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This is useful feedback and I'm probably going to end up using these guys in a different project now.
But the comments raised are exactly why I wanted to do a redesign. The umbrals were never meant to be metaphysical creatures. In fact that makes the least sense for them out of the three (four if you count the craftkind) races of Ter. They're the antimagic creatures! If any creatures were meant to have the most substance to them it was them, and I was never happy with the unexplained floatiness or apparent counter nature to magic when they were on surface inspection the most innately magical creature going. They're a mortal species! Without even any innate magical power, or at least that was the intention before I made a pretzel-shish-kebab out of Resonance's continuity.
I wanted to make them more grounded and then this lead to me thinking in very literal terms about basically being in contact with the ground.
The impact to otherness is significant, though, as (and this information no longer has any bearing with my impulsive decision to break them away from being "Resonance umbrals" to just "happen to be called umbrals") in the reboot setting they'd be the only significant species not to originate from the same world as the others. One thing I'm taking with them to whatever I use them in is, rather than hovering all the time, a strange unique buoyancy to the way they move. Gravity seeming to be about a tenth of the scale for them as for any other physical object in the world. So while they can't hover indefinitely, they can just hang in the air for an unnerving duration or just jump over a wall that might be an effective barrier to anyone else. And that would be their only real useful paranormal attribute, save for the terrible vulnerability to fire.
I coulda sworn I drew more umbrals with cat faces. I checked all my images and only found a few but it was so lodged in my mind that they had cat faces that only appeared whenever mouths were open. Where the hell did I get that idea from?? All I know is if I'd drawn the mouth open, the reboot design has a mouth full of jagged pointy teeth they get as they mature.
See attached picture which I'm sure will be totally uncontroversial in every way.
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