One small detail I really loved: Ao says the "dogs" of Venkalth are coming, and then when they appear they're a bunch of floating hairy eyeballs. I don't know if there's a term for this, but I really love it in fantasy stories when characters use mundane terms to refer to fantastical things. I find it way more compelling than making up a new name, or using recognisable fantasy monsters. The word "dog" suddenly takes on a strange new meaning, and the image of the eyeball also takes on a strange new meaning, as my mind is trying to connect the two things.
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Ayy. I'm glad you like it. It's easier on me as well. Because of the length of the project it's not possible for me to really think of a lot of meaningful names, especially since the plot is a somewhat iterative process of me accessing how much work I could do with the time left. There also wasn't enough time for the player to start getting used to / associate names with a particular meaning. So I kept the list of names minimal (Vekalth for instance was $mountain_god internally).