 What's up everybody, I am the Mangus, you are awesome and it's time once again for the Road Back to Paragon, a monthly summary of what's been going on with the possible Paragon replacements that I track. Right off the top I'll tell you that there was nothing for Metabuff and their game core, nor was there any news for Visionary and Phoenix Rising. This month was all about Omeda Studios and Undying Games with their games, Predecessor and Ethereal. If you've been watching my update videos regularly then all this stuff is going to be old news so you probably don't even need to watch it. Let's start off with Omeda Studios and Predecessor. They kicked the month off with some lighting updates which doesn't seem exciting however when you look at the difference it makes you can see that it's a definite improvement. Sadly this month Patrick Pony, Omeda's sound designer and all around Jack of all trades had to leave the team. It was an amicable separation with Patrick simply having too much going on to continue his contributions to the game. Omeda already has someone's later to take over for Patrick and more importantly he had already done everything he needed to do for the game's eventual alpha re-release. It's sad to see Patrick go, he was always quick to roast Smokey or pretty much anyone he decided needed it. Let's all wish him success in the future and offer our gratitude for everything he's done to bring some semblance of our favorite game back to us. Predecessor's level designer Fringe decided to add some of the monolith assets to the jungle. They look pretty good but I don't know how I feel about it. Part of the draw of Predecessor over core was that Predecessor was staying truer to the legacy feel of Paragon, we'll just have to play to see how everything looks in the final product. Gameplay wise Smokey has been streaming the addition of lane minions, this is a pretty tricky step as the minion Aionys interact with several aspects of the map, other minions, towers and heroes. They also allowed some of the alpha key holders access to the testing. While I missed out because of work Mandy was able to get in and she said everything seems to be working pretty smooth. On a more personal note in Omeda news, my plan to woo Smokey's wife away from him and make her my own is going swimmingly. Welcome to Undying Games with Ethereal. Many of the plans Undying has for Ethereal have started following into place this month. They began to hire video editors and you can see the fruits of that addition in the voice packs that they've released on their YouTube page. So far we've been able to hear the voice lines for Aron, Malware, Malaya, Talos, Marina and Leia. While there isn't any gameplay you can get a sense of what some of the abilities will be from the voice lines as well as the general personality of the myths. We did an interview on For the Minions with the voice actors for Marina. While there wasn't much revealed about the game during the interview it was very informative and a great resource for anyone who has any interest in voice acting. Ethereal has also opened up a new avenue of communication with fans of the game via their Discord. They've been holding impromptu community corners where several members of the development team hang out in the voice chat and answer questions from the community. If you're interested in Ethereal I encourage you to check out their Discord linked in the description below and try to participate in asking any questions you may have. They also play games with communities such as League and I think Smite. That's all I've got for September. I hope this is helpful for anyone who wants news for these games but doesn't want to track every minute detail like I do. This is the Mangoo signing off. You guys have a good one. Mangoo!