#woe cerdinen upon ye

[mountainashfae]

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Thanks Dolly!! I'm going to grab a lesser talked about OC!

Alec Faustus, one specific friend's favorite and a guy who was fridged in someone else's backstory only to Come Back Wrong. I used him to indulge my desire in making a Possessed Oracle and putting him in the Main Writing Setting meant getting to explain the whole "sharing a body with an archdevil" bit.

Which is why I even have the Devils as they exist in Cerdinen! I didn't want to take a page out of DnD or Pathfinder's book, so corrupted deities who exist with an altered influence on reality it is! Mephisto may get renamed in the future, but he and Alec are tied at the hip forever <3

I have had questions about why I'm pulling the "Alec is possessed by Mephisto" deal with the vague Faustus inspiration and Yes. I Am Aware this isn't how the book goes. The inspiration is face value. Alec was inspired by a character who was only vaguely inspired by Faust it's FINE.

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[mountainashfae]

got the dream in my head of "what if I made games in my original setting" and just thinking over hypothetical plots and gimmicks

Hypothetical Dating Sim 2 - the current writing project that I haven't touched in a bit oops. - named that because Cerdinen started as "Hypothetical Dating Sim AU" - noncanon but most likely to be finished

Plague Campaign: The Seeding Decay - started as a hypothetical Pathfinder campaign - works better in VN form if not a PF campaign - Vio, Alec, and Celeste as playable characters - takes place before Shit Hits The Fan - Vio and Alec only have a single save slot while Celeste has multiple but every time you reload an old one the saves past that point are deleted.

it would be cool to make something focusing on Alec/Meph but idk what the plot would be

Dragon Slayers RPG - Cei, Myrddin, Seville, and Lucio as the adventuring party from hell going off to slay a dragon that is wreaking havoc on the middle of the continent. - listen man I can only imagine problems for a party of a warrior, two mages, and a priest - this one takes place over a thousand years in the past

✨The Dream✨ #1 - VN style game following Aurien and Orion before the Deicidal Cannibalistic Apotheosis - PoVs from both twins. 5-6 endings in total. - both of them are unreliable narrators for different reasons. This is the Unreliable Narrator Game.

✨The Dream✨ #2 - the real dream! a CRPG! - probably following a group immediately after the Deicidal Cannibalistic Apotheosis and the resulting change in the deity cycle - I have no fucking clue what the actual plot is here. It's too early to have a Dragon Slayers group. The most I have for this time period is Aurien and Aurora setting out to change Orion's reputation and Orion starting up a worldwide cold spell. - The Gang Stops An Ice Age I guess??? - I want to put DAO Origins in this for the prologue. It's the Dream. - I need some kid here that knows too much about devils. Is it mean to put Alec/Meph in this one. - mostly I want the characters to see glimpses of Mabhan's existence but realize that she's been wiped from their memory despite existing so recently.

The chaos gang of Aurien, Madelynn, and Victor is churning in my brain lately. The summoned memory of Vio does not help. Woe, antics upon ye. Victor what is your deal other than being a Rysterian noble turned Dullahan. This takes place a long, long time in the future.

I need to revisit Smaragden in something since it was the original setting for Hypothetical Dating Sim 1 which has ceased to exist

[tripping over myself] I FORGOR THE ROWAN/AELIN/RIGEL PLOT