Comments on The Realms Away Struggle (Personal Vent)

(Sorry for the possible bad or weird grammar ahead, I use google translate unfortunately,,) First off, thanks for the openness on the matter! The burnout is a perfectly normal thing (especially in such conditions)! I really love RA; it gave me many ideas and joy, but I support whatever the conclusion is. Taking care of yourself is more important! "Too much" section is too familiar to me :"") (I had really tough experience with worldbuilding, but lesson is learned). I'm not very familiar with how it is in CS, but for personal species I tend to mix things if they can be fitted together. For the RA I see that species can be more united if they have a common plot line or share habitat together. Like, for example, nimare, saurians and serpents share Neo-Maera. It feels very natural and boosted my imagination very hard. But some species feel isolated or not very fitted in the whole scheme of things in RA world. But! This can be used for lore-building or activity ideas! For example, we have dragons, who are very strong and ancient creatures. But how do they correlate with other old-and-mighty species? I am also very fascinated with Realms concept and their interactions. How many and how far are species aware of realms traveling? Are gods conflicting with each other if they became aware of the existence of each other? Arma Caeli's invasions can be a great threat that can unite realms? Something like that. I also sometimes had thoughts that some species can be (probably) mixed together. Like beastlings and dragons. The common point for me is that they have transformations that are mostly feral in appearance and nature due to the absence of humans around them (and both are very proud of their original form)(and dragons also can be tiny funny creatures). I can see that Arkusterra may be a part of Arboreum in the form of a giant bamboo forest (like the third biome) and beastlings can treat their more magical reptilian kin differently. (To fix the problem with dragon sizing, "giant" can be a trait (which can be applied to all beastlings, but lore-wise more common to dragons) OR be untraited and represent the dragon's ancientness (if that makes sense). Also, I thought about whether lovabuns and lopilu related (they have some common threads in lore beside appearance, I think)? Or can be gleamstics be a type of lower-grade Arma Caeli (their descendance or something)? I feel like there can be done some mixing and shrinking. But obviously only if you feel like it (there is no point if you, as a creator, are unhappy)! Sorry for too wild imagination T_T just wanted to share some thoughts on the topic. I also wanted to say that I very much like RA for having so many species! Some maybe less, some more (my favorite one so far is Arma Caeli, but I can't disagree on what their design process feels too complicated sometimes (*looking at myo which I can't finish three months at this point*), but I'm in love with their aesthetics and lore), but I am bewitched by how much hard work feels done for all of them. Even with generic species (I think their lore is neat and feels refreshing. For example, I don't really like angels in general, but angelus lore is so engaging, I can't resist). I can't thank you enough for creating such wonderful ARPG!

2024-10-01 11:02:46