Trivia / Elancia Chronicles

• Crossover Cameo: Because the author contributed heavily to the game's soundtrack, Verse makes a cameo appearance in Freedom Planet 2 as a travelling musician in the game's Shang Tu and Parusa areas. She plays her guitar from the books, and allows players to listen to any vinyls that have been found. Her design there is notably different to in Elancia, as she wears a completely different outfit to anything seen in the books, including *gasp* shoes, and her fur is pink, instead of purple.
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: Elancia Chronicles was originally envisioned as a JRPG, but this didn't work out, and genre-shifted to literature early on due to issues with making the story work in a video game. As such, Elancia features many tropes & cliches commonly associated with JRPGs.
• Officially Shortened Title: The series used to be called Elancia Chronicles: Order of New Gods early in it's production, but by the time the first book was published, it had been shortened to just Elancia Chronicles.
• Promoted Fanboy: Leilani Wilson's girlfriend Emma has been co-writing the series since Awakened Gods, after having previously made art of it's characters.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: Basil Cyrus Rathborne VII & his nemesis General Lionel Atwill are a reference to early 20th century actors Basil Rathbone & Lionel Atwill. The two played Sherlock Holmes & Professor Moriarty respectively in the 1940's Universal Studios Sherlock films.
• What Could Have Been: An old concept art for General Charlemagne "Chaz" Errylon reveals that her full name used to be "General Charlemagne "Chaz" Ashley Arylon".
• Write Who You Know: The Author has stated in an interview that the five main characters from Shifting Tides (Verse and Cecelia especially) personalities are based on herself, with Verse being representative of depression and anxiety, and Cecelia's social awkwardness being representative of herself when she was younger.