Of Eight Paths and Travelers
(all of this is subject to change if a better idea presents itself)
This au is basically just mashing ISAT characters into the Octopath storytelling format. Roles + other stuff under the cut
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Mike Driver
Claire Keane
Today's Document
Jules of Nature
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Andulka
almost home

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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
cherry valley forever
Peter Solarz
Stranger Things
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macklin celebrini has autism
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Of Eight Paths and Travelers
(all of this is subject to change if a better idea presents itself)
This au is basically just mashing ISAT characters into the Octopath storytelling format. Roles + other stuff under the cut
LOOP 0
(What's Kingswap? Here's the Masterpost)
I'm not dead! No, here I am, back to share my funny Brainrot, covering some bits of Loop 0 with Clovis, our swapped King-as-Hero (Though lacking the Recap and some character interactions I want to save for another day!)
But wait, Jolly, whats going on with that Prologue, whats with Siffr-
Shh, don't worry about it. Clovis time.
This AU is Spoilers for most of In Stars and Time, though since this is all bits and pieces of the prologue and start of the game, that may not apply, but i'm playing it safe. Any content warnings that apply to In Stars and Time apply to this AU as well!
The Stagemaster
(What's Kingswap?) Meet the Stagemaster, the main antagonist of this little Kingswap AU i've been cooking. The fellow who could have been Siffrin, had their life not taken a different path. In this post, I'll cover a bit about where he came from, their personality, what they're capable of, and other bits and pieces.
Well...maybe not everything. A fellow has to keep some mystery to himself.
As a blanket statement, this AU is just full on spoilers for 'In Stars and Time', and any content warnings that apply to the game apply to this post under the cut!
Random thoughts: Siffrin is used to touch and gives hugs out of nowhere occasionally. Polaris(Loop) gets very surprised the first time this happened and was on the verge of tears.
Adding on to that, Polaris is the first one they do this to due to the (slightly) familiar feel of them. Mirabelle is next.
Random thoughts: Siffrin is used to touch and gives hugs out of nowhere occasionally. Polaris(Loop) gets very surprised the first time this happened and was on the verge of tears.
Factions
Vaugarde
The House of Change – Worships Change. Does a lot for their community and provide many services. Each town in Vaugarde has one (they're all independent). You get licenses from the one in Corbeaux. You unlock them by getting a certain amount of divine skills on one character.
The Defenders – Incompetent neighborhood watch basically. They don't do much.
The Wish Cult – Has an actual cool name but not one calls them that. The antagonist group.
The Country
The Star Council – Runs the country. Serves as the head of their religion, scholarly pursuits and archives, and aristocratic societies.
Poteria
Actor's Guild – Get Dancer License from here. Basically just the actors trade union. Also you get licenses by acting in plays once you fulfill the requirements.
Mwudu
Hunter's Association – Get Hunter License from them. Heavily supports sustainable hunting (obviously). Get the licenses by hunting down invasive species. They're also the main exporter of meats from Mwudu.
Just got the ISAT artbook!! And had many ideas.
You guys remember how Siffrin's villian is trying to erase The Country? What if they were influenced by the Wish Cult? What if after they failed, the Wish Cult succeeded?
But wishes that big take time to truly set in stone. Lots of moving parts and all that. So what if there's a grace period on those bigger wishes? Some time to undo them.
And when after everyone's journeys are over, Sif and King wake up with a blinding headache. They can't seem to recall facts about their home. Their memories of their childhoods are a bit fuzzier. So, they talk to the others about it... And Loop gets awfully quiet suddenly. Loop remembers the headaches from before they managed to lift the lingering Wish Craft... and feels one coming back on.
So the group ends up going on a quest similar to Journey For the Dawn in OT2. They fight some prominent figures from the Wish Cult and figure out how to stop it from fully taking effect. The group fights an avatar of the wish that once defeated stops the Wish from cementing into reality.
They're are still some lingering effects because obviously the length of time where it was rewriting the world can't be entirely written-off, but The Country still exists! And "Happily Ever After BS" happens because this is based on a J-RPG and let them be happy.
