Sources of Inspiration

The clever among you may notice some various sources of inspiration. I could not begin to link all of them but I'd like to give a shout out to a few sources on the top of my head that helped me form this world, in no real order (Only as I think of them)

To start off, I'll say the Vanguard is pretty much an original concept. I created it to counter all the vamp-love I was seeing when I was younger. They're monsters, people. So any similarities in other media is entirely coincidental.

Some of Joss Whedon's work. (Borrowed a couple of concepts)

Mass Effect Series (Aesthetics of the future)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Aesthetics, and some lore regarding cybernetics and implants)

Halo Series (The Covenant are the primary inspiration for "The Gathering", a hostile alien race in this setting)

Half Life Series (The Citadel image on the Lore page.)

Champions Online (For finally giving me a nearly perfect character creator to help me portray my characters VERY accurately, since I am not an artist)

World of Warcraft (The Roleplaying community helped me become a better writer)

Whoever drew those things I use for the Shadowy minions. While not entirely accurate, still serves as a decent visual aid.

Bethesda, specifically the Elder Scrolls series. Their expansive worlds simply inspired me to expand my own.

The Underworld movies. (I mostly borrowed how their vampires work, with plenty of differences)

Death Note (Borrowed the concept of the death note itself, but it does not play a big role)

Final Fantasy 12, which I didn't play as much, was still the source of the Nahzreheim Knights.

Bloodrayne series (Borrowed how some of their vampires work, also the machines that darkened the sky in the second game)

I actually had my Trahl'es'Da idea before I knew about The Darkness, but I did borrow a couple of elements.

<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:20.46875px;">I do my best not to plagiarize ideas, but some things slip past my detection. And because I borrowed names or characters, they will be renamed and/or reformatted if this stuff ever sees publishing.