The Sunhold Coven 62k words (updated: 13/11/2024)

I’ve been a long-time reader of IFs and have now started to make one of my own!

The Sunhold Coven (name is subject to change)
Chapter 3 has now been added! Making the WIP a total of 62,000 words.
I hope to be able to update it once a month/every other month, but that might change.

Introduction:
It has been over a decade since the plague swept the nation of Korim, claiming folks both young and old, fit and frail. No cure either magical or alchemical could stem the tide. The silent streets were filled with corpses and the people were scared, searching for an explanation. So their heads turned to those who remained unaffected by the plague, the magic folk of Korim.

Soon all magic folk were persecuted, shifters, nymphs, and witches were killed in droves. Now only a few remain.

You are one. A witch.

Summary:

  • Find a way to survive in a land that wishes you dead.
  • Find friends or a lover among the six people who travel alongside you.
  • Rebuild the coven that was lost.

Link to play the demo: https://dashingdon.com/go/16778
Link to the tumblr blog: @the-sunhold-coven on Tumblr

Updates
  • Update 18/09/2024: Chapter 2 has now been added as well as some new content to Chapter 1.
  • Update 13/11/2024: Chapter 3 has now been added, as well as some rewriting on the prologue and Chapters 1 and 2.
Trigger Warnings
  • Torture (of the MC and others)
  • Non-consensual touching (very minor)
  • Deaths of characters
Companions
Midora

Midora is a forest nymph with a profound love for all that grows and blooms. Despite having seen the worst of people, she still always chooses to believe the best. She values loyalty and kindness above all else.

Everything about her appearance seems soft, her short and curvy body, her round face, and hazel doe eyes. Long oak brown braids fall down to her hips, gradually becoming moss green. She almost always braids little flowers into her hair, kept alive by her magic.

Alarik

Alarik grew up on the tales of witches. Self-serving and power-hungry with no exceptions is how you were portrayed and that is what he believed. He has always been driven by a need to protect those around him. The hound that accompanies Alarik is called Lady.

He is a very tall man with an athletic physique. His eyes are the telltale silver of the Witch hunters, and the streak of white in his hair is barely visible against the platinum blonde. His features are stern and severe softened only by the stubble on his jaw

Felina

Felina is a feline shifter. Her other shape is that of a lynx. She keeps most at a distance and claims she prefers solitude, but her eyes will soften as she sees something small and vulnerable.

Felina’s pale human shape still bears some cat-like features, with sharp amber eyes and a button nose framed by her chin-length brown hair. She is of average height with lean, ropey muscles.

Caden

Caden is a lupine shifter, his other form that of a great black wolf. He is a man who struggles to stay silent, his playful manner occasionally bordering on juvenile.

His human form is of average height, muscled and strong. His features are sharp and angular, his yellow eyes almost always lined with kohl, and a mop of wavy black hair atop his head.

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I think the premise of this game is really good and I’d love to see more. One issue that I do have is that I get an error message when choosing to stay silent the second time during the warden scene.

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The premise of the story is good but I had the same issue as the person above being silent for the torture so I don’t really have an option on gameplay

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Having the same issues as everyone else but it’s interesting so far. Hope that witch hunter guy isn’t a companion cause he feels bad now, rather just kill all the hunters.

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I got an error when trying to play the dream sequence

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The errors should all be fixed now!

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Still got an error when picking mid option when talking to the magic folk.

Save feature could save time when testing path because of error and no need to have many slot like 3 is enough.

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That was kind of sad and awesome at the same time I love the story I wonder how this is all going to end in prison

The way he’s acting it might be the case since he’s starting to question the hunter’s are right or not about magic people. I played games like this where one of faction people betray their cause for MC and this one seems like it’s following that trend

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Hes only now doing it after multiple tortures and killings of innocents. Yea nah I hope we get to kill him.

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Do you remeber which option it was?
I’ll try to add some save slots as soon as I figure out how to do it :slight_smile:

Yeah a bit too late to reflect on their mistakes through it is still weird how magic wielders are not affected by the plague so of course it looks sus on us

He is not torturing people it seem he is new to this thing and mostly seem just work as an escort to prisoner.

At least that’s how I see it so far, it’s been a decade of genocide and plague still going, so it’s natural to have doubt.

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If I remember the last scene is this person that give MC sheet or something and then there is 3 option, top one is blush, mid is seeing the person feature and third seems friendly/friendship option.

True but he’s watching happen and now is questioning it now suddenly. I’m gonna stay wary of him for now

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Turn on a giant boombox, start blasting The Masochism tango T. Lehrer
Why I suspect is a fool’s errand to hope for Warden being the red flag RO among the six teased in the intro post.
Oh well, from what I was able to read before an error this is an intriguing and promising wip, my best wishes for a happy writing of it.

The error happened when choosing: You take your time… while meeting the floral fair, the error is: “the_dungeon line 1693: increasing indent not allowed, expected 2 was 3”.

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@MaGran just started but noticed something off the first option were given the silent one raises the wrong stat it raised expressive but should raise the stoic one.

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Yeah wary is fine, give the dude a chance to right himself.

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I’m just gonna act depending on what he does or what info get about him. Obviously it’s going to be awkward for us and him to get along for a lot of reasons.

like it bit short so far but looks promising cant wait for more, did 3 runs got no error so far.
save system would be nice for later if the wip gonna get bigger to save some time to run few routes differnt