Know Your Lore: A history of Gilneas

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12-09-2010 @ 12:33AM

wondershot said...

I find the most revealing lore not in the Gilneans' history, but their design aesthetic.

I wonder how many people have noticed the whole Victorian quality of Gilneas-- the architecture of the buildings, omnipresent English rain, the moors, rose arbors, British accents, tailcoats, tophats, monocles and lace. I almost expected to see Sherlock Holmes or Jack-the-Ripper references leaping out at me.

And I imagine that these Gilneans, being so Victorianesque, must have a healthy sense of sophistication, cultural superiority, civic pride, duty and self-control-- like Dr. Jekyll.

So can you imagine how they must feel when they find themselves mutating into fantasy versions of Mr. Hyde?

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