I hope u get better soon >:D< jeantown
Hope you recover
Indeed. Best wishes. Hope itâs nothing serious.
@Chriswa27 @Doctor @MutonElite Thank you! Everything went just fine this morning, so now Iâll just take it easy for a few days and look forward to feeling like my Guenevere-writing self again soon. 
@jeantown Glad to hear! 
Hope youâll get better real soon. Just take it slow, k? Neither we nor Part 2 is going anywhere. :-bd
@CrayFoPottah Thanks! I feel pretty good today, like maybe 80% of my usual hit points and improving. Iâm also letting myself play video games all day.
@jeantown Video games make everything better! I hope you get well soon
Oh, if only Guen could appear from her book, cast a few healing spells and then return. I think sheâs very much eager for you to continue her adventure. And so am I.
Hey, thatâs a hook. The character from a game/book/movie coming to life has been done before but for them to interfere with the authorâs life to make them continue to write their adventure. Then when the author gets close to the end of the book, does he write himself into it or somehow write her out of it? HmmmmâŚ
I will ponder this.
Anyway, hope you have a full green health bar soon.
@Dolphinzgirl Thank you! I am playing Divinity: Original Sin and it is the best thing that has happened to me in months.
@Taiho I would love for lightmagic!Guen to show up and heal me. At least I have a good doctor. I think you have an interesting germ for a story there, or maybe a choice game where the characters start arguing with the player about the playerâs choices!
I havenât played in so long I thought I would do so again. This time I was a total bitch to Arthur, Lancelot, and Morgan, but I kept sleeping with Arthur, so heâs really confused. Itâs so funny. Playing this game can be such a hoot.
Hello again- just jumping in again because of some things Iâve been musing on. I play this game every few days or so- seriously, Guenevere has really high replay value and itâs really fun to play with when you got some time to kill, so therefore Iâve been thinking hard about a lot of things. Even ended up having a dream about it, ahaha.
Mostly, just a lot about Guenâs dad, especially since Iâve started playing characters with no tactical stuff and itâs affecting how I think of the characterâs backstory.
Since I played characters who always chose the tactical background, and the mentions of having a happy childhood and similarities to her father (with little mention of her resembling her mom at all) I assumed Guen was implied to be a daddyâs girl and was groomed to follow in his footsteps since childhood, BUT when I play the others it just seemed like he just let her do what she wanted.
I also assumed from the game that the family was extra wealthy, but re-reading it, I noticed no mention of that and just that they had a huge army. Though I suppose if they have a big army, they are probably very wealthy. Also Iâve been thinking on what Guenâs dad and mom must have been like. ACK. I just like thinking about PCâs backgrounds, I guess. Though I wonder if more about her relationship with her dad ever really comes up or is important- in most Arthurian stuff Iâve read, he usually dies pre-marriage or in the early parts of marriage, if he appears at all.
Itâs also interesting because Guen is the ONLY one of the four to have any long-term relationship with her father.
Yeah I would love to know more about guen past. Would that be a possibility in the future??? :))
Well really itâs hard to have one set relationship with the parents when what Guen is good at is so up in the air.
With tactical, Guen being a tomboyish daddyâs girl who follows in his footsteps immediately suggests the possibility of a strong relationship there.
Ditto with light magic Guen and her mother.
But dark magic Guen? Itâs rather hard to picture most parents thrilled with their little girl learning how to whip up earthquakes and plagues, or striving to know how to do so anyway.
As for political Guen? Well that depends, are either of her parents big on the statecraft? Dad might be a politico after being a warlord, or he might just be a warlord, is Guenâs mom the woman behind the man with her social power?
I do like the idea of having Guenâs family play a larger role in the story later though.
@stsword Tactician Guen its same politic Guen due its same stat. You are mistaking warrior Guen with tactician. Tactician is a father favorite, warrior is the tomboy one lol
@thesunfloweramazon I like that mentions about Guenâs family arenât too often. Only a hint here or there, it leaves more to the readerâs imagination and interpretation. Like you saw yourself, you didnât even noticed at first that what you assumed wasnât clearly stated in the game I like that in @Jeantown writing are subtle hints to drive the reader the way the story go, but leaving something to them to interpret how they want.
@ponku Thatâs true! I usually prefer that in rpg games myself (hence why Iâm happy theyâre keeping it vague-ish for dragon age inquisition) but I also like there to be a little more background- one of my favorite scenes in DA:O is when you bring your LI back and your cousin mentions your âmarriageâ (esp. with Leliana).
Even just a vague question or reference to the PCâs backstory, to show the other characters remember it and the PC didnât just start living when the game did is very rewarding. Especially if they compare it to their own upbringing.
@thesunfloweramazon Sadly no vague in inquisition i could tell you all origins story also paid origin dlc if you are not on xbone
@thesunfloweramazon Really interesting thoughts; I canât believe I never thought about how none of the other main characters knew their fathers⌠and that the absence of all their fathers is a standard part of their backstories in Arthurian lit. HmmâŚ
Anyway, Guen only gets the âYouâre your fatherâs daughterâ comments when she says something tactical, so itâs easy to imagine that a non-leadership Guen might be less of a daddyâs girl, even if her father is still protective of her. Regardless, we donât get the impression that her parents were super-strict, if they didnât give her a hard time about training with the soldiers or look too closely at what books she was reading.
@stword and @ponku have good points that making Guenâs relationship with her family too specific might be limiting, but that doesnât mean her background couldnât be more developed or (@Chriswa27) get referenced more fully later, if thereâs a good moment for it and it seems relevant to the plot. The most likely place for that would be as Guen is forming political alliances in parts V and VI. Maybe people who knew her before she married Arthur will appear and have something to contribute, or maybe she can influence what her father decides to do when the kingdom starts to fall apart (and the amount of influence will depend on her previous relationship with him). All good things to think about.
I feel slightly guilty for changing the usual Arthurian element that the Round Table was a gift from Guenevereâs father, but I couldnât make it work in any meaningful way that didnât hold up the pacing in the early scenes of part 1.
@poisonmara is right that the leadership stat encompasses both battlefield strategy and political strategy, to the extent to which those things are similar. Sneaky behind-closed-doors politics might not be part of the leadership stat, but making public speeches and political decisions, like whether or not to send the army to help Baron Somebodyâs struggling village, would fall under leadership.
@thesunfloweramazon Thatâs one of my favorite moments in DA:O, too. My city elf rogue romanced Alistair, and I kept wondering if/how it was going to come up when she went back home.
I like your story so much it hurts. I think I never wanted a second part as much as I want this one. Youâre awesome.
@Nikmou Many thanks! Knowing that people are looking forward to part 2 keeps me motivated to work on it as much as I can.