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Don't go through it PC. Don't. You will end up [SPOILERS] , then [DATA EXPUNGED], not to mention the entire [MENTION OMMITTED] fiasco, and then in the end it will be all for [REDACTED].

yeah like that one time where a stasified gobbal embrysoul pushed you off at the-

Sorry, I meant when that wodent...

yes, that.

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So it begins...

youtube link to the cinematic

Until someone collected all the Dofus and plunged the world into chaos, OGREST

"and the gods completely powerless"

This part no longer appears in the newer versions of the intro, but it is important to me. (I could only find the older parts in Spanish, so 9 year old footage be upon ye.)

It must be emphazised how absent the gods are in the Wakfu era. The gods' presence was much more felt in Dofus; from the start of the game the gods' footprints are all over it. The tutorial area's landscape is shaped by them, and in Astrub you are greeted by their statues.

Wakfu has none of that.

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We are left alone to face the apocalypse.

It seems, you (the player character) had tried to face good ol' Ogrest before. It didn't work out, and you and your party members perish and their souls leave to start the whole process of excarnation and incarnation all over again.

The visual of a party of heroes taking on the big bad only to be promptly defeated, and the player character being canonically one of those souls has always been very cool to me. As well as the entire concept of reincarnating and starting out in what is basically heaven.

Always keep in mind that Wakfu takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, and that it was caused by a crying super-powered ogre.

Interesting to note that in this spacial shot, the World of Twelve seems to have a bigger landmass more akin to the Dofus era world. We later get confirmation that the player character's soul's fought Ogrest a few hundred years ago, so this battle likely took place when shit was just starting to go down.

When a soul dies in this world, they will eventually re-incarnate in a place called called Incarnam.

Incarnam rests atop a slumbering dragon, which can be also seen in both the old wakfu incarnam map and in the incarnam from the dofus era.

As I went to fetch these images, it dawned on me that I never looked at these two maps side by side. The dragon itself has sligthly shifted. Areas that where in the dofus era are no longer there, but you can still see the shape of them. The wakfu Incarnam map mirrors the dofus one almost wistfully. It all feels more uncertain, lonely.

All the marks and legends that the gods left during the dofus era are gone. While you could see the images of various gods among the stars, now only the lone image of god Iop graces the sky of the Wakfu era Incarnam. (Frankly, it is quite interesting that only god Iop appears in the sky; maybe he is there because unlike the rest of the gods, a vestige of God Iop is still physically present in the World of Twelve in the form of Tristepin and / or Goultard?)

After we wander around Rii, having completed the environment and battle tutorials, all that is left is to meet with Grougalo

Grouglaoran

Grouglaorang

Grougaloragran

I like how him going up into the air and doing the breath attack references the series. I guess that's his go-to You've pissed me off move.

"I wonder if we'll ever meet again..."

Looks directly into the camera

no not really

Throughout all of this you may have noticed that our character is capable of speech, and thought (somewhat).

Indeed, Player Character is far from a silent protagonist. Wakfu's Player Character inherits the tendency to yap from its Dofus predecesor. That, combined with the fact that Wakfu gives your character plenty of little animations to play in cutscenes, you get quite an animated little guy.

Just like a guinea pig, PC has their own little personality.

All of this results in an unholy mix between a blank slate for the player but also a unique character independent from you.

You may think "I wouldn't say this"

But you know who would?

Once again, we establish that Otomai has a link with the Eliatropes.

When I had first played through this tutorial I found Grougaloragran's presence a bit puzzling here, but honestly it makes a lot of sense.

Of course he would be concerned with large amounts of sudden wakfu after encountering a certain Xelor.

It is actually interesting how much focus Grouga places on Wakfu energy throughout the Wakfu series. When the Brotherhood first arrived to the Island, the main conflict was him being hostile because of Rubilax's sushu presence. In his battle against Nox, he says he can feel some remaining good in him. He is rather in tune with the presence of Wakfu and Stasis.

It makes sense he'd be disturbed by our player character's raw amount of swag wakfu energy

I've always thought that meeting Otomai in the Wakfu tutorial was a very cool idea. It just... made sense, narratively, to have the guy that created Ogrest introduce you to this ravaged world. (Daily reminder that Wakfu is a post-apocalyptic setting)

He was also in the previous iteration of the tutorial, and some of his dialogue from back then still remains here!

Guys. Guys. The dialogue has several options... we are going to be reading dialogue... (twirls hair)

It is here that I reveal that yes. duh. we are going through all the dialogue stuff in this liveblog. duh.

reply to question Could you tell me about Wakfu and Stasis?

Write this down guys

I'd like you to share with me what you know about the World of Twelve

it never occurred to me until now that even though the Player Character just started to exist, they do hold awareness that they are from the World of Twelve.

Does incarnate existance by default give you some basic knowledge of stuff?

Do you know who I am?

Haven't we me somewhere before?

and I saved the best one for last

hmmm...

"Unlike the lucky ones who are born from their mother's womb, you'll always remember your painful coming into being"

^^^^^^ is what it WOULD have said if we were playing the old tutorial.

(source of quote, from old tutorial quest "Hunting Olavrann the External")

Alas, as it is right now, the current Incarnam segment tutorial quests are simply titled TUTO 1 and so on for the sake of simplicity since they teach you the most basic controls. Though they may be gone, the Incarnam quest lore blurbs live on in my head forever.

Anyways, welcome to Incarnam. Remember: you weren't born out of a womb. This has always stuck with me for some reason.

You know. That's an oddly familiar looking door. (This will make sense fifty quests from now on)

She's not even one minute old and already trying to beat something up. Menace.

This Incarnam is much shorter than the previous tutorial, but damn is it pretty. Notice how one side is blue (representing wakfu) and the other purple (stasis).

Hmmmmm...