Thanks so much for your kind comment. It's always so rewarding when people let us know that they're enjoying the game and the story, and this was a really nice comment to read!
For the quality, we are continually striving to improve it. Hopefully, now that you're starting Realm 2, you'll notice the increase in our animation quality as we're now working with an animator. The aim is for this to keep improving.
For the characters, you can learn a little more about some of them on our
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. various characters have character sheets that we will likely look to redo in the future, but it still contains some info, such as their ages and a brief summary of them. We are also looking to implement a character bio screen at some point to enable players to access this info directly within the game. Adding that might still be a little while off, but we have begun working on it in the background.
As for why Lucius chose Atlas, we actually expanded on this slightly in a short story on our website,
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. Various elements of the characters' backstories will be expanded upon as the game progresses. We realise that various things feel left unanswered after Realm 1 or that there was more that could have been explored. Some things will purposefully be left open-ended, but other things will be explained as the game progresses - we still have a very long way to go. Hopefully, once we reach the end of the game, we will have struck a good balance between the two, as we want it to feel like a complete experience by the end of the game.
Thanks again for your kind words - have a good one!