Layout update!

I finally got around to making that final background graphic, and I'm not even sure if I like it. But whatever. It's there now. The layout is complete. Hurrah!

As of now, Sangkara is best viewed at a width of 1280 pixels or more, though this new layout will still scale down to 1024 pixels decently. I will try to fix it later so the graphic doesn't get as squashed, but for now I think it's fine.

31/12/14 edit: images of the layout I took later, for reference.

Levels of Chayavana Abstraction

Oh lord. How long has it been since I actually posted something related to the Tyrian project here? x_x

This was a little concept drawing for Tyrian that would take a lot longer to explain fully than I really want to right now. Basically all you need to know is that there are these things called Chayavana, and they're sort of like gods or something in that they have their own realm but they can manifest into the tangible world. They have several levels of abstraction, and generally become stronger defensively but weaker offensively as they go upward. However, with a little practice, they can gain many more abilities as they become more abstract (such as the birdy here going from standard wings to feather fingers), and their lifespan and overall endurance greatly increases as well as they gain the ability to rise to higher levels.

I imagine it being easy for Chayavana to switch between abstraction levels once they have the ability to, but hard for them to initially learn how to abstract themselves to a higher level. I also see it as something that many who know about the process (which are relatively few really) are reluctant to do because they don't like the idea of becoming a shadow of themselves.

That will probably mean little to nothing to you right now, but it will make more sense when the story actually gets somewhere. Just enjoy the pretty picture and trust me on this one. XD

Keista, Labai Keista

Okay, looking at my traffic sources, I found something really, really weird today: somebody on Lithuanian Google found this blog by searching for a reference sheet of one of my characters that I'd posted before. I'm not sure where else they would have found the image to put it into the search bar (other than maybe my deviantART, or some sort of weird photobucket cross-reference), but somehow they did, and ended up back here. Now I am totally confused.

If you are said person in Lithuania, would you please explain to me what you were trying to find? Because I frankly think this is really weird, and will probably wonder about it for weeks or months if I don't get some kind of solution to this mystery. And maybe, just maybe, I can help you find whatever you were looking for when you searched for this image. Perhaps? o_O

The image that started it all

Origin of the Name

I'm sure many of you are probably wondering exactly what this blog is about, what that crazy name means, and why the Saralya it's all shady and gloomy. Well, whether you are or not, here's why!

This site, sangkara.tk, is where I'm going to announce updates to Tyrian, a manga series that I've had in planning for about a year or two now. (A manga, for the uninitiated, is a Japanese-style right-to-left graphic novel typically serialised weekly by the chapter first and then in bound collections of about two months' worth of chapters.) Although I was too busy living life then to get to the stuff that really gave it meaning, and never got any actual chapters done, I'm gradually getting more attached to this story and think I might be able to make some time for it in the near future.

Tyrian is basically going to be a hybrid plot/gag manga (predominately plot, but with a lot of crazy randomosity, too) revolving around a sort of ongoing battle between sincerity and absurdity that begins after a society of subjectivist lunatics swamps the world with all manner of peculiar paradoxes, physics violations, and disturbances. Girders start levitating, pigeons start doing the communist salute, and water starts flowing uphill, among other things—and nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it, or even commenting on how bizarre any of it is. What in the world's going on?!

Tyrian, our indigo-haired hero, is seemingly powerless to stop any of this, except for the fact that he has an unusual ally: a creepy, nightmarish shadow-dragon named Anyokurou that seems to be trapped inside him by some mysterious force. Though rather grumpy and anti-social, he has an extremely useful ability: the Sangkara.


The Sangkara almost evades description, but essentially it gives Anyokurou the power to alter reality in any way that would turn out physically-possible, allowing him to revert all the rampant nonsense (if he so chooses, of course). Though the amount of things he can alter at one time seem to be somewhat limited, it can be incredibly powerful.


Of course, there always has to be a catch... and the catch here is that Anyokurou's extremely stingy with his super-special ability and never wants to use it. Hello? We're in the middle of a crisis here! Why don't you want to use your super-cool whatchamacallit?!

Well, he must have his reasons, whatever they are... but in the mean time, it's definitely not going to be easy to face an organisation whose members can turn rifles into carrots or deserts into tundras by any means.

...Yeah. Though I can't give you a set date on when the first chapter will be out, I know it's going to be awesome when I get it done, and that it'll be announced here at Sangkara. For the time being, though, you can always check out my deviantART account for concept drawings and whatnot, and as always, salutate unicornem!