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User:Alypia

2023-03-30T05:29:03Z

Alypia: /* Works */

Writer for CoC2

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==Works==
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!colspan="2"|Works
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!|{{align|right|Characters}}
|[[Annika]], [[Serena]]
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!|{{align|right|Codices}}
|[[Armies and Warriors]], [[Arms and Tactics]], [[Culture of War]], [[Currency]], [[Education]], [[Nature of Battle]], [[Past Jassira]], [[Sieges]]
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!|{{align|right|Dreams}}
|[[Rainbow Cait]]
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!|{{align|right|Events}}
|[[Midwinter Festivus Ball]]: Ball Adjustment - Entertainment - Garadelle - Etheryn (dance) - Ryn (hymnal)
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!|{{align|right|Quests}}
|[[The High Ground]] (with [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]), [[The Palace of Light]] (with [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]]), [[Dye-ing To Get To Know You]]
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|[[Arona]]: Nurse Her (sex) - Dommy Mommy (sex) [[Etheryn]]: Dildo (sex) - Service Top (sex) - Nursing (sex) - Elthara (talk) - Spend Time (Winter City) - Sleep With (all 14 variants) → Wake Up (all 12 variants) [[Gianna's Caravan]]: Etheryn (scene) Ice Rose Encounter ([[Frostwood]] & [[Glacial Rift]]) [[Jael'yn]] (maid): Ride w/ Ryn (sex) [[Lusina]]: Send Off (platonic recruitment) [[Viviane]]: Magicock (sex)
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!colspan="2"|Items & Powers
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!|{{align|right|Attire}}
|[[Cloak of the Deeps]]
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!|{{align|right|Transformatives}}
|[[Ice Rose]]
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Etheryn

2023-03-30T05:28:47Z

Alypia: /* Waking Up */

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| caption = Full body art of Etheryn by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]
| creator = [[Author-Savin|Savin]]
| fullname = Etheryn var Ridell
| nickname = Ryn
| alias =
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Princess
| title = Royal Cuntlicker Etheryn, Duchess of the Rim (pre-Palace of Ice) Princess Regent Etheryn (post-Palace of Ice)
| height = 5'7"
| bustsize = A - DD (transformable)
| family = [[Queen Alissa]] (older sister) Queen Alraince (mother) [deceased] Unnamed Father [deceased] [[Queen Atheldred|Queen Atheldred Sunbringer]] (maternal grandmother) [deceased] Queen-Consort Synneva (maternal grandsire) [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandmother [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandfather [deceased] Harrick (war-hawk)
| relatives =
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction =
| nationality =
| location = [[Corrupted Garden]]
| level = 3
| health = 170 (Level 3) 200 (Level 4) 230 (Level 5)
| resolve = 100
}}

Etheryn var Ridell, a half-sexed [[Boreal Elves|frost elven]] princess, is a potential companion, sex partner, and love interest in Corruption of Champions 2.
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"I'm not afraid of you anymore! I'll never let you hurt me again."

"By decree of the Winter Throne, I name you, [pc.name], as [pc.mf|Baron|Baroness] of the March. You shall be my spear and my shield, my eyes and my ears. You shall be my heart."
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Etheryn, or "Ryn", as she prefers, was born the second child of Queen Alraince, ruler of the isolated [[Winter City]]. Her mother died of complications from childbirth and her father, the King Dowager, was killed on a hunt a few years later, leaving the throne to Ryn's elder sister, [[Queen Alissa|Alissa]]. Although Alissa projected the image of a strong and noble huntress-queen to the ordinary frost elves of the Winter City, she was endlessly cruel to Etheryn in private, relentlessly bullying her even as a child. When Ryn came of age, Alissa 'rewarded' her by locking Ryn's penis in a magical chastity cage and forcing her young sister to eat or rim her out on demand.

Despite this abuse, Etheryn developed an adventurous spirit, yearning to see the world beyond the palace; the young elf repeatedly tried to break out of her imprisonment, and often succeeded...before being recaptured by Alissa's guards as she tried to sneak through the city. But she also grew up shy and socially awkward, easily pushed around by people with stronger wills than herself. Unfortunately for her, most of Alissa's aristocratic camarilla was exactly like that, strong-willed and cruel, and only the misfits - [[Elthara]], the responsible, motherly high priestess of Lumia; [[Elyon]], the acerbic huntsmaster; [[Jael'yn]], the friendly Guard-Captain - ever really took pity on her. They helped ensure that she gained something of an education as a noblewoman and ranger, and Elyon helped her raise her closest friend in the world, her war-hawk Harrick. But they were the only ones, and no one outside the palace knew anything of Etheryn but her name, let alone her awful predicament.

Only Alissa's distraction with [[Kasyrra|a new, mysterious lover]] allows Etheryn to escape from confinement at the beginning of the events of CoC2. When the Champion first encounters her in the [[Ruined Wayfort]], she has been captured by [[Kasyrra|a demon]] in the midst of her attempt to seek help for the frost elves from the peoples of the south and overthrow Alissa.

After freeing her, Etheryn has the option to join the party. Her Confidence mechanic allows the player to help her overcome her shyness with friendship and support. A fully confident Etheryn becomes a charming, brave young (young for an elf, that is, at the age of fifty-and-change) woman, a clever diplomat, and an assiduous student of rulership - and a devoted friend to the Champion. If the Champion beds high-Confidence Etheryn, she is extremely romantic and switchy, and openly professes her love for them. However, a Champion who chooses to abuse Ryn ensures that she stays shy, submissive, and helpless to do anything without them; her new mistress or master dominates her instead of Alissa. Ryn's Libido can also be trained, with low-Libido Etheryn acting somewhat more hesitant as a sex partner while high-Libido Etheryn more fully embraces her lust. Finally, Etheryn's cage also contextualizes much of the interaction with her, as its magic makes her cripplingly horny and forces her to seek relief. Unless and until the Champion finds the way to remove the cage, Ryn is incapable of using her penis for sex.

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==Appearance==
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Etheryn is a lanky, waif-thin girl of about 5'7 — a bit taller with the help of her short-heeled boots and taller still if you count the long, perky elf-ears sprouting from her head. Each is tipped with a large silver stud, just hefty enough to make them droop. She's got a very pale complexion, with skin the color of fresh milk tinted ever-so-slightly frost blue. Her ice-blonde hair is stringy and thin, cut roughly around her shoulders with her bangs braided and tied around the back of her head. Large, dark blue eyes stare at you with a mix of wonder and fear, and she chews her pink-painted lower lip as your eyes wander up and down her body.

Her figure could best be described as waifish. She has neither much in the way of chest or butt, and her hips are quite slender. She's almost boyish, but the subtle rises of her chest beneath her armor are enough to remind you that she's very much feminine, too. You'd guess that she currently has A-cup breasts, and you'd describe her ass as small and perky.

Considering where your eyes are currently straying, Ryn whimpers, but stands at attention for your inspection.

Perhaps her most eye-catching garb is a small leather choker around her neck. It's completely unadorned, but the craftsmanship is quite nice. Someone paid quite a pretty penny to get this elven beauty the nicest collar around, perfectly molded to the contours of Etheryn's slender neck. There's a small metal loop on the front, like someone could mount a tag there... or attach a chain.

The rest of her outfit consists of plain ranger's garb: leather boots and bracers and a hardened vest. A dark blue cape hangs from her shoulder, pinned by a clasp of obsidian shaped like a falcon. Her simple linen knee-skirt is covered by leather tassets, protecting most of her lower body except for a small stretch of pale skin between boot and skirt, maybe a hand's breadth wide, that's been left open. Guess the cold doesn't bother her much.

Altogether, you'd say her outfit is unremarkable.

It's what's under her clothes that's more interesting, after all. Etheryn has a small little dick, maybe four inches hard on a good day... and it's locked up inside a solid brass-and-gold chastity device. There's no obvious lock or mechanism, no way to pry and pick it free. Her little pouch of a balls hang lightly under her caged prick, looking more like a single, smooth sack than a man's sack. Her ass, at least, is fully exposed and ready to be used: there's no doubt it's been her main source of sexual release since this magic cage was placed upon her.
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Things that will affect Etheryn's Appearance:
*If Etheryn Confessed her situation
*Etheryn's Attire
*Etheryn's Confidence
*Butt Range
*Cup Range

==Interactions==

===Recruiting Etheryn===
The Champion first meets Etheryn after defeating the [[Alraune]]. Proceeding north from the [[Corrupted Garden]] leads the party to the [[Ruined Wayfort]], where Ryn has been tied up by [[Kasyrra|a marauding demon]] on her way to seek aid from [[Castle Hawkstone]]. Upon untying her, the Champion can choose to immediately recruit her into the party as a companion, or leave her to solve her problem alone.

If the Champion chooses not to recruit Etheryn immediately, they have another opportunity to do so at Castle Hawkstone, where Ryn is fruitlessly trying to gain the attention of [[The Baroness|its ruler]]. Ryn will automatically become a companion after this encounter.

Ryn is a required party member for the [[Palace of Ice]] main quest dungeon at the end of Act 1. If the Champion does not have her as an active companion or chooses not to recruit her before that quest, she is a mandatory party guest. She is also a mandatory party member or guest for the [[Specter of the Wyld]] event.

After recruiting Ryn, the Champion can encounter her at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] with the rest of the companion roster at any time of day. Following the completion of the Palace of Ice, the Champion can also visit Ryn in the throne room there.

===Standard Interactions===
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Ryn's initial interaction introduces her basic background and personality: shy princess of the [[Boreal Elves|frost elves]] seeking aid to help her people and overthrow her tyrant sister. It also introduces her war-bird, Harrick. The Champion receives the [[Boreal Elves]] Codex entry after this chat.

Subsequent interactions in camp, in [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], and in the [[Palace of Ice]] contain the following menu:

*Appearance
*Talk - See if you can pry a few words out of the introverted elf.
*Hug - Etheryn always looks like she needs a hug.
*Sex - Etheryn could always use some relief, but she's also submissive enough to do just about whatever you tell her to... (requires Etheryn Confession) (see Sex for details)
*Nursing - Given how close you and Etheryn are, she'd probably love to do a little intimate nursing with you. Even if you don't plan to get lewd with her, she'd still enjoy your company… and your [pc.milk]. (requires Etheryn Confession, female pronouns, and B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*Sleep With - Share your bed with your adoring elven lover (requires Etheryn Confession, and having had sex with her three times) (see Sleep With for details)
*Give Item - Etheryn could use bigger tits and ass, and you might have just the things to do it. (requires an item she will accept, either Juicy Peach-infused Purple Egg or Wild Melon-infused Bovum Sherry)
*Spend Time - Now that you and Ryn have free run of the Winter City, why don't you ask her to show you around and see the sights? (requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]]; can only be accessed from her Palace of Ice menu)

===Talk===
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Etheryn's talk menu contains the following options:

*Her Story - So what's her story, exactly?
*[[Boreal Elves|Her People]] - Ask Etheryn about her people.
*[[Winter City]] - Get the details on this Winter City of hers...
*Her Bird
*[[Queen Alissa]] - Ask Ryn about her sister, the queen. (requires Her Story and Etheryn Confession)
*Alchemy? - Considering her cage can't be removed, maybe you could remove what it's attached to... (requires Her Story, QueenAlissa, Etheryn Confession and Alchemy? from [[Ivris]])

After completing the Palace of Ice, the options change:

*Winter City - Talk about the Winter City - its history, its people, and its future.
*Her Sister - Ask Ryn how she's handling her sister's disappearance... and her fall to demonhood.
*Harrick - Get personal with Etheryn's noble war-bird.
*The Cage - So, about that gilded cage of hers...
*Reign Thus Far - Ask Etheryn about how her reign over the Winter City has been going.
*Demons
*[[Elthara]] - How does Ryn feel about Elthara's growing little family? (requires Elthara to be pregnant or have had children, either by the Champion or one of the Champion's virile companions)

In general, Etheryn loves to talk about her city and her people. She expresses worry about Alissa both before and after completing the Palace of Ice, although this can be mitigated at high Confidence. In fact, all of Ryn's talks are heavily inflected by her Confidence; low-Confidence Ryn is very shy about most things (other than chatting about frost elves, which always makes her happy) and high-Confidence Ryn speaks about them with more ease and hope.

Ryn is also excited about warm, tender topics, regardless of Confidence. If Elthara becomes a mother, Ryn is extremely proud of her.

====Harrick====
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Harrick_Headshot_DCL.png|Headshot by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]
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<blockquote>"T-this is my bird, Harrick," Ryn says, turning to you with the first big, genuine smile you've ever seen from her. "I let him loose when I ran from the city... I didn't want my sister to hurt him because I left. He's been my best friend since I was a baby... and now he's here! He followed me!"</blockquote>

Harrick is Etheryn's war hawk and best friend (apart from the Champion). He returns to her when the Champion initially meets Ryn, accompanies her on adventures, and can be summoned for use in battle. The Champion can interact with Ryn and Harrick together through the talk menu, which makes for the easiest way to check on Ryn's Confidence; at low Confidence, Harrick will be suspicious and uneasy around the Champion, but at high Confidence, the very good bird accepts headpats and playfully headbutts the Champ in the chest.

===Give Item===
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The Champion may give Etheryn certain transformative items that will change her body and also her appearance (picture). Etheryn's bust will change when she reaches C cups and butt and hip rating of 9.
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|rowspan="2"|Juicy Peach-Infused [[Purple Egg]] ||align="left"|
*Hip Rating < 12
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*Raise Hip Rating by 1 to 3 or until 12
*Raise Butt Rating by 1 to 3 or until 12
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*Butt Rating < 12
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|Wild Melon-Infused [[Bovum Sherry]] ||align="left"|
*Cup size < DD
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*Raise Cup size by 1 to 2 or until DD
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===Confidence===
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Some of Etheryn's personality remains constant: she loves her people and is excited to learn new things, and she cares very deeply about the Champion as the person who rescued her. But depending on the Champion's actions, Ryn can either stay downtrodden, shy, and submissive or grow to show charm, grace, wit, and bravery.

At low Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's plaything, desperately eager to do anything that would please them because even a brutish Champion is better than Alissa. At high Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's dear friend and potential lover, an emotional princess who deeply cares about them and wants to make things better.

Different Confidence levels also change Etheryn's art; low-Confidence Ryn looks considerably more ill at ease, both nude and clothed, while high-Confidence Ryn looks excited to be there, smiling and showing off for the Champion.

====Increase & Decrease====
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| / || While has not talked about Her Story || -5 ||rowspan="16"|Once
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|I Do It's hard not to look down on the submissive princess after all that. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || -5
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|I Don't You can't blame Etheryn for the depredations of her sister. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || 20
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|Yes Pick up Harrick and get to know the war-hawk. || First time talking about Her Bird  || 3
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|No No thanks. || First time talking about Her Bird  || -5
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|Etheryn Caravan Gift Ask || Has Etheryn in party for repeat encounters with the [[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] || 25
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|Etheryn Confession Fuck Gently || Requires a Cock <= 12" || 5
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|Etheryn Confession After Care || Fuck Gently scene Requires a Cock || 10
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|Etheryn Confession Ruin Ryn || Requires a Cock || -10
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|Etheryn Confession Cait Help || Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 5
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|Etheryn Confession Give2Arona Not yet available || Requires [[Arona]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] Recruited Arona || -10
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|Comfort || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || 5
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|Leave || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || -10
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|Sleep With Etheryn || First time requesting Etheryn's presence in bed Requires having had sex with Ryn three times || 5
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|Stop Sleep With Etheryn || First time evicting Etheryn, if Ryn's Confidence is below 75 || -5
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|[[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] Etheryn Ask || Must have Etheryn in the active party when encountering the Caravan || 25
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|Ball Massage Leave Her That's enough for now. || / || 1 ||rowspan="16"| Repeatable
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|Ball Massage Feed Her Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it. || / || -2
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|Cait & Fuck || Requires a Cock <= 12" Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 3
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|Assfuck Tenderly || Requires a Cock || 3
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|Assfuck Monstrously || Requires a hyper Cock || -2
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|GrindCage || Requires a Vagina || -3
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|Blowjob Let Her Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards. ||Requires a Cock || 3
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|Blowjob Facefuck Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.) || Requires a Cock || -3
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|Hug || For increase, every 24 hours || 10
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|Nursing || Requires female pronouns and B-cup or larger milky breasts Limited to once every 24 hours || 5
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|[[Hashat]] Etheryn Fuck || Has Etheryn in party and has fucked her Champion is not a Female Elf ||5
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|Spoil Her ||/ ||3
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|Dildo || Requires a Vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the Dildo]] ||3
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|Service Top Face to Face ||/ || 3
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|Service Top Ass Up ||/ || 1
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|Winter City Throne Talk Spend Time || Requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]] Limited to once every 24 hours || 10
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===Libido===
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[[Libido]] as a stat increases tease effectiveness, reduces tease resistance, and increases the success chance when using Sense. The stat is calculated as 10 + Libido Mod (which is 8 in Etheryn's case). However, Etheryn has certain scene variations that will check her Libido Range which will check the percentage of her libido vs the libido max (100). It is noted, however, that as Libido increases, characters will receive a penalty to their Mental Resistance, as it is so much harder to resist your lusts, and to even care who or what's propositioning you.

At low Libido, Etheryn will be more sexually hesitant (although this can be mitigated somewhat by high Confidence). A Libido in the middle of the range - between 25 and 75 - makes Ryn sexually eager but usually only when appropriate. A Libido higher than 75 makes Ryn a slave to her own lusts. If she is still caged, Ryn's High Libido also decreases the amount of time Ryn can spend without getting off before gaining the negative Blue-Balled effect.

=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are a couple of scenes that will increase or decrease Etheryn's Libido, those being:
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|Etheryn Confession - Fuck Gently - Aftercare || +5 ||rowspan="4"| Once
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|Etheryn Confession - Ruin Her || +5
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|Etheryn Confession - Cait Help || -5
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|Etheryn Confession - Give2Arona (Not yet available) || +5
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|BallMassage - Feed Her || -2 ||rowspan="7"| Repeatable
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +2
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Blowjob - Facefuck || +3
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|FemDuoBH || +5
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|Service Top Ass Up || +1
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|Hug - Cuddle || -5
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===Buttslut===
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As of update 0.5.36, Etheryn’s sex scenes are no longer locked out based on the PCs dick size. Instead, Ryn can be trained to gain the [[Buttslut]] perk. Certain scenes can lead to Buttslut Point accumulation. She loses 1 Buttslut Point every 3 days if she does not have the perk. When she reaches 10 Buttslut Points, she gains the perk permanently.
=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are several scenes that will grant +1 to Etheryn’s current Buttslut score, those being:
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +1 ||rowspan="5"| Repeatable
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Assfuck - Monstrously || +3
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|Arona Threesome - Watch Them || +2
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|Arona Threesome - Spitroast Ryn || +1
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===Confession & Chastity===
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After initial recruitment, Etheryn does not start out with sex options while traveling. These are only unlocked if she reaches zero Resolve while in the active party, either through combat or by becoming blue-balled without relief. The Champion notices Etheryn's strange behavior: fidgetiness, sweating, locking her thighs together, trembling. Upon further interaction, Ryn denies that there's any problem, but can't stop herself from leaking cum all over her legs. Then, shamefacedly, she reveals the nature of her forced chastity and her abuse at [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] hands: the cage around her penis keeps her from masturbating normally, while simultaneously using its magic to heighten her erotic needs and cause excruciating pain. The Champion has the following options to respond:

*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking. (requires a cock or magicock)
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)

Once Etheryn has confessed her situation, the next time Etheryn becomes blue-balled (calculated as time since her last orgasm + (60 * (40 - Libido/3))) which at base usually means about 34 - 36 hours since she's last cum, Etheryn will not be able to recover resolve through resting until she's cum due to her predicament. However, the Champion can fix this in several ways. They can provide Ryn with a dildo (purchased from [[Gianna's Caravan|the Caravan of Wonders]]), they can suggest that Ryn fuck some of the other members of the party (such as [[Cait]] or [[Arona]]), or they can simply fuck her regularly on their own. Each of these options relieves Ryn's lust, and if she has a dildo or is persuaded to have sex with other party members, she will not develop the blue balls condition (although her Resolve will still decrease over time until sleeping or sex restores it).

Confession also makes it possible for Ryn to trust the Champion to have sex with her. In addition to opening up her repeatable sex menu, confession adds additional talk options.

