#wolvden Sirona

[colorfulcollectordragon-2f8ee55c]

I wrote a wolvden fanfic

[elliotakita]

I didn't choose to give up my puppies, but I do have a theory for why Sirona and Qany want you to.

So, at the same time as all of this mysterious stuff is going on, suddenly a new pack you've never heard of springs up out of nowhere. And they have apparently been around long enough to have an elder. That's Suspicious Thing No.1

Suspicious Thing No.2 is that Quany forces you to touch the trinket, and that you can see the visions from it, but he can't. By the lack of progress between chapters, I assume Sirona can't either.

Suspicious Thing No.3 is that they say that Faelcu specifically steal puppies, look like wolves, and that living as wolves is good for them.

Suspicious Thing No.4 is more of a game VS lore thing, where if you want to do the storyline you have to help them, but I feel like the in-universe reason for this is Quany and Sirona carefully manipulating your lead until they feel like they have to. Your lead has no good in-universe reason to help them (unless you play them as very lawful good or trusting) even if you the player want one of the event apps.

Suspicious Thing No.5 is that Bronagh goes to attack Quany, and not your lead, who put the trinkets together (and is probably closer). The story reason for this is that you're too slow to react, but your lead is rarely harmed by the spirits in regular exploring too. Perhaps because they have a job to do?

Suspicious Thing No. 6 is exactly what you mentioned - that Sirona and Quany want you to give up some poor wolf-mother's puppies to a random, violent spirit. One possible reason is that they're desperate enough to try anything, but I think there's a better reason:

That they are, or have been working for, the Faelcu the entire time.

I honestly thought this was the way it was going to go. I pretty much get all the gameplay reasons behind the storyline choices, except for Quany not being able to see the visions after he uses your lead as a Guinea pig, haha. But yeah, that's my Wolvden Conspiracy Theory for this event.

Does anyone else get the vibe that Coigreach's final choice was taken really weirdly by the fandom?

The reaction of the chat when Coigreach ended was very 'I gave her my pups because I felt bad!' which... seems totally crazy to me? (From an in-universe perspective, obvs. Anyone can do what they want, it's just a game.)

The fact that Sirona is totally out of her mind enough to randomly suggest that giving two puppies away to a kidnapping ghost (okay, she's technically stuck between worlds, but still) is bad enough, but then Qany has the absolute gall to suggest that you should give Bronagh two of your OWN PACK'S PUPPIES?? It's just completely batshit and not remotely supported by the story. There's no evidence that giving the spooky ghost two living puppies would possibly work so what the heck? I don't get what we're supposed to imagine happens in-universe, we just walk up to some pack mother and tell her, don't worry, I'm taking them away to a cave and you'll never see them again? Or maybe 'this is for the greater good. an evil ghost will be a good mom!'

Like, it's good to give us hard choices, but this one isn't remotely hard, it seems clear that there is absolutely no good reason in-universe to do this, and yet the story seems to expect us to agree that the decision to give up the pups is a difficult but good choice. Sure IRL we all have lots of puppies we don't keep, but in the world of the story presumably the wolves love their puppies? And yeah a lot of people chose the 'give away the pups' path so they could get the clover app, but can anyone explain to me why anyone would ever choose the 'give up pups' path unless they're RPing an evil lead wolf?