Princess Kyte
"So this is Discovery Falls!" - Princess Kyte
Overview
Kyte is the Princess and only daughter of the CloudRunner royal family. She may be young, but she display great kindness and resolve on her adventures with Krystal. Even though she witnessed her mother death, by the hands of General Scales, she continues on with Krystal's adventure and support her throughout her journey's end. She'll make a great Queen for her tribe even at her age!
Early story (From Character Bio)
A fierce storm had been raging over the the Fortress for almost a full cycle of the moon. When the weather finally let up, Kyte could stand being cooped no longer. As these lulls were the best to collect fireflies, she took the advantage and left her quarters. Flying around the fortress, she came to a rock ledge that she knew would be buzzing with fire flies, she wasn't disappointed. As they were always extremely docile after a large storm, they were very easy to collect. Kyte ate as many flies as many flies as she could stuff in her mouth, but kept some, as she knew her mother would appreciate the tasty snack!
She had just filled a small container, when Kyte heard a loud fizz and crackling behind her. As she turned around a thin column of light struck her. This "magic" was in fact one of Scales crude laser stuns given to him by Drakor! However hard she tried, she could not fly! As Kyte stood struggling on the rock ledge a huge wooden galleon rose out of the dark sky in front of her. Though the cloud, she could make out the piercing eyes of General Scales. He gave the order and before she knew what had happened, two SharpClaw's were bundling her into a sack. Her world descended into darkness...
Waking up, Kyte found herself caged on the Galleon as it flew through the raging skies. In the distance she could just make out the shape of a CloudRunner soldier flying towards the galleon. He appeared to have a strange blue creature strapped to his back! This blue creature turns out, of course, to be Krystal and a new friendship begins.
Character Bio
Characteristics
Name : Princess Kyte
Age : 11 years old
Height : 2ft”
Likes : Riding the thermals on Golden Plains
Dislikes : Confined spaces
Weapon : Her strong beak
Combat style : Swooping attacks, Dive Bombs
Favorite command : The Distract Command
Favorite food : Tasty Fireflies
Special abilities : Being able to fly allows Kyte to reach certain switches and objects that her land-based counterpart cannot.
Questions / Answers
- What does Kyte want to do when Dinosaur Planet has been saved?
Though she must return to her tribe and assume her role as Queen, she would prefer to be playing with her brothers and sisters.
- Personality
Kyte has developed a mature outlook on life and will not rush headlong into rash decisions and acts (Unlike a certain little prince!) Her father was killed when she was a baby and this left her mother with the responsibility of the CloudRunner Tribe. Unable to spend much time with her mother, Kyte was alone for much of her young life.This has made her very resilient and independent, though she does wish someone to look up to (this is where Krystal fits in).
- Role in game
Kyte is Krystal's Sidekick. She is under complete control by the player . The obvious difference between her and Tricky is that she can fly. This turn changes the way you play levels involving Krystal and Kyte.
- Kyte's Commands
- Heel - She will return to you whenever this is used regardless of what she may be doing.
- Flame - By eating Fire Berries, she is able to breath fire on certain parts of the environment and baddies.
- Find - Use this to knock down items that are out of reach of the player.
- Distract - Use to distract the attention of baddies to allow the player to sneak past!
- Guard - Use to guard your dinosaur friends if they are under attack.
- Play - When you want a break from your adventure, you can play games with your Dinosaur!
Concept arts and early idealizations
Spikes are not present on Kyte's in-game mode, as well as little claws on her hand. Her feet only had two toes and looked more slender then the final one, that look more like conventionnal dinosaur feet.
Renders and models
This renders seems pretty close, except for the wings. They have no darker parts under them and they have a little gradient of pink by their ends - which is not present here. Other than that, the head, feet, tail is really close to her in-game model.
Promotional material
Story in-game
Voice lines
Cutscenes & gameplay
Krystal's first encounter with General Scales and attempts to rescue the Princess Kyte.
Krystal finally rescuing Kyte!
Kyte and Krystal's touching goodbye. It suggests this takes place before the end of the game.
Screenshots in-game
Early screenshots
Interesting to note the very different UI on these screenshots and how Kyte's portrait wasn't programmed in yet (It used the same one as Tricky - a pretty early one as well).
Screenshots from the prototype
Kyte's model in her cage, on the Galleon. Her model is pretty different than the one used in-game and she looks more close to her brothers (Little to no spike head and smaller beak.)
Compared to her little brothers, Kyte has a longer beak, longer head spike and a longer tail.
Endgame story (Spoiler)
Trivia
- Kyte has five little brothers. They are smaller than her and their features are less developped (Smaller beak, head spike and tail) as seen in the screenshot above.
References
Profile
| Name | Princess Kyte |
|---|---|
| Age | 11 |
| Height | Approx. 2ft” |
| Species | Pterodactyl |
| Home planet | Dinosaur Planet |
| Gender | Female |
| Clan | CloudRunner |
| Relatives | CloudRunner Queen (Mother), five brothers (unamed) |
| Image | Credits |
