Nightmorn [Bestiary | 2025]

This project was created a way to simultaneously teach players about the monsters they would be facing and how to fight them, and immerse them in the world of the game.

In total I created 20 monsters, inspired by (primarily) Scandinavian folklore. I collaborated with three artists to draw them, and then created Solholm's Guide to Not Getting Eaten. This iteration of the book was an in-world item, something the player characters would have found years ago and carried with them.

After this, I created nine custom handwriting fonts, each style based off of a mix my coworkers' handwriting and the concepted player characters. I went through the book adding notes, doodles and conversations as though these Hunters had actually been editing and updating it as they explored the world.

Finally, I also created an overview mode for the bestiary that would allow players a quicker, easier way to read the necessary information about each monster.

After a weathering by one of the artists, the finished bestiary can now be found both in game, and as a downloadable book on itch.io.

I also created a physical version which was available to read through at the Falmouth Games Expo.