===Quests and Events===
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Although no companion is a forced companion in CoC2, Etheryn is deeply involved in most quests that take place in the northern part of the [[Frost Marches]], especially in the [[Winter City]], her home and birthplace.

====[[Royal Amnesty]]====
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To begin Royal Amnesty, the Champion must speak to Etheryn at camp or at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], which can be done as soon as the Champion has recruited her. Etheryn must be brought to [[Castle Hawkstone]] (or brought back there if she was not recruited initially) in order to converse with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] and seek aid to protect the Winter City from [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] depredations.

The quest is short, involving a single conversation with Baroness Reverra, who is sympathetic to Ryn's plight and her invocation of ancient treaties but apologetically points out that she has no army and no means to march north and help overthrow Alissa. Although Carmen offers to put Ryn up in [[Hawkethorne]], she can do no more to help. This is a devastating blow to Ryn, who was banking on some kind of assistance against Alissa and her loyal forces, and the Champion can optionally reassure her about their chances of success:

*Thank Carmen - At least the baroness was willing to hear Ryn out, right?
*Get Mad - Wow, what the fuck. How dare Carmen just turn Ryn away!
*Comfort
*Leave - Thanks for nothing, bitch.

Regardless of their decision, the Champion and Etheryn will have to deal with the elves' tyrannical ruler on their own.

====[[In Her Footsteps#Palace of Ice|The Palace of Ice]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party member for the culmination of Act 1, the Palace of Ice dungeon. If she is in the active party as a companion, the party can have [[Hethia]] as a guest. If she is not in the active party or not even a companion, Ryn is the automatic guest instead. As such, it is best to recruit Ryn and level her up to at least level 5 before entering the [[Winter City]], because this improves her combat power even as a guest party member.

Ryn helps explain much of what's happened to the palace since [[Kasyrra|Kasyrra's]] arrival: the corruption of many of the guards and nobles, what's happened to [[Elthara]] and [[Jael'yn]], what's happened to [[Queen Alissa|her sister]] and the throne room. After a confrontation with Alissa and her new mistress, Ryn fights with the Champion against her imp-laden sister. During the fight and the encounter with Kasyrra and Alissa on the palace balcony, Ryn chases off her newly demonic sister with arrows; although she wounds Alissa in the battle, she is unable to land a killing blow before the erstwhile queen escapes.

After Alissa's departure and the cleansing of the corrupted from the palace, Ryn returns to the throne room to address her people and warn them of the demon threat. Elthara names Ryn the Princess Regent of the Winter City and tasks her with finding and defeating the now dethroned Alissa in accordance with ancient law as a prerequisite for becoming queen. Ryn then uses the opportunity to try to heal the schism between the Lumian elves of the Winter City and Hethia's fellow druids, and names the Champion as her Champion of Frost.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Downstairs, in the basement, the Champion can visit the palace vault before fighting Jael'yn and the rest of the encounters. If Ryn opens the vault door, either with her blood or with her cum, she receives [[Companion Sets#Queenly Raiment|a new gear set]] and a revelation about Alissa.

Upstairs, in Etheryn's room - only accessible after defeating Alissa - the Champion can discover Ryn's lingerie set. This enables a scene where Ryn can show off her outfit to the Champion, and Champions with real cocks or magicocks can optionally end it by fucking her butt, to her delight. Ryn must have at least 30 Confidence to model her outfit for the Champion. After that, she can show off her outfit from the regular sex menu whenever the Champion wants.

Both of these optional rewards, if missed on the initial run through the dungeon, can be acquired after completing it. However, as one of the best healing and buffing sets in the game, Ryn's Queenly Raiment gear from the vault is such a significant boost for her combat power that it's strongly recommended that the player acquire it on first entering the dungeon.

====Becoming the Baron(ess)====
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Following the completion of the Palace of Ice dungeon, Etheryn will offer a surprise reward to the Champion, and ask them to go to the [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]]. Upon arrival, they are greeted by [[Elthara]] and a contingent of elven soldiers led by [[Daliza|Bailiff Daliza]]. El - and Ryn, if she is present in the active party - offers to confirm the Champion's possession of the Wayfort with a baronial patent from the elven crown. By accepting the title, the Champion becomes a baron or baroness of the March and gains the services of Daliza and her troops to garrison the Wayfort and help patrol the Frostwood.

Accepting the title overjoys Ryn if she is present, so much so that Elthara offers to step aside so Ryn can grant the title personally. Ryn alters the proclamation of nobility by saying that the Champion is "her" spear and shield, eyes and ears, rather than "the realm's"; at extremely high Confidence, she also says that the Champion is "her heart". Elthara reminds her of the correct words, but doesn't actually object. The high priestess also hints that Etheryn's granting of a title is to make the Champion a nobleman or noblewoman so that she can eventually marry them.

If Ryn is not in the active party, Elthara grants the title in her monarch's name instead.

Rejecting the title deeply disappoints Ryn and the elves, and also locks out one of the primary options for improving the Wayfort.

====[[Specter of the Wyld]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party guest or companion for the investigation into the Winter City's crypts. As with the Palace of Ice dungeon, Ryn is best in this quest if leveled up beforehand. Make sure that she is at the level you want her to be and wearing her appropriate gear set before returning to the palace for the first time after entering the [[Glacial Rift]].

The quest is full of revelations for Etheryn about her family history, as she meets the shades of her grandmothers, [[Queen-Consort Synneva|Synneva]] and [[Queen Atheldred|Atheldred]]. Both encounters have conversations, although these can be avoided by using Banishment on the ghosts instead.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Ryn can gain multiple significant stat bonuses if the Champion does not banish either Athel or Synne. The most fruitful way to complete the quest - at least, for Etheryn - is to promise to assist Synneva in persuading Atheldred to let go of her hatred. Both encounters still require combat to resolve, but avoiding banishment and not asking [[Hethia]] or [[Elthara]] to send the ghosts' spirits to the beyond enables you to reunite the lovers following Athel's defeat in battle.

If the Champion persuades Athel and Synne to reunite after defeating both ghosts in battle, Etheryn receives a permanent upgrade to her bow that grants it an additional +10 Holy damage. If they reunite over an emotional conversation with Ryn, rather than through sex, the elven princess gains the permanent holy damage buff to her bow and an additional permanent +10 Critical chance regardless of set or primary weapon.

====[[Midwinter Festivus Ball|Festivus Ball]]====
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Completing [[Specter of the Wyld]] unlocks a special seasonal event. During the month of December - or at any point in the year, if seasonal events are active as "always on" - Etheryn and [[Elthara]] will invite the Champion to attend a winter celebration, a giant party put on by the crown for all the people of the Winter City. This year, in order to try to gradually heal the schism, the druids are invited as well. The Champion has the option to participate in the festivities or decline to attend.

If the Champion is present, they have several interaction options with Etheryn, including chats during the party, a royal speech for the masses, a Cinderella-esque ballroom dance between Champion and monarch with no one else on the floor, and ending the evening by making love under the stars.

===Spend Time===
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After completing [[Specter of the Wyld]], the Champion has the option to spend time with Ryn in the Winter City. These dates consist of a visit to a landmark and then a meal out. All the while, Ryn excitedly shares information about her people and talks about everything she's seen, heard, or lived in the city; Confident Ryn also expresses hope that she can change things for the better in the future as queen and help keep her people safe and happy.

The Champion raises Ryn's Confidence by 10 with every date. However, only one date can be completed per day.

Dates may optionally end with sex in Ryn's chambers. Sex options are pulled from her normal interact sex menu.

If other companions are in the active party, they can make brief appearances in certain parts of the date.

====Seeing the Sights====
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|Cathedral of Lumia || Visit [[Lumia|the Dawn Maiden's]] enormous cathedral in the heart of the Winter City. Ryn's Lumian faith is very important to her, and you're sure that she'd love to share more about it with you. But the cathedral's also a pretty building in its own right, and it might be worth taking a look inside. || None || [[Azyrran]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Winter City Marketplace || See what the elves trade with each other in the market square around the Waystone statue. Whether it's just browsing, trying on clothes, or meeting with Etheryn's subjects, the two of you can probably find lots to do there! || First time visit unlocks the Formal Outfit for wearing to the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] First time visit with High-Confidence Etheryn unlocks meeting Delanel, who can make an appearance at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Kiyoko]] (does not require presence in active party) || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Play in the Snow || Just like Ryn says, it snows ALL the time here. Why not take advantage of that and spend some time together in a wintry wonderland? || None || [[Atugia]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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====Getting a Bite to Eat====
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|Sausage Vendor || The elves have a few street vendors selling warm, tasty sausages. If you want a quick bite to eat, this is the best option! || None || [[Brienne]] [[Brint]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Fish Market || It wouldn't be the Winter City without the catch of the day! See what the smell is all about. Ryn won't make you try anything too adventurous. || None || [[Cait]] [[Quintillus|Quin]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Turf-Cooked Meal || Visit Garadelle's brewery for some tasty peat-cooked food. Turf might be an unusual fuel for the fire, but it adds a unique, smoky flavor to both the food and the drink! || First time visit unlocks meeting Garadelle at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Arona]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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==Combat==
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Stats Growth</div>===
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Etheryn's Main Attributes are:
*[[Agility]]
*[[Cunning]]
*[[Willpower]]
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 170 || 200 || 230
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|Attack Power || 15 || 18 || 21
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|Spellpower || 32 || 41 || 50
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|Sexiness || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Temptation || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Armor || 60 || 61 || 62
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|Physical Resist || 16 || 17 || 26
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|Warding || 63 || 66 || 69
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|Magic Resist || 23 || 26 || 29
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|Focus || 9 || 12 || 15
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|Mental Resist || 15 || 15 || 15
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|Evasion || 40 || 43 || 46
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|Tease Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
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|Pheromone Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Perks]]</div>===
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*[[Chastity]]
*[[Twist The Knife]]
*[[Ranger's Quarry]]
*[[Escape Artist]] (Level 5)
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>===
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*Small Cocks
*Average Cocks
*Small Asses
*All Breasts
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>===
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*Big Asses
*Big Cocks
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>===
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*[[Frost Arrow]]
*[[Entropic Winds]]
*[[Group Heal]]
*[[Call Falcon]]
*[[Aurora Arrow]] (Level 5)
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===Harrick===
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Harrick is called into battle by Etheryn's Summon Falcon power and his power and stats are based on Etheryn's level
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====Combat Stats====
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Harrick has the [[Taxonomy#Beast|Beast Taxonomy]] such that his Blight and Pheromone Resistance is -75, however Harrick is Immune to Lust attacks such that his Tease, Drug and Pheromone Resist are 100. Harrick is also constantly in Flight
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 90 || 100 || 110
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|Attack Power || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Spellpower || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Sexiness || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Temptation || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Armor || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Physical Resist || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Warding || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Magic Resist || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Focus || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Mental Resist|| 13 || 14 || 15
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|Evasion || 10 || 11 || 12
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|Blight Resist || -75 || -75 || -75
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|Tease Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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|Drug Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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|Pheromone Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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====<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>====
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*[[Flight]]
*Harrick Blood Let (modified [[Blood Let]])
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==Companion Sets==
===Outrider's Gear===
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|A set of relatively plain hunting leathers, though they're made of superior craftsmanship. Etheryn finds these comfortable and familiar. It consists of simple hunting garb and a short skirt, with a leather vest, guards, and boots to offer some modicum of protection from whatever beasts she may track. One of her gloves has been replaced with a large falconry gauntlet, giving her the ability to call down and commune with her war-hawk.
|rowspan="3"|'''Holy Whitewood Bow
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''(identical description to [[Whitewood Bow]], but with added Holy damage. Requires confronting [[Queen Atheldred]] and must '''not''' banish her. Replaces Whitewood Bow)
|rowspan="6"|[[Agility]] [[Cunning]] [[Strength]]
|rowspan="3"|'''1 ||rowspan="3"|[[Twist The Knife]] ||[[Frost Arrow]]
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|[[Iceburst Arrow]]
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|[[Call Falcon]]
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|[[Whitewood Bow]] ''(default) ||'''2 ||N/A ||[[Group Heal]]
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|rowspan="2"|'''Outrider's Leathers
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A simple but expertly-crafted set of leather hunting armor over a dark green tunic. The design is clearly northern, and is well suited for the lithe and acrobatic fighting style of the boreal elves. The physical protection this set offers is lacking in comparison to harder, heavier armors from the southlands.
|'''3 ||[[Ranger's Quarry]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Escape Artist]] ||[[Aurora Arrow]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.1.9
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Full Body by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]</div>
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[[File:Etheryn-DCL-V2-Shy-Full.png|350px]]
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===Queenly Raiment===
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|rowspan="6"|Obtained after unlocking the castle's vaults in the [[Winter City]] ||rowspan="6"|A beautiful dress fit for a warrior-queen, made up of rich white silks and hardened white leather, accompanied by a holy spear bearing Lumia's sunburst. This royal attire was commissioned by Queen Alissa of the Winter City for her little sister, ostensibly in recognition of Etheryn's royal heritage... but it bears an uncanny resemblance to a Belharan wedding dress, hinting to Alissa's true intentions for her half-sexed sibling.
|rowspan="3"|'''Royal Greatspear
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A towering greatspear of boreal-elven origin, outfitted with a long blade and a sturdy crossguard. Designed originally for hunting the savage northern wargs and boars, but when the Belharan Empire first invaded the North, these spears proved they were perfect for tearing through southern armor. They have since become a status symbol for elven nobility.
|rowspan="6"|[[Strength]] [[Toughness]] [[Willpower]]
|rowspan="3"|'''1 ||rowspan="3"|[[Healer's Hands]] ||[[Heal]]
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|[[Blessing]]
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|[[Spirit Veil]]
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|rowspan="3"|'''Princess Dress
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''(same as set description)
|'''2 ||N/A ||[[Group Heal]]
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|'''3 ||[[Ranger's Quarry]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Escape Artist]] ||[[Aurora Arrow]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.0
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==Sex==
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The first time the Champion will be able to sex Etheryn is when she confesses her situation to the Champion and she becomes too horny to do anything:
*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking.
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)
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Regular Sex Options:
*BallMassage - Gently massage Ryn's sack and tease her backdoor. Perfect for some quick relief while in chastity.
**Leave Her - That's enough for now.
**Feed Her - Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it.
**Stuff Her - All that cum's gotta go somewhere...
*Cait & Fuck - Call Cait over to help comfort Ryn while you give her a nice, slow assfucking. It'll make it easier on Ryn to have something soft and wet to munch on during the ordeal. (requires [[Cait]]
*GetEatenOut - Have Etheryn use her mouth on your quim. (requires a vagina)
*Assfuck - Take Ryn's ass for a ride. (requires a cock)
**Tenderly - Take Ryn gently, making sure she enjoys it as much as you. (requires a cock)
**Roughly - Pound Etheryn into the bedsheets. (requires a cock)
**Monstrously - Go hard on Ryn with a cock that’s monstrously huge. It’ll hurt, but she’ll never forget it. (requires a hyper cock)
*GrindCage - Put Ryn on her back and ride her chastity cage like a dildo. She might not get off on it, but you sure will. (requires a vagina)
*Blowjob - Boreal Elves have a cool exterior and a chilly interior. See if Etheryn's can quench your heat. (Written by [[Author-William|William]]) (requires a cock)
**Let Her - Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards.
**Facefuck - Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.)
*FemDuoBJ - Etheryn and Boomer are both pretty cute — you wouldn't mind having them suck your dick as a team. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]]) (requires a cock, met [[Boomer]] at [[The Frost Hound]], at The Frost Hound and during 13:00 - 17:00)
*Spoil Her - Give Ryn's back door a little oral massage. It's always nice to reverse someone's expectations. (Written by [[Author-William|William]])
*Dildo - Trade dildo fucks to ensure that both you and Ryn get some relief. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) (requires a vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the dildo]])
*Service Top - Ryn's butt, your fingers. Don't just give her some quick relief: hold (if Etheryn has been crowned: the elvenqueen; otherwise: your ice princess) in your arms and make her happy. Whether you do it roughly or gently is up to you. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Face to Face - Fingering with a side of lovey-dovey elf smooching. May need to clean off your tummy afterward.
**Ass Up - Loosen Ryn up with a firm back massage, so she's nice and ready for you to pin her down and fingerfuck her. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Face down, booty up: that's the way we like the WHAAAAAT!)
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Other Sex Scenes:
*Nursing (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Champ can have Etheryn either Relax (no sex) or Cuddlefuck (both Champ and Ryn get off) while Champ nurses Ryn from her breasts. (Etheryn has confessed, and Champ has female pronouns along with B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*[[Hashat]] (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]])
**If the Champion is not a Female Elf but decides to pursue sex after they have lost to her in combat. After she facefucks the Champion, she will go for a second round with Etheryn
**When encountering Drunk Hashat, should the Champion decide to Sit Beside, Etheryn will blow and frot Hashat
*[[Evelyn]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
**Foursome - Evelyn is something special — invite two friends to help you satisfy her every whim. (Cait and Etheryn recruited and has fucked Evelyn at least 5 times)
***Cait & Ryn - You know just the pair to help you treat Evelyn right.
*[[Lupine Scouts]] (Written by [[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]])
**Lupine Defeat Female - While the Lupine Warrior has her way with the Champion, the Lupine Archer will facefuck a random sexable companion
*[[Jael'yn]]
**Call Ryn (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]]) - You know she's eager for it. (Valid for both Frost Hound Jael'yn and Wayfort Jael'yn. Requires a penis; Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
**Ride with Ryn (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) - A queen needs a throne, and Jael'yn's got just the thing: a lovely pair of lips, and an even lovelier prehensile tongue. Have Ryn take her rightful place on Jael'yn's face while you sit on the maid's proud phallus. (Valid for Frost Hound Jael'yn only. Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
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===Sleep With Etheryn===
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After having sex with Etheryn three times, the Champion can offer to spend their nights with her. Etheryn will join the Champion in bed for the evening if she is in the active party. If she is not in the active party, she will still sleep with the Champion at the Frost Hound.

The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep with them, Ryn will gain 5 Confidence. The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep on her own again, she will lose 5 Confidence if her current Confidence is 74 or less.

====Going to Sleep====
These scenes can proc at the beginning of the evening, when Etheryn and the Champion are going to bed. Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Big Spoon || No || None || High chance if Ryn's Confidence < 75 Low chance if Champion is a Dark Knight or if either Ryn or Champ is blue-balled || The Champion cuddles behind Ryn as they go to sleep together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Reassure Ryn || No || Champion's Corruption < 25 Neither the Champion nor Ryn can have blue balls || Low chance if Ryn's Confidence > 74 || The Champion soothes an exhausted Etheryn's worries before bedtime. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Tummy Rest || No || Champion's bellyPregRange < 3 (i.e. the Champion is either not pregnant or not visibly pregnant yet) || No special random modifiers || Ryn rests her head on the Champion's belly and compliments their physique. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Titty Time || No || Champion's cup size > D || Low chance if either Ryn or the Champion is blue-balled || Ryn cuddles into the Champion's bust. If the Champion is Milky, Ryn will relieve a little of the pressure. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Thigh Pillow || No || Sleeping in the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] or [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]] Champion cannot be a Dark Knight || Low chance if Etheryn is blue-balled || Etheryn rests her head on the Champion's thighs as they relax together. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Buttfuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock Ryn must have lost her anal virginity || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt before bedtime. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Chastity || No || Champion must be a Dark Knight Etheryn's Confidence < 25 Etheryn must be caged and blue-balled || High chance if the Champion is not blue-balled || The Champion teases Etheryn into begging for relief, then goes to sleep without giving it to her. Ryn's Resolve is reduced to 25 if it is currently higher than that. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Needs || Yes || None || High chance if Etheryn's Libido > 74 and if the Champion is not blue-balled Very low chance if the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fingerfucks Ryn's butt to relieve her stress. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Royal Massage || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion and Etheryn must have done the Ass-Up version of Service Top sex scene Champion must have skin, plant skin, fur, or scales || High chance if the Champion is Enervated || Etheryn returns the favor that the Champion did her by giving them a pleasing backrub before bed. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Take the Edge Off || Yes || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion must not have a Real Cock Champion must not be a Dark Knight || High chance if the Champion is blue-balled and Etheryn is caged Low chance if Ryn is not caged || Ryn fingers the Champion's pussy before bedtime, and is delighted to receive a fingering of her own. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Gentle Ryn Fuck || Yes || Etheryn is Uncaged If vagAss returns anal, Champion must not be an anal virgin || High chance if either the Champion or Etheryn is blue-balled Low chance if the Champion is a Dark Knight || Etheryn gently fucks the Champion's vagAss until the two of them cum and doze off. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|}

====Waking Up====
These scenes can proc at the end of a sleep cycle, after emerging from a dream (if one occurs). Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Excited Morning || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Etheryn must be in the active party Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || Etheryn excitedly wakes up the Champion and helps them get ready for a day together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Groggy Morning || No || Champion must not be a Dark Knight Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || The Champion needs to push a still-tired Ryn to wake up. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Fuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt so they can relieve their pent-up nighttime urges. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Nightmare || No || Champion must have expressed an opinion about Alissa's cruelty to Ryn Alissa must be the elvenqueen or at large || Low chance unless Ryn's Confidence < 75 and she is not blue-balled || Ryn relives a bad dream about Alissa from the night before, and the Champion helps her work through her feelings. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Service || Yes || None || No special random modifiers || The Champion wakes up to Etheryn sucking them off or eating them out, and relaxes as Ryn enjoys a morning meal. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Sixty-Nine || Yes || Etheryn must be caged Champion must not have a Real Cock || High chance if either Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || Ryn eats the Champion out while Champ simultaneously finger-fucks Ryn's butt and gives the frost elf's balls a massage. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Titjob || Yes || Etheryn must not be caged Champion must have C-cup or larger breasts || No special random modifiers || The Champion uses their bosoms to handle Ryn's morning wood. If Ryn has higher than 75 Libido, she unloads all over Champ's face and boobs. Otherwise, Champ swallows the royal load. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Wood || Yes || Etheryn must not be caged If vagAss returns anal, Champ must not be an anal virgin || High chance if either Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || The Champion helps Etheryn deal with her morning needs by letting her roll them on their side and fuck them. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|}

===Dreams===
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==Quest Related==
===[[Royal Amnesty]]===
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Etheryn is intent on getting to [[Castle Hawkstone]] and she'll need the help of the Champion.

