Apologies for the double-reply, I wasn't sure if there was a max word-count for each post.
Humans were one of the two main races in the Belharan Empire, which basically took over a massive part of the world before the Godswar. They ran an empire that took over a massive part of the world, and you think that that isn't conflict? Anyways, the Godswar literally destroyed many civilizations, including Belhar, which was functionally the United States of its time, and set technology back hundreds of years. It took a whole bunch of races and civilizations working together to fight them off. And you know what? Even after that, there are still conflicts, wars, and racism. We don't see much of those, because of our quest, but if you want just one shot of racism, look at the friction between Kitsune and non-kitsune.
I'm quite aware of Belhar and its role in The Godswar. However, what isn't clear is why there is no replacement for the Belharan Empire after hundreds of years.
Nor is it clear that there
have been much if any conflicts, wars, or racism. No evidence seems to suggest any large scale wars at least. And while it's true that some people have a problem with kitsune (I feel like it's unfair to compare the kitsune to any other race, since they're so fleshed-out) it isn't too evident that it's a pervasive problem.
After all, I can walk down Hawkethorne's main street, or walk into Khor'minos and nobody seems to raise their eyebrows when I'm hand-in-hand with my kitsune-wife.
Taldahs is still ruling, Khor'minos is ruled by a king, the Winter City was ruled by a King (Ryn and Alyssa's father) before he got killed by a wild boar, the Salamander kingdom Tychris is currently ruled by a king. Kingdoms seem to be ruled by whoever has a leadership position. It isn't decided by gender outside of a few instances, but you seem to think they're all ruled by queens just because a few of them have queens without kings, and you seem to think that patriarchies must be the norm, despite how Savarra very clearly doesn't play by Earth rules, and it often seems that women are just as strong and capable as men.
Taldahs is only ruling if you let him live and his only descendent is female. The Winter City is currently ruled by a queen. I acknowledged Khor'minos has a king, but I must have missed the part where it said that Tychris had a king. The vast majority of national/regional/tribal rulers so far encountered in the story have been female.
And I am very much aware that Savarra is not Earth, but since patriarchies are very much the norm for Earth, it wouldn't be a bad idea to explain why matriarchies are seemingly the norm in Savarrra. Or at least The Frost Marches.
Kas's world would be a fun place, and there'd be upsides, but she's decided to force her way upon everyone. Also, the negatives of lacking a soul include having your empathy lost and having your willpower wildly changed. As Farrah tells you, the loss of her Soul led to her loosing any interest or desire in anything except for merchandising and having sex. It makes people hyper-fixated on one thing that they were interested in before it was gone (alongside sex), to the exclusion of everything else.
Is Kas forcing her will upon everyone really all that much different than a king forcing his will upon his people? Where people happy when the Belharan Empire forced its will upon its subjects? What about the living gods? Is everyone okay with them?
Would the people of Savarra
really care who's holding the whip?
Kas doesn't come off as hyper-fixated on
anything. One day she's corrupting a queen, the next, she'll have a date with you, then she might sneak in somewhere, disguised. She doesn't seem too fixated on anything. Not even her goals.
She's come to deliver an apocalypse to this world and all other worlds she can find. Sure, it's a very sexy apocalypse, but I'm still fairly certain that her actions would be considered genocide, under the definition of it being a destruction of a nation or ethnicity's culture or way of life.
Yes, this is
exactly my issue. She comes to dominate, to take control of Savarra - to shape it as she sees fit. But her actions don't line up with her personality.
Romance-path Kas is too soft, too endearing, she reads like she's not fully committed to her own plans. That she's not committed to being a demon. It makes her come off as wishy-washy.
Obviously, Eryka isn't happy. Taldahs isn't happy either, he was just desperate enough to accept it. The people being terrorized by gangs of corrupted centaurs weren't happy. The citizens of Hawkethorne who were getting raped by Alraune Effigies and corrupted Hornets weren't happy. The people fighting to preserve their cultures and ways of life from a maniacal dictator would very much love to disagree with you.
Are people being terrorized? Because the citizens of Hawkethorne, The Kitsune Den, Khor'minos, etc. Don't seem to bothered about what's going on. Because you're right, there are people being raped, killed, transformed against their will - but The Frost Marches is largely reacting to it all with a collective shrug.
Context isn't needed. But if you do, there are races which are hermaphroditic. Even in reality, there are hermaphroditic species, so why is it so inconceivable to you that this fantasy world has some? Aside from that, there's alchemy and magic, both of which have been shown to grow cocks and otherwise change bodies. And if what you're wondering is why so many women have dicks that they want, this isn't Earth. Why do so many people have tails? Real humans aren't generally comfortable with tails, when they even have it. But many characters in CoC2 have tails, and they're fine. So why can't you imagine this, but with cocks?
I think it's important because they're humanoid first, extra bits second. You see, there's an established "inner-logic" within the game in regards to the sentient races: They all have humanoid features, two arms, a head, a tongue, a nose, a penis and/or vagina... even reptiloid races like the salamanders have breasts.
So as you can see, most of the races are designed to be physically attractive to us humans - which is why they consistently have these features - human features. And while it's true that not every race has wings, or tails, or claws, etc. When so many women have penises (and no men do) it comes off as horny wish-fulfillment, and nothing more.
Again, I understand that people want to write what they want to write. And I'm only bringing this up because it can be very easily explained but isn't.
Because we're fucking them. There are more average people which appear, but they might not stick out in your head, or you may just view them as attractive too. Because average is attractive too.
I would almost bet money that the people you find average other people might find attractive.
