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Thank you so much for all your thoughts and feelings about the game!! It really means a lot! I'm so glad the characters had an impact.
Some extra lore tidbits that weren't in the game!
- Confirming now that Firth and Lutia both sailed on Silas's father's pirate ship. Firth had been working under the cruel but strong captain for a long time, and Lutia joined later paying them in jewels to take her on a voyage. Lutia seduced the captain to take on the curse of the bone knife so that she could get access to the sacred pearl, then later ran away with her true love, Firth.
- Both the pearl and the bone knife came from the body of the ancient god Nymphaea was trying to resurrect. The pearl was actually its solidified tear. Both were stolen by the royal family that initially came to slaughter the god.
- After Lutia disappeared, sometimes Nymphaea would sometimes let Firth get a glimpse of Nymphaea on shore. Because they had similar faces due to being twins, it ended up driving Firth insane a little bit.
- Silas had originally set off with his brother to find a cure for the curse. At a nearby island town his brother fully changed into a monster and had to be put down by the townsfolk. Silas stole a boat to escape, but unable to effectively sail it on his own, ended up shipwrecked where Cordelia then found him.
- A lot of the merfolk and humans in the area have remnants of the blood of the ancient god within them. The merfolk especially have a connection to its ancient rage and pain, and as it started to awaken, it began sickening them and changing them into extensions of its flesh (vaila)
- Achaeus's family used to be close to the royal family before Nymphaea's reign.