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last of this year, I’ll update you guys more on the future

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Meditations on Eden 1

Writing for the sake of writing. Eden spoilers under the cut (also it’s long, oops)

Imagine you are a star in the sky, having only known the indifferent twinkling of your distant siblings and the loud silence of the universe.

Now imagine that you fall from such a comforting nothingness, at a blazing speed, towards a solid something below. You’ve been pushed out of your cradle of Light & Song and into a land of coldness and chaotic noise.

Imagine that you’ve been born. Would you not be angry? Would you not feel betrayed that a caring Mother would do such a thing to you, to remove you from your comfort? Perhaps that is why babies cry. Perhaps that is why many moths so quickly abandon their journey.

You settle into the terrible noise, learning the sound of the waves crashing on a shore and the sensation of wind whistling past your ears, and then out of the senseless noise you hear the tolling of bells and feel the vibrations resonate through you. Imagine that the star at your core trembles in response: it sounds like Her beckoning you back home.

All the while, you think, Why cast me out from the stars if only to call me back home again? What purpose does this serve? And yet She calls; and yet you trust Her.

So you follow.

You are told that all is given breath by starlight. Was I not breathing before?

You continue to follow Her voice.

Imagine that time passes, and existence becomes more bearable.

You find other fallen stars like you, other Children of the Light. Some are much taller, some much shorter, many in all shapes and colors adorning their vessels.

They sing songs of the Eye of Eden, the place of salvation, where Her Warmth proves itself true to those who have fallen to darkness. Have I fallen to darkness? Did she send me into this darkness, or was I dragged down by force?

The children gesture towards the Mountain crowned with a halo that She had been calling you to, an intense light extending from the summit back to the stars. That is where She is, She will save me and bring me home when I get there.

The children urge you to collect winged light, for these are the key to salvation. They caution that the Darkness wishes to reclaim these and that you must keep them safe. I will take these wings to Her to gain her favor.

So you continue to follow Her voice.

You pass through troubled lands devoid of the creatures’ songs, replaced instead by heavy air and the dead ground. Large creatures of not-Light swim through the thick air in endless circles, hunting for Her essences. They seek your winged light, your tickets home. You guard them jealously as you slip past, you refuse to give them up.

You ascend a mighty tower, full of graves and old stories and the dangers of hubris and ambition. The dreamlike void swirling with particles of light make you feel the closest to home you’ve ever been. These wings will surely be enough to get me home.

You continue to follow Her voice.

She leads you to the base of the Mountain, the Holy Site, irradiated with darkness, clouded in ash. Surely this must be a mistake? This doesn’t look like salvation at all!

And yet, in all your doubt, She calls; and yet, in all your apprehension, you trust Her. You continue to follow Her voice.

You scale this peak, cloaked in a storm of stones, patrolled by more of these dark creatures. You make a dash towards the open hallway, where She is calling from. You want to trust Her.

A gust of wind pushes you backward just a few inches, and your foot slips. Enough lost momentum for a torrent of rocks to pelt you, knocking you to your back. Helplessly you watch as the winged light that would surely bring you home scatter to the winds, dwindling and then fading to nothing, like candlelights in a hurricane.

Why? Why did She bring me here? This place is only pain, only anger. She couldn’t possibly dwell in a place like this, a place of absolute darkness. How could I possibly trust Her?

And yet, She calls.

You crawl between flung rocks and dragons’ eyesight towards Her voice, the loudest it’s ever been. You have no choice but to trust Her.

As you enter the hallway littered with winged light, you wonder if this is the salvation the children meant, the ultimate reward for your troubles. But it isn’t home. She beckons you further inward, Her sound is almost deafening now.

You hesitate a moment before continuing to follow Her voice.

You follow the voice into the Eye of Eden, the place of salvation.

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A crystal of darkness so intense that it’s poisoned the land for miles around it.

A shattered palace whose tile floors are now strewn with the petrified corpses of children who came before you.

Imagine that She has brought you here to a place reeking of death, dissonant with the scraping of stone against stone.

A place that children sang about.

Now imagine, right then, that you can’t hear Her voice anymore. You call out, just in case you’re missing something, but you feel no response.

