The Book of the Shadows

Hey folks, been a while....

  E7’s February/March Side-Story, A Game of Princes So, we’re a few days away from the final part of the Vivian side-story, Game of Thr… er, I mean, Game of Princes. This has been a really good story, which kind of sets up a pattern for SG at this point; expect that the story they release in February each year to be the best one they’ll release all year. Last year’s Valentine's Day side story, despite some people complaining early on due to the mechanics of it, was a very popular one, probably the most popular all year. The Valentine’s Day story the year before that was also very well liked, again probably the favorite of the year. In any case, this story is unique in that it has a very deliberate mystery element to it. I’ve got stuff to say on the way the main story is going too, but I’ll save that for another time. Spoiler Alert for anyone who hasn’t caught up on the side story yet but given the title of this post you should probably already expect spoilers. So, the story

 Hey everyone. It's been a while. I'm starting up a new series of posts I'll be titling, "If I Were To Write..." In each of these posts I will introduce an in-progress story from (most likely) Epic 7 and explain what elements of that story I consider important, interesting, or impactful, how they fit with other elements in the game overall, and how I as a novice writer would tackle the at-the-time unfinished elements of the story.  In essence, these posts are an info dump of my thought process into a story as I am consuming that story, and reveals in some cases how a story or elements of a story feed into what I decide to do with a story when I select it for one of my fan-fictions. Each is a statement of what I generally think the best path a story can take would be, and then once the official story is complete matches up with my expectations.  If there is a large gap, that informs me of where I already have ideas on how to take a story and its characters and tell

There's not a TON of factual info here, just a question (and hopefully some decent discussion) related to the E7 story of the world some of the moonlight heroes come from. Potential spoilers if you haven't completed Ep 3.

Okay, so the story behind this project is a little complex.

 So the big Rise update has been out for a couple days now, and you can mostly disregard my last blog post. They really did simplify things to the T.