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Random thoughts: Siffrin is used to touch and gives hugs out of nowhere occasionally. Polaris(Loop) gets very surprised the first time this happened and was on the verge of tears.

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Of Eight Paths and Travelers

(all of this is subject to change if a better idea presents itself)

This au is basically just mashing ISAT characters into the Octopath storytelling format. Roles + other stuff under the cut

Siffrin (He/They) - The Dancer

Latent Power - Leave No Trace

Talent - Blessing of the Stars (Blessing of Darkness)

Goal - Trying to discover cultures aside from their own due to secluded upbring.

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Mirabelle (She/Her) - The Cleric

Latent Power - All Together Now

Talent - Prayer Session (Dance Session)

Goal - Religious pilgrimage to discover herself.

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Isabeau (He/Him) - The Fighter (Warrior)

Latent Power - Hoot and Holler

Talent - Learned Skills

Goal - Investigating the uptick in Sadness activity near his home.

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Odile (She/Her) - The Scholar

Latent Power - Concentrate Focus

Talent - Study Foe

Goal - Finding her mother and reconnecting.

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Bonnie (They/Them) - The Hunter

Latent Power - Animal Insincts

Talent - Capture/Prepare

Goal - Wants to make the best snack EVER!

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Pétronille (She/Her) - The Merchant

Latent Power - Every Coin Counts

Talent - Business Partner

Goal - Get revenge on parents for being pieces of shit.

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Loop (They/Them) - The Thief

Latent Power - Shadow's Hold Light's Radiance

Talent - Pick Lock

Goal - Trying to find a way to undo lingering Wishcraft from before. So they can remember their home and culture.

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King (He/Him) - The Apothecary

Latent Power - Judgement

Talent - Moonlight Judgement + Concoct

Goal - Trying to find a cure for mysterious petrification disease

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Asks are open for more au information

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Just got the ISAT artbook!! And had many ideas.

You guys remember how Siffrin's villian is trying to erase The Country? What if they were influenced by the Wish Cult? What if after they failed, the Wish Cult succeeded?

But wishes that big take time to truly set in stone. Lots of moving parts and all that. So what if there's a grace period on those bigger wishes? Some time to undo them.

And when after everyone's journeys are over, Sif and King wake up with a blinding headache. They can't seem to recall facts about their home. Their memories of their childhoods are a bit fuzzier. So, they talk to the others about it... And Loop gets awfully quiet suddenly. Loop remembers the headaches from before they managed to lift the lingering Wish Craft... and feels one coming back on.

So the group ends up going on a quest similar to Journey For the Dawn in OT2. They fight some prominent figures from the Wish Cult and figure out how to stop it from fully taking effect. The group fights an avatar of the wish that once defeated stops the Wish from cementing into reality.

They're are still some lingering effects because obviously the length of time where it was rewriting the world can't be entirely written-off, but The Country still exists! And "Happily Ever After BS" happens because this is based on a J-RPG and let them be happy.

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Isabeau, The Fighter(Warrior)

Quick Trivia

Went through a Change(transition) a while before the events of the AU

Added embellishments to his Defender Uniform because he wanted it to look cooler(After meeting everyone he adds even more embellishments to represent all of his friends in small ways)

Isafrin lives!!

Class Reasoning

Fighter = Warrior. Again, I feel this is a very obvious but right choice.

Story Ideas

Temenos

He sets off to investigate the uptick of Sadnesses that are appearing around his town

The Defenders(replacing the Sacred Guard) didn't want to investigate and so he took in into his own hands

Figures out it has something to do with a strange cult that worships Change/The Universe/we don't know yet

Masterpost

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Siffrin, The Dancer

Quick Trivia

Stage name is Siffrin, usually just goes by it all the time

Likes to wear very flowy clothes because they like the ✨Dramatics✨ of it

Family is very high up in the Countrys political/religious/scholarly bodies(it is a religious state)

Deathly allergic to pineapples(doesn't know it)

Very sheltered upbringing, watched many plays/musicals in childhood

Class Reasoning

Likes plays in source material, thus in plays in this. Uses strictly a dagger. Very theatre kid. Get to put him in dresses because fun.

Story Ideas

Wants to experience other cultures and spread just good times

Basically just Agnea's story

Stops the forgetting of the Country due to Person (undecided) offering them a challenge

Masterpost

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Odile, The Scholar

Quick Trivia

The oldest person in the group(minus timeloop time because Loop never physically aged during that time)

Mommy Issues™

Keeps a diamond made of her father's ashes on a necklace between her undershirt and turtleneck

Somehow always has 20 different books or journals on her despite having nowhere to visibly store them

Her father was a professor of some kind in Ka Bue

Class Reasoning

Researcher = Scholar. Also, if you put her and Osvald in a room you know they'd basically be talking to a mirror.

Story Ideas

Prologue starts with her father's funeral, when she asks a Vaugardian merchant about their Familytale

After, she decides to go to Vaugarde to search for her mom since she left when she was young but know she was from Vaugarde

She finds out her mother died some years ago and decides to instead search for her Familytale

Main antagonist are her great grandparent(s) who are in the the Cult and were chasing her mom which is why she left(idea credit to willbethehero)

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oh btw the Country's name is Country, or at least that's the best translation. They have a name for the Country in their language, but it doesn't translate well AT ALL.

