#aviary village

[onionowt]

Aviary village

Imagine a cool scene here, i gave up on this piece:(((

[stormystarlight]

go in the dark

[skycotl-before-and-after]

Here’s a handy map from Discord with details about the spirits in Aviary Village and how to interact with them.

[pathologicalrunaway]

i saw that one tumblr post about how aviary cheapens the point of sky as a story (the civilisation is lost and all we know are only shadows of what was before; but aviary brings everyone back and we coexist now, instead of being two generations that were never supposed to meet) reposted on reddit a while ago and i have a couple of thoughts on this matter.

because one hand, i do agree that there was a bittersweetness in walking through a dead world that was lost. that aviary feels alive and the world is supposed to be dead. but i think a crucial aspect of this whole discourse (lore-wise) could lie in the first character aviary can be associated with. and this character — and their little village — do not really contradict the point of the game, but contribute to it

hopeful steward. they are, first things first, a child. like we are, as players. and children are often associated with hope for a better future, and this game is no exception. it's up to the children to bring light back, it's us and our connections that make sky a happy place. it's us that bring hope in the fact thay maybe, maybe not everything is over yet. that there's still something to admire, something to love, something to believe in.

steward is the one waiting in front of the village doors, they are the one showing us how to bring back the village, so it would make sense to assume that the village is their idea and, to an extent, their responsibility.

they are in charge of this silly little community like elders once were, but the elders fell. they made bad decisions that led to the world's destruction. this is mostly speculation, at least now, and we should wait for two embers to give us the whole picture, but it looks like the reason why aviary exists is because the world was on the verge of collapse and hopeful steward (and a couple more people) wanted — if not to prevent this — at least to try to save someone.

a second chance for the dying world.

they were hoping for a better future despite the inevitable doom. they had hope in the fact that, even in those dark times, the world would bounce back.

and their name says a lot about them. they wake up to see their home destroyed, their friends gone, the bells broken. the only thing alive is the child with a candle in front of them. but they don't succumb to despair, they keep faith, showing the newcomer around, explaining what happened.

they have no reason to believe that the kid that has just fallen fron the sky can restore light. they have no proof they are even able to do such things, that they are strong enough. they just hope.

and their hope pays back, eventually, after oh-so many losses. the world — and, most importantly, its people, — are saved. maybe not in the way any of them wanted but hey, life's tricky like that.

hopeful steward and their village refraim the point of the story, not destroy it. we spent years wandering in an empty kingdom haunted by the ghosts of what once were its people, not knowing what happened, or who they used to be, or if there was a way they could be happy again. and now we know that dark times don't last forever. trees grow back when people leave cities, animals return to where progress preciously exiled them from, and humanity bounces back. life is a cycle, and nothing just stays gone forever. good times come, eventually. with hope and friendship and love.

but it doesn't mean things are exactly the way they used to be, no. the realms are still destroyed. people look very different now. aviary village grows, but it's slow and painful and we are constantly reminded of how nothing is the same anymore (nesting guide looking wistfully at the picture, compassionate cellist and duets guide's dream coming true far too late). many go to the stars because this is an option now, and there is no guarantee the village's inhabitants will stay there forever, just like there was no guarantee back then that they would live there happily ever after.

and eden stayed the same. at the end of the day, all the loss and pain and mistakes of people there were before us is still here. it's just now we're stopping mourning the past and focus on the present instead

[nickpeppermint]

Happy five year anniversary to Sky: Children Of Light! 🎆✨

[wanderingskychild]

I only ever sat at the counter, didn’t know she delivered from over here.

[yolkyweichei]

TFW you split in Orbit and return Home alone. ):

@knoproblem is a great model

[thatskypoll]

[mufos-photo-album]

2023-11-14

Hey, Frightened Refugee, what are you looking at? ... OH! By the way, if you deep call next to them, it scares the spirit. I found this out accidentally by trying to knock over the crab...

(View on the Mufotsuki's Photo Album website)

[sunfiltersthroughwillowleaves]

a couple eden spoilers. be careful.

do you ever think about how all the spirits are. dead? like they werent ghosts before eden. but now they are. hopeful steward is a ghost. they died as a child. they were parents. they had crushes. they had loves. they had friends. they had lives. they are dead.

and so many more people lived in the realms, don't you think? why are there so few? were there more that died, but did not survive as spirits?

something something they were alive and had lives and they all died except a few and now they have to go on with their lives knowing that they are dead and shouldn't be alive and angst. ok thank you

[blxkstar]

Return our Spirits to the stars.

Calling all skykids! I made a playlist for Sky: Children of the Light! This is your radio for doing daily missions, finding spirits, collecting candles, just flying around, or anything else! Please check it out!!

YouTube ver

Protect your light and find the source of Ancient Power

Honk honk HONK

[skykid-void]

Local fluff behaves like cat and judges dream guide authorities say

"They did not want me to continue working" -Dream Guide

"[Judgemental fluff noises]" -Void

[skykidsam]

Met this tiny, camera-shy crab in the spell shop today

I had to take pics from the second floor. Any time I got close, he would hide. Any time my camera came out, he'd hide. If he heard my camera shutter, oh boy, you bet he's hiding. So I waited patiently, all day. Finally, when evening came around, he came out of his shell a little more (pun very much intended 🪨)

[skycotl-before-and-after]

New start screens for the game based on your choice of home most likely coming to live soon.

Before. This is also what you still see if you chose the old home as your home.

This is if you chose Aviary Village as your home.

When I chose my nest as home, I woke up on the bed.

[pathologicalrunaway]

dile of auwn

prailight dailie

fidden horest

tralley of viumph

wolden gasteland

knowt of vaulage

eyed of eeen

obrit

vaviary illage

cophecy prave

telder's emple

reasure treef

anctuary silands

flutterfly bields

clerevated ering

the hreetouse

yonebard

borest frook

[skyhighru]

bro got the whole tree while we got a twig