Wondering if the WWI-meets-magic setting be just a cool background, or is there actually some deep lore behind it?
From what I understand, the game features folkloric characters. Saw a hut with legs in Atomic Heart, and from what people are saying, this seems to be some kind of slavic thing.
Curious if this game will actually explore that side of the setting, or just use it for visuals.
What do you think about it?
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did you make this? this looks awesome!
As a russian I’m glad that someone does video games based on slavic tales. Thanks.
Houses on legs aren’t a slavic thing, or rather, aren’t *just* a slavic thing.
Besides that, it looks really really janky, and needs some real cooking on those animations.
The house on chicken legs is a reference to the Salvic witch, [Baba Yaga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga).
> Her distinctive traits are flying around in a wooden mortar, wielding a pestle, and **dwelling deep in the forest in a hut with chicken legs**.
The doll thing is also an Eastern (usually Russian) item called a [Matryoshka Doll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll).
The black cat is [Banyun](https://www.russianlacquerart.com/texts/fairytales/Tale%20of%20Cat%20Bayun%20or%20the%20chariot%20of%20goddess%20Freya) the cat.
[Leshy the Guardian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy) is another Slavic character.
[Lukomorye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukomorye) was also a territory of Russia. That Wikipedia link references some other Russian folklore.
> Widely known in Russia is the prologue to the fairy tale poem Ruslan and Lyudmila by Aleksandr Pushkin which starts with the line “У лукоморья дуб зелёный” (“**There is a green oak by Lukomorye**”).
Game looks cool.