Would you not be angry? Would you not feel betrayed that a caring Mother would do such a thing to you, to lead you to the place where you’d die again with no further explanation? Was falling away from the warm stars not enough?? You tried your best, you brought the light here, you did as you were told. Why couldn’t you be saved? Why isn’t She here???

You let out your anger and pain in a fiery scream, but the red crystal screams louder. You feel the darkness begin to slow you down and the threads holding the winged light to you begin to fray. Resigning to your arrogance and greed for answers, you step out into the downpour of rocks and kneel before the nearest stone child.

As you succumb to the intense darkness, you feel your remaining winged light tugging you, as though it were reaching for the fallen child. Reluctantly, you cradle one of your precious light in your hands and place it against the statue. Immediately, a golden light peeks through the cracks in their stone skin as the winged light combines with the child’s soul. You see your winged light count fall by 1.

They sing songs of the Eye of Eden…

You understand.

…the place of salvation…

You cannot save yourself. That is not why She brought you here.

…where Her Warmth proves itself true to those who have fallen to darkness.

The winged light was never yours to keep. Your salvation was never yours to claim. Love was never meant to be taken.

Realizing that time is short and your light is waning, you arise to your feet one final time and trudge through the storm and the sludge, reaching out and touching the damned with the light you had protected all this time. One by one, the winged light shine gold through the cracks in the stone like an ore vein, and the rocks begin to rain harder, as though the Darkness is punishing you for daring to be selfless in this final act.

As you reach out to the furthest sky kids in the darkest places, you feel the polluted water burn the soles of your feet, the pointed stones in your lungs. Your winged light reserves grow emptier and emptier, and the darkness begins to seep into your eyes and your joints and your heart.

As a loose stone clobbers the back of your head, your last winged light violently tears away from you, shattering instantly against the intense radiation. With your core now devoid of light and your soul emptied of all your achievements, you feel the darkness coat your body like a thick skin. The vessel you took on becomes heavy and movements laborious. The searing pain is unbearable.

You feel so hot, like your body is burning away, and as your heartbeat slows to a crawl, you grow cold. Is this the salvation? Will I spend eternity in a void?

What will become of them?

And as you exhale your last breath, the cold dissipates, and you feel nothing.

It is almost like falling asleep.

~~

It is almost like waking up.

Imagine you were a star in the sky, having only known the indifferent twinkling of your distant siblings and the loud silence of the universe.

Except now that twinkling is far gone, and the silence is even louder. You left your nonexistence and fell into existence. You left your cradle, learned to point, learned to charm the butterflies, learned to laugh, learned to cry, learned to dance, learned to fear, learned to pray.

And in your final moments of existence, you learned to love. Truly, wholly, and with wild abandon, even without the guarantee that it would benefit you somehow in the end.

Yes, another child comes along on the same pilgrimage and saves you too. You’re reborn, you get to reenter the world you’ve come to love again. But that’s not necessarily what this story is about.

Imagine that She is you. Imagine that you are Her. You are Her Warmth, Her Salvation made manifest, Her Guiding Light. You are the Voice that She led you along, and you are Her Kindness.

When the children sang the songs of the Eye of Eden, they were singing about Her, and they were singing about each other, and they were also singing about You.

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Wishing all Sky kids a season of peace, love, and light! 🕯️ 💕

Happy holidays ✨

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How i feel about the recent season quest

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This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

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👁️‍🗨️🕊️ eden time 🕯️✨

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Minor Spoilers for Sky's Endgame and for the current season below the cut :')

I've apparently held off Eden for so long, maybe like... a year, that the game itself is now telling me that I need to do it lmao

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Promotion Opportunity! Seeking all SKY webcomics for Master List!

Do you make SKY fancomics???? (or know somebody that does?)

I’m in the process of making a master list of webcomics about that Sky game. The purpose of the list is to attract fans of Sky across all platforms to read as many Sky fancomics available. 

I plan to host the Master List post at Tumblr and Reddit. I will link to the list at a few discord servers. I will post the list sometime between November and December.

If you do, please DM me all the places you host your SKY comic for instance main site, instagram, TUMBLR, webtoon, globalcomix, tapas, you name it.