===[[Specter of the Wyld]]===
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Etheryn, [[Hethia]], and [[Elthara]] require the Champion's aid to settle the ghosts in the Ice Palace's crypt

===[[The Demon of Ice]]===
Etheryn confronts her sister on the [[Isle of Dracia]].

==Gallery==
===CGs===
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Etheryn

2023-03-30T05:28:26Z

Alypia: /* Waking Up */

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| caption = Full body art of Etheryn by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]
| creator = [[Author-Savin|Savin]]
| fullname = Etheryn var Ridell
| nickname = Ryn
| alias =
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Princess
| title = Royal Cuntlicker Etheryn, Duchess of the Rim (pre-Palace of Ice) Princess Regent Etheryn (post-Palace of Ice)
| height = 5'7"
| bustsize = A - DD (transformable)
| family = [[Queen Alissa]] (older sister) Queen Alraince (mother) [deceased] Unnamed Father [deceased] [[Queen Atheldred|Queen Atheldred Sunbringer]] (maternal grandmother) [deceased] Queen-Consort Synneva (maternal grandsire) [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandmother [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandfather [deceased] Harrick (war-hawk)
| relatives =
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction =
| nationality =
| location = [[Corrupted Garden]]
| level = 3
| health = 170 (Level 3) 200 (Level 4) 230 (Level 5)
| resolve = 100
}}

Etheryn var Ridell, a half-sexed [[Boreal Elves|frost elven]] princess, is a potential companion, sex partner, and love interest in Corruption of Champions 2.
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"I'm not afraid of you anymore! I'll never let you hurt me again."

"By decree of the Winter Throne, I name you, [pc.name], as [pc.mf|Baron|Baroness] of the March. You shall be my spear and my shield, my eyes and my ears. You shall be my heart."
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Etheryn, or "Ryn", as she prefers, was born the second child of Queen Alraince, ruler of the isolated [[Winter City]]. Her mother died of complications from childbirth and her father, the King Dowager, was killed on a hunt a few years later, leaving the throne to Ryn's elder sister, [[Queen Alissa|Alissa]]. Although Alissa projected the image of a strong and noble huntress-queen to the ordinary frost elves of the Winter City, she was endlessly cruel to Etheryn in private, relentlessly bullying her even as a child. When Ryn came of age, Alissa 'rewarded' her by locking Ryn's penis in a magical chastity cage and forcing her young sister to eat or rim her out on demand.

Despite this abuse, Etheryn developed an adventurous spirit, yearning to see the world beyond the palace; the young elf repeatedly tried to break out of her imprisonment, and often succeeded...before being recaptured by Alissa's guards as she tried to sneak through the city. But she also grew up shy and socially awkward, easily pushed around by people with stronger wills than herself. Unfortunately for her, most of Alissa's aristocratic camarilla was exactly like that, strong-willed and cruel, and only the misfits - [[Elthara]], the responsible, motherly high priestess of Lumia; [[Elyon]], the acerbic huntsmaster; [[Jael'yn]], the friendly Guard-Captain - ever really took pity on her. They helped ensure that she gained something of an education as a noblewoman and ranger, and Elyon helped her raise her closest friend in the world, her war-hawk Harrick. But they were the only ones, and no one outside the palace knew anything of Etheryn but her name, let alone her awful predicament.

Only Alissa's distraction with [[Kasyrra|a new, mysterious lover]] allows Etheryn to escape from confinement at the beginning of the events of CoC2. When the Champion first encounters her in the [[Ruined Wayfort]], she has been captured by [[Kasyrra|a demon]] in the midst of her attempt to seek help for the frost elves from the peoples of the south and overthrow Alissa.

After freeing her, Etheryn has the option to join the party. Her Confidence mechanic allows the player to help her overcome her shyness with friendship and support. A fully confident Etheryn becomes a charming, brave young (young for an elf, that is, at the age of fifty-and-change) woman, a clever diplomat, and an assiduous student of rulership - and a devoted friend to the Champion. If the Champion beds high-Confidence Etheryn, she is extremely romantic and switchy, and openly professes her love for them. However, a Champion who chooses to abuse Ryn ensures that she stays shy, submissive, and helpless to do anything without them; her new mistress or master dominates her instead of Alissa. Ryn's Libido can also be trained, with low-Libido Etheryn acting somewhat more hesitant as a sex partner while high-Libido Etheryn more fully embraces her lust. Finally, Etheryn's cage also contextualizes much of the interaction with her, as its magic makes her cripplingly horny and forces her to seek relief. Unless and until the Champion finds the way to remove the cage, Ryn is incapable of using her penis for sex.

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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
Etheryn is a lanky, waif-thin girl of about 5'7 — a bit taller with the help of her short-heeled boots and taller still if you count the long, perky elf-ears sprouting from her head. Each is tipped with a large silver stud, just hefty enough to make them droop. She's got a very pale complexion, with skin the color of fresh milk tinted ever-so-slightly frost blue. Her ice-blonde hair is stringy and thin, cut roughly around her shoulders with her bangs braided and tied around the back of her head. Large, dark blue eyes stare at you with a mix of wonder and fear, and she chews her pink-painted lower lip as your eyes wander up and down her body.

Her figure could best be described as waifish. She has neither much in the way of chest or butt, and her hips are quite slender. She's almost boyish, but the subtle rises of her chest beneath her armor are enough to remind you that she's very much feminine, too. You'd guess that she currently has A-cup breasts, and you'd describe her ass as small and perky.

Considering where your eyes are currently straying, Ryn whimpers, but stands at attention for your inspection.

Perhaps her most eye-catching garb is a small leather choker around her neck. It's completely unadorned, but the craftsmanship is quite nice. Someone paid quite a pretty penny to get this elven beauty the nicest collar around, perfectly molded to the contours of Etheryn's slender neck. There's a small metal loop on the front, like someone could mount a tag there... or attach a chain.

The rest of her outfit consists of plain ranger's garb: leather boots and bracers and a hardened vest. A dark blue cape hangs from her shoulder, pinned by a clasp of obsidian shaped like a falcon. Her simple linen knee-skirt is covered by leather tassets, protecting most of her lower body except for a small stretch of pale skin between boot and skirt, maybe a hand's breadth wide, that's been left open. Guess the cold doesn't bother her much.

Altogether, you'd say her outfit is unremarkable.

It's what's under her clothes that's more interesting, after all. Etheryn has a small little dick, maybe four inches hard on a good day... and it's locked up inside a solid brass-and-gold chastity device. There's no obvious lock or mechanism, no way to pry and pick it free. Her little pouch of a balls hang lightly under her caged prick, looking more like a single, smooth sack than a man's sack. Her ass, at least, is fully exposed and ready to be used: there's no doubt it's been her main source of sexual release since this magic cage was placed upon her.
</blockquote>

Things that will affect Etheryn's Appearance:
*If Etheryn Confessed her situation
*Etheryn's Attire
*Etheryn's Confidence
*Butt Range
*Cup Range

==Interactions==

===Recruiting Etheryn===
The Champion first meets Etheryn after defeating the [[Alraune]]. Proceeding north from the [[Corrupted Garden]] leads the party to the [[Ruined Wayfort]], where Ryn has been tied up by [[Kasyrra|a marauding demon]] on her way to seek aid from [[Castle Hawkstone]]. Upon untying her, the Champion can choose to immediately recruit her into the party as a companion, or leave her to solve her problem alone.

If the Champion chooses not to recruit Etheryn immediately, they have another opportunity to do so at Castle Hawkstone, where Ryn is fruitlessly trying to gain the attention of [[The Baroness|its ruler]]. Ryn will automatically become a companion after this encounter.

Ryn is a required party member for the [[Palace of Ice]] main quest dungeon at the end of Act 1. If the Champion does not have her as an active companion or chooses not to recruit her before that quest, she is a mandatory party guest. She is also a mandatory party member or guest for the [[Specter of the Wyld]] event.

After recruiting Ryn, the Champion can encounter her at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] with the rest of the companion roster at any time of day. Following the completion of the Palace of Ice, the Champion can also visit Ryn in the throne room there.

===Standard Interactions===
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Ryn's initial interaction introduces her basic background and personality: shy princess of the [[Boreal Elves|frost elves]] seeking aid to help her people and overthrow her tyrant sister. It also introduces her war-bird, Harrick. The Champion receives the [[Boreal Elves]] Codex entry after this chat.

Subsequent interactions in camp, in [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], and in the [[Palace of Ice]] contain the following menu:

*Appearance
*Talk - See if you can pry a few words out of the introverted elf.
*Hug - Etheryn always looks like she needs a hug.
*Sex - Etheryn could always use some relief, but she's also submissive enough to do just about whatever you tell her to... (requires Etheryn Confession) (see Sex for details)
*Nursing - Given how close you and Etheryn are, she'd probably love to do a little intimate nursing with you. Even if you don't plan to get lewd with her, she'd still enjoy your company… and your [pc.milk]. (requires Etheryn Confession, female pronouns, and B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*Sleep With - Share your bed with your adoring elven lover (requires Etheryn Confession, and having had sex with her three times) (see Sleep With for details)
*Give Item - Etheryn could use bigger tits and ass, and you might have just the things to do it. (requires an item she will accept, either Juicy Peach-infused Purple Egg or Wild Melon-infused Bovum Sherry)
*Spend Time - Now that you and Ryn have free run of the Winter City, why don't you ask her to show you around and see the sights? (requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]]; can only be accessed from her Palace of Ice menu)

===Talk===
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Etheryn's talk menu contains the following options:

*Her Story - So what's her story, exactly?
*[[Boreal Elves|Her People]] - Ask Etheryn about her people.
*[[Winter City]] - Get the details on this Winter City of hers...
*Her Bird
*[[Queen Alissa]] - Ask Ryn about her sister, the queen. (requires Her Story and Etheryn Confession)
*Alchemy? - Considering her cage can't be removed, maybe you could remove what it's attached to... (requires Her Story, QueenAlissa, Etheryn Confession and Alchemy? from [[Ivris]])

After completing the Palace of Ice, the options change:

*Winter City - Talk about the Winter City - its history, its people, and its future.
*Her Sister - Ask Ryn how she's handling her sister's disappearance... and her fall to demonhood.
*Harrick - Get personal with Etheryn's noble war-bird.
*The Cage - So, about that gilded cage of hers...
*Reign Thus Far - Ask Etheryn about how her reign over the Winter City has been going.
*Demons
*[[Elthara]] - How does Ryn feel about Elthara's growing little family? (requires Elthara to be pregnant or have had children, either by the Champion or one of the Champion's virile companions)

In general, Etheryn loves to talk about her city and her people. She expresses worry about Alissa both before and after completing the Palace of Ice, although this can be mitigated at high Confidence. In fact, all of Ryn's talks are heavily inflected by her Confidence; low-Confidence Ryn is very shy about most things (other than chatting about frost elves, which always makes her happy) and high-Confidence Ryn speaks about them with more ease and hope.

Ryn is also excited about warm, tender topics, regardless of Confidence. If Elthara becomes a mother, Ryn is extremely proud of her.

====Harrick====
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<blockquote>"T-this is my bird, Harrick," Ryn says, turning to you with the first big, genuine smile you've ever seen from her. "I let him loose when I ran from the city... I didn't want my sister to hurt him because I left. He's been my best friend since I was a baby... and now he's here! He followed me!"</blockquote>

Harrick is Etheryn's war hawk and best friend (apart from the Champion). He returns to her when the Champion initially meets Ryn, accompanies her on adventures, and can be summoned for use in battle. The Champion can interact with Ryn and Harrick together through the talk menu, which makes for the easiest way to check on Ryn's Confidence; at low Confidence, Harrick will be suspicious and uneasy around the Champion, but at high Confidence, the very good bird accepts headpats and playfully headbutts the Champ in the chest.

===Give Item===
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The Champion may give Etheryn certain transformative items that will change her body and also her appearance (picture). Etheryn's bust will change when she reaches C cups and butt and hip rating of 9.
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===Confidence===
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Some of Etheryn's personality remains constant: she loves her people and is excited to learn new things, and she cares very deeply about the Champion as the person who rescued her. But depending on the Champion's actions, Ryn can either stay downtrodden, shy, and submissive or grow to show charm, grace, wit, and bravery.

At low Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's plaything, desperately eager to do anything that would please them because even a brutish Champion is better than Alissa. At high Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's dear friend and potential lover, an emotional princess who deeply cares about them and wants to make things better.

Different Confidence levels also change Etheryn's art; low-Confidence Ryn looks considerably more ill at ease, both nude and clothed, while high-Confidence Ryn looks excited to be there, smiling and showing off for the Champion.

====Increase & Decrease====
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| / || While has not talked about Her Story || -5 ||rowspan="16"|Once
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|I Do It's hard not to look down on the submissive princess after all that. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || -5
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|I Don't You can't blame Etheryn for the depredations of her sister. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || 20
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|Yes Pick up Harrick and get to know the war-hawk. || First time talking about Her Bird  || 3
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|No No thanks. || First time talking about Her Bird  || -5
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|Etheryn Caravan Gift Ask || Has Etheryn in party for repeat encounters with the [[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] || 25
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|Etheryn Confession Fuck Gently || Requires a Cock <= 12" || 5
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|Etheryn Confession After Care || Fuck Gently scene Requires a Cock || 10
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|Etheryn Confession Ruin Ryn || Requires a Cock || -10
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|Etheryn Confession Cait Help || Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 5
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|Etheryn Confession Give2Arona Not yet available || Requires [[Arona]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] Recruited Arona || -10
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|Comfort || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || 5
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|Leave || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || -10
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|Sleep With Etheryn || First time requesting Etheryn's presence in bed Requires having had sex with Ryn three times || 5
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|Stop Sleep With Etheryn || First time evicting Etheryn, if Ryn's Confidence is below 75 || -5
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|[[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] Etheryn Ask || Must have Etheryn in the active party when encountering the Caravan || 25
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|Ball Massage Leave Her That's enough for now. || / || 1 ||rowspan="16"| Repeatable
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|Ball Massage Feed Her Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it. || / || -2
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|Cait & Fuck || Requires a Cock <= 12" Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 3
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|Assfuck Tenderly || Requires a Cock || 3
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|Assfuck Monstrously || Requires a hyper Cock || -2
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|GrindCage || Requires a Vagina || -3
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|Blowjob Let Her Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards. ||Requires a Cock || 3
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|Blowjob Facefuck Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.) || Requires a Cock || -3
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|Hug || For increase, every 24 hours || 10
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|Nursing || Requires female pronouns and B-cup or larger milky breasts Limited to once every 24 hours || 5
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|[[Hashat]] Etheryn Fuck || Has Etheryn in party and has fucked her Champion is not a Female Elf ||5
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|Spoil Her ||/ ||3
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|Dildo || Requires a Vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the Dildo]] ||3
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|Service Top Face to Face ||/ || 3
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|Service Top Ass Up ||/ || 1
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|Winter City Throne Talk Spend Time || Requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]] Limited to once every 24 hours || 10
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===Libido===
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[[Libido]] as a stat increases tease effectiveness, reduces tease resistance, and increases the success chance when using Sense. The stat is calculated as 10 + Libido Mod (which is 8 in Etheryn's case). However, Etheryn has certain scene variations that will check her Libido Range which will check the percentage of her libido vs the libido max (100). It is noted, however, that as Libido increases, characters will receive a penalty to their Mental Resistance, as it is so much harder to resist your lusts, and to even care who or what's propositioning you.

At low Libido, Etheryn will be more sexually hesitant (although this can be mitigated somewhat by high Confidence). A Libido in the middle of the range - between 25 and 75 - makes Ryn sexually eager but usually only when appropriate. A Libido higher than 75 makes Ryn a slave to her own lusts. If she is still caged, Ryn's High Libido also decreases the amount of time Ryn can spend without getting off before gaining the negative Blue-Balled effect.

=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are a couple of scenes that will increase or decrease Etheryn's Libido, those being:
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|Etheryn Confession - Fuck Gently - Aftercare || +5 ||rowspan="4"| Once
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|Etheryn Confession - Ruin Her || +5
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|Etheryn Confession - Cait Help || -5
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|Etheryn Confession - Give2Arona (Not yet available) || +5
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|BallMassage - Feed Her || -2 ||rowspan="7"| Repeatable
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +2
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Blowjob - Facefuck || +3
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|FemDuoBH || +5
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|Service Top Ass Up || +1
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|Hug - Cuddle || -5
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===Buttslut===
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As of update 0.5.36, Etheryn’s sex scenes are no longer locked out based on the PCs dick size. Instead, Ryn can be trained to gain the [[Buttslut]] perk. Certain scenes can lead to Buttslut Point accumulation. She loses 1 Buttslut Point every 3 days if she does not have the perk. When she reaches 10 Buttslut Points, she gains the perk permanently.
=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are several scenes that will grant +1 to Etheryn’s current Buttslut score, those being:
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +1 ||rowspan="5"| Repeatable
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Assfuck - Monstrously || +3
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|Arona Threesome - Watch Them || +2
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|Arona Threesome - Spitroast Ryn || +1
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===Confession & Chastity===
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After initial recruitment, Etheryn does not start out with sex options while traveling. These are only unlocked if she reaches zero Resolve while in the active party, either through combat or by becoming blue-balled without relief. The Champion notices Etheryn's strange behavior: fidgetiness, sweating, locking her thighs together, trembling. Upon further interaction, Ryn denies that there's any problem, but can't stop herself from leaking cum all over her legs. Then, shamefacedly, she reveals the nature of her forced chastity and her abuse at [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] hands: the cage around her penis keeps her from masturbating normally, while simultaneously using its magic to heighten her erotic needs and cause excruciating pain. The Champion has the following options to respond:

*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking. (requires a cock or magicock)
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)

Once Etheryn has confessed her situation, the next time Etheryn becomes blue-balled (calculated as time since her last orgasm + (60 * (40 - Libido/3))) which at base usually means about 34 - 36 hours since she's last cum, Etheryn will not be able to recover resolve through resting until she's cum due to her predicament. However, the Champion can fix this in several ways. They can provide Ryn with a dildo (purchased from [[Gianna's Caravan|the Caravan of Wonders]]), they can suggest that Ryn fuck some of the other members of the party (such as [[Cait]] or [[Arona]]), or they can simply fuck her regularly on their own. Each of these options relieves Ryn's lust, and if she has a dildo or is persuaded to have sex with other party members, she will not develop the blue balls condition (although her Resolve will still decrease over time until sleeping or sex restores it).

Confession also makes it possible for Ryn to trust the Champion to have sex with her. In addition to opening up her repeatable sex menu, confession adds additional talk options.

