Glad you’re enjoying it!
I’ve been writing on and off for the last fifteen-ish years: mostly fantasy genre stuff like this, but also a little sci-fi and slice of life. My furry awakening was Beastars, which is probably embarrassingly obvious from the first hour or so of Anamnesis. That got me into writing Echo fanfic, and from there other FVN-adjacent stuff (my AO3 account is whaletheboar).
The things I have in mind when I’m writing are Avatar: the Last Airbender, Sanderson’s Mistborn series, and maybe some hints here and there of older stuff like Wheel of Time and Dune. People have compared this first act to the Shire scenes in Lord of the Rings, which in retrospect, yeah.
In the FVN world I’m heavily indebted to Minotaur Hotel, Pervader, and above both of those, Shelter. Anamnesis wouldn’t exist without the way Shelter makes knots critical to the plot.
Anyway, sorry for the long answer. Thanks for reading!