Your name is Zaafirah Al-Mokhtar, and you are an Apothecary.
A member of the former empire of G’roha, you and the rest of your continent were left to pick up the bloody pieces after Tatloch’s fall in a conquest gone wrong. Now you serve a group of eight ambassadors for the continent, hoping to forge ties with the Orsterran nations that G’roha had tried to conquer not long ago.
Zaafirah is a personal passion project of mine, from not only rewriting the mess that was Tatloch and G’roha to also fully delving into a flawed character. I think she’s amazing, and wanted to share her. Lemme know if you wanna know anything about her!
Hey! I made a poster for an Octopath ttrpg campaign some friends and I are doing, and felt like posting! I’ll likely be posting more later, so keep on the lookout!
So I started replaying Octopath II for the one year anniversary, and while playing through Osvald's chapter 1, I noticed he mentions that the distance between Frigit Isle and Cape Cold is four days by sea.
Now, a ship from this period can likely travel 4 knots in an hour in waters like that (seeing as they aren't icy or anything.) Which makes that distance about 442 miles, or 722 kilometers across.
So I decided I had no choice but to figure out what the size of Solistia actually is. The answer is... big.
Keep in mind that a person can walk *maybe* 33 km in a day if they're experienced and prepared.
Solistia would be, if I'm not stupid, about the size of Eurasia...
The Eastern continent alone stretches the distance from Portugal to Kazakhstan.
Now, let's say this ship is moving slower, at more like three knots. Well, then our distance is 540 km, only 75% the initial presumed distance.
Then we're looking at Solistia being 8,664 km across, which is still big, but not *as* big.
In other words, Octopath Traveler II's full story likely took several years to complete in canon.
you know, I’m thinking of writing the Castti route I took into a narrative fic. I’ve posted about it in little comics but I feel that would be too slow to really get all my thoughts about Castti’s journey out. Would you guys read it?