#salyra

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Rana being Salyra N°1 Fan and MC Salyra N°1 Hater is funny

That might change once Rana is older 👀😅

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just read the whole demo in one go and?? ahlf writing mc a letter saying "you're way more your mother's child than you were ever be mine" AND THEN SALYRA ALMOST CRYING AS SHE TELLS MC "you remind me of him, you're every bit your father's child"

the fact that, to both of mc's parents, mc is just too much like the other for them to handle. i'm unwell. i need to lay down. possibly forever. will never stop thinking about this.

also, what would ahlf think if he knew that, when salyra met mc, she thought mc was 'every bit' like ahlf?

Yes, so much of drama, so much emotional trauma for our poor, sweet MC 🥺😔

Ahlf would have been annoyed, irritated and possibly a bit resentful to hear Salyra say that. In his mind, it's just Salyra being Salyra and twisting everything around but deep down, Ahlf would secretly fear Salyra's right about the MC being like him and that bothers him the most.

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✨ Poll Time: Who Won’t Make It? ✨

Who do you think won't make to the end of the game?

🥀 Salyra

🕯Zikar

👑 Virion

🗡 Morden

Voting ended onJul 29, 2025

The road to the throne is paved with betrayal, sacrifice… and maybe a little blood.

The MC and ROs will survive — but that doesn’t mean everyone does. Some names are etched into history. Others, into tombstones.

So tell me...

Who do you think won’t make it out of Crown of Exile alive?

Vote with your heart — or your suspicions.

(Poll is just for fun… probably 👀)

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So I was looking through the Irus asks and saw one that said he would reject MC's proposal just so that he can propose himself (???) So I was wondering how the other ROs and our family would react if MC came to them, looking sad/crying because Irus rejected their proposal...

Only to come back a few days later, confused/mad because "he rejected me because he wanted to propose to me and, of course, I said yes but is he really this petty??"

Would Elora even be surprised that Irus would pull this sort of bs?

Irus has spent months working on that perfect proposal and he usually never puts this much effort into anything, so he really, really wants to propose 😅

Elora: She's probably known about Irus' proposal plans for a while so she'll comfort the MC as best as she can while telling them to get used to this kind of crazy.

Oren: Oren will be weeping alongside the MC but comforting them as well. He doesn't care so much as what Irus does but would be upset to see the MC upset.

Anu: Anu would be flabbergasted as to why the MC even said yes then offer to beat Irus up to teach him a lesson.

Zikar: He's annoyed at Irus but will remind the MC that they'll be royalty soon.

Belahm and Siduri: Happy for the MC - they don't care how the proposal happened only that at least someone is finally getting married in the family (not to name and shame Zikar).

Salyra: She'll comforting the MC but will in private have a few choice words to say to Irus.

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Is there eventually a point however many years down the line that Salyra accepts that Irus isn’t his father and that he and MC are good/happy together? Or that Elora can be a good partner to MC and a good queen? Or is she just going to be stubborn in her disapproval of them regardless of the hypocrisy given her history with Ahlf?

I'd say it'd be about five years after the end of the main game when she'd start to accept the MC's RO choice, especially if the MC has cut ties with her because of everything that happened. Salyra needs time to accept the new dynamics, but I can't say she'll be gushing over Irus or Elora even when she does accept them. This is all, of course, based on the war being won. If it's lost? Salyra won't be accepting either of them any time soon.

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Salyra let's the mc to suffer in Salt Bay as a rejected by everyone like 21 years? More reasons to throw sword like words to her

More reasons indeed 👀

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Just because I'm curious maybe it's obvious to others but I'm kind of dumb. When MC mentions that they are no longer afraid of thunderstorms. Is Salyra's anger that Ahlf took MC to the sea or is the anger at herself because MC has changed so much? If it's at Ahlf whats so bad about going out on the sea? 😅

Salyra is upset because in that moment, she realises how little she actually knows of the MC - the MC has changed, and Salyra doesn't know how to deal with that absence between them that's always going to be there. She's always slightly angry at Ahlf, whether it be the letters he hid from the MC, or the fact that he made the MC a bona fide fisher, what's not to be angry at him about? 😂

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So this is major spoilers for stuff behind the Patreon paywall so idk if you can post the answer here anyway but!

