@Havenstone Hey there, I wanted to check in and ask if that bug I mentioned had been fixed already. I haven’t kept up to date with what’s posted in this thread (given how much people post in this already) and I don’t remember my Google Play listing this app as having been updated.
Should’ve been fixed with a Sep 5 update. Thanks again for catching it!
Cool, I’ll check it out. I haven’t touched the game since I posted that since I wanted to let enough time pass for the bug to be fixed, and I also wanted to “cleanse my palate” so that I can play through the game again without speeding through it or feeling like I’m going through a routine.
Thanks to you as well! This has been a really fun and interesting game.
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@Havenstone What is Yebben’s opinion on the different MC religions (Kenon vs. Ecelect vs. Inner Voice)?
I have read through most of the XOR main topic and have heard that two chapters of Storm-Wright will be based in Grand Shayard and the Archon will fall, but I have also heard that Shayard will not be free by the end of Storm-Wright, have I just misread it? If I haven’t, I am eager to know how this will work. Apologies if this is against any forum protocol.
Years, for sure. Game 2 itself will span a couple of years.
You’re right that marrow has some value in making aetherial blood; it slipped my mind, but I should have mentioned it above in the spoilery bits. This was foreshadowed in Game 1:
Breden’s face is drawn. "Angels, Terret, you’ve seen what a Harrower leaves behind. Every bone cracked open, eyes scooped out…the sacrifice needs pain to work best, they say. I don’t believe poor Yed here went through half as much agony as any one of the helots who get Harrowed round the Hegemony every day."
But stem cells are not the reason, and marrow alone won’t do everything that aetherial blood can do, so mass “Marrowing” isn’t the silver bullet. Also, non-crippling marrow extraction isn’t a possibility in the gameworld. In our world, the hollow syringe needle wasn’t invented til the mid-19th century; it doesn’t exist in Karagon yet.
Jinny could be a helot name, but it doesn’t have to be. 
Good question. I haven’t written it yet, and probably won’t until G3.
Well, without going into too much detail: the Archon isn’t the reason Shayard is unfree, and the crisis of the Hegemony isn’t yet so desperate that it would surrender any part of Shayard, even if its Shayardene client ruler fails to quell a revolt.
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Also will you be in charge of Grand Shayard or will you be an infiltrator? And in Chapter 3, when Yed is getting treated, Terret remarks about his arm “as if the Thaumatarch’s own chirurgeon had severed it.” What is a chirurgeon?
Definitely not. Not until Game 4.
It’s the old way of spelling surgeon.
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I hope there’s lots of middle- and upper-class people to put to the sword and torch in the next book! 
Okay, and thanks for making such a brilliant game. If you want new testers if and when Stormwright goes into it’s alpha and beta phases, I’ll do it.
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I am not sure whether you are familiar with RimWorld, but I am making a Choice of Rebels themed mod for it, mostly revolving around Theurgy, aetherial blood, and Harrowing, do I have permission from you to release it? You and XOR would be credited for it. If not, that is fine, it is your game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/ Link to RimWorld.
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Thanks for asking, Iasoun! We discussed a bit more over PM, and I wanted to share the key takeaway here:
I’m happy for XoR fans to make and freely share fan-works in various media on a non-commercial basis. (I don’t believe in my ability to prevent it, even if I had any interest in restricting it…and I don’t, I consider it fair use).
I don’t want to approve any commercial spin-off products right now…both because I’d have to work through the implications for my rights to the IP of the XoR-verse, and because I’d want to have a role in quality control. Right now I don’t have time for either, as all my creative time is going into writing Game 2.
Since you want to make a free RimWorld mod that gives people the chance to play rebels in the Shayardene winter, knock yourself out! I might even pick up RimWorld so I can try it when you’re done. 
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Will we meet Zvad again if we stand, fight and win?
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If he’s still alive: yes.
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Also, I find it strange that a band composed mostly of Wiends, due to the MC’s decision to not stop the Harrowing, would pick the Gryphon and Great-Eel as their symbol.
Is this just to avoid coding headaches or is there a story meaning to this?
Will we meet Breden again if we chased her off, after Rim Square?
Will the blademaster of House Keriatou ever join or fight our rebellion?
Is there anything similar to squires in Shayard? Obviously there could not be actual squires due to the lack of knights, but is there a rough equivalent, for nobles employed in the Phalangites, or could any noble have one? That is, assuming they exist.
When do you think the MC will be able to employ a servant?
Apologies if these have already been asked.
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Also, how many phials of aetherial blood would you get out of Harrowing one person? And how well trained is your average Phalangite, using your trait system? This is asked so I can get an idea of this for the mod.
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How do you envision repurposing the agricultural Theurges? My main MC is an arrogant noble, but at the start of his rebellion he envisioned an end to Harrowing all the same. But after listening to Horion’s tale of the Xaos-Lands he began to think that it is necessary, and after he sees the famines which will no doubt happen when the Hegemony begins to run out of aetherial blood, Harrowing will almost certainly be continued in his post-revolutionary state.
Your MC will probably think differently about that, and I wonder how he will keep his populace fed and safe from Xaos-Storms, and any rival states who still practice Harrowing, and thus will probably have Theurges that are trained for war.
Will your MC have a dedicated military similar to the Phalangites, or will he rely on a levy en masse, or some other form of defense?
They are no choosing Flags You are the one choosing it. And If your band is known for being pro hardcore Shayard It is logical for them that choice. After all they are in the Shayard and fight in it. First shayard and later thwir territory has sense for them. At least it has in my playthrough as I play No stop harrowing pure nacionalist Pro laconier play with The gryphon as flag
I let my band pick the flag.
Yes but the band pick in based your goals of your actions throughout the game so it’s your actions what determines what flg they choose. A pro shayard laconniers of course get the gryphon