#noelle octopath

[unparalleledfocus]

I participated in the Octopath art collab "Project Path Action"! I drew Noelle, EX (Dancer) H'aanit, EX (Holiday Merchant) Millard and Sazantos.

Octopath <3

[unparalleledfocus]

Here she is :)

TRAVELERS | 1 - 8

1 - Millard | 2 - Devin | 3 - Peredir | 4 - Lucetta 5 - Noelle | 6 - Sunny | 7 - Vivian | 8 - Manuel

1-8's ARTISTS

1 - @SpaceCinna (Twitter) 2 - @alien-onyx 3 - Zepler 4 - @nicandragon 5 - @unparalleledfocus 6 - Iris (Twitter) 7 - @coldcupofwater 8 - @n8ptune

Full Credit List:

If you are the artists of these Travelers (1-8), you are now welcome to upload them independently!

Feel free to tag me (@blazlngblade) so I can update the Full List with your posted drawings for additional credit!

[zazu75]

Cotc shipping!!! I asked for some ships in the server and got a few!

First, I made one for someone who likes Cress/Rodion:

Then @hazelgatoya had a few cute requests:

One for @softboiled-doomdesire

@theynanigans asked for Prome and Millard, but I unfortunately do not have access to Prome’s sprite sheet, so I did their next fave duo

@silvercat-the-daydreamer asked for Gilderoy/Cress!

And then…. I indulged. My face was on fire the entire time I worked on it, but gilderguste, for me. UwU

[beantothemax]

On Master of All arc and I am. In dread. I am on the chapter where I know someone will die. My team is in absolute shambles and has weird synergy.

On the plus side though I have Viola, Fiore, Theo, Rinnyu, Primrose, and Zantta so that's great. Helga and Noelle have also joined temporarily until I can get all original 8 Five Stars. I have to go and get the Octopath Travelers together. I have to go and do it for the timeline in my head

you’re already on master of all???????? have fun! nothing bad happens to anyone in that arc :]

[silverwarewolf]

Sure, they don't fight gods or travel through the whole continent but they're pretty cool and have such stories! A whole dragon egg! A legendary sword from the forest! A dead king! Honestly, it would be fun to have them as a party.

Octopath Traveler 2/2: electric boogaloo the major side quests

Also, sorry to the other travelers, but Le Mann was the very first person to show Therion friendship and trust. They're friends, besties, your honor.

[abobobob]

I’m seeing some of the original Octopath Traveler NPCs mentioned in the comments and since I’m here, going to comment on some of my favorite from the original too:

❤️ Basically any NPC in Tressa’s story: Noa is great, Ali is fun and a great contrast to Tressa, Leon is also really good, Mikk & Makk are fun too.

🧡 She gets little development, but I also really like Esmeralda too. She’s really pretty.

💛 I am…a Vanessa fan. Not an apologist, I think she’s worse than Miguel, but she’s absolutely gorgeous and a great contrast to Alfyn (anyway, I think she and Esmeralda should kiss)

💚 The characters you fight in Olberic’s second chapter (sorry I forgot their names) and of course Erhardt. There’s a reason why he and Olberic go well together

💙 Many of the sidequest characters are great, some of my favorites are Le Mann, Noelle, Ashlan, and Kaia. Imagine how pumped I was when I found out you can get Noelle in Champions of the Continent.

💜 Can never forget Gareth. Man goes through so much and he deserves better than Darius. Also Kit goes through a lot and I think he deserves 9th traveler status. YUSAFA! She didn’t deserve to die like that!

My one of my favorite things about the Octopath Traveler fandom is when people start getting attach to NPCs and start doing art/fics about them.

Reblog/Comment on this post saying what NPCs you guys really like a lot! Some of my favorite NPCs include Plukk, Rai Mei, Alrond, and Ori! A few a like a ton but I haven’t seen much of them yet are Floyd, Mikka, Mao and Ort!