===Quests and Events===
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Although no companion is a forced companion in CoC2, Etheryn is deeply involved in most quests that take place in the northern part of the [[Frost Marches]], especially in the [[Winter City]], her home and birthplace.

====[[Royal Amnesty]]====
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To begin Royal Amnesty, the Champion must speak to Etheryn at camp or at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], which can be done as soon as the Champion has recruited her. Etheryn must be brought to [[Castle Hawkstone]] (or brought back there if she was not recruited initially) in order to converse with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] and seek aid to protect the Winter City from [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] depredations.

The quest is short, involving a single conversation with Baroness Reverra, who is sympathetic to Ryn's plight and her invocation of ancient treaties but apologetically points out that she has no army and no means to march north and help overthrow Alissa. Although Carmen offers to put Ryn up in [[Hawkethorne]], she can do no more to help. This is a devastating blow to Ryn, who was banking on some kind of assistance against Alissa and her loyal forces, and the Champion can optionally reassure her about their chances of success:

*Thank Carmen - At least the baroness was willing to hear Ryn out, right?
*Get Mad - Wow, what the fuck. How dare Carmen just turn Ryn away!
*Comfort
*Leave - Thanks for nothing, bitch.

Regardless of their decision, the Champion and Etheryn will have to deal with the elves' tyrannical ruler on their own.

====[[In Her Footsteps#Palace of Ice|The Palace of Ice]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party member for the culmination of Act 1, the Palace of Ice dungeon. If she is in the active party as a companion, the party can have [[Hethia]] as a guest. If she is not in the active party or not even a companion, Ryn is the automatic guest instead. As such, it is best to recruit Ryn and level her up to at least level 5 before entering the [[Winter City]], because this improves her combat power even as a guest party member.

Ryn helps explain much of what's happened to the palace since [[Kasyrra|Kasyrra's]] arrival: the corruption of many of the guards and nobles, what's happened to [[Elthara]] and [[Jael'yn]], what's happened to [[Queen Alissa|her sister]] and the throne room. After a confrontation with Alissa and her new mistress, Ryn fights with the Champion against her imp-laden sister. During the fight and the encounter with Kasyrra and Alissa on the palace balcony, Ryn chases off her newly demonic sister with arrows; although she wounds Alissa in the battle, she is unable to land a killing blow before the erstwhile queen escapes.

After Alissa's departure and the cleansing of the corrupted from the palace, Ryn returns to the throne room to address her people and warn them of the demon threat. Elthara names Ryn the Princess Regent of the Winter City and tasks her with finding and defeating the now dethroned Alissa in accordance with ancient law as a prerequisite for becoming queen. Ryn then uses the opportunity to try to heal the schism between the Lumian elves of the Winter City and Hethia's fellow druids, and names the Champion as her Champion of Frost.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Downstairs, in the basement, the Champion can visit the palace vault before fighting Jael'yn and the rest of the encounters. If Ryn opens the vault door, either with her blood or with her cum, she receives [[Companion Sets#Queenly Raiment|a new gear set]] and a revelation about Alissa.

Upstairs, in Etheryn's room - only accessible after defeating Alissa - the Champion can discover Ryn's lingerie set. This enables a scene where Ryn can show off her outfit to the Champion, and Champions with real cocks or magicocks can optionally end it by fucking her butt, to her delight. Ryn must have at least 30 Confidence to model her outfit for the Champion. After that, she can show off her outfit from the regular sex menu whenever the Champion wants.

Both of these optional rewards, if missed on the initial run through the dungeon, can be acquired after completing it. However, as one of the best healing and buffing sets in the game, Ryn's Queenly Raiment gear from the vault is such a significant boost for her combat power that it's strongly recommended that the player acquire it on first entering the dungeon.

====Becoming the Baron(ess)====
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Following the completion of the Palace of Ice dungeon, Etheryn will offer a surprise reward to the Champion, and ask them to go to the [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]]. Upon arrival, they are greeted by [[Elthara]] and a contingent of elven soldiers led by [[Daliza|Bailiff Daliza]]. El - and Ryn, if she is present in the active party - offers to confirm the Champion's possession of the Wayfort with a baronial patent from the elven crown. By accepting the title, the Champion becomes a baron or baroness of the March and gains the services of Daliza and her troops to garrison the Wayfort and help patrol the Frostwood.

Accepting the title overjoys Ryn if she is present, so much so that Elthara offers to step aside so Ryn can grant the title personally. Ryn alters the proclamation of nobility by saying that the Champion is "her" spear and shield, eyes and ears, rather than "the realm's"; at extremely high Confidence, she also says that the Champion is "her heart". Elthara reminds her of the correct words, but doesn't actually object. The high priestess also hints that Etheryn's granting of a title is to make the Champion a nobleman or noblewoman so that she can eventually marry them.

If Ryn is not in the active party, Elthara grants the title in her monarch's name instead.

Rejecting the title deeply disappoints Ryn and the elves, and also locks out one of the primary options for improving the Wayfort.

====[[Specter of the Wyld]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party guest or companion for the investigation into the Winter City's crypts. As with the Palace of Ice dungeon, Ryn is best in this quest if leveled up beforehand. Make sure that she is at the level you want her to be and wearing her appropriate gear set before returning to the palace for the first time after entering the [[Glacial Rift]].

The quest is full of revelations for Etheryn about her family history, as she meets the shades of her grandmothers, [[Queen-Consort Synneva|Synneva]] and [[Queen Atheldred|Atheldred]]. Both encounters have conversations, although these can be avoided by using Banishment on the ghosts instead.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Ryn can gain multiple significant stat bonuses if the Champion does not banish either Athel or Synne. The most fruitful way to complete the quest - at least, for Etheryn - is to promise to assist Synneva in persuading Atheldred to let go of her hatred. Both encounters still require combat to resolve, but avoiding banishment and not asking [[Hethia]] or [[Elthara]] to send the ghosts' spirits to the beyond enables you to reunite the lovers following Athel's defeat in battle.

If the Champion persuades Athel and Synne to reunite after defeating both ghosts in battle, Etheryn receives a permanent upgrade to her bow that grants it an additional +10 Holy damage. If they reunite over an emotional conversation with Ryn, rather than through sex, the elven princess gains the permanent holy damage buff to her bow and an additional permanent +10 Critical chance regardless of set or primary weapon.

====[[Midwinter Festivus Ball|Festivus Ball]]====
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Completing [[Specter of the Wyld]] unlocks a special seasonal event. During the month of December - or at any point in the year, if seasonal events are active as "always on" - Etheryn and [[Elthara]] will invite the Champion to attend a winter celebration, a giant party put on by the crown for all the people of the Winter City. This year, in order to try to gradually heal the schism, the druids are invited as well. The Champion has the option to participate in the festivities or decline to attend.

If the Champion is present, they have several interaction options with Etheryn, including chats during the party, a royal speech for the masses, a Cinderella-esque ballroom dance between Champion and monarch with no one else on the floor, and ending the evening by making love under the stars.

===Spend Time===
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After completing [[Specter of the Wyld]], the Champion has the option to spend time with Ryn in the Winter City. These dates consist of a visit to a landmark and then a meal out. All the while, Ryn excitedly shares information about her people and talks about everything she's seen, heard, or lived in the city; Confident Ryn also expresses hope that she can change things for the better in the future as queen and help keep her people safe and happy.

The Champion raises Ryn's Confidence by 10 with every date. However, only one date can be completed per day.

Dates may optionally end with sex in Ryn's chambers. Sex options are pulled from her normal interact sex menu.

If other companions are in the active party, they can make brief appearances in certain parts of the date.

====Seeing the Sights====
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|Cathedral of Lumia || Visit [[Lumia|the Dawn Maiden's]] enormous cathedral in the heart of the Winter City. Ryn's Lumian faith is very important to her, and you're sure that she'd love to share more about it with you. But the cathedral's also a pretty building in its own right, and it might be worth taking a look inside. || None || [[Azyrran]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Winter City Marketplace || See what the elves trade with each other in the market square around the Waystone statue. Whether it's just browsing, trying on clothes, or meeting with Etheryn's subjects, the two of you can probably find lots to do there! || First time visit unlocks the Formal Outfit for wearing to the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] First time visit with High-Confidence Etheryn unlocks meeting Delanel, who can make an appearance at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Kiyoko]] (does not require presence in active party) || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Play in the Snow || Just like Ryn says, it snows ALL the time here. Why not take advantage of that and spend some time together in a wintry wonderland? || None || [[Atugia]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|}

====Getting a Bite to Eat====
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|Sausage Vendor || The elves have a few street vendors selling warm, tasty sausages. If you want a quick bite to eat, this is the best option! || None || [[Brienne]] [[Brint]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Fish Market || It wouldn't be the Winter City without the catch of the day! See what the smell is all about. Ryn won't make you try anything too adventurous. || None || [[Cait]] [[Quintillus|Quin]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Turf-Cooked Meal || Visit Garadelle's brewery for some tasty peat-cooked food. Turf might be an unusual fuel for the fire, but it adds a unique, smoky flavor to both the food and the drink! || First time visit unlocks meeting Garadelle at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Arona]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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==Combat==
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Stats Growth</div>===
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Etheryn's Main Attributes are:
*[[Agility]]
*[[Cunning]]
*[[Willpower]]
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 170 || 200 || 230
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|Attack Power || 15 || 18 || 21
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|Spellpower || 32 || 41 || 50
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|Sexiness || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Temptation || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Armor || 60 || 61 || 62
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|Physical Resist || 16 || 17 || 26
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|Warding || 63 || 66 || 69
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|Magic Resist || 23 || 26 || 29
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|Focus || 9 || 12 || 15
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|Mental Resist || 15 || 15 || 15
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|Evasion || 40 || 43 || 46
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|Tease Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
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|Pheromone Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Perks]]</div>===
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*[[Chastity]]
*[[Twist The Knife]]
*[[Ranger's Quarry]]
*[[Escape Artist]] (Level 5)
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>===
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*Small Cocks
*Average Cocks
*Small Asses
*All Breasts
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>===
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*Big Asses
*Big Cocks
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>===
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*[[Frost Arrow]]
*[[Entropic Winds]]
*[[Group Heal]]
*[[Call Falcon]]
*[[Aurora Arrow]] (Level 5)
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===Harrick===
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Harrick is called into battle by Etheryn's Summon Falcon power and his power and stats are based on Etheryn's level
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====Combat Stats====
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Harrick has the [[Taxonomy#Beast|Beast Taxonomy]] such that his Blight and Pheromone Resistance is -75, however Harrick is Immune to Lust attacks such that his Tease, Drug and Pheromone Resist are 100. Harrick is also constantly in Flight
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 90 || 100 || 110
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|Attack Power || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Spellpower || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Sexiness || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Temptation || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Armor || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Physical Resist || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Warding || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Magic Resist || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Focus || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Mental Resist|| 13 || 14 || 15
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|Evasion || 10 || 11 || 12
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|Blight Resist || -75 || -75 || -75
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|Tease Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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|Drug Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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|Pheromone Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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====<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>====
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*[[Flight]]
*Harrick Blood Let (modified [[Blood Let]])
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==Companion Sets==
===Outrider's Gear===
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!width="100px"|Perks
!width="100px"|Powers
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|A set of relatively plain hunting leathers, though they're made of superior craftsmanship. Etheryn finds these comfortable and familiar. It consists of simple hunting garb and a short skirt, with a leather vest, guards, and boots to offer some modicum of protection from whatever beasts she may track. One of her gloves has been replaced with a large falconry gauntlet, giving her the ability to call down and commune with her war-hawk.
|rowspan="3"|'''Holy Whitewood Bow
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''(identical description to [[Whitewood Bow]], but with added Holy damage. Requires confronting [[Queen Atheldred]] and must '''not''' banish her. Replaces Whitewood Bow)
|rowspan="6"|[[Agility]] [[Cunning]] [[Strength]]
|rowspan="3"|'''1 ||rowspan="3"|[[Twist The Knife]] ||[[Frost Arrow]]
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|[[Iceburst Arrow]]
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|[[Call Falcon]]
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|[[Whitewood Bow]] ''(default) ||'''2 ||N/A ||[[Group Heal]]
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|rowspan="2"|'''Outrider's Leathers
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A simple but expertly-crafted set of leather hunting armor over a dark green tunic. The design is clearly northern, and is well suited for the lithe and acrobatic fighting style of the boreal elves. The physical protection this set offers is lacking in comparison to harder, heavier armors from the southlands.
|'''3 ||[[Ranger's Quarry]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Escape Artist]] ||[[Aurora Arrow]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.1.9
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Full Body by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]</div>
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[[File:Etheryn-DCL-V2-Shy-Full.png|350px]]
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===Queenly Raiment===
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!width="120px"|Powers
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|rowspan="6"|Obtained after unlocking the castle's vaults in the [[Winter City]] ||rowspan="6"|A beautiful dress fit for a warrior-queen, made up of rich white silks and hardened white leather, accompanied by a holy spear bearing Lumia's sunburst. This royal attire was commissioned by Queen Alissa of the Winter City for her little sister, ostensibly in recognition of Etheryn's royal heritage... but it bears an uncanny resemblance to a Belharan wedding dress, hinting to Alissa's true intentions for her half-sexed sibling.
|rowspan="3"|'''Royal Greatspear
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A towering greatspear of boreal-elven origin, outfitted with a long blade and a sturdy crossguard. Designed originally for hunting the savage northern wargs and boars, but when the Belharan Empire first invaded the North, these spears proved they were perfect for tearing through southern armor. They have since become a status symbol for elven nobility.
|rowspan="6"|[[Strength]] [[Toughness]] [[Willpower]]
|rowspan="3"|'''1 ||rowspan="3"|[[Healer's Hands]] ||[[Heal]]
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|[[Blessing]]
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|[[Spirit Veil]]
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|rowspan="3"|'''Princess Dress
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''(same as set description)
|'''2 ||N/A ||[[Group Heal]]
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|'''3 ||[[Ranger's Quarry]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Escape Artist]] ||[[Aurora Arrow]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.0
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==Sex==
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The first time the Champion will be able to sex Etheryn is when she confesses her situation to the Champion and she becomes too horny to do anything:
*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking.
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)
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Regular Sex Options:
*BallMassage - Gently massage Ryn's sack and tease her backdoor. Perfect for some quick relief while in chastity.
**Leave Her - That's enough for now.
**Feed Her - Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it.
**Stuff Her - All that cum's gotta go somewhere...
*Cait & Fuck - Call Cait over to help comfort Ryn while you give her a nice, slow assfucking. It'll make it easier on Ryn to have something soft and wet to munch on during the ordeal. (requires [[Cait]]
*GetEatenOut - Have Etheryn use her mouth on your quim. (requires a vagina)
*Assfuck - Take Ryn's ass for a ride. (requires a cock)
**Tenderly - Take Ryn gently, making sure she enjoys it as much as you. (requires a cock)
**Roughly - Pound Etheryn into the bedsheets. (requires a cock)
**Monstrously - Go hard on Ryn with a cock that’s monstrously huge. It’ll hurt, but she’ll never forget it. (requires a hyper cock)
*GrindCage - Put Ryn on her back and ride her chastity cage like a dildo. She might not get off on it, but you sure will. (requires a vagina)
*Blowjob - Boreal Elves have a cool exterior and a chilly interior. See if Etheryn's can quench your heat. (Written by [[Author-William|William]]) (requires a cock)
**Let Her - Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards.
**Facefuck - Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.)
*FemDuoBJ - Etheryn and Boomer are both pretty cute — you wouldn't mind having them suck your dick as a team. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]]) (requires a cock, met [[Boomer]] at [[The Frost Hound]], at The Frost Hound and during 13:00 - 17:00)
*Spoil Her - Give Ryn's back door a little oral massage. It's always nice to reverse someone's expectations. (Written by [[Author-William|William]])
*Dildo - Trade dildo fucks to ensure that both you and Ryn get some relief. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) (requires a vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the dildo]])
*Service Top - Ryn's butt, your fingers. Don't just give her some quick relief: hold (if Etheryn has been crowned: the elvenqueen; otherwise: your ice princess) in your arms and make her happy. Whether you do it roughly or gently is up to you. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Face to Face - Fingering with a side of lovey-dovey elf smooching. May need to clean off your tummy afterward.
**Ass Up - Loosen Ryn up with a firm back massage, so she's nice and ready for you to pin her down and fingerfuck her. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Face down, booty up: that's the way we like the WHAAAAAT!)
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Other Sex Scenes:
*Nursing (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Champ can have Etheryn either Relax (no sex) or Cuddlefuck (both Champ and Ryn get off) while Champ nurses Ryn from her breasts. (Etheryn has confessed, and Champ has female pronouns along with B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*[[Hashat]] (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]])
**If the Champion is not a Female Elf but decides to pursue sex after they have lost to her in combat. After she facefucks the Champion, she will go for a second round with Etheryn
**When encountering Drunk Hashat, should the Champion decide to Sit Beside, Etheryn will blow and frot Hashat
*[[Evelyn]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
**Foursome - Evelyn is something special — invite two friends to help you satisfy her every whim. (Cait and Etheryn recruited and has fucked Evelyn at least 5 times)
***Cait & Ryn - You know just the pair to help you treat Evelyn right.
*[[Lupine Scouts]] (Written by [[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]])
**Lupine Defeat Female - While the Lupine Warrior has her way with the Champion, the Lupine Archer will facefuck a random sexable companion
*[[Jael'yn]]
**Call Ryn (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]]) - You know she's eager for it. (Valid for both Frost Hound Jael'yn and Wayfort Jael'yn. Requires a penis; Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
**Ride with Ryn (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) - A queen needs a throne, and Jael'yn's got just the thing: a lovely pair of lips, and an even lovelier prehensile tongue. Have Ryn take her rightful place on Jael'yn's face while you sit on the maid's proud phallus. (Valid for Frost Hound Jael'yn only. Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
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===Sleep With Etheryn===
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After having sex with Etheryn three times, the Champion can offer to spend their nights with her. Etheryn will join the Champion in bed for the evening if she is in the active party. If she is not in the active party, she will still sleep with the Champion at the Frost Hound.

The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep with them, Ryn will gain 5 Confidence. The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep on her own again, she will lose 5 Confidence if her current Confidence is 74 or less.

