I just realised that its now been over a year since development started. Let's talk about what's happened in that time:

• Game mechanics have been finalised
• Skill sets have been made (1 for melee, 3 for Energy)
• Armour has been made
• Weapons have been made
• World layout is done

Out of 6 settlements:

• Aequor is done (small logging village where most ship imports come through)
• Inkagafar is mostly done (capital of Inkagafaria, missing a few interiors and NPC's)
• Shivermoore Port is very unfinished (main port for Shivermoore, buildings are missing)
• Doone is somewhat done (desert town, has the buildings laid out but no interiors or NPC's)
• Middunn hasn't been started (used to be the capital of Middunn, the map is literally empty)
• Port Magnus also hasn't been started yet (port town for Inkagafar, ditto)

I'm not sure if I've given the names of all the settlements yet (there's too many tweets to check) but there's all the names. Each area is divided into what used to be separate kingdoms, but then Inkagafaria kinda just conquered everything.

To be more specific, here's a fancy map I literally just drew up a second ago to explain all the regions. The bridge connecting Inkagafaria and Middunn was built later, and most of the world has been destroyed following the mass Inkagafarian invasions (the Great Incursion).

Inkagafaria refers to the original island and the Kingdom as a whole (which at this point encompasses everything), while Aretisia is a collective name for the ENTIRE region. Shivermoore were the last to fall, only 80 years or so before Tenebris Dominus takes place. And yes the Great Incursion is a plot reason as to why only 6 settlements exist, but it also shows how destabilised the region is following the massive history of war that the humans have faced. It's hard to build a town when someone will burn it down 5 years later.

Also here's something fun, I literally just renamed Port Magnus to Port Magnus. It was called Aleport before and I realised that I'd never looked it up to see if it had been used in another game. Aleport is the name of a place in Final Fantasy 14. Whoops. Shivermoore also used to be called Shivermaw, and before that it was called Frostmaw. Turns out there is (or was?) a quest in WoW called Frostmaw and an enemy too, so I renamed it. It changed again because Shivermaw just seemed weird and -moore fits better with the island thing.