[eng-subs-octopathcotc-jpn]

[ENG Subs] Noelle's Traveler Story

Overall Game Content Warnings: - Violence, blood, and minor body horror. - Sexual and suggestive themes. - Various types of abuse, including child abuse. - Drug usage, including overdosing. - Crude language (our translations don't soften the language). - And more...

"Noelle's Traveler Story" Content Warnings: - None.

Noelle 4-Star | Fame | Scholar & Wind | Woodlands, Valore Original Release Date: October 27th, 2020

Full Playlist of "Traveler Stories"

[takeyourhands]

deltarune s/i thoughts lol

okayhithereuhm this is for me to like. lay all my ideas out in front of me kinda? bc thats how i work out a lot of my thoughts out best!! so mayb some of this will change, mayb not, who knows :P

okie thank u :3 u can look at it if u want to now

i figure im probably in kris' class w them and everyone else, since im pretty sure theyre around my age? theyre like,, 15 or 16 arent they?? 🤔

IN ANY CASE.

im there >:D but also literally no one knows who i am lmao

like. im just the rlly anxious and painfully shy kid in the very back of the class who has a total of one (1) friend and it's my pink bunny stuffie i carry around with me everywhere

and also temmie :) temmies my friend

well i mean we're only rlly just acquaintances but-

also???? i cant decide if im a human or a monster????? so for now i am just. a thing. i am existant. just a little friend.

anyways deltarune has 8 chapters actually <33 and one of them focuses on me specifically

i imagine like,, noelle and berdley r sick, and kris and noelle need help w their project but literally everyone else is too busy and/or too scared of susie to wanna help

so they just waddle up to me to ask me for help

me: uhm... 👉👈 okay...

susie: SICK haha whos ur partner btw

me: jeremy

susie: who

me: *sets my plushie on the desk*

susie:

kris:

me: :D

susie:

susie: okay cool whatever then

so we all decide to study together (idk where maybe like. nearby where onion is, like at the picnic tables) but then UH OH!! we get slorped into the dark world and gotta find a way out and seal the fountain

i imagine im like,,, some sort of beast tamer almost?? like yknow ha'anit from octopath traveler? shes able to sorta capture animals and use their abilities in battle, and she always has her best wolf friend w her. that's what i do!!! like i can summon recruits during battle to help us fight or act and i always have jeremy with me (whos now a SICK ASS magical familiar kinda thing thatll nibble u to death. hes v small and hides in my hair most of the time and it makes it look like i have bunby ears :33 he cant help w all acts, but he can heal and attack).

i feel like a lot of the chapter is just me getting used to everyone, but i warm up to everyone abt halfway through or so

also fhgjhdgjhdgj for like the whole of the first half i kept thinking kris' name was actually krisp bc thats what temmie calls them

u can try and correct me several times but susie always interrupts bc she thinks its funny

the rest of the chapter is us goofin around and becoming better friends, and eventually the four of us defeat the bad guy together >:3

but yea, being w everyone showed me what it was like to have ppl genuinely want to be around u and just how wonderful having friends is

and that gives me the confidence to try and reach out to others more and make friends with my other classmates!!

starting w temmie <33

its v slow progress, but progress nonetheless :) baby steps

i probably end up getting told everything was all a dream like how berdley and noelle did, but its chill and kris and susie and i are still friends after it all :')

[decarabiandivorce]

Okay so im imagining a xover where after the epilogue the 8 travelers team up to find that there are reported sightings of sudden nights. Im thinking they end up where Throne killed her dad as a set peice and its Harvey using his Darquest Magic to hop between worlds. Tldr they fight and then he tries to get away but the spell hits everyone and the 8 travelers wake up in the field of Mondstadt while Harvey is still in Octopath 2 world being a menace. The cast of pals that the OctoTravelers befriended are thwarting his plans each and evertime he shows up- not even knowing who this guy id thry are just inspired by the travelers.

