Akupara character design by Branden Collins & Rita Luoro
..An ancient future world where solar-powered, regenerative beings who’s intelligent skin learns and adapts, transform their bodies in fantastical ways with a simple thought.
On a distant, yet familiar, Earth-like world, the Tribes of The Great Cosmic Tree live and prosper in harmony within the nature of which they are one. Each tribe, descendants of the great spirits who hold aloft the branches of the great tree, each branch and spirit a totem of one of the great domains of life. Akupara is a young, spirited member of the Turtle Tribe, the followers of AKUPARA the Great World Turtle spirit, the totem of earth and flowing rivers. Akupara, nimble-minded, charming and curious, is entering their phase of transition, an important rite of passage for members of the Turtle Tribe. The phase of transition is marked by the 13th moon of the Turtle Tribe living cycle.
Akupara has been raised to be very proud of the turtle ancestry, but they feel a calling to some other innate connection...
A longing for the song of the whale...
As Akupara follows this curiosity and this calling, they are inevitably thrust into an enchanted journey that takes them into the deepest heart of their shared ancestry with all the world’s tribes.
Creators:
Branden Collins
Derek Holguin
Lyly Hoang
feat.
Ivy Fischer
Eukono
The World of AKUPARA, image blend generated with Midjourney.
Akupara had always been a curious one.
Asking endless questions that would vex the Elder Guardians and Guild Masters.
Ose! How can one be so sure my calling will come with the 13th moon?
But how do we KNOW the Great Cosmic Turtle is real?
Why is it so wrong to stay in the form of another tribe?
But what came BEFORE the Great Cosmic Turtle? Have they no Elder Guardian like I?
OSE! Akupara, please with your incessant questioning! Please, I beg you, go ask the Great One, Spirit Turtle.
Aahhhh ose! But the Great One only tells me fables and stories! Great Turtle never answers my questions, only stories, stories, stories ose!
Ah! OSE! Akupara ose run along now, I have no light for your quibbling!
Flustered and discontent, Akupra reluctantly ventures on to seek council with The Great Spirit Turtle
GREAT TURTLE AKUPARA, OSE!
AKUPARA OH GREAT WISE SPIRIT
ONE WHO IS ALL AND ONE
YOU WHO IS ME AND I YOU
ETERNAL KEEPER OF EARTH AND RIVERS, OSE!
I HUMBLY ASK, HOW DO WE KNOW THE SUN WILL RETURN? WH..WHEN THE SUN FALLS AND DARKNESS COMES.. HO..HOW DO WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN OH WISE ONE THAT IT SHALL RETURN?
Ose! As I awaken, yes child yes Ahhhh, yes yes. The Sun! It’s rays of giving life. How do we know the sun shall return? Ase...
Have I never toooold you the stoory of Akupara’s mask and the turtle god?
OSE! um N..nnNO WISE ONE! YOU HAVE NOT TOLD ME THE TALE. BUT I ASK HUMBLY, WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE SUN?
You question my wisdom?
ose! no... no never no oh wisest one
OSE!!! WONDERFUL! Then I shall tell you the tale....
The World of AKUPARA Coming Soon...