![]() In the end, the summoner won the day, because of how much it oozes with theme and style. “From the start, we knew the two character archetypes that were in the running - a melee-focused class, or a summon-focused class. Very early concepts for the Cursed Captain. The act itself did not end up having its sea legs, and went overboard during 2020, but the Captain was proving too fun to let go. ![]() In March 2020, the team created several character concepts that fit with an ‘Oceanic/Beach’ theme, as at the time, we were considering development of another act within that environmental theme. While the Cursed Captain is the newest class to hit Torchlight III, its initial conception goes back more than a year. ![]() With a smirk and a blast of his cursed cannon, the Captain is a formidable adventurer. All that live to tell the tale of an encounter with the Captain speak of his motley crew and prowess in battle. Yet others describe the Captain as a noble admiral who made an infernal pact with an unknowable sea beast. Others claim the Captain was a ruthless pirate who lost the map to his buried treasure and cut his way through the pirate ranks in search of it. Some say the Captain was a debonair lover, driven to sea by the spurning of a distant princess. The Cursed Captain hails from the days of the wild privateers, before the Empire sank or imprisoned the cutthroats and marauders that ruled the seas. Others are shackled by regret, lingering on battlefields of long-forgotten wars. Some are anchored by their avarice to treasure they could not take beyond the grave. ![]() The world of Novastraia is haunted by all manner of cursed ghosts, shades and haunts. Watch yer doubloons, the capt’n’s on deck! As an experienced captain of cursed and piracy skills, this corporeal spectre can summon a ghostly crew of swashbucklers, and use the tools of the trade to tackle combatants. Anchored in a state between life and death, the Cursed Captain remains true to its adventurous spirit. ![]()
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