Anyways Amber finds the group of people in strange clothing and is like "This looks ????? I should bring them to Jean to heal them." She wakes them up and its clear from their Slight Accents they aren't From teyvat. They ponder why two different worlds would speak the same tongue for a bit when Amber realizes they are similar to The Traveler :)

So the octogang go to Mondstadt!

Osvald, Hikari, Castti, Temenos, and Throne are asking questions about how this world works and what the city is like. Partitio is marveling over the sheer Bounty of the Land and realizes that Amber wouldn't be the best choice to ask about materials so he is waiting his turn. Agnea's eyes are sparkling when she learns its a city of song. Ochette is :3

Temenos: "So this world is also ruled by gods.... fascinating."

Amber: "Yep! Mondstadt is ruled by the god of freedom, Barbatos."

Throne: "The god of Freedom rules a country?"

Amber: "Ironic isn't it? Even he thought so! He recconised that freedom meant he shouldn't be in charge of everyone. Thus we got the Knights of Favonius created by the Grandmaster Venessa to rule the country. Barbatos helps out at his own pace and it is the responsibility of the people to take care of our own!"

Throne, a bird landing on her shoulder: "I see..."

Hikari is learning So Much knights and politics. He loves this place. Where people of all different walks of life could stand by equality. Sure people are given respect based on their title, but thats because they earned that title not because it was their birthright.

They pass by the bridge into Mondstadt, Amber waves to the two knights and explains the situation. Tldr its like what happened with Lumine but 8x.

When they reach the kof hq, they talk with Jean. Jean is fascinated by not just 1 but 8 travelers in this world. She remembers how Lumine was ??? Over thr concept of visions and seeing that there were not gemstones on the octogang she asks if they know what a vision is.

"What like your eyes?"

Jean uses her Elemental Burst and heals the octogang of thier injures. She gives them an explanation and if they want further information they could talk to Lisa.

Osvald immediately turns to Lisa (she was in the room) (she was trying to get Jean to take a vacation) (also a bit of flirting) and asks paragraphs of info. She is laughing and tells him <insert flirting > and he is >:/. Lisa, seeing how the octogang had grimaced at this actions, rightfully concludes this man has a Dead Wife and lowers it.

Amber suggests they all go eat and as they walk out the building they pass by Mondstadt's Cathedral. Temenos makes some remarks and comparisons, and then spots Rosaria smoking. "Such freedom" he thinks. Compared to his own world, being a person of the cloth and doing such actions would be punishable. He needs to Check this place out.

Anyways tldr fun Temenos, Throne, and Rosaria interactions. Hikari and Noelle are 🤝 over helping people. Ochette is trying to avoid Klee (explosions loud 😔). Castti, Osvald, and Lisa are talking about potions while Albedo and Sucrose are chiming in. Partitio is vibrating with excitement over all the technological and magical differences in each world. Kameras are blowing his mind but he knows he can't just Steal a concept like that!

Agnea is hopping all across town. There are sooooo many different styles of music here and she can't stop dancing. Venti is having a fun time entertaining the dancer and they drink apple cider together. She uses some Wind Spells and he is like "👀 interesting...." and fires back with some of his own wind tricks.

"Your world doesn't have gliders!" <-forgot that he was the one who invented them

"What's a glider?"

*politely GRABS her* "I need to bring you to Amber. Right Now."

Cue the three of them gliding :)

Bestie,,,, you know octopath 2,,,, im rotating the them and genshin,,,

👀

[wildknightblaze]

Octopath Travelogue, Postgame part 4

I’m running out of things to do and I don’t want to admit it, I love this game too goddamn much to put it down.

Maybe I’ll try a character solo run or something.

While wandering around, I realized there are two cave icons on the minimap of Road to the Obsidian Parlor. The one further south is the normal entrance to the Secret Path, but the one further north is utterly unreachable by any means that I can see. It bothers me greatly.

Cyrus, Tressa, and Olberic talk about their fears and weaknesses. People are all about Olberic being a bad swimmer and Cyrus being a bad singer, but my favorite line from the banter is the last one, Olberic telling Cyrus “Best leave her be. I believe she is in the midst of ruing her curiosity.”

