Blood Legacies (UPDATE 16/05/25| New Demo | 203k words)

From my view both is at fault both is determined to make situation worse by butting heads with each other.

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that i told my father to he should have never trusted the king, i mean there was already bad blood between those two before even the rebels did show up

I’m with the nobles of Suron. Eleazor and King either need to get a room or get an adult. :rofl:

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both to stubborn for it :smiley:

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It more likely than not Father doesn’t expect reinforcement from the King but he wanted to do it regardless because it’s prestigious to do so, just like Father like to brag that MC is much better than King child, by doing rite of blood early and hunting stuff.

Eleazar is ambitious Glory hound type of person he wont back down from a challenge even if that will cost him greatly, he doesn’t care about consequences if it’s increase his standing to show that he is strong.

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Ok…here’s the plan. Get them drunk, disarm them, lock them in a dungeon cell warded to weaken their powers. They’ll either learn to get along or strangle each other by the end of the night.

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Hayden wasn’t married. He was betrothed.
For the ‘outside of marriage’ stigma to be valid, there would’ve been explicit statement on how organized religion treats such things (if there is organized religion at all).

ad was still not well seen on that time to go around and well have fun , just look to our uncle what in the end did happen to him becouse of it

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You say, while ignoring organized societies view on it. :sweat_smile:

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It’s social not religious custom that say it’s bad, even if someone still betrothed doing unchaste things is generally bad.

Just imagine if someone is promised to someone and then get laid with sex worker or doing it with random people, that’s kinda bad for the betrothal isn’t it?

This also make this person unreliable for future betrothal because this person have history of being unfaithful.

Not to mention this person is part of public figure family or heir, the reputation damage, the prestige damage, the family is losing face.

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Look, can you stop? This argument is becoming redundant and I don’t want the mod coming in here waving their mod hammer. LDNunes has stated this is how the world works. You don’t have to like it. Shoot, you can even write your own story suited to what you want. But don’t expect someone else to change their story cause it doesn’t suit your personal view.

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I am more of planning this with Hayden later to kidnap parents and put them in close proximity together, give them card and tabletop games.

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just give them beer and 2 days after that they are best friends or dead xD

PFT…imagine the kids roping the dads into DnD. Eleazor would murder hobo barbarian everything. King would constantly argue with him or try to teamkill. Hayden as bard would seduce everything for fun. My MC would be banging his head on the table as DM.

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At least they kill each other in tabletop games not doing it on real people :grin:.

Let them vent their frustration in harmless way

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They would take the grudge beyond the table. Hey, why did Darian close it’s border with Petrus this time? Cause Eleazor the Barb killed King the Paladin’s pet pig for bacon.

Back on topic, it’ll be interesting to see how romances with Hayden and Tyler pan out in the future. I guess one could argue for Tyler cause he is an elemental (and a strong one).

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Just to clarify, i not mean that my MC threatens Eleazar, he is father, he is family. My MC (Tough) loves him. The only moment that MC let the mask fall in public is when he cried in his father arms after the attack. My MC understands father’s reasoning but do not totally agree with his methods, leaning to act more like mother, being polite and trying to reason with the enemy before attacking. (My MC refuses to kill Fion and convince father to give him a proper burial)

But you know, letters can be lost, messangers may never arrive, carriages may break in the way, if it gets this far, the noble of the other house pushing it may be “convinced” to drop it or disappear and if all fails, MC ends himself, because he refuses to be caged.

The cold blood and room, is more like: “I lost control of my emotions and powers”. Blood boiling = MC angry ; Cold blood = close to lose control/strong negative emotion/fight or flight instinct kicks in. I imagine as we grow in elemental power, the environment changes in function of mc’s feelings like dragons in DnD. I agree with BlueShayde, dragons are awesome, i also want a dragon egg!

A question, the STRENGTH that Darian values is only matial/elemental or can be seen as a strategic mind, the ability to raise a large army (Be by charisma or money) and even political influence?

IRL wars have been fought over less so yeah definitely.

I feel like Darians are mostly braun over brain. Raising an army with charisma and money is such a Petrus thing to do. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

sigh So true…

I really liked the old demo, even though it was full of grammatical errors. I am playing the new demo now and i thing I see where you are going with the changes, but while the story seems to be more structured, much of the things that let me read you story despite the errors are gone now.

In the old demo MC played a much more active role. It felt like you could make decisions, now I only get dragged along and the only real decision is, if I kill someone or not.

It would really be nice to have more than 2 options to answer, maybe invent some further variables?

Everyone is talking about how afraid they are of your house and how cold your father is, although except for the torture aftermath, I don’t get a feeling for this. And it seems that torture is practice as this is common in this kingdom, so nothing to be afraid especially of your family.

I liked the entrypoint with the training lessons with your father in the old demo, it captured me immediately and made me want to read more. Right now, if I didn’t know that the story has potential, I would have stopped at some point. Like I said, there are only passive choices and nothing that really stands out in the beginning.

Right now, I’m at the scene at the kings court and talking with the younger child of the king. Maybe the things I said will change later in the story or in future updates. I just remember how captivated I was by the story and the MC and their house and hope to get this feeling at some point again.

I hope this is not demotivating, I just want to give feedback and give headers about what would catch me to read it. It’s just my 2 cents. Thanks for that awesome worldbuilding.

Edit: Here I encountered something where a sentence or a dialogue is missing:

Duke Eleazar, your father, looked at you with stern blue eyes, his gaze shifting from side to side on you all. “An arachnid.”
“Yes, Your Grace.” Cecilia answers.
“Lord Balek should already be on his way to the cave with soldiers and wagons. The bodies will be burned, and their ashes thrown into the river when it’s time for the families to say goodbye.” He explains. “I want you clean and rested.”
[MISSING INFORMATION]
“I’ll call you to go alone next time, how about that? Since you’re so eager to go out again, little Tyler,” your father retorted, which made Tyler furrow his brow at the way he was addressed. “Your father will be glad to hear that, it would please him to get rid of you.” Tyler clenched his jaw and took a step forward, only for Cecilia to extend a hand in front, stopping him and making him recoil, albeit reluctantly.

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