End of the Testimonials (First Half)

It is hard to describe the experience of writing this book.

In terms of setting, as I said before, you can also see that the setting of this book is mostly Ye Ya's old cases and abolished cases.

Therefore, to talk about this book, it is inevitable to talk about Night Crow, which has not been finished yet and can be said to be in its lifetime.

Shortly before writing Night Crow, I was still a dm and kp, a transparent person playing in the running circle.

I remember that before writing Night Crow, I watched Daoist Gu.

At that time, I thought, can the operation of synthesizing Gu be used in the dnd profession?

Therefore, Ye Crow's "core breakthrough" system, that is, the setting of using other professions as materials to synthesize new professions, came into being.

At that time, I also deliberately set up a lot of synthetic career routes, but in the end, I only used less than two.

Moreover, it is divided into the game area because I originally planned to write virtual reality online game articles.

Later, because I felt that I was not good at writing data or something, I turned to the game world.

Not to mention the element of "crow", the pseudonym "South African giant" was because of some popular terms at that time——

Words such as "face black", "non-chief".

Crow, black, luck, death, prophecy

When I originally wrote Night Crow, I planned to include all these images.

As a result, everyone knows that when the first world was written in the multiverse world, because the space was too long, I felt that I could not finish writing the multiverse world I wanted to write, so I quickly changed the world.

Afterwards, writing became more and more uncomfortable, and now it has become a lifetime (I feel very sorry for those book friends)

And I am not reconciled.

After all, to be honest, because many of the settings of Glory have not been written, in other worlds of Night Crow, I have incorporated a lot of settings of Glory and continued to write.

In a sense, the whole book is still about glory.

But it's only in a certain sense. If it collapses, it collapses, and I can't argue with it.

Afterwards, I wrote the czar's stand-alone infinite stream fan, which relieved my mood.

However, accidents happened one after another, and the book couldn't go on.

Finally, after looking at Ye Ya, he took out Ye Ya's old and abandoned cases, and planned to write a story after Ye Ya's glorious world.

At that time, it wasn’t right. When I was writing Ye Crow, I opened the book secretly, and then Mystery became popular. At that time, I felt that Ye Crow’s core breakthrough system could be directly embedded into the secret sequence path system after modification.

Moreover, when I saw it at the time, I immediately knew what material the secret used.

After all, as a dnd dm, you can't help being exposed to a lot of discussions about mythological archetypes.

As a coc kp, when setting up a group, you always need to check the relevant historical background, and you are very familiar with things like folklore.

And things like "tarot cards" are even more familiar.

After all, my mythological enlightenment is animations such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Yu-Gi-Oh, and movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I have read too many Tarot cards, Kabbalah, Mithraism, and Nautism.

I am extremely familiar with the mythology and occult in the Middle East.

History, mythology, and folklore are the easiest materials for creators to find compared to imagination.

Moreover, by comparing the common points, it is easy to find some common elements in the myths of various places. I have seen a lot of myths, and it is easy to use those natural landscapes and humanistic elements of primitive society to set up a myth system.

When writing the night crow, because of "crow", I searched everywhere for myths related to crows as materials.

What are the crow demons in the Little Book of Solomon, the white crows of Apollo, the informant crows of Athena, the double crows of Odin, the three-legged golden crows of the Celestial Dynasty, the Yatagaras of neon, and the ravens of Mithraism? ah.

In Europe, the image of the crow is more or less related to images such as "stealth", "leaker", and "surveillance".

And the prototype of the worldview set by Night Crow itself is a great mixture of Nordic mythology + Celtic mythology + Greek mythology + Egyptian mythology and some Mediterranean niche mythology, and I mixed in some dnd-style mythological elements.

The more you look at the history related to various myths and religions, you will find that there are many versions of them.

There are even many special versions of China that were born after being misinterpreted on the China Internet.

Well, I couldn't tell the difference at the time, so I mixed them all up and set the worldview.

Now even if you ask me what some mythological prototypes are, I don’t necessarily remember them clearly, and I can’t answer them without looking through the drafts.

The glorious world of Night Crow is the setting of "Nordic World Tree + Egyptian Tree of Life + Greek Sacred Tree".

I don’t need to say more about the world tree of Nordic mythology. Now it is used in various works.

The tree of life in Egypt may be relatively rare. When most people hear about Egypt, they may think of the sun god, the pyramid, the sphinx, etc., but they may not be very familiar with the specific relationship between funeral culture and the tree of life.

But I am more familiar.

In the version I have seen, the tree of life often appears in the image of a goddess, and it plays an important role in the resurrection of the dead, and it is not wrong to say that it is even a core symbol.

Even, in ancient Egyptian texts, the text of "shelter" is related to the shade of "tree".

