#ough......

okay these are all of my rambling thoughts,,, i think,,, will scream more if i think of anything else lol

first of all this place is fucking GORGEOUS ohmygod!!! i think i'm actually enjoying it more than the elderwoods which is saying something because i love glowy bullshit,,, but this area is just SO GOOD!!! the design!!! the ambience!! the music!! the balance of the creatures and gatherables!!!! it's so good :') good job devs :")))))

speaking of the design: wowowowow they really nailed the somber aspect!! the grand crumbling ruins,, everything encased,,, the sheer size of the area,, ouuuggghhhhhhhh good job devs

I FUCKING KNEW IT I CALLED IT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING I KNEW TAYLIN WAS THE BEAST YAAAAYYYYYYYYY and i'm SO happy we finally get to meet her!!!! i remember having this crack idea when the elderwood was first released that maybe ulfe was secretly hassian's half brother and like. I Wasn't Completely Wrong

im SO excited for them though :') they all get their family back :') OHMYFUCKINGGOD ive been waiting for this for so long :') and taylin ohmygod,,, she's everything i thought she would be :') i loved her before i even met her and now we can actually get to know her im gonna :''''))))))) OUGHHHHH

okayokayokay i will move on,,,,, eshelon,,,, i still don't think he's evil tbh! he's obviously hiding something but from how suspicious they're trying to make him, just from like a narrative perspective i think he's still a red herring (just like tamala was at first). like they're really making it clear that he's hiding something and that no one trusts him which like,, yeah no shit but yknow what i mean? i just don't think he's Evil. hiding something yes. using us for his own goals probably. responsible for the staff going missing maaaybbbbeeeee. but Evil? capital E Evil? no,,, something else is afoot AND I WILL FIGURE IT OUT

or perhaps they made him look really suspicious knowing that it would lure people into a false sense of security based on the assumption that he is a red herring and he actually is evil,,,,, my mind is like that one scene from live action scooby doo unless you want me to go the castle and that's why you're telling me not to and you knew i would want to so i shouldn't but i should so i'm going to go but i'm actually not.

controlling the horse is Awkward... i wish the movement was more like the character movement.. but i DO like them i think i will actually start caring about the animal husbandry now... horsies.....

the balance of the animals is SO GOOD THIS TIME!!!!

OUGH honestly i have so many thoughts but they're all being squashed down by my mind screaming TAYLINTAYLINSHE'SBACKSHE'SALIVEWEWERERIGHTALLALONGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH