for a town called Pelican Town, there's literally no pelicans on sight

It’d be very fun if Haunted Chocolatier is set in the Gotoro Empire. Kinda limits any references you could make, but it’d be cool.

I have a headcannon that the snake fossil is a now extinct or endangered species of serpent, maybe the serpents in the dangerus skull caverns. Some of the features of the features lacking of the bones being made of scales or cartilage, the limbs missing from the snake skeleton could be explained as the bones were missing, or the snake is just a big snake lmao

I would go absolutely FERAL if there is a history book from the Stardew Valley universe. Like, i want to learn more about the world. I want to learn about the elemental war, i want to know more about zuzu, i even kinda want to learn more about the history of even joja and i HATE joja lmao

This was delightful! On Kent’s hated gifts: he also hates all the warp totems. What were the empire soldiers attempting with those, I wonder…

This is really good! You did miss Sam’s 3 heart cutscene that you can get in year one. Sam mentions the Gotoro empire and calls them a “ruthless bunch” and Vincent says how he overheard adults saying that their soldiers were “being shot to pieces”. This is further backed up by Sam later saying that their soldiers were falling by the thousands. It’s unclear if Sam’s word can be taken at face value, as it could very well be just propaganda and what he thinks because his dad fought against them, but we can pretty easily say that the war is not going well on the Ferngill Republic side.

when i saw mentions of Zuzu City in SDV, it initially freaked me out a bit, because Zuzu has been my irl nickname for years 😭 lmao

Ginger island was probably used as a resort before Willy’s boat got ruined. The remnants of the resort stuff is literally right on the beach. I also wonder who put the gem bird shine there

Great video, thank you. Qi is usually a Chinese word and is pronounced "chee" but with an overtone (a harmonic?) that my American voice was not trained from infancy to pronounce. But "chee" is the closest most native English speakers can get. Qi's meaning is described briefly as: Qi is a concept in Chinese philosophy, medicine, and religion that refers to psychophysical energies that permeate the universe. The word qi is polysemous and can be translated as "vital energy," "vital force," "material energy," or simply "energy". It can also literally mean "vapor," "air," or "breath"

Ark-a-pel-a-go is how archipelago is pronounced.

I really enjoyed your Yoba deep dive and this one too!! I really wish the game would have given us more of the world’s lore, I love how Stardew has a kind of Urban Fantasy vibe to its world building. Do you think Haunted Chocolatier will expand on it??

I'm currently in the process of making an NPC mod, said NPC being from outside the Ferngill Republic. You are making my mod possible, thank you so much for making this. Like seriously, this video alone (not even mentioning your other SDV lore videos) has fed me so many ideas. You are saving my mod-making ass right now, thank you so much.

12:02 lmaooo not the 🤢 noise for clint

I'm literally so obsessed with the globe/world of stardew valley so this video is feeding into my theories

I will say that if the locations on the map are correct, Ginger island and the Fern Archipelago are probably located in between the Gotoro Empire and the Ferngill Republic, as the Gem Sea most likely is only refering to the body of water in between the two. I doubt the islands are big enough to be seen in a map like that.

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Do you think thc being in the same world will be relevent? It'd be interesting if it was. Maybe i'm stretching though, cause I'm dying for any kind of hc news haha. Great video ❤

18:20 Also! In one of Sam[?]’s heart events, Vincent mentions overhearing villagers talking about the war, and that Ferngill’s troops were being “massacred”

i love this so much!!! please make more of this

your voice is so calming!!

I keep wondering where is the Elven civilization, since there is an elven artifact?

Loved this.

could the gotoro empire be based on imperial japan ? gotoro itself seems to be a very japanese name, and based on kent’s remarks about the food he was served (sashimi and algae soup) we can also infer the cuisine is somewhat similar to that of japan’s

I've gotta disagree with your placement of Ginger island, in-game it is referred to as situated in an archipelago in the gem sea like you stated, now archipelagos are normally chains or clusters of smaller islands separated by lakes, rivers or the ocean, which wouldn't match with ginger island being one big land mass incredibly far from the gem sea. I also think that Prairie island is situated in the archipelago as well.

why is assumed that ferngill is an island?

HELP PLEASE PLAY ANIMAL CROSSING I NEED TO SEE THE RAIN CAFE🔥🔥🔥🔥

i don't think that's how you say archipelago but it may be a tomato potato situation