Pulp Sword & Sorcery with anthropomorphic animals.
“Furry Barabarians” was Waldviech’s initial pitch which got me involved in the first place.
Wanwan Sanjūshi, but with Robert E. Howard’s Conan instead of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers was for a long time an important mental image for me (although I could not say at the moment whether I even spelled that out during the initial phases of work).
What got more and more prominent also as part of my work on the rules was (as already hinted at in the preamble article and as already seen in the first part of the [German] rules) the focus on the rise and fall of whole (animal) peoples, climbing out of barbarism towards high civilization only to fall back into barbarism again, and even – and here we are back to some of Waldviech’s foundational concepts – out of animal simplicity towards thought and enlightenment.
Currently Listening: Eleni Mandell, My Twin