I think Vigil, despite how cool it is (which, it is), is getting a little overinflated in terms of importance. It’s a neat thing to do and to say your character has done, but it ultimately just isn’t that impactful. In actuality, you’re missing out on the totem quest/Xaos seed/reiver weapons, since you have to cut off any other Xaos path to go to Vigil. I don’t think it being tricky to access is a bad thing per se, since it pushes players towards more immediately useful plot lines.
As for actually saving Wolfbait, I understand the logic behind how the decision works, but something odd that always stood out to me is that the message is different from the other two prologues, sort of. Carles’ and Olynna’s are pretty clear in the whole “speaking up might get you hurt, but it’s worth it to save a life”, whereas the Wolfbait prologue seemingly encourages cowardice. Always felt a little narratively odd.
I think this is basically ok. INT and COM shining in the Xaos-Lands works for me, where you’re in a survival situation with very few people around for most of it. CHA was very strong in Uprising and gets to shine bright in Irduin where it enables a lot more intriguing and sabotage without becoming suspicious, it taking a back seat when you’re alone and on the run along the edge of the world feels both balanced and narratively impactful, to me.
As mentioned this is a CoGdemos issue, I posted a fix in my post above yours.
This made me think, a huge piece of missed reactivity in Irduin (which should hopefully come in with the Gamgee updates) is an MC in a cross-class relationship (Noble & Breden/K | Helot & Cerlota/S) having thoughts about their own relationship when Korren/Cyneve and Auche/Earith comes up. The MC might be a noble literally married to a helot, seems worth noting.
So, Int is best way to go? Com, Int and Cha is used through B1.
I dislike the idea that Cha/Int is expected to lead Com. No! Thats why Com people lead the battle. Zvad should be the important one to make that fight work, not I.
I restarted B1 yet again. Keep hating my run through and deleting it. The whole winter scenario. If I could cheat through that so I can ignore it, I would.
I’d actually say it’s the worst. Int runs are generally speaking the weakest and most brittle in Uprising, and force you into blood management in Stormwright.
(It’s still cool tho and magic is dope, so it’ll never lose on that front.)
I think Theurges are going to more heavily depend on the Church and the nobles too if they want to become major figures when the rebellion gets larger.
For example, I need Linos to proclaim my MC Eclect rather than doing it myself.
The winter is generally painful. But while INT isn’t as freely-usable as COM or CHA, I’m still receiving more than enough grain and gold income from what fighting and looting I do. (Which I avoid doing too much of. Low-anarchy and all.)
I’ve said this before and I think this is the interesting mark for me. The turning point for what we know as the Hegemony was Hera’s assassination. Much like Alexander, she died before she could really sit down and come to grips with how she planned to rule and administer her conquests or to really feel any blowback from it.
That fell on her daughter and successor to come to wrangle. The period after Hera’s death is probably heavily suppressed. The Xaos Storms began to erupt, the Unquiet Dead, and the War against the Halasurq began to bog down. The Wards went up and the Hegemony was never able to regain the initiative and momentum.
I suspect again, it’s because whenever a serious effort against Halasurq begins, Uprisings and internal divisions began to get exacerbated which leads to the Hegemony having to stop the campaigns and get a grip on the Provinces.
There’s just so much that our MCs don’t know due to knowledge being forcibly suppressed and lies being allowed to take root.
doesn’t do anything besides someone bring it up in Irduin but it might be in the future
*if (sickmules > 902)
“I heard ${lname} fed ${his} outlaws by emptying the yeomen barns of the Outer Rim, just when winter was about to bite,” another man pipes up.
@{(sickmules = 904) “And I heard ${he} went round later trying to pay them back…as if the damage weren’t already done.”|“Callous bastards.”} Pouls shakes his head.
though that might be a more general thing then a build thing