We wanted to give players more choice, but not to over complicate things by adding additional buttons. What you witnessed there were the results of Combat Stances! We have been focusing on the hack n’ slash aspect of combat for the past couple months. In the December Kickstarter update, we showed a few animations of both Kevin and Linda performing some pretty new moves (And a sweet gif of some Dark Claws in cute little Santa hats. ChildrenOfMorta John Bergson indiedev DeadMage His shield’s strength comes from the love of countless Bergsons before him. Some say the shield gets its strength from a rare metal. Digging his heels in, he managed to slow the boulder down, ultimately stopping it mere feet from it’s targeted house. The boulder pushed John back, sparks flying from the clashing of rock and metal. Holding his shield up, the boulder violently crashed against him. He once stood between a house and a tumbling boulder the size of said house. It constantly takes punishment from Corrupted and when John is fed up with it, he dishes the punishment right back, crushing his enemies with the shield.

His use of the shield can attest for its strength as he uses it relentlessly.

John Bergson is the current wielder of the Ancestral Shield. This forge, real or not, was titled the God’s Forge and many a travelers have nearly lost their lives in pursuit of this legendary forge. Both blacksmiths and historians have theorized the shield’s strength is the results of some rare strain of steel that could only be melted in the Lands of Fire. It has been passed down through the generations to the eldest son of the family, who in turn took up the mantel of protector of not just the mountain, but his family.

Forged by an ore forgotten in a forge long lost, no one knows the exact origins of the Bergson’s Ancestral Shield.

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