#if: the exile

[lusavors]

avatars · sherouk farid.

[bonesif]

You were great once. You were prideful and skillful and cruel. You still are these things, you think.

And maybe you can successfully drink and laugh and flirt and chase your pain away. But the person that you were grips your jaw and demands attention. You have no title to hide behind, no way to look away. You wouldn't deserve to.

They told you that you'd be great. It's time to face that you were never good.

Enter commander Emery Belrai, the gilded gorgon.

[ from @exilethegame ]

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

On the subject of low-effort sketches that got out of hand all because I was trying a new brush... I thought, why not draw all the knights and royal soldiers OCs of mine 🙃

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Starting from bottom right to the top: Undine (Their Majesties' Pleasure), Lillian Lynzal (The Exile), Camille d'Arcadie (Arcadie: Second Born), Marshal Mora (I, The Forgotten One) and Mordred Le Fey (Bastard of Camelot)

[bonesif]

Chapter 5 - Part Two

Hello everyone... it's here. It's finally here! Chapter 5, pt. 2 is now out, and is 250k words of new content, meaning The Exile is now over 1 million words!

This release was... rough, to say the least, but it's all in the rear-view mirror now, thankfully. As some of you may know, this is the final chapter of the public demo. I'll make a post later on detailing what the future development of The Exile will be, but for now I just want to take in a deep breath and relax (as I fix what inevitable bugs pop up with release, that is).

Avg. Play length: 114k -> 135k Total Wordcount: 818k -> 1 mil

Some Notes:

You have to replay the entire game. Your old saves won't work. Please, for the love of the gods, do not use them. I know it's tedious to replay the entire demo sometimes, but the new release will not work properly otherwise.

I HIGHLY recommend saving at the beginning of when Esmerelda goes to visit Marcelle, or where the old demo ended. This is because when I do bug fixes (and I will have to do bug fixes), all saves that were on the file I updated cease to work properly. Saving at the scene with Esmerelda is the closest to the new content that you can save w/o having to worry about losing your save progress frequently near release. (Though I will update Chapter 5, pt. 1 at some point)

DO NOT spread info you got by code diving. Please and thank you! :)

Preferably send bugs + typos to the Discord. Otherwise, feel free to send them here! Also, keep an eye out for broken symbols next to choices! (It would help if you tell me what chapter it's in as well :))

There are two versions of The Exile on Dashingdon. The right one has [Current] next to it. The reason there are two is b/c for some reason or another, I couldn't get into my old account, and I couldn't reset the password, and it was just... a whole mess. So I couldn't delete the old demo when I uploaded the new one on my new account. Just keep this in mind if you're trying to look The Exile up right into a search engine as opposed to going through links on the Tumblr or Forum!

Play Chapter 5, Pt. 2!

[valtsv]

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

[arginnit]

tfw a hallucination of your idealized younger self calls you a fucking loser

[kirnet]

LOVE when a video game protag is called a title. The Warden, the Watcher, the Exile…. Yessss be defined by a concept greater than yourself that will ultimately overtake your life

[dinoserious]

a few shadow gira sketches

[arealtrashact]

Blood of my blood

[lazylittledragon]

i need guenhwyvar to be Cat so bad

[lushwithrats]

the mourning star

[mournfulroses]

James Joyce, from Exiles: A Play In Three Acts, featured in The Selected Plays

[bonesif]

You are a soldier.

The exile

Emery Belrai & Vethna Mevnrael

Word count: 3101

Warnings: graphic descriptions of injuries, angst

AO3 link

Emery Belrai, in all their flirting and carefree quips, has a knack for getting themself hurt. Vethna has noticed this. But Emery was /The Gilded Gorgon/— they've dealt with worse. They know how to handle themself. They can deal with this on their own... right?

Angsty drabble based on this injury writing prompt by @creativepromptsforwriting. Ao3 link is above!

[3rdsday]

Anyone ever remember when a 16 year old untrained/amateur actor delivered such a convincing portrayal of trauma and severe depression that people were asking if he was doing okay in his real life and he had to clarify that things were going great for him. Or just me

[mourninglamby]

learned behavior (x)

[core-cosmos]

I mean this with love and kindness. I hope all the girlies who were convinced Jayce would exile Viktor and inherently despise him for using the Hexcore on himself feel real silly right now.