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Eiderdowm is an action RPG setting created by Black Mage Anolis. The player assumes the role of a Beast Whisperer, an ilden who has harnessed the power given to them by Gaia, the ability to lull Gaia Beasts into submission using their singing, who sets off on a quest to defeat the Goetia Beasts and find out why the Gaia Beasts are being sent out.

The gameplay plays like the World Of Mana games, albeit more focused on menu-based combat and character customization. You can use simple attacks, derivative attacks for each of the game's weapon types, and a plethora of magicks available to the player. It would be wise for a player to build themselves as a Magic Knight; otherwise, they might get trumped easily if an enemy's defenses are too high for a simple weapon to be used.

Examples

Gameplay Tropes

• Annoying Arrows: Downplayed. While the damage formula for both Bows and Guns are different, giving the WPN rating (and ELE, if applicable) more of an effect than STR would if boosted, they can still do good damage compared to most other weapons, which helps to balance out their range with their need for ammunition.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: It's entirely up to you.
• Compelling Voice: What your Magic Music does to the Gaia Beasts.
• Developer's Foresight: You can use certain spells and weapons within quests to get a different outcome. For example, when the hobbits swarm you when you make it to their only surviving settlement, you can use Melody or Lullaby to lower their aggression or put them to sleep, respectively.
• Elemental Powers: There are six in total: the standard Fire, Water, Earth, and Air, as well as Lightning and Ice.
• Fluffy Tamer: You can sing to nearby monsters to lull them over to your side.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Magic Knight: Your character can become this pretty easily.
• Mons: The Gaia Beasts
• Multi-Melee Master: Your character can easily become this thanks to the multitude of weapons available.
• Multi-Ranged Master: A character can gain stats in both a melee weapon and a ranged weapon like a bow or a gun.
• Role-Playing Game
  • Action RPG

Story Tropes

• Developer's Foresight: There's a staggering amount of dialogue options available, and sometimes, picking the right or wrong option can be the difference to getting a quest or not.
• Genre Deconstruction: Of Role-Playing Games, including the Mon subgenre.
  • Those Gaia Beasts you're controlling? Yea, they're not cute little animals, but vengeful killing machines that can easily turn on you at any moment and even kill you.
  • Your Hyperactive Metabolism, strange sleeping patterns, and tendency towards violence in finding a solution? Turns out, the ilden are the only ones who have those quirks, and it's because the ilden are an invasive race of Seeds sent by aliens to drain the planet of its souls.
  • The Hobbits undying hate of the ildens? Two hundred and fifty years is a long time, long enough for the endangered Hobbits to realize what's the cause of all this and try to kill the rest of the ilden before the world is overrun with Gaia Beasts.
  • Send out a kid to save the world? In all but a few cases, the player character is chased out of town and forced to survive on his/her own. Kid's lucky (s)he happens to be a Beast Whisperer because if not, then they most likely would have died!
    • Also, the ilden have been sending out Beast Whisperers for over two hundred years and none of their attempts, as far as they know, were successful. The most successful one was cornered within the Terraglyph's chamber by swarms of Gaia Beasts and brutally killed.
  • There's one instance in the game where you stop within a town near the Terraglyph's location. If you return to that town, the town will be overrun with Gaia Beasts who attack you on sight. If you survive, you realize that there are no corpses within the town, a far cry from the other locations you've visited where people have died. In fact, it's heavily implied that the townspeople were transformed intentionally by Gaia to stop you.
  • Also, the Goetia? They're sentient, and they have souls which your character absorbs when they are killed.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Loads. The player's dialogue options can make the character seem very manipulative, dishonest, or just a downright asshole.
  • Need an example. Take one of the first quests in the game, where you go with a kobold named Mortimer to clear a path for his settlement in order to trade with the other settlements. While his HP is a good amount, he can still die, no matter how many healing items or revival spells you give him. When he does kick the bucket, you can take his stuff or leave it there. But wait, there's more!
    • If you take back his stuff, including his gun, one of the first times you can get one, you can either give the gun back to his wife, Minnie, as a memento or not. If you don't, she'll berate you and ask you to give back the gun. If you answer no a second time, she attacks you. You can either let her attack you, or you can shoot her with the gun, orphaning little Mickey and causing the town to chase you out and attack you on sight should you ever come back.
    • If you leave his stuff, Minnie will ask what happened to Mortimer. You can either tell her the truth or lie about it. Should you go back to their house after a while if you lied to them, they'll still be trying to find him and wondering where he is.

Setting Tropes