Continuing to poke around random dungeons, even low-level ones I’ve cleared out, I found, of all people, Gustav the Black Knight in the Whistlewood just north of Atlasdam. He’s probably not the greatest, but I had Primrose Allure him because she doesn’t have anyone at the moment, so why not. I also checked out...I think it was the Hollow Throne, remembering that was the first time I encountered the “You sense a deadly force ahead of you” message and was curious about what it was. Turns out it was probably the first appearance of that golem enemy sprite, and with three super jobs in the party at around level 65 he went down like a chump.

At some point, I ended up in Victors Hollow and found a new NPC near the flower-loving widow. Turns out it’s a flower merchant. Who’s selling, surprise surprise, Mind-me-always. It was expensive as fuck, but I literally have like 850,000 leaves at this point, so what the fuck else am I gonna do with it? Tressa haggled it down anyway, because she is best girl. Before going back to Northreach, I get a banter between Tressa, Olberic, Ophilia, and Alfyn, all talking about how they’d get someone in the corner who’s wearing a big heavy cloak to take it off. It falls pretty much as expected: Olberic would challenge him to an honorable duel, Alfyn would make friends with him over drinks and then politely ask if he could, and Ophilia would just bring him somewhere warm and let him take it off if he wants because if he’s wearing it he’s probably cold, jeez guys, consent is important. Tressa thought about buying it, but it’s “a collector’s piece” so she’d just do everything everyone else said because that’s how it works. I love my smol derpy merchant daughter.

On a more serious note, I give Ogen the Mind-me-always and he’s incredibly appreciative. And his speech to Melyssa about how he finally found a reason to keep living is pretty heartwarming, considering how set he was on dying. I then literally have a screenshot of him saying he’d like to introduce someone to her and hoping she won’t mind if he brings him by, while Alfyn is standing literally three feet away. Like. Right there, Ogen. I think she can see him. Pretty crappy weapon for a reward, but it’s good to see Ogen get some closure.

I then...did something else, but I’m going to save that for the end. Because. Fuck. Fuck. Fuuuuucccccccck.

Turns out the thing Noelle was looking for was in the songbook of an NPC who definitely was not there before in the lower quarter of Stonegard. I’m sure he only spawned after I triggered that step of Noelle’s quest, but even so.

The translator in the upper-left house is looking for somebody, but fuck if I know who, so...fuck it, I give up, look it up. Turns out it’s...the exotic grandma on a pier in Rippletide. Because she said she traveled across the sea. And the guy said the book came from across the sea.

Like, in context, it makes perfect sense, but that’s asking a bit much to remember those bits of relevant information, connect the dots when you talk to her, and think to guide her to him several cities away. Ah well. That’s that done, finally.

Ali popped up in Sunshade, but I don’t really know what else to do with him after the initial conversation. He just keeps mumbling about his father. So...I presumed it had something to do with his father, but I thought he said they hail from a land even further south than the Sunlands, so I didn’t think I’d actually find him.

Until, of course, I did in Marsalim. Derp. Well, guiding him up to Sunshade was easy enough. And it was a good conversation about how much Ali has grown and was able to step into the merchant’s boots even after what Maruf said about him.

Ali gives us the Tradewinds Spear which, seriously, is just tailor-made for Tressa. Especially if I keep her in Runelord.

I then turn to Russell’s quest. After poking around in the Cliftlands a bunch (it feels like there are a lot of cities there, but it’s really only the three. They feel really big, though.), I finally find a know-it-all in Bolderfall who was not there before who I Inquire for the History of the Cliftlands. Repeat the search in Duskbarrow for the Woodlands guy, then Stillsnow for the Frostlands. Russell is grateful and talks about wanting to truly redeem himself and Dominic and aww fuck, I think I have yet another gay ship why is this game so gay in the best way.

