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Unrelated, but due to the news of Digimon Seekers, I realized the Data Shard reminds me of the Prototype Digicore Interface that Dorumon, Ryudamon, and the newly-revealed Loogamon have, giving me a new idea out of this.
This idea just represents users that have went to archive the remains of Fer.al so I thought of it like this:
Some prototype creatures created by a mysterious group who wanted to preserve the remaining data from a world that fell under a dark corruption of sorts that have destroyed said place. These beings that once lived in that world were almost wiped out if it weren’t for the mysterious group’s effort to save their remaining data from a full-on deletion. A few of them survived from the corruption within the other world but unfortunately became mutated and evil.
The survived but unfortunately corrupted ones are suppose to be (or at least represent) the Faes, Imps, and Minotaurs as they’re the only Sparks that were kept for Cinder.
here's the images i got the lore from! idk the actual source bc i found it on the fer ever discord so. yeah. there was one more image but it was basically All Crypto Shit so. begone with that.
woah thank you!!
Oh so that explains why the designers made the kobolds of fer.al look more like werewolves than something reptilian looking. Especially the fact some of the developers had inspiration from various Japanese media such as the Shinigami's hint references Ryuk from Death Note.
This is a question that’s been bothering me, and after looking into it I think I get it
So kobolds first appear in Germanic folklore as domestic spirits. Kobolds are also considered mine spirits, causing cave-ins and tapping on things in the dark to scare miners
Think the elves from The Elves and the Shoemaker, but bastards
This association with mines and caves and bastardy gets them into the world of tabletop RPGs when Gary Gygax adds them to his fantasy supplement of Chainmail. Kobolds are later added to Dungeons & Dragons as a subterranean race of monsters
Here’s the important thing: due to a throwaway line in the rulebooks about the kobolds having doglike voices, the first artist to depict a D&D kobold gave it a dog nose
This is the beginning point in the divergent evolution
Kobolds in western TTRPG will notoriously become more and more reptilian with each generation, leaning on the interpretation of “chihuahua dragons,” but it’s at this time, heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, that the video game series Wizardry begins
They brought the dog kobolds with them
Wizardry becomes extremely popular in Japan, inspiring JRPG series like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as well as manga series like Dungeon Meshi. And while in the west the kobold has become increasingly reptilian with each edition, the Japanese kobold has become increasingly canine
And this is why in the greater fantasy genre, kobolds represent everything from
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This reminded me that I had a dark theory if the Spark is the lifeforce of a creature and if it gets badly damaged, they'll start to cease function and die. Thankfully, Planet Feral's core has this said energy that attracts Sparks to the planet can revive and reincarnated them into a new form from using the planet core's energy so they can live a new life.
I didn't know there was canonical explanation if they managed to survive with a cracked Spark.
“valiance of sparks damage and disability”
WAIT is this really something that can happen to us if we go to battle?!
I just remembered this post and I realized this also applies the same to Crystallis, the Wishing Tokens, the playable Unicorns and their pet counterparts, and the upcoming Dragons suggest Animal Jam: Play Wild! had to also absorb some of the "DNA" of Fer.al in order for the whole "playing as a mythical creature" concept to live on.
now that izzyzzz mentioned it… i think feral was doomed from the start. they built it with a million very awesome bells and whistles but no real core gameplay. every game that’s popular has some sort of core feature that, even with everything else stripped away, makes it fun to play. minecraft has building and exploring in an infinite world, fornite has robust pvp, pokemon has battling and catching pokemon.
feral didn’t have anything like that. the main “gameplay” i guess was exploring and collecting items and ingredients, which isnt as fun when you’ve explored the whole map to the point of memorizing every location and decorated your available avatars and sanctuary. and i feel like this is something that shouldve been addressed before anyone ever touched a keyboard to start working on the game. it’s something the character customization and item collection should’ve been built on top of, not as a substitute for.
art comms for someone on discord in exchange for animal jam items! ( first image was cropped weirdly, click on it to see the whole thing )
doing pelt ych commissions like this! front or back individually are $15 usd or you could get both for $25. +$5 for complex designs. any species, infinite lineart changes. paypal only. payment is upfront. i also have regular commissions open if you would prefer those! second image is a completed one of my own character
revenge on casseroledemon!
Im even worse than last time but its okay guys an emo can fix me 🤭🤙🏼
