I think you may have missed the point that I was trying to get across yet in that specific reference to what you refer of course my intial statement would be viewed as a under statement. as for those nobles and any who would do such they should be punished. Itâs for all those who are not to blame my MC seeks to protect that goes for Arcadians and non Arcadians.
As to Thalia I donât see her changing course from wanting to kill the white fangs or particularly caring who gets used or hurt in the process in the furtherance of her goal. So while I can respect her determination and loyalty to arcadia my main MC and her are doomed to kill or be killed by the other. Baring something changing in the course of play and if my main MC couldnât save them she would avenge them.
In any case hope this finds you and everyone else having a great day
Thalia and F are assholes, the rest is fine. I also think itâll come down to kill or get killed by her defending the gang. Me wants to meet with baby Saine again
That on the other hand may be a little excessive. My mcâs price for reluctantly helping Leon again would in fact be that he spares both the nicer Arcadians, such as Yu (provided they donât choose to fight to the death themselves) and keeps his nobles from any more genocides.
Yep, Sister got freedom, resources and a country to dominate whereas the mc is simply a slave doing forced labour. She doesnât exactly make the most effective sales pitch.
Unfortunately due to the four useless parasites the new, semi-useful one is probably far too weak to really help the mc against Thalia. And dumping the other four probably wonât be possible, except maybe in an epilogue. And for that too little too late bit my mc hates the new parasite too.
I hope we get a conversation option with Eli about the new parasite as I still really want to know if Eli knew something like that might happen to the mc there.
So, after my save got borked into the stats screen, I decided to replay, and I finally finished Book One and, wow,
Leomar is REALLY FAST to throw you into the pyre at the first opportunity, isnât he? I mean, you can risk your life so many times to help people youâve never met that Ilya starts going âBy Jove, not again.â, including the White Fangs, and you actually win him the war, but I guess the benefit of the doubt is for other people.
Guess he ran out of mercy after advocating for sparing the life of checks notes a genocidal, bioweapon-using noble.
The pope that, I remind you, was only alive in the first place because of YOU. Funny how apparently nobody ever bothered to ran a magical diagnostic on you, even though the war (the war you just won for them) only happened specifically because someone went on a mind control spree.
The Duke set a magical plague that would have wiped out an entire village, but Leomar goes really damn fast into âno, no, we should spare his life, trulyâ mode.
An absolute monarchy is pretty much one person, itâs what makes it an absolute monarchy. As I said, Iâve just wrapped up Book One, so I GUESS I still have to see if Leomar does anything right (like, e.g., lifting the ban on non-Jovian healing thaum).
That is even more true of god-empress Thalia (and probably also for Salantira when Mireil dominated it) than it is of Leon, at least Leonâs country has institutions other than the monarchy, even if they are just the church and vassals with some actual power, whereas Thalia seems to be Arcadia and Arcadia seems to be just Thalia. There is no real input from anybody else there, even less so than in Param where the old king at least obeyed his own laws.
Iâm not disputing that weâre running on âeveryoneâs running an absolute monarchyâ here (well, except for the free cities), Iâm saying that if Leomar (just like every other absolute ruler) wants a policy instituted, he gets to institute it.
There is, de facto, no distinction between Leomar and Param as an institution.
Holy Smokes. What ever you do, please pour your soul into this project. The way you introduce each part of the story is unique. I feel like maaaaaybe it could use some more options of spells, instead of always casting the same three.
But thatâs all the critique I can offer, since youâve done a great job so far. Looking forward to every update, and the final product.
Aaaaand now Iâve played the entirety of the demo. Canât wait for more and for the books to start getting published.
Thereâs a LOT of pronoun mix-up in (what I think is) chapter 9, though, you might want to double-check those.
Also, how is anyone considering siding with anyone BUT the Arcadians? These people got destroyed over a blatant power grab under false pretenses, lost their land, were enslaved in half the continent until 5 years ago, had their works stolen and appropriated by their destroyers, are STILL not allowed to go back to practicing thaumic healing, and are STILL forced to serve the literal same individuals who went around murdering and enslaving them. NO WONDER theyâre willing to go super-heavy handed. I mean, Iâm still not going to let them do it, but Iâm really seeing no way to condemn them.
Also, unless weâre dealing with one of those âyour fate after death is what you happen to believe it isâ, the Jovian faith really is nothing but lies (and even if it wasnât, the Ishavak one is better anyway). Not âthe priests are liarsâ (well, not JUST), but the actual religion.
EDIT: Also, F? F gets to be antagonistic to anyone who ever sided with Param. Theyâre allowed. If theyâre a 20 year-old Arcadian born in Param, then 15 of those 20 years (a quarter of their life) was as a slave to Paramites. âAntagonisticâ is the least that can be tolerated.
From an individualistic pov, they fucking kidnapped me, also forcing me to serve them just like their people were, and are threatening to hurt the only friends Iâve had besides Eli. So yeah, as long as they are ruled by someone like Thalia and they allow people like Mirael to roam free I canât completely side with them. Iâm allowed to sympathize with their generational trauma AND hold a grudge at the same time.
as for those nobles and any who would do such they should be punished. Itâs for all those who are not to blame my MC seeks to protect that goes for Arcadians and non Arcadians.
She doesnât exactly make the most effective sales pitch.
And for that too little too late bit my mc hates the new parasite too. 