I'm pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

Okay, one of my ongoing quests is to record a podcast on every episode. I continue that today

with Rivals of Ixelon. Okay, so in order to set this up, let me talk a little bit about

Ixelon in order to set up Rivals of Exel a little bit about Ixelon, in order to set up rivals of Xelon.

So, Xelon was during a portion where we did blocks for two sets, a large and a small set.

In fact, this would be the very last set, and we'll get to that, of this model.

So Ixelon, the place got inspired because Jenna Helland, who was on the creative team,

came up with a cool idea for a world where it had kind of a, I don't know how to say it, like a mexo-American sort of flavor to it.

And the idea was, it was a world where the natives dealt with the outsiders, but the outsiders

from the new world were vampires.

And so Jenna pitched this idea of, it's kind of this conflict between the natives of the world

and the outsiders who were vampires that came from, you know, quote about the new world.

And so that is where it started. That was the initial pitch.

The creative team really liked the world.

We hadn't done much with this.

Like, we liked to sort of take influences from different parts of the world.

We hadn't done much.

Even not, we haven't done a lot with South America and Mexico and stuff.

So it's, it was something that really was, I think the only thing we had done before

that was the Naya Shard of Alara had some influence. But so we were interested in doing that.

They came to me and they said, uh, what do you think?

Uh, and I said, well, um, we had done a lot of two-sided conflicts recently.

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