Finally, I remember the song I told to Noelle mentioned Everhold, so I find her there, although not before finding the NPC Who Was Not There Before and buying a tapestry from him. It apparently proves the existence of King Beowulf to Noelle and she runs off to write the best grad paper ever and sock it to her colleagues. Good for her.

And that...seems to be all the sidequests! Except for that one. That one I left for now.

So in the woods northwest of S’warkii (how was I supposed to know I’d find something here?) I run into none other than the Impresario of Kit’s troupe. They’ve been waylaid by a big monster and were counting on a swordsman to bail them out, but he hasn’t returned until just now. Surprise, it’s Alphas! He specifically mentions how we rescued him from Lyblac’s cruelty and helped him find Flora. They ask for help defeating the monster, because of course, and well, why not.

It’s a big kitty. :3 A recolor of the Venomtooth Tiger that Tressa fought that is pretty much just a normal tiger that’s the size of an elephant, heh. It only had about 40,000 HP, which is like...nothing to me, at this point. It was probably overkill to have Sorcerer Ophilia use Elemental Break on him when he’s broken and then cast Ventus Saltare because it literally did 29,997 damage and wiped him out. Poor kitty.

Before they depart, the Impresario tells me about a letter from Kit that said he was going to meet the woman who knew of his father. Alphas, for some reason, chimes in with information about Lyblac. I thought you had moved on, buddy, why do you care that Lyblac found her perfect man...

...wait.

...wait.

don’t. fucking. tell me.

Alphas and the Impresario: “Hornburg!?”

😲😲😲😲😲

Impresario tells me that yes, Kit has set off for an abandoned ruin in Hornburg. Alphas confirms that was where Lyblac was heading as well.

AND THEN THIS MOTHERFUCKER POPS UP.

FUCK.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE FINAL DUNGEON.

Kit was way more important than I thought he’d be! Lyblac is definitely an evil bitch with an agenda that has a 99.999999999% chance of involving Galdera! They are definitely in the Gate of Finis and I’m going to have to save Kit -- and probably the whole goddamn world -- from the designs of Lyblac and Galdera!

These are my adventurers as it stands. I’ve been with them for 90 hours at this point but it’s all about to go down.

Next time we’ll fucking finish everything.

I hope.

[blazlngblade]

Valentines X White Day CotC Chibis

I never posted these projects here. :'D But basically, I drew chibis for Valentines Day and White Day of some of my favourite CotC shippings! Only some though, I have more, but I could only do 14, it was a countdown after all.

I'll post the combined versions, because that makes most sense to me.

I had a lot of fun designing them all nice outfits! I would love to draw some of them again one day too!

[blazlngblade]

Octopath Traveler's got one, and her name is Noelle!

Yes.

we need to have more girl characters that become tumblr sillypeople. more girl characters who are like freaks and creeps in an explicitly Unsexy way we need more weird girls who are unapologetically insane and unlovable but also silly and fun. ok

[blazlngblade]

I was working on some Valentines Chibis as a small countdown to February 14th. I had a lot of fun drawing each one, and designing an outfit for them too.

I plan to do the matching partners in March as a countdown to White Day as well!

[blazlngblade]

I got reminded about how great the Champions NPCs Quintet is and I wanted to show them off! These five, you might recognize. They are;

Ashlan, the Beastmaster

Heinz, the Enlightened Aristocrat

Iris, the Blue Dancer

Miles, the Servant of the Flame

Noelle, the Seeker of Knowledge

My favourites are Iris and Heinz! I hope you guys getting to play Champions of the Continent for the first time this summer (or the demo!) are looking forward to meeting them.

[silverwarewolf]

hello dear octopath fandom. today i bring to you a realization i should've had much sooner (or that i had and then promptly forgot about)

the major side quests mirror the travelers in some way or another.

Miles and Ophilia are on a journey to honor their dead fathers' names and fulfill duties of their own.

Theracio and Cyrus are fervent about bringing knowledge to the world and realizing the importance of wielding it correctly.

