Bracken Fell: Tale of Tails (UPDATED 6/16/21)

Played it again and the save function works for me, and how am I falling in love with this world more and more…
Also I looked in the stats, dont know why I didnt do it sooner, and I just love the names of the abilities! My MCs ancestors were totally pirates.

Tried to draw my MC Hector, but I cant draw rats so I used the rat creator on doll divine… and went a bit crazy with jewelry lol

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hector

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Ohhh gosh, I love Hector! I think that’s a perfect amount of jewelry :relaxed: I’m gonna have to play with that doll divine now!

And thank you re: the stat names! They took a ridiculous amount of time to think of, ha. I’ll probably eventually change Make or Break; I don’t care much for that one, but I’m happy or fairly happy with the rest. :two_hearts:

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May I ask how much to how little clothing characters in that universe may wear? And the general style of clothing for people of MC’s standing?
Ah, and also, do the characters look exactly like their animal counterparts, but moving on their hind legs and having opposable thumbs and stuff like that, or do they enter a little bit into the anthro category, as far as face shapes and eye types go?

Yeah, I know, very technical questions, but I’d like to design my MC so I need to know :rofl:

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Of course you can! Apologies in advance if I get too detailed; I have lots of notes about this.

Clothing–generally, they wear clothes similar to clothing of the High Medieval Period (I’m pretty loose with this tbqh), although shoes are mostly only worn when traveling longer distances (not always; some Folk wear shoes almost constantly for different reasons, such as style or for the individual’s comfort). In addition, it’s considered impolite to wear shoes inside someone’s home or a place of worship or in places like royal castles. Public places like inns are perfectly fine with it.

The MC is currently a laymonk and dresses in a tunic, scapula, cowl, etc. Their day clothes, however, would probably be more akin to a peasant’s. This said, most medieval peasants (not counting serfs,) weren’t as drab and dull-colored as people imagine (they’re not quite the BRING OUT YER DEAD Monty Python types, if not quite royalty, either.) They wore jewelry like glass beads and rings of gold and silver if they could afford them, and liked colors as much as anyone.

And here’s a fanciful painting of medieval monks I like–

But don’t worry; the MC doesn’t have to be in a laymonk’s robes the entire game. There’s also no tonsuring.

As far as anthropomorphism goes, I very much imagine them in the style of Jerome Jacinto’s (illustrator/concept artist for Ghost of a Tale, Tooth and Tail, etc.,) wonderful work (and any artists any of the Redwall covers, etc). They’re on the more ‘realistic’ end of anthropomorphic animals, but with some often very human-like expressions. I really don’t mind if folks imagine them in different ways, though; more furry-like, less, etc. Go wild!

Some Jerome Jacinto work that might help visualize–

Merra

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Okay, I need to bookmark your post :rofl:
Thank you though!
That helps A LOT! It more or less fits the general image I had, so it’s very convenient, thanks!

Man I love drawing rat characters - can’t wait to have some time to design!

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I am REALLY excited to see what you come up with!

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For your atmospheric music needs:

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AAAA you’re the best!

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I wouldn’t be surprised if another dear reader in here remind this game with the trilogy of Mice of Depftord by R.Jarvis which i admit i re-read this year, i like your proposition in here, very straightfoward and descriptive, to the point you can picture this world pretty easily, i’ll be waiting for how coming next in this peculiar adventure, keep it up good fella.

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Thank you! Yes, someone else mentioned that series, and now I need to read it, stat!

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I love this. I used to be obssessed with rodents as a kid. Had many a daydreams of me being a rat.

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I love this. :heart_eyes: It reminds me of Brembley Hedge which is how I kept on visualising the characters or helping me visualising them. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Aaaa! Had dreams like that, too :relaxed:Was never ‘me,’ though, just had a happy rodent family in my head doing happy rodent family things at all times

Oh my gosh, so - I didn’t think I knew what this was, and then I googled it and realized I read EVERY BOOK as a kid :star_struck:

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I watched the tvseries as a child and I loved it :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: I never read the books :sweat_smile: As I said earlier I love your work :grin:

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I had no idea it was a tv series, myself! And thank you so much; I’m so glad!

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There’s apparently a town in South Africa named Bracken Fell, so I may have to look into renaming this. :grimacing:

So am I right in assuming this is Redwall inspired

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Most certainly!

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I’m considering changing the name of Bracken Fell since it is the name of a town in SA. Wanted to get y’all’s opinion

  • Thistle Fell
  • Bramble Fell
  • Brier Fell
  • Keep Bracken Fell
  • I don’t like any of these names

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Next major update is coming by the end of the week! <3 Thanks for voting and for all your feedback and help.

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