Length: 6k~ for chapters one and two
Summary: More than a year has passed since the dark mage Viren lost his life to the spell that brought his young son back from the brink of death, and now the newly-crowned King Harrow and Queen Sarai are facing the first great challenge of their reign: a famine that ravages the kingdom of Duren and could threaten the very survival of the Pentarchy and humanity itself. Can Lissa, Viren's widow and friend and confidant of Queen Sarai, be content to sit idly by while her world faces slow starvation? (Spoilers: no, she cannot.)
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“Queen Annika of Duren and her wife, Queen Neha, arrived unannounced today,” Sarai finally said. “Duren’s harvests have been failing for seven years—a hundred thousand of their people will starve, this winter. They begged on their knees for Katolis’s help. It seemed best to adjourn, after that.”
“Seven years?“ Lissa stared at her in shock, glad that she was already sitting. If she’d still been on her feet, she might have fallen. “But if Duren is starving—they feed half the Pentarchy. Del Bar and Evenere both buy their grain, not to mention Neolandia.”
“Far more than a hundred thousand will die, yes—all five kingdoms will suffer terribly. Maybe for years, if Duren’s harvests do not recover.”
Lissa’s mind spun. It was Duren’s farmland that had allowed humanity to thrive in the west. The booming populations of Katolis and Del Bar had been built on the reliability of Durenian grain for supplementing their own more variable harvests, and Neolandia would barely even exist without it—the earliest desert settlements had only survived by raiding Duren’s borders, until Duren began to feed them willingly. If Duren’s bounty failed, all of humanity would experience deprivation on a scale not seen in centuries.
“What will you do?” she asked.
Sarai looked down at Ezran, who wiggled drowsily, still nursing. “Harrow has already promised to aid them.”
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already feeling anxious af from drinking too much coffee so what better time to start playing a horror game that i've never finished bc it scares the shit out of me lol
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i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there
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