Le Mann and Tressa are very excited about getting to explore the world at large, and meet some bandits in grandport.

Noelle and Olberic have a connection to hornburg and seek to understand and/or resolve its past.

Gloria and Primrose go through burdensome journeys to find information that helps them incriminate/kill someone in a position of power.

Meryl and Alfyn seek to solve a bit of a mystery around their childhoods, whether it be their birth mother or the apothecary that saved their life.

Kaia and Therion are on perilous travels to find/take care of the greatest treasures in Orsterra, both of which are closely related to dragons.

Ashlan and H'aanit go around the world finding information about a very dark kind of magic in order to save their masters from a curse.

[wildknightblaze]

Octopath Travelogue, Postgame part 2

Still creeped out by that woman and yet wondering how I’m going to run into her next.

For some masochistic reason, I looked the game up on TV Tropes and lord was that page a mess and needed a lot of cleanup. So much I actually created a new account to do so. There were a strange amount of insistent references to the original beta demo that isn’t even available on the eShop anymore, not to mention lots of shilling for two random NPCs in Sunshade and Cobbleston that would supposedly kick your dumb ass if you Challenged them and could even put story bosses to shame, ~~ooooooh. I went and checked, and the Sunshade turban-wearing villager that was referenced was nerfed all the way down to two pips and is a joke. The Cobbleston barmaid outside the tavern, though, has six pips now instead of five. So at least she’s still a force to be reckoned with.

I just find it really weird that there was so much focus on that original demo, like it was gospel, when clearly a lot of things were changed between then and now (and it’s not like the developers were coy about whether things would change or not, they specifically said that first demo was to solicit player feedback so they could change things). Old screenshots indicate that even things like the font changed, not to mention how Primrose’s Path Action is called Allure, not Seduce.

In the actual game, I found a man named Bryan in the Sunshade tavern, and I remembered there’s a sidequest from Wispermill involving a woman complaining that Bryan raised the prices of the windmills. So I did what I’ve done to all the other dirty capitalists I’ve met in this game -- sicced Linde on him. Heh. And it worked for the sidequest. So that was nice.

Proceeding counter-clockwise around the original towns, I found nothing interesting in Cobbleston, though I did get a reminder that I still haven’t figured out Noelle’s sidequest (to find some kind of historical monument or something). I’m thinking it has something to do with an optional dungeon that’s named Tomb or something, but I’ll have to look into it.

Up to Rippletide, and oh what a surprise TV Tropes lied to me, they said Leon was here on the docks and I see nothing. I did find Princess Mary, though, surprisingly, and discovered that Therese had nothing to worry about in terms of her crush on Cyrus because Mary is clearly holding out for her other professor from ten years ago. (...For the sake of avoiding age difference creepiness, I hope they’re both in a graduate program at the Atlasdam university. Even though it seemed like Cyrus was teaching extremely basic history... 😕) Then the news came that Paul’s ship crashed, and I realized “oh, that’s what the dungeon named Undertow Cave is for, isn’t it?” So I went and checked, and indeed, there was Paul, waiting to be Guided back to Mary, upon which point she received some interesting character development. So that was nice!

I cleared out Atlasdam already after clearing Cyrus’s story, as far as I can tell, so I skipped over that and went up to Noblecourt. A number of interesting things there -- first, apparently Orlick is back to working with Barham, and second, they got into an argument with Mikk and Makk about Leon apparently having returned to his pirating ways? He wouldn’t do that, that would upset our smol babby merchant girl too much...

Kit’s also here. I can’t figure out who to bring to him because he’s kinda nonspecific in his wish for a band of traveling partners. :/ I can pass on Why Odette Doesn’t Visit Geoffrey to Revello though! ...Ah, she told me offscreen. Okay. ...Well, that was a heartwarming resolution. :3 ...Interesting, though. Geoffrey knew he would die soon, huh...?

...okay, Kit is really bothering me, so I give up. I’m gonna look him up.

