I’m now imagining Jelena (Velinor’s wife) dressing up as Mira too…
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I mean, it wouldn’t be proper Sobik roleplaying if there was no actual cheating on the spouse involved.
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I like making my Marshall have only 1 intimidation from having callous eyes. It is only the most subtle detail, unnerving people without them being sure exactly why, and fitting for the massacres I am willing to engage in, and that, out of character, just make me smile.
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So first I must say I love the game. Also I tried the demo and I think I found an error when I hit Elya the MC say to Vedran “watch that tongue, or I’ll take it from you” when Vedran is dead
also he is mentioned here again during the whole POV from Elya after her escape
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SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT, SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT:police_car_light:
I have finished the first short story on Patreon, titled “The First of Many.” It is a roughly 2000 word side story set from Darin’s first person perspective about his experience with the Marshal in Krorid.
Brief excerpt:
There would come a time when the screaming would stop. Couldn’t tell you precisely when. There would come a day when the Marshal became a better killer than I, when the kid would carve out a man’s throat one moment and issue orders the next. And that haunted me more than anything else in Krorid.
The link can be found here. I hope it makes for a good read.
Additionally, I have maintained a steady and pretty quick pace on ITUO chapter 2. I don’t have an estimate release date quite yet, and the chapter is already getting kind of beefy and I haven’t even reached the main event of it yet. I’ll keep everyone updated here, as well as on Patreon and Tumblr.
Still getting used to juggling multiple platforms lol.
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gotta say, we all know the marshal’s a five star badass and a great main character but damn if high strength high warmth ellie isnt shaping up to be a four star badass with plenty of main character energy too. her putting the petitioner in his place was delicious, but then she chooses to take vedran along to prevent his dishonorable game of sudoku and when the marshal says its naive she goes “call me naive then”. really reminded me of dr who picking “coward any day” when asked if hes a coward or killer. and then she shows shes no naive kid either by keeping him on a leash with two jailers and treating the traitor as coldly as one deserves, keeping the warmth inside and only showing it to those worthy like her big sibling. out of all the stiedrys she really is the only one truly deserving of the crown and throne (yes even more than mc, mine prefers to fight, train or drink rather than do politics anyway).
also the rousing speech choices were ballin, reminded me of sgt johnson’s speeches in halo (“send em screamin back to the pit” compared to “rip their skulls from their spines and toss em away laughin”, down to having different choices for different difficulty levels. if only we got to follow it up woth “am i right, boys?” (and maybe later on we can tell the vassal armies that we only had two sticks and a rock for the whole army back in krorid, and we had to share the rock)
also darin story? sign me up. sobik mighta been our father but this guys our daddy. veluska could have rested easy knowing one day her kid would be in his care.
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That is why I love her, and I want to keep her both strong and warm. I feel like high strength, high warmth Elya is going to break the cycle.
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You promised light cavalry supremacy. You never promised our light calvary supremacy…
You clever devil. 
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For my primary PC, I like the thought of him trying to make his sister cold because he thinks it’ll be the best way for her to survive, and this is happening at the same time that he’s kind of climbing out of his own shell, coming to peace with himself, putting himself back together, And I want to see the conflict of, oh, shit, did I just make a massive fucking mistake? I don’t want to make her her father, oh shit
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He was much too evil to get the force ghost treatment.
Especially as a king/queen. Gives a very unsettling vibe.
Thank, I shall fix.
I’m having a lot of fun writing the badass Elya stuff. So much so I sometimes forget I need to keep the weak Elya stuff going as well. I’ll make sure to make the characterization consistent in a second draft.
Just have to keep her alive, first…
Milon and Lada have light cavalry! Trust me.
I actually think I’m going to start having certain events give her unavoidable cold points. Show how the horror of war is slowly making her harden, and how it takes active effort and careful guidance to keep her from becoming another Marshal or another Sobik. Though I’d argue Sobik was probably in the low strength, low warmth department, rather than high and low.
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Insert obligatory ITFO/shattered eagle comparisons here
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What is Shattered Eagle and why would it be compared to ITFO?
That makes sense. It doesn’t seem like Sobik was in a position wherein his Strength would have mattered. The Border War wasn’t a direct threat to his sovereignty (and possibly not even an indirect one, if more nobles than Rade viewed Krorid as more trouble than it was worth). Elya on the other hand is constantly being tested, so her Strength matters.
Does a puppet queen route interest you?
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It’s another highly popular WIP. You get to play as close advisor to Empress of gender-flipped not-Roman Empire. Also have impact on raising her daughter, who might optionally be your MC’s daughter as well.
Forum link: Shattered Eagle: Fall of an Empire (WIP) [509k Words | Interlude Update 06/19/2025]
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We see that at Icy Elly (35- Warm), when you tell her that Vedran plans to kill himself if he’s kept imprisoned for longer. And the Marshal’s reaction (“When did you become Sobik?”) is telling.
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I’m recruiting all I can then, I need it for my ultra mobile tactics army. I literally recruit nothing but light cavalry, archers, rangers, and upgraded 1 infantry to retinue in Krorid because that’s how the numbers ended up. Anyways, if Rade is gonna bring horse archers, then I’ll bring more archers, crossbows, and horses.
So, high veteran presence then? Overall your army sounds good for The Decisive Blow, while mine is for Bleed Them Dry.
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Mine is a heavy block of original veterans and trained retinue and packing on as much archers on top of that. It’s cavalry where I need the boost, more or less. I’m also going to just stop using Levy infantry, I’m going to bring back the professional standing army, damn the consequences and whatever it takes
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“And then, two years after the War of Succession has concluded, the country went bankrupt, unable to maintain its standing army of paid professionals. The End.”
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all just part of the plan, don’t you worry
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My approach is pretty simple. I focus on archers first, then levies. I also uptrained levies to retinues when I could. My battle approach is just simply → have enough infantry with good enough cohesion to hold → pepper the enemy for hours with arrows until their cohesion breaks → use the cavalry to fuck them up in the pursuit. I had enough archers I could stop the cavalry attacks on both wings, allowing me to preserve my own guys for exploitation of the enemy’s loss of cohesion.
I like having a professional core, but I also will absolutely grab levies when I can.
Edit: I do think I will need to add significantly more light cavalry if I’m dealing with horse archers going forward. Although, I do think having lots of foot archers behind a wall of spears can work against them too.
Edit 2: Fortifying camps is going to likely be important against the horse archers too.
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Augusta and Elya trade mentors
Ever notice that Augusta and Elya are really similar
- They’re both teenagers who inherit the throne during a civil war
- They both lived the pampered life of a royal until they inherited the throne
- They both wear their hair in a braid
- They both rely on the MC for guidance
- They inherited the throne when their parent, the previous monarch, got assassinated
- Their parent was an asshole
- The MC influences their personality, from cold and cruel to warm and kind
- They both have a stat that measures how strong they are which the MC influences
- The MC can scheme to take their throne
- The MC can kill their other parent, the Consort
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