Oren's Forge PG 323 (Epilogue/Vol 2 End) (Patreon)

Some of you were getting close, wondering if the wolves had begun domesticating bison but… perhaps you just had it backwards.

I think domestication is a super fascinating (and still not a very well understood) phenomenon in nature. Some animals can, some simply can’t be domesticated (if every animal could be domesticated, fancy people would be riding zebras as much as we ride horses.)

I especially love the (very) fringe anthropological theory that our long-ago pre-sapien ancestors self-domesticated.

In an anthro world, I really wanted to play with the idea of wolves self-domesticating. And so with that--finally--we have unlocked the blue-eye achievement for characters. (Blue eyes do not occur in the wild outside of infancy, but frequently pop up in animals with domestication syndrome.)

So there you have it! The Zenith was right, world is indeed changing, and wolves can (must?) change with it.

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Upcoming Schedule

July - Honestly, it’ll be pretty quiet here in July. I’m going to be spending most of my time finishing the prep to send Volume Two and Oren and the One-Eyed Wolf to the printer. I really appreciate if you want to stick around, of course, no worries if not! I hope to see you back for when the comic resumes!

August - I’ll start posting the new short side comic. This is one I’ve had in the back of my mind since I started work on the very first pages of Oren’s Forge. It’ll shed some light on a character I don’t think anyone’s given a second thought to. However, maybe now in the back of your mind, you’re wondering… Why was there a lone injured bison running around for Swift’s pack to take down, all the way back on page 5?

Part 3 will pick up sometime after that short comic (which should be about 6-8 pages.) If you don’t feel like hanging around here until then, I will definitely post about it on all my socials, etc, when we get going again.

Thank you guys again! Outside of a few side projects here and there, this Patreon is how I’m able to buy groceries, pay bills and have the space to write and work on this story. I feel like a broken record sometimes, thanking you guys, but you’ll have to put up with it. Without your patronage, Oren’s Forge would have died on the vine. I’m grateful it was allowed to flourish, to be read, enjoyed and even printed, which is a precious kind of literary survival. So thank you! Until the next!