OKAY, so this is really good?? Both the different potential character and skill builds, as well as the world building and the mystery of our past??
I love the way you have written this story. I have read many WIPs, and even in ones that I have loved there can be this one thing that immediately breaks my immersion: Say something bad happens to the character we play, and there is a social interaction happening afterwards where we are able to shape the character’s personality. If we choose something optimistic, then the text doesn’t try to build a bridge between the past difficulties and the somewhat positive action taken in the social interaction. Your story doesn’t break immersion like this, which I’m extremely happy about.
For example, in your story, picking an option to smile at someone after going through the hardship of losing your home, the corresponding writing said something to the degree of ‘even after this and that hardship, you tried to give a wavering smile’ instead of just smiling like nothing was wrong. It is a very small thing, but because it was done right, because the option chosen was fit into the narrative of the story instead of breaking immersion by ignoring it, I was genuinely very happy and fell into more love with the story
Also, the relationships feel very heartwarming here! The character build I was going for might have had a hand in this, but the friendship between the four apprentices is really well done, and the childhood family part was really emotional for me. I became so invested in the family fluff I just had to write a review kehkehkehkeh
Also you really caught me by surprise at the naming part of our character, I’ll see how much Turkish words I can fit into the narrative here ajdfajdgfa all my characters will just have to be named Sabah smh
Looking forward to future updates!