Naj Gutale - Requiem

Requiem is a long term, as of yet unreleased, comic that I have worked on over the years. While the majority of art is free-handed, to ensure consistency, I made the backgrounds and weapons as 3D models in Maya.

Story

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Summary

As a second year Spectre Trainee, Zhaojun should be bonding with a spirit like everyone else. What should be a day of rejoice quickly turns into an onslaught of horrors when she bonds with a Demon. From here it doesn't take long for the Spectre Program to try and take advantage of her as she tries to figure out what her life will mean going forward.

World

In a world like ours but a little bit to the left, humans and the Mortal Plane continue to progress at an exponential rate with the Spirit Realm forcefully dragged along despite not having the resources to cope. As the Spirit Realm collapses, the United World Council and the Warlords came together to make the Vasilita Treaty in hopes of controlling the migration of spirits between the two Planes of existence.

To police the system and laws in place, the Spectre Program was born. While some advocated for only human operatives, it was only Humans bound to Spirits with mirroring souls that could interact with spirits on the mortal plane.

Spectre Program

With three major departments and a handful of minor ones, the Spectre Program is the main global task force designed to deal with demonic threats. Soul bound to Spirits, the eponymous Spectres are the only ones that can truly interact with Spirits on the Mortal Plane and are given the duty of dispatching Spirits who have collapsed in on themselves.

Unfortunately, there can be as many as twenty Spectres joined the force per year to as few as none; and given the dangers of the career, many die on the field. As such, it is the Program’s protocol to only send Spectres after Demons graded Upper Beta on the Lanvis Scale or higher.

Harmony

Deemed a terrorist organisation by the United World Council, Harmony is a cult that is for the integration of Spirits into the mortal realm. While this sounds good on paper, their methods are unconscionable as they force spirits to bond with humans that they do not Reflect. As such, the Spirits collapse and become Demons; in turn, the Soul Bond corrupts they human they are connected to and eventually kills them both.

For safety reasons, only Spectre Program operatives are allowed to engage directly with suspected or confirmed Harmony agents. History has proven that to do otherwise will result in large scale damage and death.