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I've played this through twice now, the second time largely for the plot, and there's a worldbuilding issue I'm still confused by. Is Syl'anar supposed to be a global economic and tech powerhouse, or an isolationist hermit-empire? They have ads advertising discounted elf-slaves for emigrants, yet the rest of the world seems to be almost totally ignorant of the practice. Does no one offer Elves asylum because Syl'anar's so mighty they don't dare, or because it's too obscure and weak to have any geo-strategic rivals who'd bother?

That's really the only false note, and the general lack of foreign public opinion on the issue. The MC obviously has to start as a naif for the plot to function, I'm not sure how one might reconcile that. Still, otherwise the world hangs together better than most fantasy novel series' I've read.

RuneyGames2 years ago (1 edit)

Here's a reminder of what's mentioned in game:

Syl'anar has the biggest military and economy. (That military mostly consists of war droids)

The whole world relies on Syl'anar's production of goods, especially electronics from Nero Inc, largely produced by elves.

Elves are not allowed to leave Syl'anar.

Syl'anar is very pro human immigration, and will incentivize that through discounts on elves, making Syl'anar the best place in the world to start a business.

Slavery is illegal everywhere else.

deleroi122 years ago (2 edits) (+1)(-1)

"Syl'anar has the biggest military and economy. (That military mostly consists of war droids)
The whole world relies on Syl'anar's production of goods, especially electronics from Nero Inc, largely produced by elves."

I remember characters saying those things. I just wasn't sure how reliable the information was supposed to be, given that they were all either from Syl'anar or the scions of industrial firms using Elf blood to make insanity prone androids. I assumed the MC's total ignorance of the place represented a counterpoint, just by its very possibility. Isn't he supposed to be from a country whose capital city alone has like a third the population of their entire continent?

I thought the Syl'anareans might be a bit like Americans - important, but nowhere near as important as they think they are. And prone to insularity.

"Syl'anar is very pro human immigration, and will incentivize that through discounts on elves, making Syl'anar the best place in the world to start a business."

I know, I'm trying to reconcile that with the apparent lack of awareness of Elven slavery in the outside world. I assume those ads play somewhere other than in-flight entertainment on Air-Sylanar blimps.

"Elves are not allowed to leave Syl'anar."

Slaves are never allowed to leave wherever they are. I thought the issue was Elves having nowhere to seek asylum.

Anyway, now that I know that's actually Canon, not just unreliable character perspectives, my questions are answered. If they're that militarily potent and central to the world economy, they definitely have the clout to pressure for the return of escapees.

Phoenix2 years ago (3 edits)

Seems the aspect you are confused about is slavery, aka the overarching plot of the game.
Elves are kept on Syl'anar because if they are introduced elsewhere they can escape, breed, and rebuild their society as free people. This has been mentioned many times in game.
As also highlighted in game, Trenero's project which had him export a bunch of elves to The Capitol (on another continent), elves escaped and intended to do exactly as mentioned.
The humans had them neutered though, horrifying as that is.

There is no one to offer literally millions of elves asylum, because the only other people out there are humans, who enslaved them in the first place.
There is one other type of people out there though, which if you've played the game you know exactly who and why they stay away.

The MC - aka you - grew up near The Capitol, which as mentioned yet again, has no elves. Hence slavery being such a foreign concept to them (you) as you go through the game. That's brought up even more often.

deleroi122 years ago

This was an issue of trying to reconcile some of those details that seemed to contradict one another, and being unsure how reliable various characters' statements about the world were supposed to be. The developer's response clarified them to my satisfaction.

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