I don't think I have mentioned them much?
There was the priests gossiping about them a couple of updates ago and in a couple of romantic contexts, they got mentioned when someone was finding their lover's attractive. And looking back at some of the early updates, there was Ymarn getting blessed by Arthryn, but they were barely mentioned apart from descriptive language. There was also that time when Bronwyn was appreciating her beauty to show how she was proud of her good looks and valued them.
Otherwise it has been Wyrn pranking Ymarn as a sign of her perverted nature in the last side story or as describing the appearance of the goddesses in the pantheon posts and that is only because the lack of a slim waists means I can't just say 'large hourglass figure' as a descriptor. We also got the list of Arthwyd slang of which half of it is referencing sexual stuff, but that is because Soulcake provided me a page of lewd slang that the Arthwyd might use. With the twins having curvy figures in the last update? That is because I got asked on the discord to do that and I figured "why not?". The Breast Support divine magic? Those are basically magic bras that came up when discussing how the blessing would affect Arthwyd culture in the discord and it came up how large breasts would make things harder for the blessed women of the Arthwyd.
Beyond that, that has blessing of Arthryn giving curvy figured to the women, but that has been a thing for the entirety of the quest and the majority of the tine, that has been one of the least relevant parts of the blessing as the other parts have been far more impactful on the civ. And that is only because Arthryn is a curvy female as if she had been a male god, the blessing would have affected the appearance of men and not women.
I have looked at all of the threadmarks since Somebodynobody10 brought up the subject and I'm not really seeing it. Over fifty posts and several tens of thousands of words and they have only been mentioned a few times. While it has had some mentions, I don't feel it has come up much. I contest the idea that it has been "constant jokes/mention of large tracks of land". As far as I can tell, it has has been barely any of the quest and half the time it has been physical descriptors of characters.
As for the discord, that is the discord and I don't consider what happens on there something to judge the quest by because as Raichu put it earlier, it is 80% meming, 10% salt and 10% discussion.
I've been noticing that, too. I don't think it's crossed a line yet but I do agree it might be approaching one. Acknowledging that sex exists and adding lewdness is not the issue for me, it's that it seems exclusively focused on women thus far. If the Arthwyd/Wryn are lewd about men too, or if it gets toned down, I don't see any problem tbh.
I would put that down to me being terrible to writing male romance/sexual interactions. I have tried that in the past a few times and got burned pretty much every attempt so I am leery of trying it again. Meanwhile I am somewhat confident in my ability to write more romance/sexual stuff involving women.
I think part of the problem is that I am willingly to mention breasts in sexual stuff because that is sort of a middle ground between sexual stuff and non-sexual stuff because they can be mentioned in both sexual and non-sexual contexts freely. I can feel comfortable mentioning breasts to touch upon mildly sexual stuff, but with penises and vaginas, I don't feel comfortable that feels going full-on sexual stuff to me so I actively avoid mentioning those. As a result, when I want to mention something sexual, I mention breasts because that feels like mentioning softcore sexual stuff rather than hardcore sexual stuff that is penises and vaginas.
I would turn it down, but the Arthwyd are a sexual open society due to their communal nature and mostly disregard for bloodlines means that sex is something of a casual past time for them. Turning down sexual stuff is going to be hard if I want to write stuff from the preservative of an Arthryd character or show what Arthwyd culture is like. As for characters being more lewd towards men, I would do that, but I lack the skill do so and men lack the sexual equivalent to the breasts of women. If you got any suggestions on how to change that, feel free to share, but in the end, the sexual stuff won't be going away because the Arthwyd aren't that kind of civ. If you want that, you need to change the Arthwyd into something else.
That said, I am happy to make it more focused on both genders rather than just one, but I am unsure of how to do that and as I mention above, I would appreciate advice on how to do so.
The 'In universe justification' thus far has been there has been no male god to shape guy physiques around. So that would suggest we need to roll a male hero/genius who ascends to godhood and then get a further upgrade to the blessing.
Pretty much. I never expected the Arthrynite pantheon to end up being all female and that is because of dice rolls. And while it may seem a bit of a cop-out to blame things on the dice rolls, I like to use the dice rolls to maintain a random element and I don't like to disrupt that random element just to add in stuff unless there is a very good reason. I will happily add a male deity to the pantheon or make a male character prominent, but I won't just artificially add one in because the dice aren't providing one. Honestly, I've been looking to add in a gay man as a character, I haven't had the chance to do so without making his life suck or passing up a potential sub-plot. And as I look at the behind the scenes stuff, the dice rolls have provided a lot of prominent male characters who have shaped the setting, but they haven't been prominent in directly shaping the Arthwyd or being Arthwydish characters who perspective you get to see.
It is luck of the draw and I like to keep the luck of the draw to keep a random element and not just have anything be down to the whims of the QM.
said big breasts that are mentioned without fail every single update (also apparently all the blessed women have such big breasts they require a divine spell to adjust,),
No, they haven't? I'm certain that is not the case. As for the breast size, it is Cs to Ds so not that big. The breast support is basically magic bras because you can't get conventional bras at your tech level and Veekie made me feel sorry for how the lack of bras could make things harder for the women of the People.
And our chief goddess as well as the majority of the goddess's don't even look like that. Also I'm hoping any more goddesses or gods added to the pantheon dodge the weird cat people thing as well. Still not sure why this happened at all in the first place, but I did find the quest late and certainly have not read all of Oshhas posts.
It started off with Wyrn playing a prank on Evalyn when she first became a goddess.
"I thought it would be funny to give your divine form the ears and tail of a cat," explains Wyrn, earning herself a glare from Evalyn, "So when the living decided that you were a goddesses, I set things up so that they believed you gained cat ears and tail upon becoming a goddess."
"Was that really necessary?" asks Arthryn as she directs a stern gaze at Wyrn.
"Ah, I suppose not," admits Wyrn, shifting guilty under her mother's gaze, "I just thought that since the cat is our, well, your sacred animal, at least one of us should have some features of a cat."
Then Bronwyn got some when she was punished because she wanted some to be more like her divine ancestor Evalyn and Bronwyn was feeling sorry about killing her so she gave some to her.