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They are doing research :3
update we doin chapter 2 of octopath 1's Siffrin stand-in
They are doing research :3
King, The Apothecary
Quick Trivia
From the Country
He likes strawberrys :3
Wanted to be a travelling Apothecary because he wanted to help all the people he could
He had to run away to do this cause the Country doesn't like secrets getting out
Big gruff guy who cares a lot but won't admit it
Uses very basic wishcraft to do Apothecary stuff
Class Reasoning
We had given out everything else already and it made some sense, so
Story Ideas
Looking for a cure to a mysterious petrification disease :)
Antagonist is Loop's original King who managed to wish his way into this world with Loop in a moment of clarity
In sadness form because it was a really hasty wish and not well worded
Loop's King enters the world and just goes about enacting his last goal because he's a Sadness now
The Wish Cult discovered him and just let him do his thing because they liked the chaos of it
Final boss is Polaris's King as a Sadness
This is almost Castti's story minus the amnesia plot(unless you count Sadness King but he's different)
Masterpost
oh btw the Country's name is Country, or at least that's the best translation. They have a name for the Country in their language, but it doesn't translate well AT ALL.
It's best translated to Our Country. Just a fun fact :)
Follow-up question, but how would you do a boss-rush room like Octopath's Galdera?
Probably, just like Sadness forms of all their final bosses made by the Wish Cult. If any of them were already Sadnesses then they just brought them back or resummoned them but stronger.
And Mal Du Pays could have just been left to partially escape and since it is now untethered from Polaris(Loop) and is thus stronger and can just fully kill that enby.
Polaris/Loop, The Thief
Quick Trivia
Keeps any details about their past locked up as well as they can
Uses the name Polaris due to not wanting to mention timeloop trauma
NOT a star, but has star shaped freckles
Glow in the dark hair
Masterpost
Direct twohats spoilers + act 3 King Quest isat spoilers below
Do you see there being any "replacement" for the four Darkblood relics belonging to Vide: the bow, the sword, the staff, and the grimoire?
Also, an idea for Nile's story involves her parents transporting something (relics or other) for the wishcult?
I was thinking that the Wish Cult has four leaders for different regions, and each of them has a cool wishcraft made weapon or something as a replacement. They could definitely be a good relighting the Sacred Flames replacement as well
Also Nille's parents do trade in the human market for the cult (how Pétronille got separated from Bonnie), they have other people for the artifacts. Though Bonnie ran away and Pétronille got sold for knowing too much
So in response to the previous Siffrin related question...
You think Sif's antagonist is Claude coded? As in "immortal/immoral thanks to the "star blood" of dark god". If you want another idea, you shpuld read up on Time and Time Again by Andry_Falchion. For some reason, I feel "Asteria" would be a good fit for your antagonists, or even just more ideas for antagonists.
Also, had a weird idea that the "King" you've been playing as is in fact a wish craft double of the real King, the cause of the petrification.
I'm really intrigued by the idea about people from the Country having "Star blood" or that coming from the dark god replacement. I can see that as a way to kind of tie in whatever dark god we decide on, however much I hate thinking about Claude and how he has the stupidest suicide plan ever
The King (Polaris's) is causing the petrification, though it's basically just his sadness, however King (the Apothecary) is basically what should have been the only version of himself in this world and is just as much an original as Polaris's
Pétronille, The Merchant
Quick Trivia
Bonnie's older sister
Has a very strong hatred for her shitty parents
She was meant to be yellow but Tumblr said no
Comes from a reclusive merchant family(is not happy about this)
Really likes collecting big weapons and fantasizes smashing her parents heads in with them
A OK weaponsmith :)
Class Reasoning
It felt the best for her and we don't know much about her, so the vibes were our best basis. And we hadn't given out Merchant yet, so
Story Ideas
Looking to get revenge on her and Bonnie's parents for trauma
She was sold to a human trafficking ring because her parents were down on their luck and needed quick cash
Went to look for her parents to get revenge after she managed to escape
Her family has very loose ties to the Wish Cult because they help in the human trafficking ring they do because MONEY
They don't really care aboyr the Wish craft stuff they just want the cash
I accidentally just made her Primrose I think
Masterpost