sazed and Marsh illustration made it into the Spanish illustrated edition of Mistborn. So this is definitely not the last time we work together, more just a taste of things to come.

No series of commission of Kelsier's crew would be complete without its most important member - the man, the myth, the legend himself, Dockson! Artist SiarexKH caught our attention a while back with her excellent designs for both Kelsier and Dox (for example) and a truly brilliant AU idea in which Dockson forms a Nahel bond with Kelsier's Cognitive Shadow, so we knew that we had to save a commission of one of these two just for her. So when the crew won its poll, we knew we were leaving Dox in good hands.

Following the Breeze reveal, we've got another core crewmember for you today - the team's Smoker, Clubs! The grumpy old man is not exactly the heart of the crew, but he is certainly... iconic. Those of you familiar with his art style might recognize the artist we picked for this piece - Ydunn Lopez. The aggressive lines and sharp shadows are something prominent in a lot of his art, and it ended up a nice match for Clubs's wrinkled gruff face. Plus, we had been looking for an excuse to work with Ydunn ever since we saw his recent Shardplate explorations, so this commission came at a good time.

It's been some time since our patrons voted to see Kelsier's crew get updated portraits, but between scheduling nonsense and some crewmembers being a little tricky, it took us a bit longer than anticipated to get all of these done. But the good news is, now that they are done, we can dump a whole lot of art on you, and with very little downtime! So let's start things off with the core crew, and more specifically - Breeze! We picked Marie, better known as mushimallo (Instagram, Tumblr) for this scoundrel, and she did a great job. The bar behind him turned out extra cool, with a small Easter egg hiding (?) in plain sight... can you spot it?

Gamescom 2022, the annual multi-day video game trade show event, started their online reveals and announcements today, and - to the surprise of everyone - we saw a familiar face in one of those announcements! Brandon himself introduced Unknown Worlds' (the creators of the Subnautica games) new turn-based sci-fi digital tabletop strategy game. With minis you can paint? It's called Moonbreaker, and Brandon confirmed on Reddit that this is the project we've seen as Soulburner in a couple of his State of the Sanderson annual blog posts. Let's start by taking a look at the video, and we'll come back to talking about what we know! We first heard about Soulburner back in 2015 when Brandon described then as "a kind of space-opera-fantasy-hybrid like Dune or Star Wars." We didn't learn much more about it in the following years - but Moonbreaker is finally here to give us some details. The sci-fi setting is unmistakable, and the official announcement blog tells us our setting will be The Reaches, "a solar system of moons held in orbit by a scarce resource called Cinder." The lore of this universe will be conveyed to us through "fully-produced and voice-acted audio dramas," so Brandon has probably written a few novellas worth of worldbuilding for this; it'll be interesting to find out. The Steam page reveals a few additional things about the game, including: Early access available on September 29! Fans of Subnautica might be familiar with how long those games spent in Early Access, and how valuable those periods were for the overall (smashing) success of the games, so it's no surprise that we see Unknown Worlds follow suit here In addition to the Early Access, Unknown Worlds will be hosting Preview Weekends on Steam, where everyone will have a chance to check the game out. PvE, PvP, and a rogue-like Cargo Run game modes The big selling feature of the game seems to be the fantasy of playing with miniatures (or minis), much like you would in a real tabletop game. Collectors of actual physical game minis often enjoy painting them themselves, and Moonbreaker looks like it's going to offer a similar experience. If all of this looks interesting to you, there's a bit more information and details in the following places: Official website - https://www.moonbreaker.com/ Steam page - https://store.steampowered.com/app/845890/Moonbreaker/ Socials - Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram | Twitch | Discord | Reddit

The time has come! The end is nigh! That is, the time to reveal our next art commission! The end of the wait to see it! This all sounded funnier in my head, but there's no going back, words written in a Patreon post are final and unchangeable. So what do we have here? Jessica Liu, whose work you may have seen on Instagram (and if you haven't, that's why her name is linked!), agreed to tackle our June piece - Vivenna getting her Breaths from Lemex - and tackle she did! Between Vivenna's surprised/horrified expression, the design of the Breaths themselves (eat your heart out, Dan dos Santos, these are better!), and the chromatic aberrations throughout the image conveying the instability of Lemex's aura, it all fits together really nicely into a gorgeous illustration we could not be happier with!