#thank you acid-harbringer

[miapcain]

Hello! I really adore your Vesna comics (got a bit emotional about them haha) and I'm really excited to see more of the game and I wondered if I could ask a few questions? -so the dogs to watch out for comic is historical fiction (but with animal people) while the game has some magical aspects like the monsters, will the comic show why those supernatural events started happening? -Is there a reason that Franzeska and her mother got to pick a wolf while her father got a deer (assuming that's the animal Hartgar is)? since all the children Franzeska could pick from where wolves and she talked about picking a puppy I assume it's always a set animal?

-Do Vesna and Snježana ever think of their old families? since you mentioned Vesna doesn't remember how to speak czech I wonder how much she remembered from her old life. Anyway wishing your luck with the comic and game I hope you have a nice day!

Hello- thank you so much for these questions! I keep saying I love getting them, but thats because I do. People engaging with it so much makes me really happy!

1- V:DTWOF will never have monsters, magic, prophecy, anything of the sort in it- I'm even trying to stay away from traditional heroic/fantasy modes of storytelling where the characters do Big Important Things, and steer more towards depicting people living their lives under specific circumstances. If any games release, the first one to come out, "Vesna's DOG NIGHTMARE," has monsters in it because it's a dream Vesna's having: She'll face monsters because her subconscious invented them, or because she thinks they're real (in which case I will try to stay close to real period folklore and bestiaries)- but she'll also face folk heroes like Dietrich von Bern or Roland, and have to endure a great deal of hardship regarding her relationship to other women, etc. I won't speak to the other game, Crypthound Vesna, yet.

2- Yes- and wow, you picked up on that very quickly, thank you! It'll be explored in the comic at some point, but it's not spectacularly interesting, so I'll just share that it's because among women, wolves are seen as the fiercest/only warriors in their culture, whereas among men it's stag and boar people; It's not super plot relevant, though.

3- excellent question! This will be explored down the line. So stay tuned :P

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Hello @acid-harbringer ! I miss you too and drawing burnts too. Thank you, this made me want to doodle some burnts :)

[miapcain]

Hi little Vesna question but since snježana and vesna have to keep their hair really short(to fit better in helmets I assume) what hairstyle would they choose to have if given the freedom to chose their own?

Hello, thank you for the question! I think Snježa would like practical braids/one long braid, and Vesna's brain is too small for her to conceptualize herself as having any cut other than whatever her current one happens to be.

Edit: Also, it's not because of helmets, Hartgar (Franzesca's father's serjeant/bodyguard) wears his long; Medieval european culture had some specific gender politics around women's hair. It gets cut here for a similar reason to why nuns wore short hair.

[miapcain]

It makes me so happy to see someone put this much thought into Vesna ^^ Yes, nobles will overwhelmingly be cats in this region (common association with nobility in general, and lions especially are heavily represented in heraldry across the HRE, so I thought it fit). Yes, Franzesca's family, the Ostermünzer, are all Lynxes. The other two wolf girls will be serjeants for daughters of vassal lords that pay fealty to Franzesca's father.

Hello! I really adore your Vesna comics (got a bit emotional about them haha) and I'm really excited to see more of the game and I wondered if I could ask a few questions? -so the dogs to watch out for comic is historical fiction (but with animal people) while the game has some magical aspects like the monsters, will the comic show why those supernatural events started happening? -Is there a reason that Franzeska and her mother got to pick a wolf while her father got a deer (assuming that's the animal Hartgar is)? since all the children Franzeska could pick from where wolves and she talked about picking a puppy I assume it's always a set animal?

-Do Vesna and Snježana ever think of their old families? since you mentioned Vesna doesn't remember how to speak czech I wonder how much she remembered from her old life. Anyway wishing your luck with the comic and game I hope you have a nice day!

Hello- thank you so much for these questions! I keep saying I love getting them, but thats because I do. People engaging with it so much makes me really happy!

1- V:DTWOF will never have monsters, magic, prophecy, anything of the sort in it- I'm even trying to stay away from traditional heroic/fantasy modes of storytelling where the characters do Big Important Things, and steer more towards depicting people living their lives under specific circumstances. If any games release, the first one to come out, "Vesna's DOG NIGHTMARE," has monsters in it because it's a dream Vesna's having: She'll face monsters because her subconscious invented them, or because she thinks they're real (in which case I will try to stay close to real period folklore and bestiaries)- but she'll also face folk heroes like Dietrich von Bern or Roland, and have to endure a great deal of hardship regarding her relationship to other women, etc. I won't speak to the other game, Crypthound Vesna, yet.

2- Yes- and wow, you picked up on that very quickly, thank you! It'll be explored in the comic at some point, but it's not spectacularly interesting, so I'll just share that it's because among women, wolves are seen as the fiercest/only warriors in their culture, whereas among men it's stag and boar people; It's not super plot relevant, though.

3- excellent question! This will be explored down the line. So stay tuned :P