deathknight wrote:French_snack wrote:deathknight wrote:Felarya is an overblown world where anything giant and/or cute wins and anything tiny can go suck it
Actually, no. It's a far more rich and complex / nuanced world than that. Only someone utterly uninvolved with it would make that gross oversimplification.
Thats how it pretty much stands man. If you look at alot of the artwork that is drawn of the predators from felraya, humans, nekos etc are devoured by cute giants, nagas, harpies, etc and people often cheer on the predator. I have tried to get into felraya before, its too grossly unbalanced with the races and whatnot.
To be fair, imbalance between species is somewhat situational.
Out in the middle of the wilderness, yes, the odds are highly stacked against humans and human-sized hybrids. Felarya is a death-trap. Honestly, giant hybrids like nagas and harpies aren't all THAT common, at least not as much as some people make them out to be. The vast majority of people who head out into the Felaryan wilderness and get killed are going to fall victim to some kind of wild animal, or carnivorous plant. Actually running across a giant hybrid is kind of a semi-rare thing, and involves surviving long enough to get that deep into the wild. Or you're just extremely unlucky.
Things are completely different around a more civilized area. A giant pred would be stupid to get too close to the city of Negav. Between the Isolon Eye (a large, magical artifact that repels giants), and the large guns it has mounted onto its walls, Negav is just a place a giant hybrid doesn't want to be. There is also the Isolon Fist, a highly trained and well-armed military group composed of battlemages and traditionally armed soldiers. Not people some random naga wants to mess with.
Chiotia City is on the opposite end of the spectrum. It is located on an island out in the Topazial Sea. The city itself is built on the shores of a bay that is home to a species of giant stinging kelp. It does not affect smaller people or wildlife at all, but it is something that giant mermaids know to avoid. The only preds that can get to the city are the local group of harpies who live in the nearby mountains, and sea krait nagas, who can move on land and water. Chiotia has used diplomacy to forge an understanding with these two groups, and they leave the city and its people alone.
nd the thing is, you're right. I've been watching the fandom grow for years, it's never ceased to disappoint me with the potential that it won't tap. Currently, as far as Karbo's universe(NOT the fanfiction stories), it's only giant cute female nagas, fairies and the like that get praise and a continued stream of airtime. Everything small is typically devoured and forgotten, and the fans just eat it all up(No pun intended).
I will agree that there is a lot of untapped potential. A lot of people are all too happy to re-hash commonly used themes and tropes of the setting, and/or only in it for the fetish aspect.
Not all are though. There is a smaller group within the setting who just want to tell good stories, and think the world itself is interesting. That would be the group I'm in. Hell, I only joined Eka's to post in this sub-forum and maybe help some people here realize there's more to Felarya than just vore. Not saying you can't have that too, of course, but there are so many other interesting aspects to the setting as well. Like Negav, Chiotia and the Isolon Fist.
...I mean, how many stories have people written about The Fist? Well, about the real Fist as they are presented in the canon.
http://rcs619.deviantart.com/art/Just-another-day-on-the-job-212686442 I have at least =D