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I touched on Egyptian little bit when studying Levantine. It seems Egyptian and Levantine shared a couple of deities. Mesopotamian shared one deity with the Egyptians too. I'm sure there is probably more, but it has not made it to mainstream yet or lost to time unfortunately.

There was a recent study I was touching on where they found more deities in Mesopotamia. It is practically new discovery from what I can tell. Then I looked elsewhere and found another google book of another study of recent discoveries from other cultures. Surprised to learn there is still stuff coming out of Japan as one place. I should have saved the source, oh well.

The game must have a good reason to be commercialized. People will pretty much expect top quality if most of the assets were professionally made.

Rooting for you. You got one of the best looking DQ games so far on here. I remember this one huge ambitious group back in the old days that they tried to make a DQIV type game, but something happened (was it called Dragon Quest Renaissance? Been so long..can't remember). Hopefully yours won't share the same fate.

So far I got most of the greek/Norse/Mesopotamian covered. Still studying Levantine, and Japanese. If RMN is ever looking for monster ideas, and such. I'm the man to ask.

Let me tell you all studying the Deities was incredibly annoying because every local city state had their own version of the same god/goddess, and if it was outside their region that same god/goddess pretty much turns into something else entirely with hints of it's origins, but enough it can be it's own thing for it's own country. For example that a lot of things we know today from most countries came from Mesopotamian myths. I was really surprised to learn how myths overtime transformed from the basic Mesopotamian concept that would later be in Greek/Hebrew/Norse/etc, but Asian mythology does have exceptions since there seems to be some originality.

Monsters on the other hand is pretty straight forward, and I had little trouble figuring that out, but some of them are so obscure that most people wouldn't know about it unless some game/movie out there made it mainstream (example being Krampus recently). Also did you know in greek there was a two-headed snake from one end to the other? A monster I was not really aware of. They did also have a concept of Winged Serpents that guarded specific places which is odd for greek mythology.

There is one other creature I want to mention. This is a odd one from Greek that there was also Gold-digging Ants. I was surprised they had such a idea for a ant monster.

Though according to a blogger:

"Some historians have theorized that this creature didn’t actually originate with the Greeks, but was a borrowed piece of legend from the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India." (Though I don't think it should matter too much because even the monsters of myth were borrowed a lot, and had their own twist on it).

It's also good to know that the first original dragons belonging to Mesopotamia were more Lion-like with hints of serpentine qualities. The Dragons we know today came way later.

Also I found out the creatures known as Mermen were also Mesopotamian in origin, and the Mermaids came later in the Levantine Mythology, but as a singular goddess named Atargatis. All mermaid myths pretty much spawned from that one goddess. Mermen on the other hand were represented in a group-like fashion far as I can tell.

I'm a bubble tea addict. So many flavors.