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Introduction

Legends of Amelos began as a small experiment in storytelling and retro gaming. A Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing game about four strangers bound by loss, hope, and the pursuit of connection. But as the world grew, it evolved into a mirror that reflected back my own limitations and perfectionism.

Set in the aftermath of The Hollowing, an event that severed humanity’s natural link to Arcana, the story follows Elaria Aldarina and her companions across a world struggling to remember itself. Beneath its fantasy lies a story on power and the boundary between protection and control.

The project became a long-form exercise on cohesion, the unification of narrative, art, and design into a single language. Each system, from battle mechanics to worldbuillding, was crafted to reinforce the story’s core themes: truth versus control, identity versus heritage, power versus corruption, and the possibilities after collapse.

Purpose

Legends of Amelos became a lesson in discipline. What began as a creative pursuit grew into a reflection of the habits, impulses, and challenges that shape how I work. I wanted it to be perfect, a game that matched the depth of its world and the clarity in its design, and that pursuit often turned inward. Each time I shifted tools or systems, I told myself it was to make the project better. But in truth, I was chasing after refinements and losing site of the big picture. The project revealed how the desire to perfect something can easily obscure the value of simply moving forward. A project requires more than imagination, it requires endurance.

Through that realization, Amelos became less about building a game and more about understanding creation itself. It taught me that cohesion doesn’t come from better tools or cleaner code, but from attention and commitment; showing up. Every abandoned version, every move between game engines, carries its own lesson about patience and focus. In that sense, this project reflects the same philosophy that guides Keoni Studio: that craft is as much about the process as it is the finished work. Legends of Amelos became a practice in restraint, an attempt to find peace in imperfection.

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