Name: Summoner’s Soul
Properties: Set all attributes except vitality to 1, and reduces stamina to zero permanently; the only ability it gives is a new summoning slot so you can have 4 demons out at same time. Each time you level up, instead of gaining attributes normally, you gain 1 vitality and can choose a demon to increase all of its attributes by 1 point each.

Other equipment: haven’t decided yet. I’ve considered having a single equipment slot for each party member for an “accessory”-like item, or some typical (3? 5? 8?) number of slots for the player and none for demons, but have not definitely settled on any answer (or even whether to do it at all.)

One of my bigger points of hesitation on equipment is that players already have a party of 8 demons and their abilities to manage, and the interplay involved with comparing various demons and abilities and deciding which ones to keep/use is already pretty similar to the sort of flavor equipment systems add.

I do love progression systems… but I’m undecided on whether this would be “another fun progression system” or “one fun progression system too many.” At the moment I’ve put the idea aside since I’ve got plenty of stuff to do that I’m much more certain about wanting in, so I probably won’t make a call on this anytime super soon.

Galthaar: Hmm.. relics are lore-wise supposed to be things that merge with or replace part of the user’s body. But… I could see having relics that generate magical weaponry/shields for their bearer to use. Crown of Glory might be a good candidate for that, since most of the sprite is “free” to mess with due to it being headgear. I could also work on making the art for melee relics look a bit more… I dunno, bulky? Titan’s Fist might not be very convincing as a large metal fist you smash things with in the current art.

No promises on when I’ll redo their art, but thank you for the feedback. I will keep it in mind when doing future relics too.