====Going to Sleep====
These scenes can proc at the beginning of the evening, when Etheryn and the Champion are going to bed. Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Big Spoon || No || None || High chance if Ryn's Confidence < 75 Low chance if Champion is a Dark Knight or if either Ryn or Champ is blue-balled || The Champion cuddles behind Ryn as they go to sleep together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Reassure Ryn || No || Champion's Corruption < 25 Neither the Champion nor Ryn can have blue balls || Low chance if Ryn's Confidence > 74 || The Champion soothes an exhausted Etheryn's worries before bedtime. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Tummy Rest || No || Champion's bellyPregRange < 3 (i.e. the Champion is either not pregnant or not visibly pregnant yet) || No special random modifiers || Ryn rests her head on the Champion's belly and compliments their physique. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Titty Time || No || Champion's cup size > D || Low chance if either Ryn or the Champion is blue-balled || Ryn cuddles into the Champion's bust. If the Champion is Milky, Ryn will relieve a little of the pressure. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Thigh Pillow || No || Sleeping in the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] or [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]] Champion cannot be a Dark Knight || Low chance if Etheryn is blue-balled || Etheryn rests her head on the Champion's thighs as they relax together. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Buttfuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock Ryn must have lost her anal virginity || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt before bedtime. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Chastity || No || Champion must be a Dark Knight Etheryn's Confidence < 25 Etheryn must be caged and blue-balled || High chance if the Champion is not blue-balled || The Champion teases Etheryn into begging for relief, then goes to sleep without giving it to her. Ryn's Resolve is reduced to 25 if it is currently higher than that. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Needs || Yes || None || High chance if Etheryn's Libido > 74 and if the Champion is not blue-balled Very low chance if the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fingerfucks Ryn's butt to relieve her stress. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Royal Massage || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion and Etheryn must have done the Ass-Up version of Service Top sex scene Champion must have skin, plant skin, fur, or scales || High chance if the Champion is Enervated || Etheryn returns the favor that the Champion did her by giving them a pleasing backrub before bed. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Take the Edge Off || Yes || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion must not have a Real Cock Champion must not be a Dark Knight || High chance if the Champion is blue-balled and Etheryn is caged Low chance if Ryn is not caged || Ryn fingers the Champion's pussy before bedtime, and is delighted to receive a fingering of her own. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Gentle Ryn Fuck || Yes || Etheryn is Uncaged If vagAss returns anal, Champion must not be an anal virgin || High chance if either the Champion or Etheryn is blue-balled Low chance if the Champion is a Dark Knight || Etheryn gently fucks the Champion's vagAss until the two of them cum and doze off. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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====Waking Up====
These scenes can proc at the end of a sleep cycle, after emerging from a dream (if one occurs). Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Excited Morning || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Etheryn must be in the active party Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || Etheryn excitedly wakes up the Champion and helps them get ready for a day together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Groggy Morning || No || Champion must not be a Dark Knight Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || The Champion needs to push a still-tired Ryn to wake up. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Fuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt so they can relieve their pent-up nighttime urges. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Nightmare || No || Champion must have expressed an opinion about Alissa's cruelty to Ryn Alissa must be the elvenqueen or at large || Low chance unless Ryn's Confidence < 75 and she is not blue-balled || Ryn relives a bad dream about Alissa from the night before, and the Champion helps her work through her feelings. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Service || Yes || None || No special random modifiers || The Champion wakes up to Etheryn sucking them off or eating them out, and relaxes as Ryn enjoys a morning meal. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Sixty-Nine || Yes || Etheryn must be caged Champion must not have a Real Cock || High chance if either Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || Ryn eats the Champion out while Champ simultaneously finger-fucks Ryn's butt and gives the frost elf's balls a massage. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Titjob || Yes || Etheryn must not be caged Champion must have C-cup or larger breasts || No special random modifiers || The Champion uses their bosoms to handle Ryn's morning wood. If Ryn has higher than 75 Libido, she unloads all over Champ's face and boobs. Otherwise, Champ swallows the royal load. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Wood || Yes || Etheryn must not be caged If vagAss returns anal, Champ must not be an anal virgin || High chance if either Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || The Champion helps Etheryn deal with her morning needs by letting her roll them on their side and fuck them.
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===Dreams===
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*Is [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]
*Etheryn Confession
|[[Dreams#Etheryn Dedicking|Etheryn Dedicking]] (written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
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==Quest Related==
===[[Royal Amnesty]]===
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Etheryn is intent on getting to [[Castle Hawkstone]] and she'll need the help of the Champion.

===[[Specter of the Wyld]]===
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Etheryn, [[Hethia]], and [[Elthara]] require the Champion's aid to settle the ghosts in the Ice Palace's crypt

===[[The Demon of Ice]]===
Etheryn confronts her sister on the [[Isle of Dracia]].

==Gallery==
===CGs===
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User:Alypia

2023-03-30T05:22:09Z

Alypia: /* Works */

Writer for CoC2

Catch more of Alypia here:
'''Alypia's Content Corner''' - https://forum.fenoxo.com/threads/alypias-submission-hub.22596/#post-339061
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==Works==
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|[[Annika]], [[Serena]]
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|[[Rainbow Cait]]
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|[[Midwinter Festivus Ball]]: Ball Adjustment - Entertainment - Garadelle - Etheryn (dance) - Ryn (hymnal)
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|[[The High Ground]] (with [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]), [[The Palace of Light]] (with [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]]), [[Dye-ing To Get To Know You]]
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|[[Arona]]: Nurse Her (sex) - Dommy Mommy (sex) [[Etheryn]]: Dildo (sex) - Service Top (sex) - Nursing (sex) - Elthara (talk) - Spend Time (Winter City) - Sleep With (all 14 variants) → Wake Up (all 10 variants) [[Gianna's Caravan]]: Etheryn (scene) Ice Rose Encounter ([[Frostwood]] & [[Glacial Rift]]) [[Jael'yn]] (maid): Ride w/ Ryn (sex) [[Lusina]]: Send Off (platonic recruitment) [[Viviane]]: Magicock (sex)
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Etheryn

2023-03-30T05:21:05Z

Alypia: /* Going to Sleep */

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| caption = Full body art of Etheryn by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]
| creator = [[Author-Savin|Savin]]
| fullname = Etheryn var Ridell
| nickname = Ryn
| alias =
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Princess
| title = Royal Cuntlicker Etheryn, Duchess of the Rim (pre-Palace of Ice) Princess Regent Etheryn (post-Palace of Ice)
| height = 5'7"
| bustsize = A - DD (transformable)
| family = [[Queen Alissa]] (older sister) Queen Alraince (mother) [deceased] Unnamed Father [deceased] [[Queen Atheldred|Queen Atheldred Sunbringer]] (maternal grandmother) [deceased] Queen-Consort Synneva (maternal grandsire) [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandmother [deceased] Unnamed Paternal Grandfather [deceased] Harrick (war-hawk)
| relatives =
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction =
| nationality =
| location = [[Corrupted Garden]]
| level = 3
| health = 170 (Level 3) 200 (Level 4) 230 (Level 5)
| resolve = 100
}}

Etheryn var Ridell, a half-sexed [[Boreal Elves|frost elven]] princess, is a potential companion, sex partner, and love interest in Corruption of Champions 2.
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"I'm not afraid of you anymore! I'll never let you hurt me again."

"By decree of the Winter Throne, I name you, [pc.name], as [pc.mf|Baron|Baroness] of the March. You shall be my spear and my shield, my eyes and my ears. You shall be my heart."
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Etheryn, or "Ryn", as she prefers, was born the second child of Queen Alraince, ruler of the isolated [[Winter City]]. Her mother died of complications from childbirth and her father, the King Dowager, was killed on a hunt a few years later, leaving the throne to Ryn's elder sister, [[Queen Alissa|Alissa]]. Although Alissa projected the image of a strong and noble huntress-queen to the ordinary frost elves of the Winter City, she was endlessly cruel to Etheryn in private, relentlessly bullying her even as a child. When Ryn came of age, Alissa 'rewarded' her by locking Ryn's penis in a magical chastity cage and forcing her young sister to eat or rim her out on demand.

Despite this abuse, Etheryn developed an adventurous spirit, yearning to see the world beyond the palace; the young elf repeatedly tried to break out of her imprisonment, and often succeeded...before being recaptured by Alissa's guards as she tried to sneak through the city. But she also grew up shy and socially awkward, easily pushed around by people with stronger wills than herself. Unfortunately for her, most of Alissa's aristocratic camarilla was exactly like that, strong-willed and cruel, and only the misfits - [[Elthara]], the responsible, motherly high priestess of Lumia; [[Elyon]], the acerbic huntsmaster; [[Jael'yn]], the friendly Guard-Captain - ever really took pity on her. They helped ensure that she gained something of an education as a noblewoman and ranger, and Elyon helped her raise her closest friend in the world, her war-hawk Harrick. But they were the only ones, and no one outside the palace knew anything of Etheryn but her name, let alone her awful predicament.

Only Alissa's distraction with [[Kasyrra|a new, mysterious lover]] allows Etheryn to escape from confinement at the beginning of the events of CoC2. When the Champion first encounters her in the [[Ruined Wayfort]], she has been captured by [[Kasyrra|a demon]] in the midst of her attempt to seek help for the frost elves from the peoples of the south and overthrow Alissa.

After freeing her, Etheryn has the option to join the party. Her Confidence mechanic allows the player to help her overcome her shyness with friendship and support. A fully confident Etheryn becomes a charming, brave young (young for an elf, that is, at the age of fifty-and-change) woman, a clever diplomat, and an assiduous student of rulership - and a devoted friend to the Champion. If the Champion beds high-Confidence Etheryn, she is extremely romantic and switchy, and openly professes her love for them. However, a Champion who chooses to abuse Ryn ensures that she stays shy, submissive, and helpless to do anything without them; her new mistress or master dominates her instead of Alissa. Ryn's Libido can also be trained, with low-Libido Etheryn acting somewhat more hesitant as a sex partner while high-Libido Etheryn more fully embraces her lust. Finally, Etheryn's cage also contextualizes much of the interaction with her, as its magic makes her cripplingly horny and forces her to seek relief. Unless and until the Champion finds the way to remove the cage, Ryn is incapable of using her penis for sex.

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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
Etheryn is a lanky, waif-thin girl of about 5'7 — a bit taller with the help of her short-heeled boots and taller still if you count the long, perky elf-ears sprouting from her head. Each is tipped with a large silver stud, just hefty enough to make them droop. She's got a very pale complexion, with skin the color of fresh milk tinted ever-so-slightly frost blue. Her ice-blonde hair is stringy and thin, cut roughly around her shoulders with her bangs braided and tied around the back of her head. Large, dark blue eyes stare at you with a mix of wonder and fear, and she chews her pink-painted lower lip as your eyes wander up and down her body.

Her figure could best be described as waifish. She has neither much in the way of chest or butt, and her hips are quite slender. She's almost boyish, but the subtle rises of her chest beneath her armor are enough to remind you that she's very much feminine, too. You'd guess that she currently has A-cup breasts, and you'd describe her ass as small and perky.

Considering where your eyes are currently straying, Ryn whimpers, but stands at attention for your inspection.

Perhaps her most eye-catching garb is a small leather choker around her neck. It's completely unadorned, but the craftsmanship is quite nice. Someone paid quite a pretty penny to get this elven beauty the nicest collar around, perfectly molded to the contours of Etheryn's slender neck. There's a small metal loop on the front, like someone could mount a tag there... or attach a chain.

The rest of her outfit consists of plain ranger's garb: leather boots and bracers and a hardened vest. A dark blue cape hangs from her shoulder, pinned by a clasp of obsidian shaped like a falcon. Her simple linen knee-skirt is covered by leather tassets, protecting most of her lower body except for a small stretch of pale skin between boot and skirt, maybe a hand's breadth wide, that's been left open. Guess the cold doesn't bother her much.

Altogether, you'd say her outfit is unremarkable.

It's what's under her clothes that's more interesting, after all. Etheryn has a small little dick, maybe four inches hard on a good day... and it's locked up inside a solid brass-and-gold chastity device. There's no obvious lock or mechanism, no way to pry and pick it free. Her little pouch of a balls hang lightly under her caged prick, looking more like a single, smooth sack than a man's sack. Her ass, at least, is fully exposed and ready to be used: there's no doubt it's been her main source of sexual release since this magic cage was placed upon her.
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Things that will affect Etheryn's Appearance:
*If Etheryn Confessed her situation
*Etheryn's Attire
*Etheryn's Confidence
*Butt Range
*Cup Range

==Interactions==

===Recruiting Etheryn===
The Champion first meets Etheryn after defeating the [[Alraune]]. Proceeding north from the [[Corrupted Garden]] leads the party to the [[Ruined Wayfort]], where Ryn has been tied up by [[Kasyrra|a marauding demon]] on her way to seek aid from [[Castle Hawkstone]]. Upon untying her, the Champion can choose to immediately recruit her into the party as a companion, or leave her to solve her problem alone.

If the Champion chooses not to recruit Etheryn immediately, they have another opportunity to do so at Castle Hawkstone, where Ryn is fruitlessly trying to gain the attention of [[The Baroness|its ruler]]. Ryn will automatically become a companion after this encounter.

Ryn is a required party member for the [[Palace of Ice]] main quest dungeon at the end of Act 1. If the Champion does not have her as an active companion or chooses not to recruit her before that quest, she is a mandatory party guest. She is also a mandatory party member or guest for the [[Specter of the Wyld]] event.

After recruiting Ryn, the Champion can encounter her at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] with the rest of the companion roster at any time of day. Following the completion of the Palace of Ice, the Champion can also visit Ryn in the throne room there.

===Standard Interactions===
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Ryn's initial interaction introduces her basic background and personality: shy princess of the [[Boreal Elves|frost elves]] seeking aid to help her people and overthrow her tyrant sister. It also introduces her war-bird, Harrick. The Champion receives the [[Boreal Elves]] Codex entry after this chat.

Subsequent interactions in camp, in [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], and in the [[Palace of Ice]] contain the following menu:

*Appearance
*Talk - See if you can pry a few words out of the introverted elf.
*Hug - Etheryn always looks like she needs a hug.
*Sex - Etheryn could always use some relief, but she's also submissive enough to do just about whatever you tell her to... (requires Etheryn Confession) (see Sex for details)
*Nursing - Given how close you and Etheryn are, she'd probably love to do a little intimate nursing with you. Even if you don't plan to get lewd with her, she'd still enjoy your company… and your [pc.milk]. (requires Etheryn Confession, female pronouns, and B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*Sleep With - Share your bed with your adoring elven lover (requires Etheryn Confession, and having had sex with her three times) (see Sleep With for details)
*Give Item - Etheryn could use bigger tits and ass, and you might have just the things to do it. (requires an item she will accept, either Juicy Peach-infused Purple Egg or Wild Melon-infused Bovum Sherry)
*Spend Time - Now that you and Ryn have free run of the Winter City, why don't you ask her to show you around and see the sights? (requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]]; can only be accessed from her Palace of Ice menu)

===Talk===
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Etheryn's talk menu contains the following options:

*Her Story - So what's her story, exactly?
*[[Boreal Elves|Her People]] - Ask Etheryn about her people.
*[[Winter City]] - Get the details on this Winter City of hers...
*Her Bird
*[[Queen Alissa]] - Ask Ryn about her sister, the queen. (requires Her Story and Etheryn Confession)
*Alchemy? - Considering her cage can't be removed, maybe you could remove what it's attached to... (requires Her Story, QueenAlissa, Etheryn Confession and Alchemy? from [[Ivris]])

After completing the Palace of Ice, the options change:

*Winter City - Talk about the Winter City - its history, its people, and its future.
*Her Sister - Ask Ryn how she's handling her sister's disappearance... and her fall to demonhood.
*Harrick - Get personal with Etheryn's noble war-bird.
*The Cage - So, about that gilded cage of hers...
*Reign Thus Far - Ask Etheryn about how her reign over the Winter City has been going.
*Demons
*[[Elthara]] - How does Ryn feel about Elthara's growing little family? (requires Elthara to be pregnant or have had children, either by the Champion or one of the Champion's virile companions)

In general, Etheryn loves to talk about her city and her people. She expresses worry about Alissa both before and after completing the Palace of Ice, although this can be mitigated at high Confidence. In fact, all of Ryn's talks are heavily inflected by her Confidence; low-Confidence Ryn is very shy about most things (other than chatting about frost elves, which always makes her happy) and high-Confidence Ryn speaks about them with more ease and hope.

Ryn is also excited about warm, tender topics, regardless of Confidence. If Elthara becomes a mother, Ryn is extremely proud of her.

====Harrick====
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Harrick_Headshot_DCL.png|Headshot by [[Author-DCLzexon|DCLzexon]]
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<blockquote>"T-this is my bird, Harrick," Ryn says, turning to you with the first big, genuine smile you've ever seen from her. "I let him loose when I ran from the city... I didn't want my sister to hurt him because I left. He's been my best friend since I was a baby... and now he's here! He followed me!"</blockquote>

Harrick is Etheryn's war hawk and best friend (apart from the Champion). He returns to her when the Champion initially meets Ryn, accompanies her on adventures, and can be summoned for use in battle. The Champion can interact with Ryn and Harrick together through the talk menu, which makes for the easiest way to check on Ryn's Confidence; at low Confidence, Harrick will be suspicious and uneasy around the Champion, but at high Confidence, the very good bird accepts headpats and playfully headbutts the Champ in the chest.

===Give Item===
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The Champion may give Etheryn certain transformative items that will change her body and also her appearance (picture). Etheryn's bust will change when she reaches C cups and butt and hip rating of 9.
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!| Item || Requirements || Change
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|rowspan="2"|Juicy Peach-Infused [[Purple Egg]] ||align="left"|
*Hip Rating < 12
|rowspan="2" align="left"|
*Raise Hip Rating by 1 to 3 or until 12
*Raise Butt Rating by 1 to 3 or until 12
|-
|align="left"|
*Butt Rating < 12
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|Wild Melon-Infused [[Bovum Sherry]] ||align="left"|
*Cup size < DD
|align="left"|
*Raise Cup size by 1 to 2 or until DD
|}

===Confidence===
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Some of Etheryn's personality remains constant: she loves her people and is excited to learn new things, and she cares very deeply about the Champion as the person who rescued her. But depending on the Champion's actions, Ryn can either stay downtrodden, shy, and submissive or grow to show charm, grace, wit, and bravery.

At low Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's plaything, desperately eager to do anything that would please them because even a brutish Champion is better than Alissa. At high Confidence, Ryn is the Champion's dear friend and potential lover, an emotional princess who deeply cares about them and wants to make things better.

Different Confidence levels also change Etheryn's art; low-Confidence Ryn looks considerably more ill at ease, both nude and clothed, while high-Confidence Ryn looks excited to be there, smiling and showing off for the Champion.

====Increase & Decrease====
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| / || While has not talked about Her Story || -5 ||rowspan="16"|Once
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|I Do It's hard not to look down on the submissive princess after all that. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || -5
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|I Don't You can't blame Etheryn for the depredations of her sister. || Etheryn has confessed about her situation Has talked about Her Story || 20
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|Yes Pick up Harrick and get to know the war-hawk. || First time talking about Her Bird  || 3
|-
|No No thanks. || First time talking about Her Bird  || -5
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|Etheryn Caravan Gift Ask || Has Etheryn in party for repeat encounters with the [[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] || 25
|-
|Etheryn Confession Fuck Gently || Requires a Cock <= 12" || 5
|-
|Etheryn Confession After Care || Fuck Gently scene Requires a Cock || 10
|-
|Etheryn Confession Ruin Ryn || Requires a Cock || -10
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|Etheryn Confession Cait Help || Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 5
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|Etheryn Confession Give2Arona Not yet available || Requires [[Arona]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] Recruited Arona || -10
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|Comfort || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || 5
|-
|Leave || During [[Royal Amnesty]] after meeting with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] || -10
|-
|Sleep With Etheryn || First time requesting Etheryn's presence in bed Requires having had sex with Ryn three times || 5
|-
|Stop Sleep With Etheryn || First time evicting Etheryn, if Ryn's Confidence is below 75 || -5
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|[[Gianna's Caravan|Caravan of Wonders]] Etheryn Ask || Must have Etheryn in the active party when encountering the Caravan || 25
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|Ball Massage Leave Her That's enough for now. || / || 1 ||rowspan="16"| Repeatable
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|Ball Massage Feed Her Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it. || / || -2
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|Cait & Fuck || Requires a Cock <= 12" Requires [[Cait]] in the party or at [[The Frost Hound]] || 3
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|Assfuck Tenderly || Requires a Cock || 3
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|Assfuck Monstrously || Requires a hyper Cock || -2
|-
|GrindCage || Requires a Vagina || -3
|-
|Blowjob Let Her Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards. ||Requires a Cock || 3
|-
|Blowjob Facefuck Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.) || Requires a Cock || -3
|-
|Hug || For increase, every 24 hours || 10
|-
|Nursing || Requires female pronouns and B-cup or larger milky breasts Limited to once every 24 hours || 5
|-
|[[Hashat]] Etheryn Fuck || Has Etheryn in party and has fucked her Champion is not a Female Elf ||5
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|Spoil Her ||/ ||3
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|Dildo || Requires a Vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the Dildo]] ||3
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|Service Top Face to Face ||/ || 3
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|Service Top Ass Up ||/ || 1
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|Winter City Throne Talk Spend Time || Requires completion of [[Specter of the Wyld]] Limited to once every 24 hours || 10
|}
|}

===Libido===
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[[Libido]] as a stat increases tease effectiveness, reduces tease resistance, and increases the success chance when using Sense. The stat is calculated as 10 + Libido Mod (which is 8 in Etheryn's case). However, Etheryn has certain scene variations that will check her Libido Range which will check the percentage of her libido vs the libido max (100). It is noted, however, that as Libido increases, characters will receive a penalty to their Mental Resistance, as it is so much harder to resist your lusts, and to even care who or what's propositioning you.

At low Libido, Etheryn will be more sexually hesitant (although this can be mitigated somewhat by high Confidence). A Libido in the middle of the range - between 25 and 75 - makes Ryn sexually eager but usually only when appropriate. A Libido higher than 75 makes Ryn a slave to her own lusts. If she is still caged, Ryn's High Libido also decreases the amount of time Ryn can spend without getting off before gaining the negative Blue-Balled effect.

