Chapter 73 - This Is Draupnir, The City Where Furries and People Live Side By Side Harmoniously
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Translator: twomorefreethoughts / TpstT (05/05/2019)
Editor 1: Hand of Vecna / Vecna (09/05/2019)
Editor 2: Keii (10/05/2019)
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Update 1: ETA for chapter 74 is 16/05/2019. – Teaser is out though.
Update 2: An illustration added to chapter 72 because it turns out there was one more that was relevant.
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The capital. If you were to hear that word, what would you imagine?
Chances are, since it was called the capital, one would most likely imagine a giant castle or a palace surrounded by buildings.
Laevateinn, Svalinn and Gjallarhorn. Up until this point, although the shapes of those three countries were different, there was this mon feature.
The capital of Blutgang itself was a giant castle, thus it might have been an exception amongst the exceptions. However, I think the capital cities of the RPG game worlds were fundamentally the image of the western medieval kingdoms and cities.
Putting it simply, it was that, you know? Fantasy RPGs are fundamentally based on Western society.
Once in a while, you get Eastern-styled games. But those games have a distinct setting right from the very start and often the enemies were not magical beasts but youkai and oni instead.[1] Things usually went like that.
At the very least, if the magical beasts, magic, swords, heroes and the Demon Kings were to e out, that RPG world would give off a Western feeling.
Well, in essence, it's that, you know? After being told, "Now, wake up, hero!" and grabbing a sword, the outside turns out to have Edo-period aesthetics….. Well, you know, wouldn't you feel a bit off? You'd feel that something's just off.
After you received the request to defeat the Demon King and were about to storm into his castle, the castle turned out to be an Osaka-jo (TLN: Osaka Castle) with the presiding Demon King having a chonmage and wearing a kimono. How would you feel?[2]
And while I'm at it, what if the hero also had a chonmage and wore a kimono and said, "Sessha shall now journey to subjugate the disordered one, titled the Demon King-degozaru," now what would you feel?[3]
And the Demon King, being the Demon King, said, "Why dost thou struggle and close off a country? Exchange of culture is what I find the most joy in. Westernisation is what is most beautiful. Now be swallowed up by my culture and modernise."… wouldn't you be turned off?
It's way too weird. At the very least, I wouldn't play a game like that.
Anyways, with all that, I haven't seen an eastern-styled city lately.
For some reason in RPGs, if you go towards the East, a player would often end up finding a Japanese-styled country and sometimes it might even be called Jipangu.[4] However, it seemed there was nothing like that in this world.
Having said that, since this world somehow has a thing called a katana, it's possible there was a country like that in the past.
As a matter of fact, back in the game, out of all the countries founded by the players, there was a country with purely Japanese style.
Though… I actually waged war and destroyed it, but whatever.
Anyways, the conversation had derailed.
What I wanted to say was that if one were to imagine a "capital
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