I. First, just to clear some things up so they hopefully make better sense:
In the first three Spyro games, "world" and "realm" seem to be interchangeable terms that mean the same thing. However, there are different types of worlds/realms. First are the small worlds inside portals (the levels, like Stone Hill or the various flight levels), then there are the home worlds (like Artisans, Evening Lake, etc.) that contain several of those portal worlds within them, and lastly there are names for the different groups of home worlds depending on the game they are from (similar to a planet name). These are the Dragon Realms, Avalar, and the Forgotten Worlds.
Technically the Dragon Realms and Forgotten Worlds are located on different sides of the same planet/world thing. To help ease confusion in this fic, I'm going to keep them separate and refer to the groups of home worlds from each game by their respective name. Home worlds themselves will be referred to as either "Home World" or "Realm." Finally, portal worlds will be referred to as just that, "Portal World."
I hope that makes things a little easier to understand for people. If not, I'm sorry. Insomniac didn't really explain the whole world, home world, and portal relationship when they made their games. I was forced to work with what I had.
II. Also in this fic, standalone italicized text (i.e. sometime later...) will represent changes in time and/or place, like blackouts in movies.
III. Next, if you are a first-time reader you can ignore the following. If you are a returning reader, please take note of this:
It is highly recommended that you reread my fic from the very beginning or Prologue chapter. Not only will this refresh your memory after all these years, but I have also made some slight edits and additions. I will list the main ones below, but I still suggest rereading everything.
The biggest changes are:
- The previous Chapters of 8, 9, and 10 are now combined into one chapter (Chapter 8), so the proceeding chapters have been bumped up in number.
- I swapped some of the characters' abilities to better fit with their heritage and my story. They include Stella's breath attack changing to ice (previously Dawn's), and Dawn's breath attack switching to wind.
- Due to some new inspiration, the descriptions of the architecture in Alttanis has changed a bit.
- The other little changes aren't very important, so I won't list them. I commend you if you catch them though. :)