Okay so look, I am acutely aware that I am late to this particular posting party, BUT!!! If Ohio can show up 150 years late to *checks notes* becoming a legitimate state, then I politely ask for forgiveness for my week of tardiness. Please have mercy!
Look we all know why you clicked this update. You know it. I know it. Your neighbor's cat is somehow vaguely aware of it. You wanna see this PDF preview. I'm glad to hear it!
This is a work-in-progress preview of Chapter 1 for Arcana Americana. This contains some of the setting and history of Murka, updated from the first book to encompass some of the more-recent (but not PRECISELY recent because otherwise we'd be writing and rewriting indefinitely) events that the kingdom of Murka has faced.
Some quick notes:
This is a work-in-progress.
Many of the elements you see here are still being re-worked or re-arranged. Some text wraps incorrectly, like on page 23. Some of the page elements are not final. This is close to what the final product will look like, but expect some changes along the way!
We're planning on replacing the chapter image for this with that Murkan Gothiccc piece I shared in the last update—if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out!
If you find any concerns, issues, or errors, please tell us!
You can leave a comment here, send me an email (jaron at valafoundry.com), reach out to us on the QuasiReal Discord, or send a carrier pigeon if you can manage it! Happy to take any feedback you have.
There's more where this came from!
We're hard at work figuring out exactly what our cadence for these updates will be. I want you guys to have a steady stream of preview material, but I have to reconcile that against asking our layout artist to provide frequent updates - please be patient while we keep figuring this out, we appreciate you!
The Roadmap
... is coming soon! Sorry about this. Vala Foundry, QuasiReal, and Vala Marketing are in our busiest season, which also happens to coincide with vacation season. We're still putting this together, we just need a bit more time. The main thing we're trying to do as we build this roadmap is figure out the most efficient path towards finishing this book as quickly as possible—the last thing we want is to bring you a roadmap that's like "Yeah okay, so we'll have the finished books done sometime in 2029, enjoy waiting!" because that would suck for everyone, lol.
So, seriously, I apologize for the delay. I promise this is on the way. The person who is in charge of this roadmap (and like a million other things), Cheyenne, has been working SO hard to get all of this put together, there's just a lot of moving parts, and she's got a lot on her plate. Please send some love her way in the comments.
Thanks again for everything. Your support, your kind words, your patience—I can't thank you guys enough.
