Every so often I reread the lore news posts, and now I feel I have to state how much I enjoy them. I know next to nothing about D&D, and my knowledge of these types of fantasy worlds (meaning based on the classic races like dwarves, elves, halflings, and orcs in addition to humans) is pretty much restricted to Tolkien’s legendarium (and The Elder Scrolls to a far lesser extent), so maybe that’s part of the reason why, but to me the world you are building with Solasta is a pleasant, fresh take on things.
Making the humans the outsiders, coming from another world; gods that are not linked to the creation of that particular world; having such water-affined halflings and orcs evolving from humans … it all excites me very much and I can’t wait to learn more about the world and its history.
The importance of the four organisations that sit on the Legacy Council of the Eastern Realms and their interest in Badlands exploration suggest to me that discovering the history of the Manacalon Empire and what was before the Cataclysm might be a not too small part of the game. I certainly hope to find many books and other lore pieces in the world to sink myself into. I want to read about a rich world and learn about the nations, races, and people. As a lover of ancestries, I hope to find many familiar dynasties through the ages, to find a story about someone and realise that earlier you had already heard what his great-grandfather was up to, and so on …
I’d be already interested to hear what your process is like at Tactical Adventures regarding the lore. Do you have one loremeister whose sole job it is to eagerly write away and build all the world, or is it more of a team effort and everyone contributes something?
Anyway, thanks already for the things you have shared with us so far! I’m very much looking forward to diving into the world when the game releases, and I’ll gladly devour every bit of lore that you throw our way until then …
Hello Pete,
Thanks for your message, it’s very nice to see that our work on the lore of Solasta is appreciated.
To answer your question, we work as a triumvirate and this is the result of how the team was build and to what end.
Antoine Guillaud is the mind behind the big ideas, he came up with the concept of Solasta and the basis of its history and it still one of the most creative minds behind Solasta’s particularities. He’s a huge history fan and has read (or so it seems) all fantasy books in the world.
Graeme Davis is a very experienced writer with lots of feats in the RPG world, both on pen and paper and video games. As we knew him from previous collaborations, we asked him to bring his expertise and talent when we started creating Solasta. He’s probably the closest thing we have to a lorekeeper, and most certainly English writing keeper.
On my side, I was responsible to support the creation while ensuring we could make it work in the game.
Also at first, we gathered feedback from all the dev team but now we’re more into refining the details.
We had countless brainstorms and generally divided the work between ourselves, before reuniting to discuss and decide the final version of everything.
In the end, the game itself sometimes tells us we need to change details, because video game implementation requires it and we want everything we deliver in the lore to be coherent with the game’s content.
We also had a few times when we had to go very far into detail, for instance when we had to release information about lore elements for kickstarter votes and other articles. We wanted to make sure everything your read on this website is set in stone and that you can already start to become an expert on Solasta.
Thanks for your support,
Best,
Tactical Zaz
Thanks for the interesting insight, I appreciate that!