That’s correct. The Sorceress career starts with a Scholarship bonus for this reason.
Good catch, I’ll reduce the threshold and adjust the other augusta_rel variables accordingly.
Thank you! This is amazing help, I really appreciate it! Nearing 200,000 words at this point, it can be hard to catch some of these slip ups in all of my scenes.
Banger
Before chapters 2 and 3 interludes, I wasn’t so loyal to Julia, I was just about going through the motions.
But after that I’m 100% loyal to her.
Meanwhile I am here waiting to see if I can use the poison on her and take the throne
I decided to play as a man instead of woman and the sexism is real LOL
Male mc player too, and yeah, the sexism is there lmao.
I will still try do some changes but after me and Julia dealt with the sisters, I’m now loyal to her
Some revisions:
She’ll have my loyalty until I poison her -
I helped her to the throne and she speaks to me coldly tsk tsk sorry if I’m busy fighting for the people
Thank you! Will correct these.
I probably missed something but how do you get the option to be trans? I can’t find it anywhere
After you choose to carrer they are an option for you to choose if you have to fight to be recognised as a woman
The option is only for trans woman not men
So you can’t be a trans man?
Unfortunately, no. That wasn’t originally my plan, back in March when I first started writing Shattered Eagle I wanted to implement an option for trans men and women, as I knew eventually that I couldn’t feasibly include a non-binary option. But once I had my worldbuilding and outline set out, I couldn’t find a way to make it work.
The best alternative that I had been running with for a while was to have a trans man MC that was either closeted or passing, since the Church of Gaia would very vehemently be against them to be openly so in the same way I found a way to write the Novae for trans women. However, when I started actually writing the complexity of the code to actually account for either option and do it justice proved too much, and I had to scrap it.
Even so, there actually is a transmasculine character already in the game, but he isn’t Iudian.
Aw alright
It kinda sucks not having a option for transmascs, specially since there’s an option for other trans people. But hey, if it’s not what you want to write then it’s not what you want to write. It ain’t the end of the world
Still love the story 
I wish I could have found a way to make it work, but writing a closeted or stealth character would have been a huge chunk of content and code I would have needed to add parallel to every gendered interaction (to which there are many in Shattered Eagle) which I felt I couldn’t really feasibly implement or do justice in this setting. I suppose I ended up erring on the side of caution here, but my intention was to try and balance inclusion and worldbuilding, in the same way that the MC has to be a Iudian and serve the Empress at the start of the story.
In ch2sermon, I think you used a less than symbol when you meant greater than:
*if augusta_strength <= 25
mimics her parents, managing a regal look herself.
I’m SO glad for this change. I really wanted the way we raised Augusta (and the way we behaved) to matter for what kind of empress she became. Thank you so much for this one.
Re: illegitimacy, my character has been rather… indiscreet about things. But Augusta’s physical appearance also makes it fairly obvious too. My MC is leaning towards the Senate/republican side of things and is raising Augusta’s Paragon stat so I wonder if I’ll be able to counter the illegitimacy with: “no, she doesn’t have the tired bloodline but she has been raised well and is the most competent person for the job.” Essentially a more Principate style of claim that the more Dominate/Byzantine claim of heredity and military might.
At least I hope so. I’d hate to think my MC is setting up Augusta for a fall. He wants to admit the truth to Augusta at least, and become her father in name as well as in fact.
His goal is Duty rather than Love but he feels both, especially towards Augusta who he wants to be a proper ruler. I’m reminded of the consul Fronto trying to educate and bring up Marcus Aurelius, and the very fatherly relationship he had to him.
I really hope that if someone finds out that the princess is our illegitimate daughter, we can say something like “yes, she is my daughter, what are you going to do now?” (extremely intimidating look) maybe if we have enough combat or charisma or even if the empire is strong enough
Good catch, I’ll fix that up!
No problem! The trichotomy was always my plan, but I realized I was going about it in a very unintuitive way and decided to just assign a variable to each personality set. At a point she’ll get locked into one, but for now she’s still malleable, a young girl who has yet to tested by the world.
Also thanks for pointing out that how the MC acts and talks around Augusta really does matter. She’s young and impressionable, and even your personality stats will have an impact. So take care what lessons the MC might be unintentionally imparting on her.
That’s a pretty admirable thought for the MC to espouse, since obviously competency is not carried in one’s blood (and even then the competency of Augusta’s Galerian ancestors is…dubious at times).
But it basically entails admitting she’s a bastard born of infidelity and half plebeian at that. How would the commons and aristocracy react to such things? Certainly her mother would never approve.
Regardless, you will get multiple opportunities to tell Augusta the truth later in the story, provided she hears it from you first to begin with. It’s up to the MC to decide when or if it at all they should tell her.
For me, this is probably going to be one of those things where I’m going to kill to keep that secret quiet but she, at the very least, deserves to know
That makes sense. I really love seeing how she grows into her own each chapter, especially if you empower her to make her own choices while still advising and keeping her informed.
Yes, I found myself watching what I was saying and doing in front of her (and in general). Even down to being more conciliatory and non-antagonistic towards Titus when he was being a jerk — because he technically never asked for all this either and Augusta needs to see her (real) father trying to be a bigger person.
Yes, it’s going to upend all their expectations — both those of the republic and the monarchy. But my MC is focusing hard on winning the senate over and will try for popular favor if he can manage it too. With the two traditional legitimators of power behind Augusta… maybe it’s a gambit that will work? Especially if she has high strength and paragon?
High risk but maybe it will change what Iudia expects from rulers.
Oh, good. My MC will probably try to tell her at the first opportunity, and I’m eager to see how that will go.
I would like to share with you my impression of arguably the funniest episode of the IF so far, namely the Battle on the Bridge flashback
First we have the “news” that Scilla was assasinated. The fact that Julia and the Prefect had prepared lines in advance was peak hilarity. I can only imagine them in a tent at night debating what lines to deliver when they hear the news. Now, I don’t know how good at faking emotions Julia is, but I doubt her close circle would be fooled, considering the bad blood she has with Scilla (and also how scripted the conversation seems if the Prefect goes along with the lines). I can only imagine that they found the display necessary but also, for a lack of a better word, cringe.
Then we have an equally hilarious scene with Aite. The fact that the Prefect is tasked with roasting her is great, especially if one takes into consideration the events of the wedding and plays a vengeful Prefect.
" I would not trust your promises as far as I could throw you, Aite."
I’m sure that even Gaia could feel that sick burn.
Leaving aside the funny stuff, I found Iblin of Hadat very interesting. As I suspected, he was of foreign origin, although I expected him to be a prince of, not straight up the ruler of Hadat(not-Numidia?), since he would be required to relocate to Iudia to be with Aite (my condolences) and hence not be able to rule. Anyhow, he proved to be the ice to Aite’s fire, aka he was smart and rational. How unfortunate that not even his cold-thinking could contain Aite’s massive ego.
I wonder very much if he loved his volcanic wife — honestly I don’t see someone of his personality getting along with an entitled…lady. Yes, lady. Let’s leave it like that. His care for his daughter Victoria is much more intriguing— did he genuinely love her or was she a means for political ends? If the assasination attempt against the Prefect is to be believed then it’s the former (although that is a whole other can of worms), which would be something I find very neat (and tragic).
I won’t comment on the battle itself (very realistic and thus very nice), if only to mention that if the Prefect stays at the camp it’s like being a sports commentator.
Final verdict: 10/10, would roast Aite again (literally too, if possible).
