Teratlas

Visual List of Elestrals

Official render of Teratlas.

Teratlas is an Earth Spirit Elestral. It was initially released as part of the Prototype, Founders, and Base sets. Used as the primary teaser for the Elestrals brand, Teratlas was fully revealed via aDrive's one million subcribers celebration video on his Youtube account on July 21st, 2022.

## Pre-Release

On February 6th, 2022, a heavily pixelated image of Teratlas was shown in a members-only post on the aDrive Live website under the caption "My Biggest Project Ever..."

The first public teaser for Teratlas was a tweet on May 21st, 2022 by aDrive featuring an image of a statue of the Greek mythological Titan Atlas, captioned "There's a lot of weight on his shoulders". This was retweeted by aDrive on July 19th, 2022 after two other image teasers were posted. First was the heavily pixelated image that had originally been posted on the aDrive Live website, second was a close up, cropped image of the stone Teratlas carries. On July 20th, aDrive tweeted another crop - a close-up of Teratlas' eye - to better showcase the art style for the project. A short video was posted later that day: an extreme close-up of a 3D model of Teratlas' idle animation. The tweet of the Atlas statue was retweeted for the final time on this day.

On July 21st, 2022, a video celebrating one million subscribers was uploaded to aDrive's Youtube channel. This video featured a short 3D animation of Teratlas. A shorter version of this video featuring only the introduction and animation of Teratlas was uploaded to Twitter as well. The name and official artwork of Teratlas was posted later that day. Later, aDrive retweeted this post and revealed Teratlas' subclasses. On July 23rd, 2022, a video of a 3D model of Teratlas' idle animation was tweeted by aDrive.

## Development

Teratlas was designed by Elestrals art director Daniel Reyes. Concept art was tweeted by aDrive July 24th, 2022, demonstrating the change in design from first conception, as well as different concepts for the stone Teratlas carries.

The turnaround model sheet of Teratlas was shared by aDrive in the official Elestrals Discord server on July 31st, 2022.

A very early mock-up of Teratlas' card was shared on twitter August 16th, 2022, revealing the original name: Herculearth.

## Trivia

* Teratlas was the first Elestral created.
* Teratlas' name is derived from "Terra", the Latin name for the planet Earth, and "Atlas", a mythological Greek Titan condemned to carry the universe on his shoulders for eternity. The name also references Atlas beetles.

## Gallery

Official renderOfficial name revealConcept art by Daniel ReyesTurnaround model sheet by Daniel ReyesA very early cardmock-upTeratlas emoji from the official Discord
## Screencaps

February 6th, 2022May 21st, 2022July 19th, 2022July 20th, 2022July 20th, 2022July 21st, 2022July 21st, 2022July 21st, 2022July 23rd, 2022July 31st, 2022

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsxhw6N3ZM
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1528131285813805061
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1549395658230169601
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1549545092649738242
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1549786224457662464
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1549813645571493888
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1550106127098155016
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1550124239562321920
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1550178699261140992
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/aDrive\_tK/status/1550989522632073216
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/Elestrals/status/1559728239416860674