A New World, A Blemished Legacy, and an update almost 5 years on news

Howdy. Long time no see.
I sincerely thank those who by some miracle find this page or still care at all about it.
Ever since 2020, stuff's changed a lot. Carnivores got the modder's engine which broke that huge limitation I felt with the burnout around modding, many people have came and went, and I've changed a lot as a person. I've said it before here and there, but I know I myself am to blame for a significant amount of the content and strife regarding Carnivores over the years between 2016 and 2020, either by being the victim of it (Glisp), actively involving myself in it (canon drama), or instigating it (whatever political nonsense I was into). I was disagreeable, an asshole, vindictive, angry, bitter, and burned many bridges with people who I should be able to get along with perfectly well. We all like dinosaurs, we all like cool alien worlds, we all like vintage paleoart, most of us like monsters and scifi, and a lot of us also like guns, which is stuff we all bonded over plenty of times, but we were divided over small (and sometimes larger, more justifiable) differences that fractured the community over tiny things that really never should have been a big deal. Who cares if my mod has dinosaurs with bright colors? Who cares if someone's mod doesn't want to consider mine a part of its lore? That should be up to the creator, and I think a lot of trying to force confirming was terrible for everyone involved, and while I have privately apologized to many people for my actions, I openly apologize to the community, even if I have a legacy or reputation as some vindictive prick, which, fair enough, I absolutely was. I hope, though, I'm not like that anymore, even if I can get grumpy sometimes.

As for A New World, it is unlikely it will ever see the light of day. Same goes for Primordial, A Dawning End, what have you. Almost everything I had made for this project is either buried so deep in a discord server finding it would be highly impractical and very piecemeal at best, or was on my previous hard drive, which is now lost to time. I don't think I even have anything left of Hadeisutyrannus (the Bleeding Rose Feathered Dragon) other than screenshots (put as the article preview). And, even still, if it was to come back, I would rather remake it from the ground up. Ultimately, however, Plutyrian is gone, Poharex is gone, I don't really know how to mod all that well and I sort of just rode off the ability of others to get stuff done. I was always quite lazy, and I always did art, writing lore, concepting, and texturing better than anything else. I never liked modeling and animation was too tedious for me, and Ophie never made his mapping tutorial back then (no idea if he has now lol). I had grand ambitions for ideas that weren't at all possible and entirely hinged on the engine being modified, or even making the game in a different engine. A Dawning End was supposed to be in GZDoom, much like Total Chaos. One of these things was a secret eldritch creature, The Nethen, that would have been a secret part of the mod. Basically imagine a Wendigo or Leshy, but with an Agathaumas skull instead. It was supposed to have been a boss fight that could only be damaged by a specific weapon, and only rarely appeared in a single map.

The elephant in the room is the modder's engine where stuff like rare and specific map spawns are possible, and that would require entirely new skills to learn. All this said though, Plutyrian is dissolved, none of the core creators are still here, thus the large grand story with lore cannot come to fruition, and I think without that, New World would feel hollow. At one point, I had actively fully planned to remake New World, with the new title, "Blood and Dragons", and I even did a new logo for it.

Thematically it'd be the same, but with just more refinement, updated designs with a bit better saturation/contrast (as in, less on each), etc. I had begun with a redesign of Hadesiutyrannus to be more like an eastern dragon while retaining some Shin Gojira elements,

but that died before it got off the ground when I left the community and decided to put Carnivores behind me for the sake of my mental health. This was honestly a good decision, as some time away from it has made the heart grow fonder, and such stuff. I've since gone on to get a job working as a concept artist with an indie game, as well as opening art commissions, and doing my own original project and my Monster Hunter fanon project, Aberrations. All this said however, I am not discounting the possibility of coming back to Carnivores sometime, possibly soon. I have had many ideas and an itch that can't be scratched with these other projects, and games such as theHunter Call of the Wild have had me yearning for Dinosaur hunting again. Lately, I've been humbled by finding out New World's menu music was uploaded on its own to youtube by somebody, and that there's a video entirely in Spanish about NW/Hadesia lore with over 5k views, which is mindboggling to me. Someone made a lore video on my project, without my involvement in it, in another language to share with other people. I have a legacy, even if it's a tainted one, and it has made me very nostalgic and longing for the old days of Carnivores modding. So you never know, I may come back to it, and do something new. Probably not ANW, but something more, 'me', but who knows. And maybe with, you know, some more effort on my part this time. Time will tell.

Sincerely,
-Dawn