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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The Hurlewain is the essence of enamel, the element that hardens teeth and sharpens claws and imbues mundane steel with mystical life. A clump, a growth, almost more of a resource than a being, the Hurlewain is often created by alchemists as intermediary step to other creatures.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The universe wouldn't be the only thing coming in this situation I imagine

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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🦋 June Strings 🪞🫀 @junestrings.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Devaputra is the essence of Myiasis, the principle of flesh turning other flesh into more of itself. Distilled to its essence like this it is virulently dangerous, ceaselessly copying itself. It eats, it infects and it impregnates until all flesh in a space is more Devaputra.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The Argentonymus is a sort of "abyssal mirror life," life naturally occurring deep inside reflections. Bringing it into the real world requires the refining of silver into its purest essence, where it is prized by cultists of Chazakiel, a fallen angel associated with reflections.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Embryon is what remains of the prime matter of flesh when all else is stripped away from it. It shambles around, resembling a humanoid- though it lacks every single trait of a human save for 'the flesh.' For alchemists, the Embryon is a blank slate on which to build new life.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Ficus Genetrix is an example of a Myiasis-type demon, a demon symbolizing how organisms turn other organisms into more of themselves, in this case inspired by the life cycle of the common fig or Ficus Carica

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

By making the game's attacks and spells tie into an overarching pseudo-alchemical philosophical system we hope to make it feel like a coherent world, and in making it a coherent world we hope to more effortlessly communicate information about both gameplay and story to the player.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

As such the 'Myiasis' element is a corpus element symbolizing the often predatory way in which life turns other life into more of itself. Myiasis-type attacks infest enemies with bugs under their skin. Myiasis spells heal you by drawing on another's health- be it enemy or ally.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A big part of the themes of Malvanean is the spirit yearning to go in one direction and the flesh yearning for another, so we've split the game's eight elements in two groups- four 'cosmic' elements relating to the soul, and four 'corpus' elements relating to the body.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

One thing we don't want to do with Malvanean is use elements like 'fire,' 'air' or 'water.' Plenty of games have fire attacks. Few games have attacks based on an element symbolizing the process by which the larvae of the wasp turn the flesh of the caterpillar into more wasps.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Witsilver is cinnabar, the moon-element of change and mercury as well as one of the four components of the cosmic self distilled into its essence. It is an amorphous metal blob capable of taking any shape, yet is most prized for its staggeringly large intellectual capacities.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The Bottlebird is the bile, the caustic element that breaks down organic material distilled into its essence. Alchemists call acids "bottled spirits," likening the digestion of matter to a spirit devouring them, but the true spirit from the bottle is this ravenous, predatory bird.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Ultimately we don't want to show off unfinished content and we don't want to create hype when we can't be sure when the game will be properly done yet. Malvanean needs more time in the oven to be a properly good game, and when we do reveal the game we'd like it to be mind-blowing

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

'Malvanean' has gone through some delays because of some publisher drama and several of the devs having been struck with sickness at once. We're back on track now and we'll be posting new demon sprites on a regular basis, as well as more general development / game design updates.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A big part of it is that we don't want to show off unfinished work and don't want to create hype when the game just isn't done yet. We've gotten done reworking combat and are reworking the systems for dungeon exploration and random encounters now. The game just needs more time to be a good game

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We've been going through some hard times, with publisher drama and some of the team members having been sick for extended periods of time. We're back in development proper now, though. We'll start making more posts about dev progress, discord server will have to wait for now though

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Alchemists adore distilling elements down to their essence, and in an animist world these essences can have forms reminiscent of the myriad forms of life. The Gnome is the essence of lead, prized by many an alchemist for it's darkly comedic demeanour and hardy, unyielding nature.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Not yet, we want to have more game to show off first!

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🦋 June Strings 🪞🫀 @junestrings.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

happy people energy from the Outside

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

All that remains of the Tartar army are sparse remnants scattered throughout the Abode and corpses with teethmarks on their bones. The few remaining generals stalk the labyrinthine halls, having failed their task yet now something more than human. They roam, looking for new meat.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It's a bit of Persona, a bit of Shin Megami Tensei and a whole lot of dungeon crawling roguelike. It's a permadeath game (also for your demons!) where you traverse dungeons, collect demons to use in battle and fight nasty bosses

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Talk to them, fight them, summon them to your party, take them out exploring and on dates to max out their social link and maybe even romance them!