...what? The Aspiring Actor on the next screen over from him? How was I supposed to figure that out?! 😕 Ugh, fine, whatever. At least that’s finally taken care of. For now.

Back into town and oh, hey, there’s Leon! ...uh, okay, maybe not. Let’s check him out...Yeah, that’s definitely not him. Well, only one thing for it...Sicceth him, Linde! Hehe. ...Yep, just an impostor. That explains it. Ahahaha and even his name changed to Definitely Not Leon. Nice touch.

That seems to be it for Noblecourt so...Wispermill next? Sure why not.

...Hm...this 67-year-old man knows Heathcote, does he? Hmmmmmm. 🤔 Do come with me, good sir. Doesn’t seem to be anything else here, unfortunately, that I haven’t already taken care of.

So back to Bolderfall...And indeed, just as I surmised.

...Uh.

...You took being mugged for your precious Cat’s Eye pretty well, Heathcote.

Oh, that’s why. That’s pretty interesting. So I guess you feel like you don’t deserve the Cat’s Eye, since you didn’t get with this woman back in the day, so really you let Nighteye take it. Okay, sure. Thanks for the dagger. Got some impressive Elem. Atk. on it! I’m sure Primrose will be very happy with it.

...Oh, wait, I forgot, I do have business in Atlasdam, Zeph’s letter! Let’s go do that. ...Aww, that was sweet, and she misses him too. ...And also wrote a letter but never sent it. COME ON, YOU AWKWARD NERDS, JUST TAKE THE LEAP. Ugh fine let’s just take it, Therion. Back to Clearbrook.

Aww, that was also very sweet. And hey, here she is! Back to visit, at least! That’s sweet.

They should be a throuple with Alfyn.

I’m just sayin’.

Let’s check out Wellspring. Erhardt’s here, and I can Guide him! Awesome! ...And his Inquire profile states that he used to be known as the Blazing Blade. As if Olberic’s story didn’t already have enough Fire Emblem references. Heh. ...And he has the Battle-Tested Blade! Sweet! As if Warmaster H’aanit wasn’t OP enough, heheh.

And Bale’s sidequest has him wanting to get back in touch with Donovan...That was the bishop in Goldshore? Sure, let’s revisit there too.

...Donovan’s Condition? I don’t like the phrasing of that. ...Ah, okay, it was a positive thing after all. Just phrased ominously. Some good backstory on Bale, too.

Over to Marsalim now...

...uh. Wow. This sidequest with the prisoner Kevin got really depressing because it’s heavily implied he went to the gallows after. I wasn’t able to save him, just ease his mind regarding the woman he loved. Poor man...

Ah, here’s the guard with the mother in Orewell who regrets their final argument. Let’s Guide him...oh, nice, and the king is wondering how to put on plays for the masses. I’m sure the theatre troupe Kit joined will have something to do with that.

This is getting pretty long, but I’d like to stop in Victor’s Hollow now. There’s that high-level forest dungeon, and it seems like the bandit Alaic is chasing is in there too. Turns out I had to bring Alaic to him to trigger a fight against him...after which, Alaic gave his backstory -- as a member of the Obsidians, stopped by Z’aanta when he tried to kill Susanna, and then saved by Susanna when he tried to drink poison. Wow.

At the end of the forest, I found the missing daughter of the man in Victor’s Hollow, taken by a monster that jumped out at me...and looked like some kind of HP Lovecraft writhing mass of grossness. It was surprisingly difficult -- it managed to kill everyone once, with a crazy powerful AoE dark spell that did around 2000 damage and caused blindness, and even when I got a handle on things, it did a lot of damage and put up a crazy good fight, not helped by the fact that it kept spiriting away party members and reducing the number of weaknesses it had. It took like 15 minutes, but I got it and returned Ellie to her father. Phew.

I haven’t run into Lyblac again, which only makes me more nervous. But I’ll keep hopping around and seeing what’s up.