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A Splendid Tuesday to Everyone!

Hey everyone, hope you are all doing well as summer begins to rear it's beautiful, yet ungodly hot, face upon this little blue planet.

I've been working on getting initial test cards going for abilities and working on changing up the layout of the world of Illevar.

That said, there really isn't much to show until things get printed and tested more. Blog posts showing spreadsheets just don't bring in the numbers either. With this in mind, I've decided to just post on Tuesdays as opposed to the initial 2 day posting schedule.

Next week is Golden Week here in Japan, so I won't be posting then as I'll be visiting Osaka and Universal Studios Japan.

World Updates:

I've been going over my initial notebooks from when this project was first conceived back in January of 2021 and decided that some major overhauls were needed to tighten up the world and the story. 

Some samples of this are changing the area of Ocren into one country with 4 major areas and the Lowlands will just be a part of Brisfall.

The time period of the game takes place during Industrialization and expansion, similar to that experienced during the 1800-1900s (more towards the latter half of the century) in The United States and elsewhere. Railways, industry, capitalism, and more will be prevalent in the game's setting.

Some major internal challenges within the nations will mirror those felt by the industrializing nations of ours. Examples of this include: worker's rights, unionization, exploration, religious revivals, farmer revolts, and the expansion of cities and towns in the wilderness.

This leads to fun scenarios, in my opinion. How would a spellcaster's union function? Do certain guilds hold monopolies on magic-tech? Are firearms seen as a threat to the stability of the wilderness inhabitants? Are industry backed merchants taking over local farming communities?

These rapid changes in the world would be an excellent catalyst for religious fervor as communities try to cope with a rapidly changing reality. Using this to their advantage, the Cultists of the main story could establish themselves around Illevar.  

When I have more specific examples of this, I will be sharing them with everyone on the blog. 

Closing

Anyway, thanks for reading my little rambles. Life continues to go well for me as work is steady and I've the time to look into moving back to the States as well as work on this passion project. 

That's all for today's post. You can always tune in again next week. Don't forget to follow me on Twitter.