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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

it was fun to draw a sprite from someone elses design :D im happy with how it came out

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Sharp Prince is one remaining half of a living artefact, a thing blurring the lines between 'organism' and 'tool.' She is a blade of judgement made the focal point of a web of living string and thread, pulsing as arteries would, and entangling as threads of brain-silk would.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

With nary a drop of divinity in him, Belial desires to rule but is unable to attain any deific state. Still, he styles himself as a worldly ruler carrying the mandate of Buer. He has taken control of the lower realms with military might, now ruling as a mockery of human nobility.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Give in to the temptations of the flesh. Explore the oceans beyond the firmament. Get lost in the cosmic void of the self. Ascend the throne of the Sun. A roguelike monster-catching dungeon crawler where the only way to heal is eating your allies. Announcement coming soon

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Acolytes of the Amicit believe flesh is what holds back their evolution and eventual ascenscion into beings of pure thought. To reach enlightenment, they separate from their flesh and become Skeletons. Freed from the burden of thought, the flesh in turn becomes a happy slime.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One of seven radiant beings that once taught mankind forbidden knowledge. Sariel taught sorcery to make man independent, but has long since abandoned her ward. She now claims dominion over the Azoth Flame and rules the Moon, reshaping the local inhabitants into her perfect order.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

One of seven radiant beings that taught mankind forbidden knowledge. Kokabel taught early man how to chart the course of the stars and sail the seas. Having wandered further into the abyssal cosmos than even Sariel, Kokabel has been transformed by exposure to those alien depths.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Olm are subterranean lizards who have adapted to their dark environment to the point of losing their eyes in favour of other, far sharper but alien senses. The common Olm are only babies, the offspring of 'Great Olms', dragons who dwell in the vast darkness beneath the world.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Summoning demons is fraught with danger, and not just for the summoner. If summoning or fusion rituals are improperly executed, several demons might accidentally be conjoined into a suffering mess of limbs with no real sense of identity, a 'Miscreant'

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The Yutu are the native inhabitants of the Moon. Once peaceful and edenic, a luminous being descended from the cosmos and taught them the horrors of modern civilization. Now they chart the heavens, toil and farm on silver fields of moondust and wage war with instruments of death.

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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Encumbered Acolyte for Malvanean (@mistandmirrors.bsky.social) Relieve the Flesh of Your Burden #pixelart #gamedev

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Having delved too deep into the desires of the flesh, the Deprived has lost ego and soul and is now nothing but unfulfillable want. The Idolator has obtained an idol containing remnants of glory- delusionally fashioning it into a new ego, thinking himself none other than the sun

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The astral seas beyond the firmament are home to many beings, growing ever stranger and ever larger the further you stray into the dark depths of space. The Gymnosomata are molluscs that devour thought, casting out their own organs as antennae to filter-feed on consciousness.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A magnificent five legged goat who rolls around the countryside dispensing wisdom- corrupting shepherds with knowledge of natural philosophy, logic and the nature of ethics. Buer has trapped the last of the dying Sun into a mask and now fashions himself into a false ruler of men.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

One of seven radiant beings that descended on mankind to grant them forbidden knowledge of both agriculture and the proceedings of law. As the Angel of Judgement, Araquiel wears a blindfold as reminder of their impartial nature- Their draconic judgement is enacted equally on all.

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🦋 June Strings 🪞🫀 @junestrings.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

hey BY THE WAY.. earthtongue is 70% off for the steam autumn sale (one of the deepest sale's ive ever done!) so consider it if you want to have your own alien vivarium!! store.steampowered.com/app/358070/E...

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Care for a miniature ecosystem in a strange world, exert limited influence to encourage the growth of different fungi and bugs and try to maintain the balance of life.

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Malvanean - Announcement coming soon @mistandmirrors.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A Prince of Hell in the shape of a horse, Orobas styles himself the 'Prince of the Free' and promises salvation to the outcast and the persecuted. His cultists eventually turn into horses themselves, wildly running around and generally making a mess of things.

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