by Schrade Academy » Mon Jun 30, 2025 4:42 am
I'm very happy that you liked it ^^
I have a question about the following paragraph on page 43:
"One important aspect of the Monster Hunter Online lore is that the game is situated in relatively distant future when compared to the console/portable series and Frontier. I will talk more about it in another post, but this placement is at least more than 50 years in the future when compared to the previous games. This gave the team margin to work on things without interfering too much with what the newer games were building."
Is there a source for this information? Does it come from a developer interview or in-game dialogue?
Yeah, there's a lot of in-game dialogue, texts and external media that shows that the story was set in the future (some of them I mentioned and left screenshots/translations in the pages 48 and 69)! Certain known places like the Furahiya Mountains (2nd Gen Snowy Mountains) that was old hunting grounds that were not used for a couple years until opened again in the main story, Mezeporta was already developed into a huge city 50 years before the actual in-game story and NPC characters like Roden lived through it in his past, Veld has a new royalty (and princess) in charge of the Kingdom, the Hinmeroon Mountains have now a road that passes through it and that serve as a novice hunting ground, Gore Magala research was more known and Estrellian was compared to it and so on...
I still have much translation to finish in regard to the story of the game, but I believe there is way more examples of that within it haha
Also, in regards to the Mezeporta Topaz, the Great Forest is quite far from the location of both Dundorma and the new Mezeporta, so could it have gained its name due to it being a common material brought to Mezeporta via the trade routes, rather than being mined near the town as the FU description suggests?
It is quite possibly a material that could have become associated with the place, after all the Great Forest was the first major hunting ground that was discovered and explored by Mezeporta, so makes sense that materials from there would have been brought to the city and manufactored into products/jewels for the people there ^^
Another example of a stone associated with a place that was geographically distant, was the Schradite and the Liber Ruby (said to be found in Schrade and the outskirts of the Liber City but were mined from the Kruptios Swamp, which is a region adjacent to the West Schrade Republic but is not part of it).
I'm very happy that you liked it ^^
[quote]I have a question about the following paragraph on page 43:
"One important aspect of the Monster Hunter Online lore is that the game is situated in relatively distant future when compared to the console/portable series and Frontier. I will talk more about it in another post, but this placement is at least more than 50 years in the future when compared to the previous games. This gave the team margin to work on things without interfering too much with what the newer games were building."
Is there a source for this information? Does it come from a developer interview or in-game dialogue?[/quote]
Yeah, there's a lot of in-game dialogue, texts and external media that shows that the story was set in the future (some of them I mentioned and left screenshots/translations in the pages 48 and 69)! Certain known places like the Furahiya Mountains (2nd Gen Snowy Mountains) that was old hunting grounds that were not used for a couple years until opened again in the main story, Mezeporta was already developed into a huge city 50 years before the actual in-game story and NPC characters like Roden lived through it in his past, Veld has a new royalty (and princess) in charge of the Kingdom, the Hinmeroon Mountains have now a road that passes through it and that serve as a novice hunting ground, Gore Magala research was more known and Estrellian was compared to it and so on...
I still have much translation to finish in regard to the story of the game, but I believe there is way more examples of that within it haha
[quote]Also, in regards to the Mezeporta Topaz, the Great Forest is quite far from the location of both Dundorma and the new Mezeporta, so could it have gained its name due to it being a common material brought to Mezeporta via the trade routes, rather than being mined near the town as the FU description suggests?[/quote]
It is quite possibly a material that could have become associated with the place, after all the Great Forest was the first major hunting ground that was discovered and explored by Mezeporta, so makes sense that materials from there would have been brought to the city and manufactored into products/jewels for the people there ^^
Another example of a stone associated with a place that was geographically distant, was the Schradite and the Liber Ruby (said to be found in Schrade and the outskirts of the Liber City but were mined from the Kruptios Swamp, which is a region adjacent to the West Schrade Republic but is not part of it).