>>718038315
The writing in this game shines in in the lore.

Not so much the plot itself, but the prose found in random encounters.

such as when you come across a dromad caravan, guarded by great salt tortoises

>Words fail to contain the paradox of their domesticated immensity. Drifts on the cultural seas have swept a particular fable to your attention. Long ago, far away, folks supposed all of everything rested on the back of a world-tortoise. Surely that flight of fancy came to someone gazing on a Great Saltback... or does your own vision echo through the past to partake in its creation?

And this is where i may get hit with
>reddit
but it does tickle me to come across random situations and there's just life and travels being had.

or after slaughtering hundreds of snapjaws, and then one of them was holding an engraved weapon that gave me a tidbit of history of an old sultan, how that sultan was a genocidal dictator to some, and heros of others.

to come across statues of gods and great beings, and taking in the immortalized history of their doings.

I don't know the story, I don't think i would care about the story. I do enjoy the lore, or at least how it's discovered, and what sort of picture it paints, sometimes literally