#kingerlan

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The May side stories are now all ready to read for my Patrons! If you want to get more insight into the characters and their thoughts, consider joining my Patreon. You will also unlock all previous side stories (NSFW included) if you join Cyre Tiers and up.

The Burdened Heir - King Erlan's POV: This side story features King Erlan's perspective on his early life before he became king. In this story, read about his early days as a prince and get a glimpse into the beginning of his friendship with Ahlf. Available for Cyre Tier Patrons and up.

A Prince's Honour - Prince Irus' POV: This side story features Prince Irus' perspective as he discovers an old battleground in Urur. Read more about his thoughts as the reality of war sets in. This story features events that take place during Chapter 9. Available for Vinia and Ishari Tier Patrons.

The Queen's Dilemma - Queen Elora's POV: This side story was determined by a randomiser. In this story, read about Queen Elora's thoughts on her return to Vinia and the plan she has to secure control over Hadi. This story features the events of Chapter Nine. Available for Cyre and Ishari Tier Patrons.

A Determined Captain - Sir Oren's POV: In this side story, read more about Sir Oren's concerns as the preparations for his departure nears. Get a glimpse into the possible reasons for his need to sacrifice himself to protect others. This side story was determined by a randomiser wheel as it was tied for second place. It features events of Chapter 9. Available for Vinia and Ishari Tier Patrons.

A Warrior's Oath - Anu's POV: In this side story, read about Anu's thoughts on travelling to meet with the Nomad Tribes as she has a heart-to-heart conversation with Sargon. This story features events that take place during Chapter 9. Available for Ishari Tier Patrons.

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Wait you said "Erlan's version" of Solus...implying that he somehow changed to doctrine of the church to better suit his beliefs? Does that happen to have anything to do with Irus' mother leaving them because (paraphrasing) "The Ancient Ones aren't as separate from Solus as he'd like to believe" 👀

In other regions, Solus is worshipped alongside his sisters, so he's not the only God in that religion. Erlan took Solus from a different religion then made him the only God available in Cyre. Solus is suddenly the beginning and end of all things, ignoring the fact that it's not true. The Ancient Ones, Solus and his sisters and the Twelve (Vinia) all permit the existence of other deities but Erlan didn't much care for that part of Solus when he decided the worship of the Ancient Ones would be bad 😅

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Hi there! I have a few questions about the events that happened in Salt Bay and the aftermath. Feel free to ignore any if they get into spoilers or the like

Did Erlan ever use them for such extreme measures within Cyre? We get a pretty clear picture of their methods in Ishari, and we know that Salyra spent at least a bit of time being on the run within Cyre before she got to Ahlf's to drop off MC but seems like her path there was pretty removed from general society. Or has Virion's Blood Guard just that much more ruthless, extending towards his own people.

Dena mentions that their merchants knew of the massacre, but how common of knowledge is it? Has word spread to the general public in the weeks/months since, and did they have a reaction to that much carnage to their own people for a prince that wasn't even successfully captured/killed?

Or even within Virion's court, since Irus mentions that not everyone was siding with Virion to begin with regarding him taking the throne against Erlan's wishes. Has his ah, liberal, use of the Boodguard added to those voices? After all, it's one thing to look the other way while Virion ties up loose ends but it's another thing when he does so in a way that cuts into their profits and/or land, and carving a bloody path up to the Vinia border, destroying at least one port, and killing dozens if not hundreds of people including merchants and workers in the process would do just that.

I'll answer as many as I can 😋

Erlan and Virion are very different in the way the Blood Guard are utilised. Virion is definitely the more vicious of the brothers and has zero issues with killing anyone (even the people of Cyre) to get things done. There's a reason why Morden magically was promoted to the role of General as soon as Virion took over, because he's bloodthirsty and vicious too.

The news has spread right up to the palace. Everyone in Cyre and surrounding regions have heard whispers of what's been going on.

Chapter 10 and 11 deals with the responses so I'll hold off on answering this part 😊

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It might just be my daddy issues talking but the fact that Ahlf wanted Mc to stay with him makes me so happy?? Like "He told me that it would be better if you remained with him," she explains. "That you did not... that it would good for you to stay with him."

While i understand how extremely selfish as that was of him to do, he didn’t want Mc to leave, he wanted to keep taking care of them 🥲

He did in fact want to keep the MC with him for protection if nothing else - you're free to interpret the underlying reasons based on how you play the MC's relationship with Ahlf. If you read certain letters, you'll know that Erlan let the MC live with Ahlf out of the friendship he once shared with Ahlf so Ahlf truly believed that the MC would have been safer with him than with Salyra and her suicide mission of trying to end the war.

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please don’t hesitate to correct me if im wrong because i very much want to be but… if salyra somehow is involved in the death of irus’s father then that means she indirectly got ahlf killed too…

We could really say Erlan is the reason for most deaths in the game - indirectly and directly 😅

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heyy, I haven't seen this question. Did Erlan ever love Lamahu? Or at least there was some affection or respect? I think you mentioned once that the breaking off of the engagement was the final straw because he felt like he was being denied something else that "belonged" to him, I always thought he was referring to Ishari

This is a bit complicated because once, Erlan wasn't as ruthless as the man that we see in the game. He did love Lamahu, whether that love stemmed from the fact it was part infatuation, part desire to control Ishari and a part of him actually loving her is something up for debate. I like to think that he loved her at one point but his ambition got in the way of things - Lamahu also at some point after the war began realised that Erlan's love for her was flawed because he obviously didn't respect her beliefs of the Ancient Ones to respect Salyra's advice to break off the betrothal (which to Lamahu was an order from the deities she worshipped). So yes, he loved her in his own way.

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I have a low of humor; can't stop laughing at imaging Erlan screaming in the afterlife at romanced Irus "WHEN I SAID F THE ISHARI THAT WASN'T WHAT I MEANT!"

Now that we know Erlan was meant to marry Lamahu, we all know that he'd be quite hypocritical for saying this 😂

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This may seem like a dumb question, but did Ahlf hate King Erlan? I get the feeling their relationship was more complex than that.

Not a dumb question at all!

Their relationship was very complicated. When they were still young and Erlan wasn't a bloodthirsty tyrant, Ahlf and Erlan were very good friends, in fact, they were more like brothers than Erlan and Virion were. Once things started to change and the war started to last longer than was originally planned, Ahlf lost a lot of trust in Erlan as a king and as his friend. He tried to convince Erlan to stop the war, but by then things had gone too far and Erlan would rather end his friendship with Ahlf than heed his former friend's warning. That said, if Ahlf and Erlan had to meet each other in the battlefield (if they were both still alive), they'd both hesitate to kill each other. I'd go so far as to say that they'd spare the other if it came down to it.