=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are a couple of scenes that will increase or decrease Etheryn's Libido, those being:
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|Etheryn Confession - Fuck Gently - Aftercare || +5 ||rowspan="4"| Once
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|Etheryn Confession - Ruin Her || +5
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|Etheryn Confession - Cait Help || -5
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|Etheryn Confession - Give2Arona (Not yet available) || +5
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|BallMassage - Feed Her || -2 ||rowspan="7"| Repeatable
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +2
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Blowjob - Facefuck || +3
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|FemDuoBH || +5
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|Service Top Ass Up || +1
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|Hug - Cuddle || -5
|}
|}

===Buttslut===
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As of update 0.5.36, Etheryn’s sex scenes are no longer locked out based on the PCs dick size. Instead, Ryn can be trained to gain the [[Buttslut]] perk. Certain scenes can lead to Buttslut Point accumulation. She loses 1 Buttslut Point every 3 days if she does not have the perk. When she reaches 10 Buttslut Points, she gains the perk permanently.
=====Increase & Decrease=====
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There are several scenes that will grant +1 to Etheryn’s current Buttslut score, those being:
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!class="unsortable"| Scene || Change ||class="unsortable"| Frequency
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|BallMassage - Stuff Her || +1 ||rowspan="5"| Repeatable
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|Assfuck - Roughly || +1
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|Assfuck - Monstrously || +3
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|Arona Threesome - Watch Them || +2
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|Arona Threesome - Spitroast Ryn || +1
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|}
|}

===Confession & Chastity===
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After initial recruitment, Etheryn does not start out with sex options while traveling. These are only unlocked if she reaches zero Resolve while in the active party, either through combat or by becoming blue-balled without relief. The Champion notices Etheryn's strange behavior: fidgetiness, sweating, locking her thighs together, trembling. Upon further interaction, Ryn denies that there's any problem, but can't stop herself from leaking cum all over her legs. Then, shamefacedly, she reveals the nature of her forced chastity and her abuse at [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] hands: the cage around her penis keeps her from masturbating normally, while simultaneously using its magic to heighten her erotic needs and cause excruciating pain. The Champion has the following options to respond:

*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking. (requires a cock or magicock)
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)

Once Etheryn has confessed her situation, the next time Etheryn becomes blue-balled (calculated as time since her last orgasm + (60 * (40 - Libido/3))) which at base usually means about 34 - 36 hours since she's last cum, Etheryn will not be able to recover resolve through resting until she's cum due to her predicament. However, the Champion can fix this in several ways. They can provide Ryn with a dildo (purchased from [[Gianna's Caravan|the Caravan of Wonders]]), they can suggest that Ryn fuck some of the other members of the party (such as [[Cait]] or [[Arona]]), or they can simply fuck her regularly on their own. Each of these options relieves Ryn's lust, and if she has a dildo or is persuaded to have sex with other party members, she will not develop the blue balls condition (although her Resolve will still decrease over time until sleeping or sex restores it).

Confession also makes it possible for Ryn to trust the Champion to have sex with her. In addition to opening up her repeatable sex menu, confession adds additional talk options.

===Quests and Events===
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Although no companion is a forced companion in CoC2, Etheryn is deeply involved in most quests that take place in the northern part of the [[Frost Marches]], especially in the [[Winter City]], her home and birthplace.

====[[Royal Amnesty]]====
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To begin Royal Amnesty, the Champion must speak to Etheryn at camp or at the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]], which can be done as soon as the Champion has recruited her. Etheryn must be brought to [[Castle Hawkstone]] (or brought back there if she was not recruited initially) in order to converse with [[The Baroness|Baroness Carmen Reverra]] and seek aid to protect the Winter City from [[Queen Alissa|Alissa's]] depredations.

The quest is short, involving a single conversation with Baroness Reverra, who is sympathetic to Ryn's plight and her invocation of ancient treaties but apologetically points out that she has no army and no means to march north and help overthrow Alissa. Although Carmen offers to put Ryn up in [[Hawkethorne]], she can do no more to help. This is a devastating blow to Ryn, who was banking on some kind of assistance against Alissa and her loyal forces, and the Champion can optionally reassure her about their chances of success:

*Thank Carmen - At least the baroness was willing to hear Ryn out, right?
*Get Mad - Wow, what the fuck. How dare Carmen just turn Ryn away!
*Comfort
*Leave - Thanks for nothing, bitch.

Regardless of their decision, the Champion and Etheryn will have to deal with the elves' tyrannical ruler on their own.

====[[In Her Footsteps#Palace of Ice|The Palace of Ice]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party member for the culmination of Act 1, the Palace of Ice dungeon. If she is in the active party as a companion, the party can have [[Hethia]] as a guest. If she is not in the active party or not even a companion, Ryn is the automatic guest instead. As such, it is best to recruit Ryn and level her up to at least level 5 before entering the [[Winter City]], because this improves her combat power even as a guest party member.

Ryn helps explain much of what's happened to the palace since [[Kasyrra|Kasyrra's]] arrival: the corruption of many of the guards and nobles, what's happened to [[Elthara]] and [[Jael'yn]], what's happened to [[Queen Alissa|her sister]] and the throne room. After a confrontation with Alissa and her new mistress, Ryn fights with the Champion against her imp-laden sister. During the fight and the encounter with Kasyrra and Alissa on the palace balcony, Ryn chases off her newly demonic sister with arrows; although she wounds Alissa in the battle, she is unable to land a killing blow before the erstwhile queen escapes.

After Alissa's departure and the cleansing of the corrupted from the palace, Ryn returns to the throne room to address her people and warn them of the demon threat. Elthara names Ryn the Princess Regent of the Winter City and tasks her with finding and defeating the now dethroned Alissa in accordance with ancient law as a prerequisite for becoming queen. Ryn then uses the opportunity to try to heal the schism between the Lumian elves of the Winter City and Hethia's fellow druids, and names the Champion as her Champion of Frost.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Downstairs, in the basement, the Champion can visit the palace vault before fighting Jael'yn and the rest of the encounters. If Ryn opens the vault door, either with her blood or with her cum, she receives [[Companion Sets#Queenly Raiment|a new gear set]] and a revelation about Alissa.

Upstairs, in Etheryn's room - only accessible after defeating Alissa - the Champion can discover Ryn's lingerie set. This enables a scene where Ryn can show off her outfit to the Champion, and Champions with real cocks or magicocks can optionally end it by fucking her butt, to her delight. Ryn must have at least 30 Confidence to model her outfit for the Champion. After that, she can show off her outfit from the regular sex menu whenever the Champion wants.

Both of these optional rewards, if missed on the initial run through the dungeon, can be acquired after completing it. However, as one of the best healing and buffing sets in the game, Ryn's Queenly Raiment gear from the vault is such a significant boost for her combat power that it's strongly recommended that the player acquire it on first entering the dungeon.

====Becoming the Baron(ess)====
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Following the completion of the Palace of Ice dungeon, Etheryn will offer a surprise reward to the Champion, and ask them to go to the [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]]. Upon arrival, they are greeted by [[Elthara]] and a contingent of elven soldiers led by [[Daliza|Bailiff Daliza]]. El - and Ryn, if she is present in the active party - offers to confirm the Champion's possession of the Wayfort with a baronial patent from the elven crown. By accepting the title, the Champion becomes a baron or baroness of the March and gains the services of Daliza and her troops to garrison the Wayfort and help patrol the Frostwood.

Accepting the title overjoys Ryn if she is present, so much so that Elthara offers to step aside so Ryn can grant the title personally. Ryn alters the proclamation of nobility by saying that the Champion is "her" spear and shield, eyes and ears, rather than "the realm's"; at extremely high Confidence, she also says that the Champion is "her heart". Elthara reminds her of the correct words, but doesn't actually object. The high priestess also hints that Etheryn's granting of a title is to make the Champion a nobleman or noblewoman so that she can eventually marry them.

If Ryn is not in the active party, Elthara grants the title in her monarch's name instead.

Rejecting the title deeply disappoints Ryn and the elves, and also locks out one of the primary options for improving the Wayfort.

====[[Specter of the Wyld]]====
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Etheryn is a mandatory party guest or companion for the investigation into the Winter City's crypts. As with the Palace of Ice dungeon, Ryn is best in this quest if leveled up beforehand. Make sure that she is at the level you want her to be and wearing her appropriate gear set before returning to the palace for the first time after entering the [[Glacial Rift]].

The quest is full of revelations for Etheryn about her family history, as she meets the shades of her grandmothers, [[Queen-Consort Synneva|Synneva]] and [[Queen Atheldred|Atheldred]]. Both encounters have conversations, although these can be avoided by using Banishment on the ghosts instead.

=====Optional Rewards=====
Ryn can gain multiple significant stat bonuses if the Champion does not banish either Athel or Synne. The most fruitful way to complete the quest - at least, for Etheryn - is to promise to assist Synneva in persuading Atheldred to let go of her hatred. Both encounters still require combat to resolve, but avoiding banishment and not asking [[Hethia]] or [[Elthara]] to send the ghosts' spirits to the beyond enables you to reunite the lovers following Athel's defeat in battle.

If the Champion persuades Athel and Synne to reunite after defeating both ghosts in battle, Etheryn receives a permanent upgrade to her bow that grants it an additional +10 Holy damage. If they reunite over an emotional conversation with Ryn, rather than through sex, the elven princess gains the permanent holy damage buff to her bow and an additional permanent +10 Critical chance regardless of set or primary weapon.

====[[Midwinter Festivus Ball|Festivus Ball]]====
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Completing [[Specter of the Wyld]] unlocks a special seasonal event. During the month of December - or at any point in the year, if seasonal events are active as "always on" - Etheryn and [[Elthara]] will invite the Champion to attend a winter celebration, a giant party put on by the crown for all the people of the Winter City. This year, in order to try to gradually heal the schism, the druids are invited as well. The Champion has the option to participate in the festivities or decline to attend.

If the Champion is present, they have several interaction options with Etheryn, including chats during the party, a royal speech for the masses, a Cinderella-esque ballroom dance between Champion and monarch with no one else on the floor, and ending the evening by making love under the stars.

===Spend Time===
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After completing [[Specter of the Wyld]], the Champion has the option to spend time with Ryn in the Winter City. These dates consist of a visit to a landmark and then a meal out. All the while, Ryn excitedly shares information about her people and talks about everything she's seen, heard, or lived in the city; Confident Ryn also expresses hope that she can change things for the better in the future as queen and help keep her people safe and happy.

The Champion raises Ryn's Confidence by 10 with every date. However, only one date can be completed per day.

Dates may optionally end with sex in Ryn's chambers. Sex options are pulled from her normal interact sex menu.

If other companions are in the active party, they can make brief appearances in certain parts of the date.

====Seeing the Sights====
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!|Scene || Description || Special Procs || Cameos || Writer
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|Cathedral of Lumia || Visit [[Lumia|the Dawn Maiden's]] enormous cathedral in the heart of the Winter City. Ryn's Lumian faith is very important to her, and you're sure that she'd love to share more about it with you. But the cathedral's also a pretty building in its own right, and it might be worth taking a look inside. || None || [[Azyrran]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|-
|Winter City Marketplace || See what the elves trade with each other in the market square around the Waystone statue. Whether it's just browsing, trying on clothes, or meeting with Etheryn's subjects, the two of you can probably find lots to do there! || First time visit unlocks the Formal Outfit for wearing to the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] First time visit with High-Confidence Etheryn unlocks meeting Delanel, who can make an appearance at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Kiyoko]] (does not require presence in active party) || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Play in the Snow || Just like Ryn says, it snows ALL the time here. Why not take advantage of that and spend some time together in a wintry wonderland? || None || [[Atugia]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|}

====Getting a Bite to Eat====
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!|Scene || Description || Special Procs || Cameos || Writer
|-
|Sausage Vendor || The elves have a few street vendors selling warm, tasty sausages. If you want a quick bite to eat, this is the best option! || None || [[Brienne]] [[Brint]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|-
|Fish Market || It wouldn't be the Winter City without the catch of the day! See what the smell is all about. Ryn won't make you try anything too adventurous. || None || [[Cait]] [[Quintillus|Quin]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|-
|Turf-Cooked Meal || Visit Garadelle's brewery for some tasty peat-cooked food. Turf might be an unusual fuel for the fire, but it adds a unique, smoky flavor to both the food and the drink! || First time visit unlocks meeting Garadelle at the [[Midwinter Festivus Ball|ball]] || [[Arona]] || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
|}

==Combat==
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Stats Growth</div>===
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Etheryn's Main Attributes are:
*[[Agility]]
*[[Cunning]]
*[[Willpower]]
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{| class="wikitable bordered" border="1" cellpadding="2" style="text-align:center"
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 170 || 200 || 230
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|Attack Power || 15 || 18 || 21
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|Spellpower || 32 || 41 || 50
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|Sexiness || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Temptation || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Armor || 60 || 61 || 62
|-
|Physical Resist || 16 || 17 || 26
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|Warding || 63 || 66 || 69
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|Magic Resist || 23 || 26 || 29
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|Focus || 9 || 12 || 15
|-
|Mental Resist || 15 || 15 || 15
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|Evasion || 40 || 43 || 46
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|Tease Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
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|Pheromone Resist || -25 || -25 || -25
|}
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Perks]]</div>===
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*[[Chastity]]
*[[Twist The Knife]]
*[[Ranger's Quarry]]
*[[Escape Artist]] (Level 5)
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>===
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*Small Cocks
*Average Cocks
*Small Asses
*All Breasts
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===<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>===
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*Big Asses
*Big Cocks
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===<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>===
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*[[Frost Arrow]]
*[[Entropic Winds]]
*[[Group Heal]]
*[[Call Falcon]]
*[[Aurora Arrow]] (Level 5)
|}

===Harrick===
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Harrick is called into battle by Etheryn's Summon Falcon power and his power and stats are based on Etheryn's level
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====Combat Stats====
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Harrick has the [[Taxonomy#Beast|Beast Taxonomy]] such that his Blight and Pheromone Resistance is -75, however Harrick is Immune to Lust attacks such that his Tease, Drug and Pheromone Resist are 100. Harrick is also constantly in Flight
{| class="wikitable bordered" border="1" cellpadding="2" style="text-align:center"
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!|Stats || Level 3 || Level 4 || Level 5
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|Health || 90 || 100 || 110
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|Attack Power || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Spellpower || 19 || 52 || 55
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|Sexiness || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Temptation || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Armor || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Physical Resist || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Warding || 5 || 6 || 7
|-
|Magic Resist || 5 || 6 || 7
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|Focus || 3 || 4 || 5
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|Mental Resist|| 13 || 14 || 15
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|Evasion || 10 || 11 || 12
|-
|Blight Resist || -75 || -75 || -75
|-
|Tease Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
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|Drug Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
|-
|Pheromone Resist || 100 || 100 || 100
|}
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====<div style="text-align: center;">Powers</div>====
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*[[Flight]]
*Harrick Blood Let (modified [[Blood Let]])
|}
==Companion Sets==
===Outrider's Gear===
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!|Acquisition ||width="350px"|Description ||Attire & Weapons ||Main Stats ||Level
!width="100px"|Perks
!width="100px"|Powers
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|A set of relatively plain hunting leathers, though they're made of superior craftsmanship. Etheryn finds these comfortable and familiar. It consists of simple hunting garb and a short skirt, with a leather vest, guards, and boots to offer some modicum of protection from whatever beasts she may track. One of her gloves has been replaced with a large falconry gauntlet, giving her the ability to call down and commune with her war-hawk.
|rowspan="3"|'''Holy Whitewood Bow
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''(identical description to [[Whitewood Bow]], but with added Holy damage. Requires confronting [[Queen Atheldred]] and must '''not''' banish her. Replaces Whitewood Bow)
|rowspan="6"|[[Agility]] [[Cunning]] [[Strength]]
|rowspan="3"|'''1 ||rowspan="3"|[[Twist The Knife]] ||[[Frost Arrow]]
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|[[Iceburst Arrow]]
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|[[Call Falcon]]
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|[[Whitewood Bow]] ''(default) ||'''2 ||N/A ||[[Group Heal]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|'''Outrider's Leathers
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A simple but expertly-crafted set of leather hunting armor over a dark green tunic. The design is clearly northern, and is well suited for the lithe and acrobatic fighting style of the boreal elves. The physical protection this set offers is lacking in comparison to harder, heavier armors from the southlands.
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===Queenly Raiment===
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|rowspan="6"|Obtained after unlocking the castle's vaults in the [[Winter City]] ||rowspan="6"|A beautiful dress fit for a warrior-queen, made up of rich white silks and hardened white leather, accompanied by a holy spear bearing Lumia's sunburst. This royal attire was commissioned by Queen Alissa of the Winter City for her little sister, ostensibly in recognition of Etheryn's royal heritage... but it bears an uncanny resemblance to a Belharan wedding dress, hinting to Alissa's true intentions for her half-sexed sibling.
|rowspan="3"|'''Royal Greatspear
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A towering greatspear of boreal-elven origin, outfitted with a long blade and a sturdy crossguard. Designed originally for hunting the savage northern wargs and boars, but when the Belharan Empire first invaded the North, these spears proved they were perfect for tearing through southern armor. They have since become a status symbol for elven nobility.
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==Sex==
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The first time the Champion will be able to sex Etheryn is when she confesses her situation to the Champion and she becomes too horny to do anything:
*Take Home (not a sex option)
*Fuck Gently - Give the chaste elf some relief the only way you know how: a good, hard dicking.
**Move On - Let's just get moving.
**Aftercare - Poor thing! She needs some tender loving care after losing her virginity like this...
*Ruin Ryn - (If [[Personality#Dark Knight|Dark Knight]]:You can finally get to doing what you've always wanted to.|That beautiful ass of Ryn's just sings out to you.) (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires a cock)
*Cait Help - Let Cait handle the poor elf, she's trained for situations like this after all. (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (requires [[Cait]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Give2Arona - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry. (requires [[Arona]] or at [[The Frost Hound]])
*Ignore Her - You can't deal with this right now. (If not at The Frost Hound:Hopefully you can get back to the Frost Hound unmolested...) (not a sex option)
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Regular Sex Options:
*BallMassage - Gently massage Ryn's sack and tease her backdoor. Perfect for some quick relief while in chastity.
**Leave Her - That's enough for now.
**Feed Her - Ryn's made such a mess. Time to make her clean it.
**Stuff Her - All that cum's gotta go somewhere...
*Cait & Fuck - Call Cait over to help comfort Ryn while you give her a nice, slow assfucking. It'll make it easier on Ryn to have something soft and wet to munch on during the ordeal. (requires [[Cait]]
*GetEatenOut - Have Etheryn use her mouth on your quim. (requires a vagina)
*Assfuck - Take Ryn's ass for a ride. (requires a cock)
**Tenderly - Take Ryn gently, making sure she enjoys it as much as you. (requires a cock)
**Roughly - Pound Etheryn into the bedsheets. (requires a cock)
**Monstrously - Go hard on Ryn with a cock that’s monstrously huge. It’ll hurt, but she’ll never forget it. (requires a hyper cock)
*GrindCage - Put Ryn on her back and ride her chastity cage like a dildo. She might not get off on it, but you sure will. (requires a vagina)
*Blowjob - Boreal Elves have a cool exterior and a chilly interior. See if Etheryn's can quench your heat. (Written by [[Author-William|William]]) (requires a cock)
**Let Her - Allow Ryn to please you at her own pace. Good girls get rewards.
**Facefuck - Take matters into your own hands and dick the elf deeply. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Elves are born cocksleeves, after all. It is their greatest purpose in a cooperative environment.)
*FemDuoBJ - Etheryn and Boomer are both pretty cute — you wouldn't mind having them suck your dick as a team. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]]) (requires a cock, met [[Boomer]] at [[The Frost Hound]], at The Frost Hound and during 13:00 - 17:00)
*Spoil Her - Give Ryn's back door a little oral massage. It's always nice to reverse someone's expectations. (Written by [[Author-William|William]])
*Dildo - Trade dildo fucks to ensure that both you and Ryn get some relief. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) (requires a vagina and [[Svern#Sex_Toys|the dildo]])
*Service Top - Ryn's butt, your fingers. Don't just give her some quick relief: hold (if Etheryn has been crowned: the elvenqueen; otherwise: your ice princess) in your arms and make her happy. Whether you do it roughly or gently is up to you. (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Face to Face - Fingering with a side of lovey-dovey elf smooching. May need to clean off your tummy afterward.
**Ass Up - Loosen Ryn up with a firm back massage, so she's nice and ready for you to pin her down and fingerfuck her. (If [[Silly Mode]]: Face down, booty up: that's the way we like the WHAAAAAT!)
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Other Sex Scenes:
*Nursing (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]])
**Champ can have Etheryn either Relax (no sex) or Cuddlefuck (both Champ and Ryn get off) while Champ nurses Ryn from her breasts. (Etheryn has confessed, and Champ has female pronouns along with B-cup or larger milky breasts)
*[[Hashat]] (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]])
**If the Champion is not a Female Elf but decides to pursue sex after they have lost to her in combat. After she facefucks the Champion, she will go for a second round with Etheryn
**When encountering Drunk Hashat, should the Champion decide to Sit Beside, Etheryn will blow and frot Hashat
*[[Evelyn]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
**Foursome - Evelyn is something special — invite two friends to help you satisfy her every whim. (Cait and Etheryn recruited and has fucked Evelyn at least 5 times)
***Cait & Ryn - You know just the pair to help you treat Evelyn right.
*[[Lupine Scouts]] (Written by [[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]])
**Lupine Defeat Female - While the Lupine Warrior has her way with the Champion, the Lupine Archer will facefuck a random sexable companion
*[[Jael'yn]]
**Call Ryn (Written by [[Author-SKoW|SomeKindofWizard]]) - You know she's eager for it. (Valid for both Frost Hound Jael'yn and Wayfort Jael'yn. Requires a penis; Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
**Ride with Ryn (Written by [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]) - A queen needs a throne, and Jael'yn's got just the thing: a lovely pair of lips, and an even lovelier prehensile tongue. Have Ryn take her rightful place on Jael'yn's face while you sit on the maid's proud phallus. (Valid for Frost Hound Jael'yn only. Etheryn must have at least 25 Libido)
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===Sleep With Etheryn===
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After having sex with Etheryn three times, the Champion can offer to spend their nights with her. Etheryn will join the Champion in bed for the evening if she is in the active party. If she is not in the active party, she will still sleep with the Champion at the Frost Hound.

