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Incarnates Protagonist #1 — Description
For most of my time in developing my Incarnates video game concept, I thought up almost everything BUT a protagonist that would that would act as the playable demon hunter. Many a different characters I sought to create to fill that role, but I felt I needed first a barebones basic one with a simplistic design that could act as a first before going for other ideas. And this one came in mind.

The Cagehead is pretty much inspired by any given protagonists found in most games that have more focus on the lore/world-building than on the characters themselves, like the Tarnished from Elden Ring or Jack from Bioshock (not necessarily a bad thing though, but more like a complete opposite of a 'mascot game'). Although Cagehead I made to be more like the Penitent One from Blasphemous as a means to be more recognizable in features still.

The Cagehead would be the main avatar of a weapons combat I would want to implement in the game, the ability to switch from wielding Dual Blades, Polearms, and Longswords (or any two-handed weapons), which would be in the form Spirit Arms for them but also under a different title for other protagonists I have in mind. As well as some elemental spell attacks with different naming.

Again, there are some more protagonists in mind that I might draw someday to figure out the best one. That, or use them all like some character selection more akin to Dragon's Crown in a way. For now though, I might use this one for more concept drawings.

Cagehead (c) Chad Coulter