Here's some fun facts:
>The introduction of Queen fundamentally changed the whole structure of the story as until then I was planning for it to be a more straightforward treasure hunt story
>In addition to that, Joseph was meant to be the main villain with Heinrich remaining as his right-hand man and the secondary antagonist throughout
>Audience participation was abandoned after barely anybody replied during the Nutsy Bandit fight which was meant to simulate a JRPG
>Originally I meant for the Warriors Concession to have a more Nordic vibe with giants and stuff as I'm a huge One Piece fan and the manga is currently in the Elbaf Arc, Natalie would have reached the top of Mount Thule with the help of a big dragon lady picking her up and putting her there, but in the end I decided to model it after Late Imperial China with the introduction of Qing who became the main villain, I know some people probably found that more boring and I apologize for that