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Thank you so much! I'm still working on the game at the moment but I hope to have everything ready by next year. Do follow my Tumblr if you want updates.

Dena is going to be an RO in the full game 😊 But for the current demo, Dena's romance route isn't implemented as yet.

It was not Queen Flora's first time. She's has casual lovers before. To hold something like that against a character seems rather superficial. Everyone has a past and Elora wasn't going to wait around for the MC who she only met a few months before the game started. There is NOTHING romantic between Zikar and Elora so no need to stress 😅 

Thank you for your long comment and for your feedback! Im so happy you enjoyed the game, even in its draft, unfinished state 😊 Combat scenes are possibly the hardest thing for me to write since I just don't like them and there's only so many ways to describe a fight without wanting to hide under a rock somewhere 😅

I'm working on getting better at them but it's something that will be refined during edits so for now, the scenes aren't going to be fleshed out.

There won't be children or weddings in the full game - that's not the scope of the game but expect DLCs on the wedding and children for each romance route.

Try unlocking your divinity if you really want some cool, glowing eyes 👀

Thank you again for playing! 💖

Thank you! 🥰

Danzor was an Ishari warrior and he knew Salyra as children - plus they had a relationship before Salyra met Ahlf. The circumstances surrounding Ahlf and Salyra's love story is questionsble at best but I wont spoil anything since it comes up in later chapters depending on your choices 😉

Salyra is a complicated character with narcissistic tendencies so you're never going to get that satisfying comeback in the early chapters of meeting her. She's not someone who will sit idly by and take criticism but is very good at dishing it out. You're not going to get the closure you might want with her route - she is a bad/ggood mother depending on your playthrough 😅

That's the main character wearing a hooded cloak, so it's not necessarily a woman 😋 The cover was designed by an artist for the game's official cover.

Thank you! I trued to make the character as gender-neutral as possible so that all players could imagine that the character on the cover is them. It's supposed to represent the end war scenes of the game's conclusion 😊

The $5 tier gives you early access to new scenes of the demo when they're available, one NPC side story and one RO side story, as well as sneak peeks and the ability to vote in polls on decisions for the game.

1. Yes, all rewards/benefits are automatically retroactive on Patreon. If you join, you get access to everything from the very first thing that was posted for the tier you join.

2. Early access means you get access to the demo when it's available. Because you're not only paying for the demo - sometimes there won't be updates in a month due to the size and time it takes to write and code the demo, you'll only get access to the side stories and sneak peeks. I'm a writer, not an artist, so this isn't a commission type of benefit, it's an early access to the demo when it is available to play. Because the demo isn't going to be shared with the public until its final release on Steam, early access in this case means you're getting to play the game's scenes in development up until the epilogue.

Hope this answers you! 😊

I'm glad you found it 😅 That's why you should add it to your itch.io library so you don't lose it.

Thank you so much and I'm so happy to know you enjoyed what's available to play 😊💖 I'm glad you were able to relate to the strained family dynamics! It's something that comes out throughout the game. Thanks again for playing!

Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it 😊

Thank you! You'll be able to go up to Chapter 8 in the public demo. I'm glad you're enjoying what's available so far! 😊💖

Ah thank you for playing! Dena's name remains the same regardless of gender so no need for spoilers 😋 The public demo only goes up to Chapter 8 and the current Patreon demo is on the beginning of Chapter 10. There will be a download link when the full game is released on Steam. Thank you for playing and for your support!

Since the main game ends after the conclusion of the plot, there wouldn't really be a look towards what happens after so I thought a wedding DLC would be nice to have 😊

You don't have to relate to her. You can choose to hate her instead 😆

If you're familiar with narcissistic mothers, it'll explain why she does what she does 😅

This is a fantasy game based off of ancient civilizations so unfortunately there aren't such things as social workers or welfare checks, I'm afraid 😅

Thank you for playing! I'm so happy that Irus has you enamoured 😊 I do hope you give the other ROs a try too while you wait for more Irus scenes 😆

Hi, thank you so much for playing ❤  Unfortunately, there will be no update for the public demo. The game will only available once it's completed. My Patreon continues to receive new chapters but these are still not the edited version which will (eventually) be available on Steam.