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A while ago I wanted to find some sort of reference for various skykid “skin”/shell tones… after not finding one, I decided to make my own

The ones at the bottom right are much closer to blue, so would fit the shell tones from the Rhythm pants, but in my AU they represent skykids suffering from the corruption (as their light is fading, their skin becomes less warm and more blue, as blue is the color of dying light, like spirits and darkness plants)

Feel free to use this for your art or save to your files!

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My new Skykid character Tyler 🍂

Very much Fall oriented. They got the scarf from their friend and they’ve refused to take it off ever since, often hanging out in Valley during the warmer seasons to avoid overheating. They usually hang out there anyway though, so it’s not at all an inconvenience to them.

This is one of the few times I’ve actually drawn a Skykid with the intent of making it a finished art piece. It’s been a little while too. I think the last time I did something like this is was a reference sheet for a different Sky Kid.

Anywho, I hope everyone is enjoying the current Season and the current Days of Mischief event!

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Please if you guys haven’t already follow @thatskynews! They are an amazing source of information about things upcoming, news, updates, etc. for Sky!

As they listed here, I’m looking forward to continuing my play on the PC version because of this announcement! I wish everyone a fantastic Timezone!

Thank you for all of your feedback about the Sky PC Demo! 🖥

We've decided to extend the demo beyond Steam Next Fest so that we can continue to iterate and make it the best it can be with your help.

Look forward to more details on our PC plans in the coming weeks.

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From the 16th of October through the 31st of December, Season of Revival will be live for Sky!

Unfortunately, this season will launch right on time for the end of the PC beta of the game. However, all the progress anyone here made on the PC is transferred over to your account on Mobile!

I haven’t looked to check the validity of what I’m about to say, however if you log into your game via Steam, and you started playing the game on there with no mobile account, you might be able to link a mobile account via the account settings in-game.

I wish everyone an awesome timezone! :D

A village isn't just buildings; it's a community brought together by our shared connection 💙

Season of Revival is coming!

(The trailer contains season spoilers.)

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This is maybe true but I don’t want to test it to see if it is 100% this way.

Before signing in via Steam MAKE SURE TO LINK YOUR ACCOUNT! I believe that the Demo automatically has you opted into signing in with a LOCAL account, which should save you the grief and the pain of accidentally making a moth account your permanent pc account.

So please, go to Mobile and link your normal Sky Account with your PC Steam account before trying to log-in via Steam

Just a little reminder for everyone waiting for PC release of Sky: Children of the Light.

There is a demo of the PC version coming out October 9th and is staying until the 16th! That’s tomorrow! TGC Wants feedback on everything. Controls, graphics, frame rate, loading times, UI, glitches, exploits, EVERYTHING.

I know that I will personally be joining in when I can. So it’ll be a lovely rejoining the game that I’ve missed playing for so long.

ALSO! For the people unaware, they made an announcement about this happening on Steam, and in the announcement they have a link to a thank you page for the wishlist numbers. They have some BEAUTIFUL desktop backgrounds on there that I would highly suggest looking at.

https://www.thatskygame.com/news/countdown-to-pc-launch-the-steam-wishlist-extravaganza

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Just a little reminder for everyone waiting for PC release of Sky: Children of the Light.

There is a demo of the PC version coming out October 9th and is staying until the 16th! That’s tomorrow! TGC Wants feedback on everything. Controls, graphics, frame rate, loading times, UI, glitches, exploits, EVERYTHING.

I know that I will personally be joining in when I can. So it’ll be a lovely rejoining the game that I’ve missed playing for so long.

ALSO! For the people unaware, they made an announcement about this happening on Steam, and in the announcement they have a link to a thank you page for the wishlist numbers. They have some BEAUTIFUL desktop backgrounds on there that I would highly suggest looking at.

https://www.thatskygame.com/news/countdown-to-pc-launch-the-steam-wishlist-extravaganza

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Confirmed by Nastymold in the livestream, Sky won the awards it was nominated for in Gamescom.

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I haven’t logged on in so long that my anxiety is eating me alive about getting on again :’)

I believe in you though. I’m sure people are just happy to know you are okay :)

I forgot my inbox existed and now my anxiety won't let me answer questions :)