And after I read this version and learned about the importance of trees in Egyptian culture, I was thinking about one thing. Is the resurrection of the dead in ancient Egypt related to the "rebirth" of trees after they died?

(Minke imagination without real evidence, don't take it seriously)

The "sacred tree" in Greek mythology is another kind. It does not refer to specific trees, but different gods have corresponding different tree species as holy trees.

Every god has a corresponding sacred tree, and because of the concept of "World Tree", I came up with the idea of ​​"Tree World".

Yes, my original setting for "Mirror World" was "Tree World".

The change from "tree world" to "mirror world" is actually because of another author.

Before I wrote the book, the author withdrew.

At that time, he immediately posted his own settings in the book friend group.

I remember his setting at that time was "the world is a gem", "everyone at what stage will condense a gem", "the world reflected by the gem is the mirror world".

At that time, he said that these settings came from the inner alchemy of Xiuxian, Zifu Xianting and "Shenjing".

I did some research then.

In the early years of web articles, there were many elements of folk worship and burning incense and offering sacrifices, especially in combination with the elements of the lantern poles of Jiang Ziya on the list of gods.

The gods of incense and fire in small temples and shrines, the gods of ancestors, and the official position system in the feudal dynasty.

The phenomenon of social culture is clearly reflected in mythology.

In the early years, the online articles about the immortals in the East were all about the incense becoming a god, and the fairy garden of the purple mansion was condensed in the brain and body.

And then what a small world, a cave of heaven and earth.

Later, I didn’t know that ghost just changed the skin, and changed this set of things into the Western god system, and faith became a god and it came out.

Didn’t there be some novels in the early Internet articles, the gods of the east and the gods of the west followed the “belief system” and would condense some things like “god core” in the mind?

And those who believe in gods have settings such as "God's domain" and domains.

The result of my research at that time was this, but it was not detailed, and there may be many mistakes and omissions, such as not only Taoism, but also Buddhist elements, etc. I can't do more specific textual research.

But I didn't think too much about it, so I combined these with my "tree world".

"Mirror World", ah, the wizard, came out.

I don’t need to say much about the origin of wizards. The group of druid priests in Northern Europe was later listed as enemies by a certain religious trial.

The struggle between religious beliefs.

As for the ideas of wizards

For a long time, the protagonists, villains, and all kinds of people in online articles have that kind of refined egoism, and I was inevitably affected by it.

That's how wizards should be.

According to my observation, what many readers say when they are disgusted with this kind of refined egoism is not because they think it is wrong, but because

There are too many, disgusted by aesthetic fatigue, I hope to see something different (stand up).

Simply put, some people are disgusted because they have already formed a "routine" and "anti-routine" under aesthetic fatigue.

It's not that they see anything wrong with such values.

Of course, there are also some people who started to think about refined egoism because of this opportunity, and thus really stood on the opposite side.

The reason is also related to changes in the social atmosphere.

I am not a formal graduate in social and religious studies. The study of social phenomena is also based on the things that appear many times in myths and legends as an opportunity to give me ideas in this regard.

On the one hand, the aesthetics of online writing is formed by the influence of society, and on the other hand, it will adversely affect society.

Older book lovers should remember the underworld novels and popular movies at that time, as well as the chaos of the underworld in the 1990s and early 21st century.

Humanities and humanities, online literature is also a part of humanities, it will be affected by society, and it will also affect society.

The two are intertwined with each other.

Ah, digressing.

Talk back and talk back.

Night Crow's wizard system, "inscriptions" and "runes", are derived from the life runes of Nordic mythology.

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In the early years of web articles, operations such as programmer magic programming often appeared, and the wizard in my settings was the same.

Not even just wizards, the settings related to "programming" directly affect the entire world view.

After all, it is a game world.

Before it was changed to a game world, the original setting was the game world.

The "rules of the world" are program frameworks. Different worlds are different operating systems. Under different operating systems, one type of software cannot be used universally.

After changing it to a different world of the game, I did not cancel this setting, but kept it.

And, because the setting for "The Witcher" is kind of a mad scientist.

At that time, influenced by Cthulhu and various science fiction works, I also had a lot of ideas about "high-dimensional" and "low-dimensional".

Although the dimension-ascension-related settings in Night Crow are not perfect, they are almost there.

The "coordinate system" setting in Silver Crow is inherited from the setting in Night Crow.

Different dimensions correspond to different coordinate axes.

When I went to investigate, I found two theories.

One is multi-dimensional on a complete spatial scale.

The other is one who does not know how many hands spread the misinterpretation.

One to three dimensions is space, the fourth dimension is time, the fifth dimension is temperature, and then the sixth dimension is what

Two statements inspired me at the time.

I was thinking about one thing.

What would a world made entirely of time look like?