Salyra's responses are who she is as a character. Adding more affection or love removes that part of her character and will be a completely different story. I didn't set out to write a happy family with lots of love and emotional maturity so I'm afraid, she won't change very much. Some people just don't change in real life and that's true for Salyra.

None of the parental figures are going to change - especially when they're not parents of the year 😅 If you've hoped for an emotionally distant/emotionally constipated parent to be more loving, you'll know it doesn't just happen (it sometimes rarely happens).

Thank you for playing and I hope you understand!

It's up to you as a player to decide 😋 You can create two different playthroughs to see whether the forgiveness path is worth playing.

Unfortunately you can't start a family in the game, it's not part of the scope of the plot but there will be separate DLCs for marriage and children 😊

She received Ahlf's letters which told her the MC is fine and better off in Cyre. She also couldn't up and leave Ishari while Erlan was alive because he would have likely killed her for plot reasons that will be revealed in Part 4 😋 Still, you're free to feel upset about her lack of visits etc. She's by no means a perfect mother.

Unfortunately, we're about 1-2 years from it's full completion 😅 Chapter 9 is available to play on my Patreon, but there's still three more chapters and an epilogue to go and the average word count per chapter has been steadily increasing the closer to the end of the game so expect a bit of a wait.

Thank you so much for playing the game! 😊 And your English is fine, so don't worry about it.

I'm really glad you're enjoying the main gang so far! I tried to make them as different from each other as I could without making them too cliché with their roles so it means a lot that you're enjoying them. Anu mostly hates Irus, so she has no issue with becoming friends with the MC – especially after learning that tge MC is Salyra's child.

There's a separate Patreon side story that explains everything between Ahlf and Salyra's relationship. There's one on how they met, one on how they got together and even a few on them raising the MC. Their story isn't really explored in the game because like the MC, players will be left trying to find answers to something no one wants to answer.

All ROs (including Dena) will have steamy scenes. Oren is a slowburn romance – it takes him a while before he feels comfortable enough to want a relationship with the MC and once you get his lock-in point (Chapter 10), expect some steamy scenes 😋

Thank you again for your support! 💖

You might find the MC will have some experience (not the bedding kind but definitely young love kind) once the prologue is expanded and Dena's route gets a fully fleshed-out romance 😚 Thank you again for your support! I do make sure to take breaks on the weekends so (touch wood), there's been no burn-out so far.

Thank you so much for playing and I'm so happy you're enjoying Ellie 😊💖

It means a lot that you enjoyed the steamy scenes! I'm no stranger to writing them in novels but interactive fiction is a bit different 😅 I'm hoping to expand the steamy scenes in the full game for extra interactions so hopefully they'll be even better when it's done. I hate slowburn romances – they're fine when done well but gosh, I just want to smooch an RO before the end of the game so I knew I wasn't going to leave the smut/romance for too late.

It really makes me so pleased that you're enjoying the characters and their flaws! I love tragic characters and I really enjoy complicated family dynamics, so it was fun to include them in the game and especially explore the relationships with the MC and all the weight they have to carry because of everything that's happened to them.

Please do give a flirty MC a try! Ellie tends to blush a bit around a bolder MC 😋 I'm glad you liked the shy flirt options though 💖

Thank you again for playing! There's so much still to be added and expanded for the main game but I'll soon be working on Chapter 10 so only 3 more chapters and an epilogue left to go before edits 🎉

Thank you for playing and I'm glad you're enjoying it so far 😊 

The stats don't play a huge role on the game. In hindsight, if I could go back, I'd have removed them entirely 😅 This is still a very rough draft so expect the variations to be polished and added once I start with edits of the full game. That's when the stats will offer better variations.

