Let's start with some fun facts about the world before moving to the characters:

1. A ranker healer can regenerate a chopped-off limb by sewing the part of the arm/leg with the body and then healing it

2. Remember Ronie? His parents didn't cry about the bad news about their son, their family was rich so a loss of an untalented child as they referred wasn't a big lost

3. Recka is considered weak when compared to the average power level, the only reason Tokkou referred to her as an 'expert 8th card (earth) user' was because she has a massive knowledge of earth power

4. If a dead person is buried a tree will grow on this spot, and if a card user dies a large Mana tree will bloom, a Mana tree can't be rotten, only destroyed, mana trees also give off mana to the world so people near this place have increased mana regeneration

5. Angels can hide their wings inside their bodies, that's why the queen didn't have wings, even though she is an angel

6. There is a man on the moon

7. The reason Cromi saved Teras was not because of plot armor (it is that too) but because battle bunnies immigrate to the hottest region, that being the Heart kingdom, most of the bunnies pass through the Heart's kingdom capital, that's why Cromi happened to find Teras

8. I know I said it before but Lia's child's name would have been Hunter, but unfortunately they it didn't got the chance to be born :(

Now let's move to the characters!

Teras doesn't like many things but he has a preference for some stuff like:

He likes pushing himself while training

He likes the color brown

And also likes when people are nice to him

Tokkou likes:

Smoking

Drinking tea

Physical training

And Becka (Slightly)

Becka likes:

Tokkou

Water

And bitter food

Recka likes:

Dresses

Feminine products

Teras (Slightly)

and screaming at people she trains

The others are currently flying high so I won't bother talking about them ;(

Now let's talk about me! :D

So first let's start with the state of this series

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I as an author was very excited to reach this point of the story and finally end the first act, I never anticipated that my series would reach 2k views on Royal road and 500+ views on Tapas, I appreciate everyone that gave my stuff a read and I'm very glad about the milestone we reached

This year I'm looking toward making this series even better by improving the writing, the characters, the arcs, and many other things my series lack right now, and I will also strive to make the series more well-known and make more people fan of this series, but we still have a long way before achieving that, plus one thing I want to tell to my readers is to try to locate a symbolism or foreshadowing because I really like to spoil my readers without even noticing, mark my words when the story comes close to completion you will see what I mean. do you like the sound of that? :)…

Now let's talk about the main sources of inspiration I take when I'm creating Teras or any other series I have been working on.

A basic source I use is music, even if it sounds complicated the melody or even the lyrics of the music I listen to gives me inspiration about characters and the plot itself, I recently started showing it with references and titles or even dialogue, and I wasn't so sure how everyone would have felt about that so I tried keeping this form of inspiration hidden, my favorite artists are:

Kendrick Lamar

Kanye West

J. Cole

(I know it's basic af but that's what I like can't change that, but of course I listen to many other artist but those three are my main source of inspiration)

Another thing that inspires me is art, classical art from the renaissance or even random pieces of art I see on the internet can often inspire me to create characters or a theme that match the paintings, some of my favorite art pieces are

"The creation of Adam" (Which I saw live)

"Saturn devouring his son"

"The fallen angel"

And others I can't remember right now (I know they are basic, but am a hobbyist to art so I hope that explains it, plus I was never the type to remember by name something I like), but besides paintings I also find myself getting inspired by manga or comic series I'm reading or had read

Now one of the most well-spread and obvious sources of inspiration is, movies/series, I'm a sucker for good storytelling, and movies and series are the easiest way for me to entertain myself, and by consuming this much of this media I found myself mimicking or taking ideas from there, intentionally or not

That's basically everything, I have nothing else to add, hopefully, I get a bigger audience so I can do a Q&A or something

But before I go I will do another thing

Since it's Winter at the world of Teras: the deadly game of cards and in Australia I present you

Gift exchanging! What will your favorite characters will give one another?

Teras:

An eyepatch (from Tokkou[ He will look good with one] Tokkou claims)

Metal augmented gloves (From Recka)

A hair band (From Becka)

Tokkou:

Socks (From Becka)

A teapot(From Teras)

Nothing( from Recka)

Becka:

Black heels (From Tokkou)

A hug (probably, from Teras)

A new pair of glasses (from Recka)

Recka

A dress(From Becka)

An hourglass (From Tokkou)

A statue of him and her (From Teras[He tried to curve them with wood])

Lia, Cara, Har->…

Rex:

A sack with 5 gold coins (From Tokkou)

A tough-made shirt (From Uncle Jem)

Uncle Jem:

A sack with 10 gold(From Tokkou)

A cool rock (From Rex)

I hope this year is great for everyone thus far!