So after the reveal of Salyra’s role in stopping Erlan and Lamahu’s engagement, she insists that she tried ignore the visions at first but that ‘it’s no so simple’ to defy the gods, and that the consequences would have been even worse if she tried, and thus she meddled and set of Erlan’s wrath in the aftermath. Basically makes it sound like there was literally no other way to solve that issue other than to humiliate Erlan and drag Ishari into war because ✨ The Ancient Ones ✨ said it was the only way despite the fallout being visible from miles away.

Flash forward a couple decades though, and Salyra suddenly seems a lot more willing to not only defy the the will of the Ancient Ones herself but to also drag an at least somewhat unaware Anu into it by trying to get her to keep MC out of the battle that they were, in the most literal sense, born to be a part of. After forcing a potentially lethal dose of delayed Divinity on an unknowing INFANT MC presumably for this exact scenario and again, justifying it and absolving herself of guilt because mommy Elluha said it was okay, allowing her adult child to make the choice to fulfill the destiny SHE SET THEM ON is a bridge too far because *checks notes* Salyra has to actually acknowledge the danger they’re in instead of being able to make up an idealized scenario in her head - y’know something crazy like MC’s birth convincing a racist, bloodthirsty narcissist like Erlan that war is bad actually and that they should all get along.

Anyway, I get that the public is probably unaware of the majority of what actually goes on with their beloved high priestess, but does no one in the know (Anu, Sagron, Lamahu, higher ranked prepress) question her at ANY point? Anu especially given she has by far the most up to date context of all of this and isn’t getting the luxury of sending those she cares about away from danger despite her own divinity.

Like the visions Salyra had about the engagement and her response led directly to the war, the kid she basically betrayed the temple to have with Blood Guard general did nothing to solve said war for 20+ years, the plot to poison Erlan backfired spectacularly and brought the war directly to Ishari because they somehow didn’t account for Virion having a shred of political know-how let alone the skill he actually has, and now she’s all of a sudden trying to give MC a get-out-of-destiny free card, consequences for defying the gods be damned, because…what? It’s THAT much harder to stomach seeing her own kid sent off to war after basically subjecting an entire generation of Ishari to the same fate that she finally has the nerve?

Are the other members of the temple really able to believe that after the deities were so unyielding in how things had to go up to this point, and saw the casualty count as a necessary evil, they’re willing to make an exception for Salyra’s Special Kid and that there’s NO possible way Salyra is acting in her own interests even if it means subjecting everyone else to the supposedly unthinkable consequences of ignoring the will of the gods? Or has Salyra always had more of a choice in things than she has acknowledged, and has been exaggerating the consequences of disobeying the gods to try to absolve herself the trauma inflicted by her making the wrong choices by insisting there was never another option in the first place?

The thing with Salyra 20 years ago versus Salyra in the current demo and side stories is that she's starting to realise the truth of visions not being completely clear-cut as she once interpreted them. Some would say that this is exactly what the Ancient Ones planned by providing her this vision, others will say that free will exists so the interpretation is always bound to be flawed/questioned.

The deities aren't supposed to be all good either — they have their own goals, flaws and motives that aren't really explored in the current demo (it sort of ties back to fate and the four ages of the game universe).

Salyra is the High Priestess, so people are trusting of her decisions (divinity plays a role in her overall influence/sway), and after the war, so many of the worshippers with more knowledge and experience got killed/imprisoned that most of this knowledge is lost.

In telling Anu to keep the MC safe, Salyra is choosing to be selfish. She has contingency plans for Rana, too, but we don't see this discussed in the game or side stories.

Regardless of the choices made, the war was going to happen even if Erlan married Lamahu. There was more than love to his betrothal 👀