Dragonlords and Star Captains just chilling

Hello, I'm Cyraen! A 20-something Artix Entertainment fan who's been playing their games since as far back as 2008.

I've played every single one of their mainline games so you can definitely expect me to join in conversations for any, but most of all, I love Mechquest and the Reset, and Dragonfable (if you ask me anything about the Reset, expect me to get very excited to talk about it)

Artix Entertainment has majorly impacted my childhood growing up and has led me to become a student in Game Design in the hopes of being able to express stories and bring the same sort of joy and fun to people that they brought me growing up

I'm a passionate OC maker who has made many many OCs, although my beloved will always be the Varsen siblings, Thallen and Aleena, who I use in every mainline AE games. Ask me about any of them and I'd gladly answer. And PLEASE share your OCs with me I'm so happy to see the creativity of other people and their characters

I unfortunately don't have artistic skills in the form of drawing like many of you amazing people here on Tumblr, but I still try to show my love to these games that shaped my childhood in any way I can, such as :

My many OCs

My OC character sheets

In a week and a half from now, I'll officially be graduated from my game design school, after 5 years. It's still hard for me to realise that my time at this place is about to end. But I'm also eager for my future as a game designer. And in part, I am so very very grateful to Artix Entertainment, for setting me on this path.

I've always had a love for storytelling, but it's playing Artix Entertainment games since I was a child that really grew that spark in me. I still remember the first time I saw a dragonoid emerge from the crystal asteroid in Mechquest, seeing the Reset happen and realize the connection between two games as I booted up Dragonfable with more understanding of its world.

I remember fighting against Drakath besides my baby dragon in DF, and seeing him reappear in AQW and being so eager to face him again. I remember going to space aboard the LSS Alteon in AdventureQuest. I remember listening in awe as Iadoa talked about how each game's universe related to each other. I remember all the emotions lil kid me felt and lived on Lore.

And most of all, I remember loving their worlds. Loving that a group of people went and loved writing stories so much that they brought these creations to us. And most of all, I loved how human they felt. Most other games I didn't know anything about its development team, just faceless names.

But here, I loved seeing the devs being people. I remember when I discovered AdventureCouch on the Artix Youtube channel as a kid, seeing Artix being his usual goofy self as he talked about making games, and recognising myself in this energetic, chaotic, unserious and deeply creative demeanour, and feeling inspired, feeling seen. Feeling like a kid like me could grow up into a creative adult without losing that spark of silliness I cherished.

And it was feeling all of this, and wanting to be like them, wanting to inspire that same joy, to create these worlds that people could visit and explore and love being in, that made me decide to pursue the career path of a game designer.

And now, a dozen years later. I'm about to finally become one. Officially. And I'm seeing that these creative works are still loved, still bring so much warmth and joy into the world. And I'm grateful, for Artix Entertainment, for everyone involved in making all of these games, for bringing joy into my childhood and adulthood and guiding me along my future path.

I like thinking of how Soluna City works and how it would celebrate the various holidays, so what about Pride?

Well, welcome to the Prismatic Constellation Festival (name pending), a month long festival in which Soluna City celebrates identity and uniqueness.

As spacefaring explorers, Loreonians have explored and connected with many species across a wide array of planets, and led a particularly social group of them to a realisation. The galaxy is a beautiful place, built of as many unique people as they are stars. A prismatic constellation of self-expression, as they began calling it.

So once a year, they celebrate this with a colorful festival to self-expression and identity.

This is the third time there is an "out of bounds" location in the Flames From The Beyond saga. At first I thought it was just that Cylisse was leaning even more in the Merge stuff (because I mean it's such an amazing bit of worldbuilding and she's used it so well) but I'm realizing, all of these happen around the Yew Mountain Chain specifically

We learned this week that the Starship Carcossa had the goal of crossing the event horizon and reaching the center of the universe. And possibly it succeeded in that goal before the timeline merge. And we're told Forge Citrinitas hides us from the Law's reality altering

(AQW spoiler under the cut)