Template:Artistic influences
Character races are super important. These are the choices that we make at the onset of our adventure in an MMORPG: what race- not just mechanically aligns with our decisions, if those races have game mechanics behind them from a stat perspective, but visually and culturally and historically: What are these? What do these races represent? So it's important that visually they're distinct. And everyone's seen fantasy games do Elves, so everyone's seen them do Humans, everyone's seen them do Orcs: There's an established expectation almost behind what these traditional fantasy races represent; and there's a risk, because whenever you're creating a new IP or a new story or a new world- a new Universe; a realm in which things don't have to always be the norm, you can take a little bit of creative liberty to redefine some of the aspects of a particular race; and that can be a good thing, because it's something that is new to players. It's something that is unique to the realm that we're building- the surroundings that you have. So what we wanted to do was push a little bit more on the unique side of what the Py'rai would look like from a visual perspective.[2] – Steven Sharif
- Aelean architecture has a French medieval influence.[3]
- Dünir have a Nordic cultural influence.[4]
- Empyreans have a Greco-Roman imperialistic feeling.[5]
- The Kaelar have a European influence.[6]
- The Niküa have a Polynesian influence.[7][5]
- The Py'Rai have a Navajo Native American influence.[5] Py'Rai architecture has a woodland inspiration.[8][9]
- Pyrian architecture has a Greco-Roman influence.[10]
- Ren'Kai architecture has an Asian influence.[1]
- The Vaelune have a Middle Eastern influence.[11]
- The Vek have a Mesoamerican influence.[11]
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- You will see in the different races that are available from a player character standpoint a lot of different influences that reflect many cultures in the world: Not just European, not just Africa, not Mesoamerican. These cultures are going to be present in many of the races.[12] – Steven Sharif
- The idea is just to find a base component in the real world as a starting point and then to begin to fantasize.[3] – Steven Sharif
