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2[[caption-width-right:315:Kubbadang, bleeding and on the look out under the sun...]]
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4The Sun Woman is sending monsters to terrorize the land. To these ends the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuin Yuin]] send our protagonist, the thylacine Kubbadang, to ask for help in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budj_Bim_heritage_areas Budj Bim]]. Joining him and his friends Winyu and Dhurra and sister Guddity are the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamilaraay Gamilaraay]] warrior Bangalaa, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrernte_people Arrernte]] warrior Perrurle and the mysterious medicine-woman Bina. Together, they must defeat the Sun Woman and bring harmony to the realm again.
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6Lands of Fire is a furry MediaNotes/RenPy-based LinearVisualNovel based on the mythology of Myth/{{Aboriginal Australian|Myths}} cultures. The game, which contains violence, sexual content, dense lore from mentioned cultures, and multiple routes, can be found [[https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire HERE]] or [[http://landsoffire.wikidot.com HERE]] in every platform. A supplemental wiki page can also be found [[http://landsoffire.wikidot.com/main:about HERE]].
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9!This visual novel contains examples of:
10* AllThereInTheManual: [[https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/234037/glossary A glossary]] linked here and within the game for the terminology.
11* AudibleGleam: Everytime a light flashes bright it has a fire sound effect.
12* BigBad:
13** The Sun Woman in the first arc.
14** Marmoo in the second arc.
15** [[spoiler:Parnuen in Bangalaa's route.]]
16* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Kubbadang's childhood friend Indeko died from thirst during a drought, casing a severe bad blood between him and the elders. The Sun Woman's children also died, mirroring the Wotjobaluk take on the sun's origin]].
17* EldritchAbomination: The Inapertwa from Arrernte lore are depicted as this, as primal shapeless things in the remote past. [[spoiler:A god seriously corrupted by Marmoo later shows up as essentially a magical glitch, barely recognisable as what it once was.]]
18* FeatherFingers: Avian characters like Banglaa are depicted with feathered human hands.
19* GodOfEvil: Marmoo, the god of evil of the Gamilaraay tradition, is the main antagonist of the second arc.
20* GodOfLight: The Sun Woman in based on [[CompositeCharacter several sun goddesses]] across Australia's numerous cultures. There's also Baiame the sky father.
21* GodOfTheMoon: [[spoiler:Kubbadang]] becomes the moon god.
22* {{Hellhound}}: Among the various monsters that serve the Sun Woman are "black and red dogs".
23* HollywoodDreamtime: The game portrays the spirit world as mostly close to traditional Aboriginal perspectives, as located in the sky. However, the pop cultural Dreamtime notions are used in the sense that [[spoiler:time and space do not exist within it, hence gods cannot die.]]
24* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Being a pre-colonial setting, the indigenous places are used in lieu of modern Australian names. For instance, Mparntwe, the Arrente name for Alice Springs, Iutruwita for Tasmania, and Artilla for Mount Conner.
25* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: Perrurle, who is an Arrernte kangaroo and the most [[AwesomeAussie sterotypically Aussie]] of the characters, being abressive and full of himself.
26* LightIsNotGood:
27** The Sun Woman, who seeks to devour all of humanity, or the anthropomorphic creatures in this case.
28** [[spoiler:Parnuen is the Tasmanian sun god and is just as evil, enslaving Kubbadang and Bangalaa to his purposes.]]
29* MeaningfulName: Kubbadang means "moon" in the Yuin language. [[spoiler:he becomes the moon god later on]].
30* MultinationalTeam: The core group comes from all over Australia, from the Yuin in the southeastern coast to the Arrernte in the desert and the Gamilaraay in between. The Gunditjamara reinforcements from South Australia also feature an Yolngu from the opposite side of the continent.
31* ShownTheirWork: Many of the game's lore is based on the research on the critically aclaimed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Emu Dark Emu]].
32* YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy: The Dulagals, which the the Yuin analogues of the Yowie (otherwise absent) and Bunyips.

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