It's best translated to Our Country. Just a fun fact :)

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Polaris/Loop, The Thief

Quick Trivia

Keeps any details about their past locked up as well as they can

Uses the name Polaris due to not wanting to mention timeloop trauma

NOT a star, but has star shaped freckles

Glow in the dark hair

Masterpost

Direct twohats spoilers + act 3 King Quest isat spoilers below

Class reasoning

Just general vibes. They were their parties rouge. Literally tried to kill Sif and steal his Identity. Built like Dancer but with sword.

Story Ideas

All the wishcraft from Isat still affects them, (i.e. forgetting/headache curse, no see color, any others we forgot)

Made a wish for freedom after beating the King and it not ending the loops, then appeared in this world

Wants to find a way to break the lingering wishcraft affecting them without dying/grievous bodily harm

To remember their culture and just other shit

Mal Du Pays as final boss (sadnesses soak up wishcraft or some shit, also probably summoned by Wish Cult)

Mal Du Pays is basically shadow Hikari(my baby boy :>)

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Bonnie, The Hunter

Quick Trivia

16 years old, still acts a bit childish

Ran away from their parents with their older sister when they were younger

Companion pet is a wolf named Wok("like the pan >:3" – au!Bonnie )

The most joyful and carefree member of the party, Sif being second

Sleeps curled up with Wok when they're on the road

Class Reasoning

Is the groups snack leader, thus is the Hunter to prepare snack materials.

Story Ideas

Wants to make the BEST SNACK EVER!

That's honestly their only goal

They go around the continent and just try and find the BEST ingredients for this ultimate snack they want to make

When they are about to grab the last Ultimate Ingredient they encounter a large Sadness that blocks their way

Bonnie is very annoyed by this and decides to defeat it

When they defeat the Sadness, it dissolves into a almost dead figure dressed in the Cult's attire(based on idea by anon)

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Sick idea about Odile's main antagonist. Takes ideas from Professor Harvey from Octopath 2 and Yvom and Lucua from 1.

Mainly, her mother leaving Odile behind partly because she is being chased by her own parents, who achived longevity and power from dark wish craft related to the cult, and want her for "greater plot related reasons". How "evil" Odile's mother actually is is up to you. But at the very least, the grandparents represents a relationship that doesn't care about anyone other than themselves, and cpmpletely destroyes, compared to Odile and her own mom, who struggle with connecting with one another due to abandonment.

Very interesting idea.

Yes, very interesting. . .👀

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How do you see the "Class Gods" as?

Similar to the Change God, Universe, and Expressions, or "weaker".

The class gods are aspects of Change that are commonly believed by people. Like people's different perspectives of Change are all there and existing, it's just the ones that are commonly worshipped are more powerful and can grant power to their chosen ones and others if they feel like it.

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Weirdly, in relation to the Mal Du Pays asks, do you imagine the party fighting a sentiant Favour Tree? For whatever reason (cultists, Sadness, Wishcraft gone rouge)?

I can imagine that as a optional for a mid-level area. Could probably have some weird gimmick. Probably has a divine weapon hidden behind it

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Could Mal Du Pays be an exsistance similar to D'arqest's Curse and Hikari?

I LOVE THIS! AMAZING! ANON THANK YOU!

It is already getting added to the brainstorm. Mal Du Pays serving as like a more physical embodiment of Loop's emotional turmoil and the lingering Wish Craft they're trying to undo.

Final Boss, even, perchance?

I seriously forgot about my boy's little demon thank you for reminding me. Hikari was my first and favorite character so I don't know how I forgot this.

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Given the true nature of Siffrin's loop powers in canon was due to the "incorrect" wishing methods of all of Vaugarde wishing for salvation from the King, do you see any of the characters faces a mass of Wish Craft/wises in any form, either personified or by itself?

Wish craft is mainly kept secret by the higher-ups in the Country, but there are some rumors that seeped out into Vaugrade (most of them aren't entirely correct though). And while not yet set in stone, wish craft may play a role in the Cult's actions behind the scene.

At the start of the story, though, the amount of Vaugardians wishing is not anywhere close to the level it is in ISAT. Mainly, because the petrification disease and uptick in Sadnesses is not as obvious or widely spread yet.

The main group of people who would be wishing is the Cult, but whether or not they are doing it correctly or not has yet to be decided.

All this being said, Wish Craft is a very important part of Loop's story and will be central to their plot.

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Mirabelle, The Cleric

Quick Trivia

AroAce but doesn't know that because self-doubts and religious beliefs

Reads more romance novels than her religious texts

Left in such a hurry she forgot her anxiety meds

Class Reasoning

Housemaiden = Cleric. I mean, she's basically a Cleric already, the only change is the name.

Story Ideas

Going on a religious pilgrimage

No idea for conflict yet, but we'll get there

Maybe similar to Ophilia minus sacred flame?

Change God gives her EX Skill for the story right before final boss (don't question why :)

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Follow-up question, but how would you do a boss-rush room like Octopath's Galdera?

Probably, just like Sadness forms of all their final bosses made by the Wish Cult. If any of them were already Sadnesses then they just brought them back or resummoned them but stronger.

And Mal Du Pays could have just been left to partially escape and since it is now untethered from Polaris(Loop) and is thus stronger and can just fully kill that enby.