Horoscopes

-Horoscopes-

 

With the creation of our world we have added new races, as mentioned in a previous post we came up with the idea of races being based off of horoscopes, pisces, aries etc.

Which means that there would be 12 races overall- we won't be focusing on all the races all that heavily; the idea of basing them off of horoscopes came from the random comment about the prince character being a goat in our first meeting. We liked the idea of a goat inspired race; this progressed further to using a concept that is widely recognised - the horoscopes. This bled over to the guard character and using the leo sign for her and virgo for the main detectives; virgo being the equivalent.

Most of the races aren't massively different in appearance from what we have planned, mainly due to our focus being the main 4 characters.

 

I took a trip to the library in hopes of finding some books on the history of the horoscopes and the story behind them. Unfortunately I didn't actually find that many; I'll take a few more trips out to the other libraries and bookshops for more information if required for the design process. I picked up a book that revolves around the traits of said star signs; purely out of interest and I may even be able to draw a few ideas from the concept of reading a person from their star sign.

 

Information taken from Jamie Stokes, 2004, 'Zodiac types', Collins

 

So starting with the main detectives, they were chosen to be the 'Virgo' race. Virgo representing the virgin, it is a very simplistic symbol; and is just a woman.

 

Virgo symbol

"It is associated with the female and was linked to the holy grail of legend." The basic description of what virgo represents in the book.

"key words: Altruism and honesty; self improvement; health and hygiene; efficiency and reliability; service and modesty; logic and decisiveness." Already I can see the main two touching on some of these key words.

Particularly the description of the personality traits of male and female virgos; a large poriton actually fits them; whether or not that's a good thing I don't know. It has helped envisioning the two characters a lot easier; as I have had difficulty getting a good image of them in mind.

 

I'll only quote the key signs of the Prince and the Guard; since we have a pretty good idea of what we want.

 

Prince- Capricorn

"Realism and practicality; planning and persistence; status and quality; authority and discipline; wealth and investment; loyalty and wisdom; love and marriage"

 

Guard- leo

"Pleasure and playfulness; creativity and recognition; performance and appreciation; generosity and loyalty; risk and luck; entertainment and hospitality; romance and sex appeal."

 

The history behind horoscopes

their alignments with the planets and astrology.