The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep with them, Ryn will gain 5 Confidence. The first time the Champion asks Ryn to sleep on her own again, she will lose 5 Confidence if her current Confidence is 74 or less.

====Going to Sleep====
These scenes can proc at the beginning of the evening, when Etheryn and the Champion are going to bed. Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Big Spoon || No || None || High chance if Ryn's Confidence < 75 Low chance if Champion is a Dark Knight or if either Ryn or Champ is blue-balled || The Champion cuddles behind Ryn as they go to sleep together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Reassure Ryn || No || Champion's Corruption < 25 Neither the Champion nor Ryn can have blue balls || Low chance if Ryn's Confidence > 74 || The Champion soothes an exhausted Etheryn's worries before bedtime. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Tummy Rest || No || Champion's bellyPregRange < 3 (i.e. the Champion is either not pregnant or not visibly pregnant yet) || No special random modifiers || Ryn rests her head on the Champion's belly and compliments their physique. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Titty Time || No || Champion's cup size > D || Low chance if either Ryn or the Champion is blue-balled || Ryn cuddles into the Champion's bust. If the Champion is Milky, Ryn will relieve a little of the pressure. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Thigh Pillow || No || Sleeping in the [[The Frost Hound|Frost Hound]] or [[Ruined Wayfort|Wayfort]] Champion cannot be a Dark Knight || Low chance if Etheryn is blue-balled || Etheryn rests her head on the Champion's thighs as they relax together. Ryn gains 1 Confidence. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Buttfuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock Ryn must have lost her anal virginity || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt before bedtime. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Chastity || No || Champion must be a Dark Knight Etheryn's Confidence < 25 Etheryn must be caged and blue-balled || High chance if the Champion is not blue-balled || The Champion teases Etheryn into begging for relief, then goes to sleep without giving it to her. Ryn's Resolve is reduced to 25 if it is currently higher than that. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Elven Needs || Yes || None || High chance if Etheryn's Libido > 74 and if the Champion is not blue-balled Very low chance if the Champion is blue-balled || The Champion fingerfucks Ryn's butt to relieve her stress. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Royal Massage || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion and Etheryn must have done the Ass-Up version of Service Top sex scene Champion must have skin, plant skin, fur, or scales || High chance if the Champion is Enervated || Etheryn returns the favor that the Champion did her by giving them a pleasing backrub before bed. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Take the Edge Off || Yes || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Champion must not have a Real Cock Champion must not be a Dark Knight || High chance if the Champion is blue-balled and Etheryn is caged Low chance if Ryn is not caged || Ryn fingers the Champion's pussy before bedtime, and is delighted to receive a fingering of her own. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Gentle Ryn Fuck || Yes || Etheryn is Uncaged If vagAss returns anal, Champion must not be an anal virgin || High chance if either the Champion or Etheryn is blue-balled Low chance if the Champion is a Dark Knight || Etheryn gently fucks the Champion's vagAss until the two of them cum and doze off. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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====Waking Up====
These scenes can proc at the end of a sleep cycle, after emerging from a dream (if one occurs). Proc chances are random and equal unless otherwise stated. Only scenes that can currently be triggered in-game are listed.
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|Excited Morning || No || Etheryn's Confidence > 74 Etheryn must be in the active party Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || Etheryn excitedly wakes up the Champion and helps them get ready for a day together. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Groggy Morning || No || Champion must not be a Dark Knight Neither Etheryn nor the Champion can have blue balls || No special random modifiers || The Champion needs to push a still-tired Ryn to wake up. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Fuck || Yes || Champion must have a Real Cock or a magicock || High chance if Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || The Champion fucks Ryn's butt so they can relieve their pent-up nighttime urges. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Nightmare || No || Champion must have expressed an opinion about Alissa's cruelty to Ryn Alissa must be the elvenqueen or at large || Low chance unless Ryn's Confidence < 75 and she is not blue-balled || Ryn relives a bad dream about Alissa from the night before, and the Champion helps her work through her feelings. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Service || Yes || None || No special random modifiers || The Champion wakes up to Etheryn sucking them off or eating them out, and relaxes as Ryn enjoys a morning meal. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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|Morning Sixty-Nine || Yes || Etheryn must be caged Champion must not have a Real Cock || High chance if either Etheryn or the Champion has blue balls || Ryn eats the Champion out while Champ simultaneously finger-fucks Ryn's butt and gives the frost elf's balls a massage. || [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
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===Dreams===
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*Etheryn Confession
|[[Dreams#Etheryn Dedicking|Etheryn Dedicking]] (written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
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==Quest Related==
===[[Royal Amnesty]]===
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Etheryn is intent on getting to [[Castle Hawkstone]] and she'll need the help of the Champion.

===[[Specter of the Wyld]]===
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Etheryn, [[Hethia]], and [[Elthara]] require the Champion's aid to settle the ghosts in the Ice Palace's crypt

===[[The Demon of Ice]]===
Etheryn confronts her sister on the [[Isle of Dracia]].

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Annika

2023-02-19T21:52:59Z

Alypia: /* Interactions */

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| caption = Busts of Annika by [[Author-Lionpaws|Lionpaws]]
| creator = [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| fullname = Annika Rótudóttir
| nickname = Anni
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| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Paladin
| title = Sister of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] Seneschal of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] ''(after [[The Palace of Light]])''
| height = 6'3"
| bustsize = D
| family = Pandellin (Father) [deceased] Róta (Mother) [deceased] Unnamed Sister (Elder Sister) Unnamed Brother (Younger Brother) Unnamed Nieces and Nephews
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| location = [[Glacial Rift]] (before finishing [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]])
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. [[Etheryn]] must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
====Valkyrie Training====
If the Champion becomes a [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], she can learn the valkyrie at-will and ultimate moves from Annika in two separate scenes. These are unique and vary based on player personality and party members; learning the ultimate changes if [[Etheryn]], [[Arona]], or [[Azyrran]] - the Lumian companions - are in the active party.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with [[Etheryn]] and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*[[Etheryn]] provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. [[Arona]] steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. [[Azyrran]] and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Arona

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| relatives = [[Aretha]] (niece)
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction = [[Kervus Tribe]] [[Kervus Tribe|Ex-Kervus Tribe]] (post [[Right of Conquest]] ambushed)
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"Yeah... it's good to be queen."
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"Been meaning to talk to you, too. See, I'm chieftain now, and I'm starting to set things right in the camp, but it don't need my undivided attention. So you ought to take me with you while you're out fighting. Help me keep my skills sharp! Hretha can handle stuff for me day to day, and you can handle my dick. That's a damn good deal for everyone, huh?"
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"That, uh, that right? Good! Listen: I might be chieftain, now, but I owe you one for putting my ass on this throne. I'd gone alone, and my cheatin'-ass brother would have had his goons gangbang me. So yeah, if you need some help on your quest... or maybe a warm place to lay your head and sheathe your cock/fill your pussy at night... I'm your girl! Hretha can handle things day to day around the camp while we're off having our fun."
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"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard."
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Arona is the youngest sibling to the [[Kervus Tribe]]'s leadership of [[Argoth]], the warchief and [[Hretha]], the orcale. While raiding the [[Foothills]], she travels with an all-female warband that will loot and pillage anything they come across. Arona's personality is quite aggressive, although should the Champion best her, she will treat them differently. Arona was born female, but after she was introduced to a strapon, she loved it but it was difficult to cum from. She wanted something that'd be a part of her, so she won a great orc tournament and got her wish from her sister.

:"Yeah, I'm responsible for that. She had a few boys here and there, but nine out of ten times I'd hear her across the fort with someone, it'd be another woman. When Arona won the grand melee at the tribe's year-end festival, earning herself the right to ask anything of the chief, I already had done the research to give her what she'd inevitably ask for. Only boon she ever asked of me and Argoth both, as far as I recall. Even when she was little, she wanted to do everything for herself. Cook, stitch, build... and when she realized what would make her complete was a throbbing big cock 'tween her legs, she went and won the biggest fight on the island for the right to claim it as her due." —[[Hretha]]
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==Appearance==
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Arona is a mighty orcish warrior, seven feet and ten inches of chiseled muscle and toned, dark green flesh. Like any orcess, she sports a pair of small tusks jutting up from her lower jaw, peeking out from her hard black lips, and slightly tapered ears that are pierced with rows of gold studs along their upper halves. Despite the dusky hardness of her body, Arona's eyes are a brilliant blue, full of more cunning than her battle-forged physique would belie. Her hair is black as sin and naturally thick and shaggy, though it has been shaved down on either side, leaving a hawk of trimmed hair that transitions into a long braid down her back.

Despite her powerful muscles, Arona's femininity is beyond question: a pair of weighty DD-cups breasts sit high on her chest[if [[Companion Sets#Warhides|Warhides]] set:'', only just held back by the tight embrace of her hide-and-leather top, though even with its fur lining, her outfit leaves plenty of enticing cleavage open to your perusal''|else if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:'' beneath her Chieftain's Bronze'']. Her nipples are as black as her lips, broad plates of midnight each pierced with silver bars, keeping them stiff no matter her arousal. Beneath her bountiful amazonian bust is a toned, hard chest and softer belly that shows just a hint of chiseled muscle as it transitions into her flared hips.

Her lower chest is inked with a set of claw-mark tattoos, three sharp savage lines under each breast. Her upper arms are likewise adorned with swirling, softer patterns. A wolf's head bearing a pair of antler-like horns is inked onto her left shoulder, a mark of her clan; the other is patterned with interwoven circles.

Arona's outfit is as eye-catching as its wielder, meant to emphasize the orc's hard-won assets more than to protect her in battle. Her ample chest is supported and contained by a tight wrap of hide and leather, lined with grey fur and held together by a straining bronze clasp suspended between her breasts. It leaves her belly and upper arms completely bare, as if her tattoos and muscle alone are enough to shield her from harm.

[if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:''Her forearms and hands are wrapped in hide gauntlets reinforced with crude metal plates, stained with dried blood and rust. Similar greaves gird her legs, up to the knee, where they once again give way to her thick, muscular thighs and then into a pair of beast-hide breeches that hug her hips snugly. The garment rides up her ass, leaving half of each firm cheek exposed, but the real eye-draw is the thick bulge between her legs. Atop all of that, she wears a great bronze helmet with a feathered plume. Somehow, she's convinced herself all this armor lets her be less defensive in battle...'']

She's carrying an over-sized warhammer slung on her back, looking more like the weapon of an angry storm-god than something a humanoid should be swinging. Yet she handles the massive weapon with ease, making it seem feather-light... until she crashes it into someone with ground-shaking force. A chipped and battered wooden shield complements the grand hammer, bearing the demon-wolf sigil of her clan painted in shades of blood and sable-red.

Arona might have been a full-bodied woman once, if the black-lipped and vice-strong pussy between her legs is any indication, but through some orcish witchcraft, she's become so much more. A pole of dark green cock hangs down from above her twat like an overt challenge to any other would-be man in the room, easily twelve inches long and thick as a halberd's haft. Below that magnificent slab of meat hang a pair of weighty balls, swollen with potent orcish seed and dangling low beneath her cock. The bulk of her nuts all but conceals her feminine sex, as if it's nothing to her now that she can breed like a virile stud.

Opposite that, Arona has a toned, firm behind. Her shallow cheeks conceal a cock-draining asshole, right where it belongs.
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==Interactions==
===During [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====First Encounter====
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The Champion can encounter Arona and her all-female orc warband at the [[Foothills]] '''(North and West)''' when they're at least level 3. Upon encountering Arona, she will state that unlike most raiders who will demand their opponents to surrender, she likes to get warmed up before she'll fuck them.

===Subsequent Encounters===
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Encountering the orcish war-party again will always result in an immediate fight, however, based on Arona's Dominance score, when she locks eyes with the Champion, her gaze will vary; from cool, easy confidence (<= -100) to unabashed, shameless lust (>= 76).

If the Champion had gotten Arona's HP or Resolve below 50% but was defeated, she will remark that it was a good fight and that she's definitely hard after it. If not, she will mock that the Champion came to the Foothills to get pounced on for a good time by some harpies or if they were hoping a big, strong orc babe would come and give them a good beating. The Champion will also be robbed of 11 to 30 EC.

If the Champion is victorious in combat, they will be given the following option:
*'''Interrogate''' - Rather than doing what she'd have done to you, try and get some actual information out of the orcish war-captain. What the hell are they doing all the way out here?`
*'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(Champion knockup chance)
*'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
*'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
**'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
**'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
**'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])

Interrogating Arona will reveal that the tribe is simply in the Marches to loot and pillage, the same as any other orc tribe, but the Champion brings up that half the people in [[Hawkethorne]] couldn't scrape two silvers together and that it's the only real town for miles, unless the Kervus plan on battering down the gates of [[Khor'minos]]. She will simply shrug and state that it's her brother's plan, his rumor, his tribe, and she was perfectly content to kick around and beat down harpies for cocksleeves until the Champion came along. If the Champion has not found the location of the warcamp yet, she will point the Champion to the hills at the north-east.

Once Arona's Dominance score has reached -100 or 100, a new scene will play the next time they encounter her.

====Dominant or Submissive====
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As the Champion continues to fight against Arona and her warband, certain factors will influence her attitude towards the Champion on whether she will act dominant or submissive towards them. This will determine how Arona will treat the Champion and may provide unique options. Note that the score will initially start out at 0 and the score will not change once they hit the upper or lower limit (100 or -100). Note that once Arona is a companion, the Champion can offer Arona a chance to become the dominant one, however, once she is dominant, '''she will not give them the same chance'''.
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=====Dominant Arona=====
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Should Arona be dominant [DomArona] (score of -100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone. She will state that the Champion is quite difficult to track down, however, she's got their scent as she gives them a deep sniff. She remarks that they smell like her cum, which brings her to question if they bathe, but she cuts to the chase by stating that although she might be able to put them over her knee if she wanted, they're still the best fighter she's met since the tribe made landfall. She plans to challenge her brother, [[Argoth]] for control of the tribe, however, he will cheat once she starts winning, so she needs the extra muscle considering she can't trust anyone in the tribe to not fuck her over. The following options are available for the Champion to decide on what to do:
*Sure - That sounds... pretty great. What can you do?
*Hell No - Wait she can't just sign you up for this, you're not her slave... yet.
**Get Off! ''(will result in a fight)
**Sorry! - When she puts it like that... you really don't have much room to maneuver here.

Should the Champion refuse to aid her and attempt to back out, she will attack the Champion, and should they lose, it will result in the [[Bad Ends#Arona's Slave|Arona's Slave Bad End]]. If the Champion wins, Arona will jest about 'where had this side of the Champion been all this time', but states that she still needs their help, although this time as partners. The Champion tells her that they'll think about her deal, causing her to shrug and state that they've earned the right to choose before heading off.

=====Submissive Arona=====
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Should Arona be submissive [SubArona] (score of 100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone, putting a hand up in a sign of peace. She will explain that for once she's not here to fight, that she's met her match, and she loves it, because its given her a new bar to rise to, a new goal to train for till she can beat them. She's here to discuss a mutually beneficial agreement; that [[Hawkethorne]] wants the Kervus gone and that Arona wants to go, however, her brother refuses to move and won't explain himself. She's got it in her mind to challenge her brother for leadership and she needs someone to watch her back when Argoth starts losing. She proposes that if they back her up when she challenges her brother, she'll get the tribe out of the Marches.

====Challenge for Leadership====
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Having gone through the majority of events for [[Right of Conquest]], once they have reached the Orc Pavilion, they will see Arona with [[Hretha]], who's anointing Arona's cheeks and face with war paint as she stands ready to challenge her brother. The Champion will have two options when the two are about to face off:
*Hide&Watch - This is what Arona brought you here for, right: to watch just in case her brother does something fishy?
*Ambush Argoth - Well, this is what Arona brought you here for, right: to jump her brother and make sure she wins?

=====Ambush Argoth=====
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Ambushing Argoth will incur the wrath of the gathered orcs as Argoth declares that his sister plans to assassinate him. Arona will be forced to join the Champion in a battle against the Chief & Goons; consisting of Chief Argoth, the [[Orc Thane]], and an endless wave of orcs. If the Champion loses the fight, it will result in a Bad End in which Argoth will exile his sister and enslave the Champion's party for the Kervus Tribe. Argoth's defeat will end the fight, but because of the Champion's interference, he will remain the warchief and Arona will be exiled for violating ancient tradition. This will greatly anger Arona but she will straighten up and declare that she doesn't need the Kervus. When asked what she'll do now, she asks if there's a tavern in [[Hawkethorne]] because she can't make important decisions sober. The Champion will have the following options on how to respond:
*Nope - There's no tavern in Hawkethorne. She'll have to go somewhere else... and hopefully not come back.
*Yes - There's a great little drinking hole waiting for her. Arona will no doubt be amenable to recruitment after this.

Lying to Arona will have her take a deep breath, say her goodbyes and march off into a dark canyon beneath the shadow of the warcamp, most likely the Champion will never see her again.

Telling her about [[The Frost Hound]] will have her move to the tavern.
:''"Then it's settled! To the Fuck Hound or whatever!"

=====Hide&Watch=====
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Choosing to hide and watch will allow the duel to proceed normally, in which Arona manages to split and snap Argoth's weapon, and send him staggering to his throne. Unwilling to accept his defeat, he will call upon the surrounding warriors to interfere, however, they don't make a move, which causes Argoth to yank a chain that brings [[Benny]], a massive hill troll, into the Orc Pavilion. After being struck by Benny, Arona will call upon the Champion to aid her, to which they may choose to Fight! or Leave. Choosing to leave will result in Benny causing absolute chaos as the orc leadership is demolished, the fates of the orc siblings unknown, but it doesn't matter. Deciding to fight and aid Arona will pit them against Benny and Argoth.

When the Bang Bros have been defeated, the warriors will howl in approval for Arona as their new chieftain. Hretha will inform her sister that she must decide what to do with their brother after having been utterly shamed. For SubArona, she'll offer the Champion a piece of her brother before she exiles him back to the southern islands. Regardless of their decision, a pair of Kervus warriors drag the fallen chieftain out of the pavilion, with Hretha and [[Gerik]] following to chase the fallen chieftain off. With Arona now in power, she'll want to celebrate her victory and new title as chieftain.

===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====Exiled Arona====
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If Arona had gotten exiled from the Kervus and the Champion had told her about [[The Frost Hound]], they can find her at the inn.

Approaching her at the inn for the first time will have them ask how she's handling things, she replies she feels shitty, that she can't believe she fucked up this bad, and she's never gonna see her sister and niece again or until Argoth's killed himself. In the meantime, she'll drink herself into stupor, but an idea comes to mind and she offers that if they need a big battle-hardened bitch to beat somebody down for them, she's their gal.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]].

