#zdr

Dobra zaczynamy”

If it had happened in the first three areas, you'd only see the death of a handful of creatures living in an industrial area, which isn't really that serious, or unusual. Rodents that make their way into factories and similar places are killed all the time. But a forest? That's supposed to be sprawling with animals, and them being wiped out by a horde of parasites feels horrifying. It really conveys the idea of an entire planet facing a mass extinction event.

And sure, this could've happened before or after Ghavoran, and the forest overrun with X parasites would still be there, but you wouldn't go back to it that often if it happened after, and you'd never see it filled with life if it happened before. The way it plays out, you're forced to experience a thriving ecosystem, and are then forced to experience the aftermath of it's destruction.

...Y’know what, lemme add a fun, completely baseless headcanon, and suggest; Before ZDR developed life, an asteroid of a clear, crystalline, and indestructible substance crashed into the planet. It lodged itself into the planet’s surface, one end exposed there, the other piercing the cavern of Ghavoran. Light was refracted through the crystalline asteroid, allowing for the development of plant life in the cavern beneath the crystal, leading to the jungle of Ghavoran billions of years later.

The refraction caused the light to ‘concentrate’, creating a surplus of heat and solar energy that fed the growth of entire forests and an ecosystem, compared to the more desolate caverns of ZDR, such as Artaria- Whose ecosystem is technically unnatural, having been artificially warmed by the mechanisms in Cataris.