Highguard Mount Summoning Concept

This is a simple sketch, but the birth of a fun core gameplay moment to share. The concept team did a tremendous amount of world building on the backend that will never be fully realized unfortunately. This was an attempt to feed it into how our mounts summon and exist in the world. Vesper entities that emerge from the landscape on call. Vesper was our term that described our version of magic, "hard magic" if you will. We wanted the magic in our world to be explainable by science, for the most part. We eventually abandoned this and leaned into the glowy magic stuff, but it was such a neat take. Luckily this concept mostly made it into the game + glowy fx.