Hi, thanks for taking the time to reply to my rambling. Just to clarify a few things:
1- The part about waking up in his world with the excuse that "it was all a dream" was more like him believing, for a single moment, that it had all been a dream, leading the reader to fall into the trap of thinking, as you rightly said that it would be a ridiculous ending, that James dreamed it or that he was in a coma. But that in reality, it all happened.
2- You're absolutely right, you wrote that the town was empty, but I don't know, it seems strange to me that instead of investigating the town further, he goes into the biggest house he sees and starts snooping around. But I understand that you did it to make the encounter with Dylus seem like fate, I suppose.
3- I see where you're going with this; I was just saying that it could be a concept you might use, given that the history of that world is ancient. The idea that he can speak and read any language from that world could justify him, for example, being able to read messages/runes/texts from that era in the future (assuming it's a different language than the one spoken in this lore; otherwise, forget everything mentioned above).
Finally, for now, I'm interested in the lion brothers. I know they haven't been shown much and only started developing as characters in the last update, but I hope to see more of them in the future, both interacting with James and demonstrating that they and their people have changed since their father's reign.
Thank you very much, and sorry for rambling on again.