As I've said before, I'd just like a little bit of ugliness to make the beautiful art really
pop.
The only forced TF that can happen without you taking the action is if you loose to the Tanuki Witch before beating her and telling her not to tf your cock and balls. Anything else, you opt into it.
I consider any unlabeled or sudden TFs as forced TFs (see: Prologue Kas,) Because the player has no foreknowledge of it, and if they don't want the TF they need to reload or pray that there's an easy way to change it back. Meaning that it's impossible for the player to not get transformed with foreknowledge.
Why do you think that reality has to play any part with this? Catgirls are over-represented here compared to reality. Demons are over-represented here. Savarra isn't Earth. It's a separate, imaginary world. Things in this world are the way that they are because that's how they developed in the past.
Are they though? We humans
created catgirls. We created demons. They exist in the pages of books that have been written on them. By the art created by them.
Catgirls and demons are very much a part of Earth.
We know exactly how they where developed on Earth, but we cannot say the same for how they where developed on Savarra.
It is very clear what happened. Hell, there's an entire event called the Convocation of Mirrors, which 1: has massive spoilers, and 2: Talks a lot about the Godswar and what the situation was like. Even aside from that, there's ruins everywhere from the time of the Godswar, showing the ruin that it brought.
Yes. I know. Vast death and destruction.
But that doesn't resolve the questions I put foreword: Why there are so many sentient races living in close proximity. Why there are so many women with different biology.
However. A quick codex entry linking the two together could be easily done.
Take a shot for every horny catgirl. Take a shot for every demon. Take a shot for every unnamed enemy in a group fight that is generally a dick.
There are kings in the present, and near past. How many queens have we actually seen so far? Two. And one tribe of horsegirls run by a horsegirl, balanced out by the centaurs run by a guy. And a tribe of orcs where you can depose a guy and replace him with a girl. We haven't seen a massive table of rulers, only a few, and a good chunk of them are male.
"A good chunk of them are male."
Who? Name names. Name every single living male national/regional/tribal leader that we meet that doesn't get removed and replaced by a woman.
Not at all, did you actually read it at all? Ahmri has basically no administrative power. She's a pampered girl, and her big strong daddy isn't going to let her suddenly be shoved into a position of command like that.
"Her big strong daddy" can't do much if he's dead, now can he?
Kas's only abnormal trait is that she seems to be developing a romantic interest in the Champ. This is explicitly pointed out, and it seems, to me at least, to be tied to her baby desire and the Champ's soul. She wants to nurture the Champ's power so she can take his soul and use it for her experiments. Her long-term goals include having a baby, but they also include utterly obliterating the way of life of many people.
The fact that a soulless demon that lacks empathy can have romantic feelings for
anyone is massively abnormal. At least in comparison to the other demons we've been introduced so far.
The gods... Okay, you really need to play through the Convocation of Mirrors.
Anyways, where the hell are you getting this from? Your claims as to what's being done to people is made up, and while there isn't modern medicine, there's magical healing spells, as demonstrated by the White Mage class and the priests/clerics that are found in the world. Many of them have a dedicated heal button, in which they completely heal you of your wounds.
And, besides. Grimdark is about tone. You could make a grimdark story about baking cupcakes with the right tone, and this game absolutely lacks a grimdark tone. Nobody is swimming in waves of pigshit, and people are generally happy-go-lucky.
I've done the Convocation of Mirrors - which just reinforces my point about them being "real."
And sure, there are healing spells. Alchemical treatments, the like. White mages are great and all.
Oh. But there's this thing called a
black mage that can literally set you on fire with the flick of a wrist. Who can summon beings of pure chaos and fire. Who can move earth, and call down lightning on their foes.
So as much good as a white mage might do, a black mage could do as much bad.
And you're right, grim dark is about tone. Nobody seems to care that people are raped or murdered and the like in this "light-hearted" game.
You didn't debunk shit. All you said is that there's more girls with cocks than in reality. And, as you may have noted from my previous statements, Savarra isn't Earth. You don't need to explain why more girls want to have cocks than Earth women beyond saying "more Savarran women like having cocks than Earth women." I do think we need more guys with pussies though, but nobody wants to write one, and this game is ultimately fueled by what people want to write.
I did debunk exactly what I said though. Your personal feelings on the matter are irrelevant.
And you seem to be skipping over the fact that there are entire races with women randomly having penises. There is no "more Savarran women having cocks than Earth women." The Savarran people have a shared ancestry, a common history. Why not go into that history? Why not delve into it and explore it? Savarra has a potentially rich history that's begging to be tapped.
Are you telling me you're not the least bit curious?
This is what writers do. They write. They don't need people to simply hand-wave things away unnecessarily when writing can be done.
There aren't enough people to unite, and they're not close enough together. Plus, Kas's corruption turns groups against each other, making hornets rape lupines and centaurs molest mares.
As for why the followers of the Living Gods aren't stepping in, they are. Champions and soldiers are arriving in the Frost Marches after the Winter City, called by their gods to fight. The thing is, this game is set in the span of a few months. Mobilizing and transporting troops to a distant part of the world takes time.
"There aren't enough people to unite."
[Citation needed]
"Mobilizing and transporting troops to a distant part of the world takes time."
So what's stopping The Champion from using The Ways Between to quickly bring in help? Instead of chasing Kas around, why aren't we going to the major cities and at least making sure that everyone knows that things are going down in The Frost Marches?
I will say this, Pursang - this part rings kind of hollow if you havent so much so as made a submission, forget getting something in game.
Heh.
I've literally written pages of responses just to prove a point. It's bold of you to assume that I can't or won't write.
