This is lovely! It's extremely cinematic, and I can hear the story themes you've described woven into the orchestration choices. I can also hear SO many influences from lots of different genres & composers, especially some romantic period piano in the first couple of tracks, which is super cool! The latter half really reminds me of the works of Hisaishi with Miyazaki also. You're showing off a lot of impressive compositional and orchestration chops here and I think it works really really well! Thanks for sharing!