I didn't finish this by the release anniversary BUT i wanted to share this WIP. Hopefully I'll get it done by Friday (which is the anniversary of when I first played it lol)
I did a little dubble check for you Bobbi (and for myself too lmao), about when Frey was exactly born. Cinta states that she was born just before the corruption entered Junoon. She tells Frey in the sequence when Frey leaves Praenost (in the distant memories sequence).
She probably only had a few hours to spare with Frey, and it freaking breaks my heart.
That's what I remembered, that basically Frey was born and Cinta had to send her away almost immediately. Not even a whole day with the baby she'd been so looking forward to meeting and raising )':
It's also one of the things that makes me think the Corruption happens because the Tantas go mad, not the other way around. When it entered Junoon Cinta knew she only had a short time left; the Corruption in her realm meant she was already losing her grip on sanity. She didn't have time before she'd fully lose her mind, so she sent her baby to somewhere she believed was safe.
And we can joke all we like about how dropping a fresh out the womb infant in the streets of NYC is distinctly not safe and probably a sign of Cinta's madness, but I like to believe she sent Frey to somewhere she was confident Al would find her, that she thought she was sending Frey to her dad. And maybe she did and something happened to him that put Frey in the foster system, or maybe she didn't, but either way I have to believe Cinta tried to get Frey to Al.