A new buddy is available today in Rivals of Aether: introducing Mawson from Cross Blitz!

Mawson is the beloved chief of the Mawpaws – a cat-like race of creatures that live deep within their island’s mana mines. He’s one of the few Mawpaws who are brave enough to communicate with outsiders, and looks to be adventurous enough to have made it all the way to Aether to be your next battle buddy.

You can unlock Mawson by owning both Rivals and Cross Blitz on Steam.

Cross Blitz is an RPG deckbuilder by our good friends at Tako Boy Studios featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Make sure to check it out if you're a fan of Creatures of Aether or other deckbuilders, especially while it's on sale for the Deckbuilders Fest.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1619520/Cross_Blitz/

Join Dan and Trevor over on our twitch[twitch.tv] this Thursday at 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT as they play contest entries and chat about the process behind the scenes for adding a character to the Rivals universe. As always, questions are welcome in the chat.

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At the start of this year, we closed submissions for our Workshop Character Creation Contest, a contest where we asked the community to make their own characters with the winner eventually being officially added to Rivals 2!

Since then, we've been hard at work behind the scenes and posted an update earlier today about when people can expect for a winner to be chosen and more.