PYRAMID_HEAD'S PROFILE

Loaded. It's like a top down Doom where you play as one of 6 deranged criminals, Shining Force 3, I think there's a version of Sonic 3D on the saturn.

Working on some minor changes to my current project before I threaten politely ask a friend to beta test it. Working on the message box for now and having trouble deciding between these two. I'm leaning more towards the right one as it gives more room for text. But it does mean that I'll have to rework the entire script to accommodate three lines of text.

author=EtherPenguin
You could also make up an ancient scholar in your world that the schools become named after sort of like Lyceum.

That's a very good idea. And I already have a slew prominent figures in the history of the in game world so I've already got something to work with.

author=orange-
Pyramid_HeadMaybe create a new term for the villain? Gives more freedom. When you use already existing concept, people got expectations. I always prefer completely original lore if possible.

Taking that into consideration, and spending most of yesterday researching words I came up with the title Dematurge. Which is a portmanteau of demon, and thaumaturge, which is an archaic word for a wizard.

I'm having a little trouble with terminology for my current project. The main villain, Xangorath, is labelled as a necromancer. A necromancer being a magic user, normally a living person who conducts magic on the dead. But Xangorath himself is a splinter of a greater evil whom died some thousands of years before who possesses living people, erasing who they were but retaining the hosts memories, essentially making him also a lich, a lich being an undead magic user. So I'm torn between keeping Xangorath's title as necromancer, changing his title to lich, or creating a new word that could potentially mean 'a demon who possesses the living, and also has control over the dead, or undead'.

And while we're on the subject of terminology I was thinking of using the word Scholary as a place of learning instead of school. As with school is invokes the word Scholar, but part of me thinks the word is too stupid sounding and sounds too close to a scullery.

But I think I've gotten in way over my head as what initially started as a small 2 to 3 hour game to test if I can write dark fantasy or not has instead turned into a full blown project with a world I want to create, something that's actually populated and has it's own religions, politics, and struggles rather than just a map that serves as a backdrop for the heroes to travel from town to dungeon to town to dungeon.

In terms of difficulty, Sekiro is more brutal. But that's down to the lack of a corpse run, no stat levelling, and a total shift in combat. I like to consider myself competent at the souls games, so fortunately I've not rage quit yet.