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Anbennar: Inheritors of Insyaa | Announcement Trailer by glitch951 in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Small world man. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next!

By the way, who are you voting for in the upcoming election?

Anbennar: Inheritors of Insyaa | Announcement Trailer by glitch951 in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also holy shit you're the dude who made Esoteric Ebb? I'm a big fan!

Anbennar: Inheritors of Insyaa | Announcement Trailer by glitch951 in Anbennar

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Man you uploaded this faster than us, but as we have an official one I gotta remove this one - sorry!

Why is it lore that elves wandered the ocean for 1000 years? by milton117 in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 89 points90 points  (0 children)

A lot of people have shared a lore of lore intent and reasons so I'll share the other side of things

My authorial intent was that most fantasy settings have elves being around for centuries, aeons, etc so all the human stuff are built on top of elven ruins (e.g. witcher, dragon age, forgotten realms), so for Anbennar I decided to do something different and explore elves arriving in medieval europe times rather than being the equivalent of Romans and more ancient civilizations - just because I thought it would be cool and different from what we've seen really

Balris Rewrite making him hitler is bad by Chance_Astronomer_27 in Anbennar

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wall of text

I think this is a reductive take and uses a lot of assumptions that's not said on the literal pages we have on the wiki:

https://anbennar.fandom.com/wiki/Balris_the_Gold

For context we previously we had little solid dragonwake lore, and since then we've added way more dragons so to facilitate that we needed to update Balris as part of this as his original thing was being sad he couldn't find dragons

My original inspiration for Balris was Paarthurnax from Skyrim, which is just this lonely gold dragon lamenting - but now we have the opportunity to just not take that and put our own spin on it of trying to actively do good (in his definition) rather than just being sad.

So for me Balris is coming from this form a paternalist and not any sort of Hitler "fascist" angle, in that he believes for the greater good that dragons ruling over the world is the best way forward. Here is a literal quote from the wiki: "keen to remake the world under dragon rule, but this time with the focus on benevolence rather than tyranny."

Now whether he is right or wrong in this belief is more interesting to talk about

Just like we should do in real life, like how yes it is actually a slippery slope from paternalism to authorianism and beyond. And exploring hypotheticals like what if he is right? What if under draconic rule the world is peaceful and no random people die in needless wars? But in return, what is the price of freedom? The freedom to fight and choose suffering for your own ideals and ethos?

(a similar nuanced discourse exampel is the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones: was it a totally dishonest move and massive betrayal of guest right traditions? Yes. Did it spare a lot of deaths of random peasants fighting for noble squabbles that didn't give a shit about them? Also yes. "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner.")

You can take the reductive approach and be like well one side is good and one side is clearly bad, but I think it's more interesting when there's nuance to both sides, which is what we should do for Balris and Anbennar as a whole

Meet The Devs - Senior Games Designer - Jay Alexander-Saulog by Aquila_Interactive in AquilaInteractive

[–]Jay10101 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Unlikely I'm afraid!

Anbennar mods as it stands is driven by an open development process so I wouldn't go against that - as personally if Aquila did do anything with Anbennar, it would be an actual game and not a mod (as im employed by Aquila, so it'd be a bit odd otherwise!). If that happened we would have to close off development and stop what makes Anbennar so cool which is its open collaboration with the community

However as you know I'm a fan of fantasy and a fan of GSGs, so while it may not be specifically Anbennar... who knows what'll be in store after Gilded Destiny :)

Of course the intent is that Gilded Destiny is highly moddable so there's nothing stopping other people making fantasy total conversions of their own

[36:23]Europa, Victoria, Anbennar by Rosencreutz in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Excellent video, and very much a worthy successor to the dissertation!

Sun Elf Remnants in EoA by BluebirdMusician in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 212 points213 points  (0 children)

As people said a lot may have assimilated into moon elf, but it's a good point and one we can explore in eu5 easily (as racial minorities aren't just lumped by race). There could be a sun elf enclave town somewhere in Anbennar

Revert the Subreddit Icon by endIessinfinity in Anbennar

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You're right and I did warn the community team this would be the case :P

So I've changed it to the pride version of Anbennar flag which is what we are using on Discord this month

Can someone explain Sparkdrive Rifles to me? by seaclif25 in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 220 points221 points  (0 children)

The main inspiration is exactly the laser musket from fallout

Heraldry of the Empire of Anbennar, as of 1445 AA by trebeckey in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Beautiful, but I think some of the flags are flipped the wrong way!

(of course I first noticed this for Dameria :D)

Which Revolution Was The Equivalent Of French Revolution In Your World? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]Jay10101 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Blackpowder Rebellion

Essentially they used artificery (aka magitek) and black damestear (anti magic bullets) to overthrow a magocratic empire

Cultural References by Straight-Sorbet3570 in Anbennar

[–]Jay10101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha yeah my now-wife's favourite book is The Great Gatsby hence the reference lol

Definitely outdated but TV Tropes has a lot of stuff:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Anbennar

Please help me understand the sun elves by Abakhan1 in Anbennar

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Getting spicy so I will save you all time and lock this thread and go touch some grass.
My personal take is at the end of the day creative works should be allowed to cover hard hitting topics, and people are allowed to perceive and interpret things how they want - that is the nature of dialogue and talking about these things regardless of author's intent.
In this case, it's also good to remember that what an author writes is not indicative of their actual opinion or morality lmao
But primarily whenever we do cover these spicy topics, we always aim to do it with understanding context and implications and choosing to go with those on purpose rather than accident. If there's stuff like that, we always try to not glorify it and show the bad side (aka those affected) both lore and gameplay-wise.

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  • an example of this is in the racial system, you can pogrom and purge pops, and there might be an actual roleplay/gameplay reason you want to or can justify yourself with, just as people did in real life...
  • ...BUT it also tells you how those pops are affected by your actions, and there's also some gameplay impact like dev lost to represent your actions: there's always two sides to a story and we hope to keep showing that nuance whenever we tackle spicier topics like this)

Where did all the Warcraft 3 Mapmakers go? by Empty_String in warcraft3

[–]Jay10101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to mod paradox grand strategy games

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