Goose pimples is what I use - it's a synonym for goosebumps. It's more a UK-English style of saying it (I write in UK-English) and I also hate how modern/urban-fiction goosebumps sounds which clashes with the high fantasy vibe of the game 😆

A lot are scenes I never had time to add during the rough draft, so there'll be additional scenes (like exploring the Southern Islands in chapter 8), extended dialogue scenes and additional choices implemented. In the rough draft, you'll always succeed in gaining Dena's support but the final version will have a failure outcome so you'll get Dena's limited support which will have consequences on the end game states 😊

I'm so happy you're enjoying it! It means a lot that you're willing to buy the full game especially since this is still a very rough draft with missing content that'll be added in the complete version. You'll probably hate Salyra more further into the chapters 👀

No problem! I'm glad you feel so strongly about the characters 💖 Thank you again for playing 😊

Hi there, thanks for playing the game and leaving a comment 😊

Salyra's whole purpose is to serve the Ancient Ones - but that doesn't make her infallible. She makes mistakes but it's also hard for her to own those mistakes and admit that she can be wrong. It's up to you to decide if the message/vision she received from the Ancient Ones was one that couldn't be changed or one that was caused by her meddling in the betrothal of Lamahu and Erlan.

Salyra married Ahlf because she thought her union with him would inspire peace between Ishari and Cyre - if you go down the divinity route and uncover the truth of Salyra's ritual when the MC was a baby, you'll learn that she thought having a child with both heritages who could wield their divinity would achieve peace. Don't lose sight of the fact Ishari was part of Cyre before the war - a lot of people on either side if the kingdoms like to ignore that fact, but Cyre and Ishari were one kingdom often ruled by Ishari royalty before Erlan started the war. Salyra didn't see an issue of being with Ahlf because she thought people would be reminded of this unified past and try to work together.

Salyra doesn't like Irus because he's the son of Erlan. She loves Anu, because Anu was trained under her regarding her divinity. She really hates Elora because Elora has proven to be capable and strong, openly defying Salyra which Salyra doesn't like.

In order to understand Salyra's character (I'm assuming you're going down the aggressive route with her), you'll need to understand she's a very flawed character. She is written to be narcissistic and controlling and if you're not going to appease her, you'll end up getting a lot of her more negative traits flaring up 😅

A lot of the confusion you have is valid - but that's the point. You have to come up with your own reasonings why Ahlf and Salyra acted the way they did and then decide if that's something your MC is okay with or not. You don't have to play a loving child - you won't be punished for hating the parents and it won't affect the outcome of the game other than your relationship with them.  There are quite a few side stories on my Patreon that explore the past history of Salyra and Ahlf, but it's not part of the main plot which follows the MC's decisions and not Ahlf or Salyra's decisions.

I hope this helps clear up some your points 🌼

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed playing through the demo 💖 Progress is still going strong on the newer chapters so hopefully it won't be too long for the full game 😊

Which Sovereign are you referring to? And running off to where? You're going to end up in Ishari no matter what you choose to do.

Aww thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying the game 💖🥰 There's no need to buy the game on both platforms, one is more than enough! Thank you again 🌼

Thank you so much for giving the game a try and I'm so pleased that you were able to play the game for that long without getting bored 🌼💖

It means a lot that the characters feel human! I was worried that some might come off as two-dimensional or not interesting enough so it's a huge relief that you felt otherwise. I hope you enjoy your second playthrough as much as your first 😊

Thank you for taking the time to play the game 😊 Yes, I do know there's not a lot of 'aggressive' choices and I hope to add more variations to scenes when I do the full edits with additional scenes and dialogues. For now, this is a rough draft so you won't get to see everything. I'll keep your feedback in mind for the edits 🌼

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say and I'm so happy you're enjoying it 🌼💖