====Chieftain Arona====
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=====First Visit=====
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Visiting Chieftain Arona for the first time will have her grin as she rhetorically asks that shouldn't the Champion be out fighting a demon or something before the Champion replies that they've come to talk to her.

With SubArona, the Champion will saunter to her, which causes her to squirm for a moment as her breeches tent when the Champion gets close. She will mention that although she is chieftain now, she owes them for putting her ass on the throne, and that if they need help with their quest or a warm place to lay their head and sheathe their cock/fill their pussy at night, then she's their girl. She adds that [[Hretha]] can handle things around the camp while they're off having fun.

With DomArona, the Champion will take a knee before her, which causes her to heft a leg over their shoulder and will later use her knee to yank their face into her musky leather breeches. She says that she's chieftain now and she's starting to set things right in the camp, however, it doesn't need her undivided attention, so they ought to take them with her while they're out fighting so she can sharpen her skills while Hretha can handle that day to day stuff for her, they can handle her dick.

=====Subsequent Visits=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, the Champion will be allowed to enter and leave the [[Kervus Warcamp]] as they see fit. Arona can be found at great pavillion tent where she will be lounging lazily upon her throne with one leg kicked up over an armrest.

Upon visiting Arona, the following events may occur:
*20% chance for:
**'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
**'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(if Orc Guards are not pregnant)
***For DomArona [no option]:
****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
***For SubArona:
****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]]. Note that [no option] implies that the scene will automatically occur when the conditions are satisfied and the Champion will not be provided an option to back out.

=====Chieftain's Bronze=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, she will special order an armor fit for the Kervus' glorious new chieftain. When the Champion has Arona with them, the next time they visit [[Ragnild]] (after her initial meeting scene at the forge), they will find Ragnild fitting Arona's new armor on her which [[Hretha]] claims that it's some of Ragnild's best work.

::''"It's not magic, Arona. Armor exists to give you a last chance to live through blows you fail to deflect, it doesn't make you impervious to them."

::''"Yeah, yeah, I know! I know!"'' the chieftain growls, adjusting her helm. ''"Still, if I end up having to fight this great enemy my brother was howling about, then I want to be prepared! Ain't gonna be parrying demon-magic or mind control; gotta rush in and crush the bitch's skull fast and hard, no holding back. If [name] wants to hide behind my shield, we can talk about that, but for now? I'm going into battle swinging!"

This will unlock Arona's [[Chieftain's Bronze]] companion set.

=====Orc Bodyguards=====
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While Arona is at the warcamp, she has a group of four amazonian bodyguards that remain close to her. As the '''Orc Gangbang''', SubArona will offer her horny bodyguards to the Champion, while DomArona will let her guards have their way with the Champion. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Orc Bodyguards|Orc Bodyguards]] for more details. Note that if the Champion does impregnate the bodyguards, all four of them will become pregnant.

===Companionship===
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At [[The Frost Hound]], Arona can be found doing a variety of things, ranging from arm-wrestling with [[Garret]] when he's available, fruitlessly flirting with [[Brienne]], re-braiding [[Etheryn]]'s hair (if had done a threesome with her), to busily cleaning the bronze face of her shield.

Regardless of where Arona is, the following options are will become available once they approach her:
*Appearance
*Talk - [DomArona:See if your mistress might be willing to talk instead of just fucking you...|SubArona:Swap some words with your beta.]
**Her Homeland - Ask Arona about the islands that her tribe hails from.
**Companions - Ask Arona what she thinks of your friends...
**Her Dick - So what's the story with that dick of hers anyway?
**Her Family - Get Arona's thoughts on her siblings, or any other relations she may have out there.
**Dominance? - After beating Arona over and over in combat in the foothills, she seems to have naturally come to accept you as her "alpha" of sorts, despite her obvious preference to be large and in charge. What's up with that? (SubArona only)
**Challenge Me - Give Arona a chance to try and take back her place as alpha from you. ''(requires '''Dominance?''', had sex with Arona at least once and SubArona)
***Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcishing wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
****Nevermind - Not right now.
*Recruit
*Sex - The big amazon babe is always up for some fun...
**For SubArona:
***Ride Her - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Plow Her Ass - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***Missionary - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***Threesome - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****Cait - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Ride Arona - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****Double Titfuck - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****Etheryn - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the ([[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick). ''(requires recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)

**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****Get Fucked ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Ride Her ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Sex Bone ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance to add to list)
*****Cum Now - You just want release!
*****Titfuck - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****Cait Threesome ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Dual Worship
******Sloppy Seconds - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******Clean Cait - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****Etheryn Threesome ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
*Sleep With
*Throne Fuck - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
**Ride Cock - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
**Fuck Her - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)

Note that ('''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''') occurs when traveling with DomArona whose Resolve is <= 25, when moving through an explorable tile outside of settlements, she will fuck the Champion and includes a knockup chance for champions with a vagina. If [[Cait]] is present in the party, she will join in and make it a threesome.

====Talk====
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=====Her Homeland=====
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On the topic of her homeland, Arona mentions that their islands are off the east coast, past Khor'minos, and although most people call them the northern islands, in orcish, they're called [[The Sailgraves]]. The reason for the name comes from the surrounding reefs that make it impossible for anyone but the natives to sail through. Unlike the elves or humans, the orc tribes don't have empires or take land, they fight fair and square, take a few slaves, some treasure, and then go home. Her home island has a defensive hill covered in rocks and trees, and some room for farming on the coastlands where most of the tribe lives. Arona's kin live in an old fort up on the middle of the hill that was built by her ancestors. The place is pretty cold all year round which makes farming challenging, ''"winters are brutal, summer is cool, and wind's a bitch if you aren't up in the hills"''. There are also:
:''"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Younger gals of the tribe make crowns of 'em, weave 'em into their hair... and boys make a game of snatching 'em off and running. 'Specially to girls they like."

The Champion comments that knowing Arona, she's probably stolen plenty.
:''"Damn right!" she laughs, giving you a lusty grin. "Boys are supposed to just give the flowers back when they get caught. Since I was another girl, though, they had to chase me down and wrestle me for 'em... that's the fun part. Got my first kiss that way, let this big beast of a babe a year or so older'n I was catch me, pin my arms. Crushed her garland but she didn't care at that point, was so fuckin' mad that I was startin' to think she'd rip my tusks out when she leaned down over me. Went for my tongue instead, fished it out with hers. Haha! When I finally got my cock, she was the first orc that got to taste it... in every hole. Shame she didn't come a'raiding with us this year, I'd introduce you. Got an ass so fat she practically bounces right off your lap, but she's near as strong as me. She comes down on your face and your head'd pop like a melon!"

=====Her Dick=====
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On bringing up Arona's favorite topic, the Champion asks what's the story behind it as orcs aren't naturally hermaphrodites. Arona explains that the gods fucked up for not giving them all big ol' cock, that they could have drowned the world in orcish halfbreeds already. When asked if she wishes she'd been born a guy, she howls with laughter and after a long awkward moment, she says that the gods made up for the lack of cock by making her stacked with a great ass and thighs too. However, the problem was that as the chieftain's little sister, she was expected to have kids and that meant a lot of time not fighting while she waddles around the keep. Another problem was that she tends to prefer women, although hard abs and fat cocks have their place, she'd rather have a big pair of tits and a wet juicy quim. Unfortunately, the actual sex of women to women was just alright, but when she was introduced to a strapon, everything changed, but it was hard to cum from, so she wanted something that'd be a part of her. Unfortunately the orcs don't have alchemists, so she competed in a tournament to prove who is the strongest and the toughest where the winner can ask the chieftain and the high shaman for anything. She fought in the tournament fair and square and when she won, marched up to Hretha and told exactly what she wanted, including all the details.
:''"So yeah, that's how I got my cock. Made Hretha pray for it from Lumia, drank a tankard full of a cumshot from every grown man on the island, and the next day I woke up with morning wood pressing into a slave-girl's ass. Ha, she got a hell of a wake-up!

=====Her Family=====
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When asking about her family, there are 4 possible scenes that can play:
*Random Chance for:
**Hretha
**Argoth
**Argoth's Daughter ''(if talked about Argoth from Arona or Hretha)
**Hretha's Relationship with the Champion ''(if has had at least 1 kid with Hretha)

======Hretha======
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On the topic of her sister, Arona describes their relationship as fire and water. She goes on to add that Hretha looks like a chunkier, blinder version of their mother, complete with nagging at all hours anytime she does something Hretha doesn't like. Although Hretha isn't much of a fighter, she can kill with words that can beat them down harder than Arona and her hammer can, although she means well. Hretha only speaks out like that because she cares too much about everyone, and she has no doubt that she'd jump in front of an arrow for Arona, and Arona would do the same for her without hesitation. The two didn't get along as much as they'd like to, although Arona does love her sister and she practically raised Arona when their father died as their mother and Argoth were too busy keeping the tribe from falling apart. If Hretha is pregnant or already had children with the Champion, Arona will warn them that if they hurt her sister, she will cut them in their sleep.

======Argoth======
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On the topic of her brother, Arona will spend a moment collecting her thoughts, although mostly by staring into her drink. She begins by stating that:
:''"My big brother was the best fighter of his generation. Warband leader without equal. When pa died, Argoth stepped up to fill his place even if he was barely big enough to heft the old man's axe. Took command of our tribe's fighters, beat the would-be usurpers into submission, and proved his mettle in ballsy raids all over the Sailgraves. Was a time he was the life of the party, you know, hard drinking and harder fighting, inseparable from his men. Actually looked up to the bastard, I did. Wanted to be just like my big brother..."

Argoth isn't like Arona when it comes to sticking their dicks everywhere they could, he was more like Hretha. He deeply loved his woman but he changed after she got sick and died shortly after childbirth. Her death had broken Argoth as Arona never saw her brother smile again, not even for his kid and years passed where she barely saw him, until Hretha had her prophecy of a great battle. Although he set up the warcamp, the tribe just sat like gargoyles waiting for the end-of-the-world fight 'like a bunch of idiots'. [ExiledArona:The camp had been falling apart and now with Arona gone, there's no one around to keep the amazons busy. Tensions were hot, warriors were restless and supplies were low, all because of Hretha's dream. She hopes that when Argoth find his big war and dies in it, Hretha will allow Arona to come back to the islands.|ChieftArona:Had Arona not challenged Argoth, the camp would have fallen apart, or would have invaded Hawkethorne. When asked if she wished things had turned out differently, she counters by rhetorically asking if she wishes she didn't make her niece an orphan and if she wishes she was never going to see her brother again, but she had to do something.]

======Argoth's Daughter======
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On the topic of Argoth's daughter; [[Aretha]], Arona reassures that even with her father [staying chief, she's pretty much safe/being exiled, if anyone tries anything, they will have to go through Arona]. She's back at the Sailgraves as they can't bring someone that young to a warcamp, even for orcs. Arona continues by stating she's a sweet kid, although she's blind like Hretha, she puts on muscle easily like her and she made Arona teach her how to use a shield and spear. When the Champion notes that they sound pretty close, Arona agrees [ExiledArona: and makes her getting exiled suck all the worse]. Arona was the closest of her family to Aretha's age, and with Argoth 'being all fucked up by his woman dying', it was pretty natural that someone had to teach her how to walk, fight, and live, and despite her blindness, Aretha's a hot-head like her.

======Hretha's Relationship======
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On the topic of the Champion and Hretha having a kid, she's actually quite happy that somebody got to break Hretha's womb and it's by somebody she approves of. The Champion expresses their relief that she's not mad about it, to which Arona asks why would she be. She praises them and she's honestly happy that it wasn't from anyone in the tribe because none of them respected Hretha like Arona and Argoth do, and when the 'demon-hunting bullshit' is over, [SubArona:they can take them both as sister-wives|DomArona:she'll take them back to the islands and the Champion and Hretha can be together, when she's not using them].

=====Dominance?=====
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When asked if it's normal for the orc tribe to naturally come and accept a superior, Arona confirms that's how life has always been in the islands; that it's normal for the strong to rule. The Kervus only rule because they are the strongest, the strongest of the Kervus rules the tribe, and since they've proven themselves stronger than her, she's gotta do what they say. Although she can try and turn the tables, the rule only applies to the Champion. When questioned if they should worry about Arona shiving them in their sleep, she takes offense to it as she explains it's got to be an honorable open challenge.

=====Challenge Me=====
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The thought of challenging the Champion for dominance hadn't come across her mind because of all the demon shit and all that's been going on. Although she loves being the mean alpha bitch, she warns them that if she wins, she's not letting them go again as she's only going to play for keeps, although if the Champion wins, it doesn't change anything as they're already the top. With that, the following options will be available:
*Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcish wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
*Nevermind - Not right now.

======Challenge======
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The challenge, set by the Champion, involves an oiled-up wrestling match for dominance. This makes Arona scoff as she loves the idea, although she's the one who's supposed to be issuing the challenge. When the pair are oiled up and ready, the Champion has the following options:
*Throw the Fight - Let Arona win, and willingly become her submissive. There may be no coming back from this decision.`);
*Fair Fight - Make it a fair fight... and to the best wrestler, victory.

Throwing the Fight results in a default loss as claims her new position by fucking the Champion.

A fair fight involves a bit of RNG as whoever gets the highest number among:
*Arona - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength
*The Champon - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength/Agility (which ever stat is higher)

If Arona wins, like throwing the fight, she will claim her new position by fucking the Champion.

=====Sleep With=====
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The Champion may ask Arona to be their bedmate, regardless if Sub or Dom Arona, so long as they currently don't have an active bedmate.
*For SubArona:
**Random Chance (determines what the Champion will use as a pillow):
***Sleep with Tits ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Belly
***Sleep with Thighs ''(requires gotten fucked by Arona at least once)
*For DomArona:
**Random Chance (determines what Arona will do)
***Sleep with Fuck ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Tired ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Blowjob ''(requires at [[The Frost Hound]] and Champion knockup chance)

Note that each sleep with scene has it's own unique wake up scene.

====[[Orc Lodge]]====
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Upon revisiting/visiting the [[Orc Lodge]] after the events of the [[Right of Conquest]], a trio of orcs present will attempt to pull the Champion into a gangbang. If SubArona, they will have the option to refuse their attempt, knowing full well they have authority over Arona such that the trio need to know their place, however, this option will not be available with DomArona as they don't have authority through Arona.

==Combat==
===Enemy===
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The first time the Champion encounters Arona and her '''Orc Warband''', they will fight her and her warband consisting of:
*2x [[Orc Amazon|Orc Amazons]]
*2x [[Orc Executioner|Orc Executioners]]

Repeat encounters with the warband would consist of:
*50% chance for an [[Orc Amazon]] or [[Orc Executioner]] for each of the 4 members

====Stats====
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|Attack Power: 24 || Spellpower: 21
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|Sexiness: 24 || Temptation: 8
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|Armor: 73 || Physical Resist: 32
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|Warding: 43 || Magic Resist: 13
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|Focus: 32 || Mental Resist: 12
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|Evasion: 29 || Frost Resist: -20
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>
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*Big Breasts
*Big Cocks
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>
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*Small Breasts
*Small Cocks
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*[[Guarded Stance]]
*[[Dominance]]
*[[Cleave]]
*[[Prime Target]]
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*100 XP
*60 EC
*[[Brazenberry Ale]] ''(100% chance)
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==Companion Sets==
===Warhides===
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|Arona's armor, made from padded boar's hide and heavy boiled leather. Calling it skimpy would probably be far too conservative: her clothes are nothing more than a strap across her black nipples to hold back her heavy tits, a pair of crotch-hugging shorts and loincloth that seem designed from the ground up to emphasize her masculine bulge, and her boots. With one well-timed flex, you're pretty sure Arona could shred most of her outfit on her chiseled muscles — all the better to get her cock out and start fucking at a moment's notice.
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
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''(same as set description)
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|rowspan="2"|[[Hoplon Shield]] ||'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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===Chieftain's Bronze===
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|rowspan="6"|Visiting [[Ragnild]] with [[Arona]] as Warchief ||rowspan="6"|A suit of bronze armor made by the Kervus' master smith on special order for Arona once she became the tribe's chieftain. This armor is bulky enough to leave Arona free to focus all her efforts on massive two-handed hammer swings, forgoing her shield and any attempt at active defense for a berserker's charge in the vanguard, leading her comrades to victory in her wake!
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|rowspan="5"|'''Chieftain's Bronze
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2 ||rowspan="3"|N/A ||[[Blessing|Inspire Wrath]] ''(Blessing rewrite)
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Thunder Strike]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.10
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===Berserker===
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!colspan=7|Berserker
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|rowspan="6"|Returning to [[The Frost Hound]] and witnessing [[Gwyn]] sparring with Arona ''(requires at least 3 days after Arona's Exile) ||rowspan="6"|In her exile, Arona has picked up an even more ferocious fighting style than before. She's forgone her shield—choosing instead to focus all her strength into her mighty hammer—picked up some tricks from Garth, covered herself with blue warpaint, and honed her rage into a weapon all its own. Seems the orc will be leading the charge in the future.
|rowspan="2"|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|rowspan="2"|'''1 ||rowspan="2"|[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|[[Execute]]
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|rowspan="4"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as Warhides set description)
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Shell Cracker]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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===Spirit Totem===
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|rowspan="7"|Crafted by [[Viviane]] at the end of [[I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost]] ||rowspan="7"|Where once Arona carried her trademark '''Mastbreaker''', she now bears '''The Nightfang''', a great runic axe crafted specifically for spectre slaying by Viviane. Around her shoulders and covering her head is a wolfskin cloak, with the head of the beast functioning as a pseudo-helmet. And a tool for intimidation. It seems she now has a way to properly face her fears.
|'''Nightfang
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Arona's Viviane-crafted greataxe. Made specifically to help her overcome her fear of ghosts, this weapon glows with magic power that guarantees that the orc's swings will cut into any and all ethereal foes she encounters.
|rowspan="7"|[[Agility]] [[Strength]] [[Willpower]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="6"|'''Spirit Totem Warhides
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Largely the same as her typical warhides, Arona now wears her wolfen cloak along with it. Crafted by Viviane and warded against foes from beyond the grave, this outfit's headdress does come at the cost of some of the sexiness her choice of clothing usually provides.
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Holy Shock]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="2'|'''4 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Charge Weapon]]
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|[[Smite Evil]]
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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==Sex==
===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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*In the [[Foothills]]:
**Victory sex options:
***'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
***'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
****'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
****'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
***'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])
**Defeat sex scenes:
***Defeat NTR ''(must have a companion, 20% chance and Arona's HP & Resolve must be >= 80%)
***Defeat Gangbang ''(if: Arona's HP & Resolve must at be >= 50% [33% chance], else: 20% chance) (Arona does not fuck the Champion here)
***Defeat Catch ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
**Through the repeat Pregnancy Encounters:
***'''Accept''' (results in the Champion getting preg fucked)
**The Champion pregnant encounters:
***'''Accept''' ''(for repeat Preg Encounter)
*[[Bad Ends]]:
**[[Bad Ends#The Exile's Slave|The Exile's Slave]] (On failed Arona Dominant confrontation)
*After defeating [[Argoth]] and [[Benny]] through '''Hide&Watch''' (choices available for SubArona):
**'''Throne Blow''' - Give Arona a regal blowjob. (default scene for DomArona)
**'''Ride Cock''' - She shouldn't be the only one riding that throne...
**'''Pound Pussy''' - Take Arona's throne from her and make her sit on your dick. ''(requires a cock)
**'''Frot N Lick''' - Frot with Arona while Cait sucks you both off. ''(requires a cock and [[Cait]])
===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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*Chieftain Arona
**20% chance upon visiting Arona at her throne:
***'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
***'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(Orc Guards not pregnant)
****For DomArona [no option]:
*****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
****For SubArona:
*****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
*****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
**Unique sex option:
***'''Throne Fuck''' - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
***'''Ride Cock''' - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
***'''Fuck Her''' - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)
*Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona:
**For SubArona:
***'''Ride Her''' - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***'''Plow Her Ass''' - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Missionary''' - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Threesome''' - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****'''Cait''' - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Ride Arona''' - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****'''Double Titfuck''' - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****'''Etheryn''' - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the[ [[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick]. ''(requires a cock, recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)
**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****'''Get Fucked''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Ride Her''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Sex Bone''' ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance check)
*****'''Cum Now''' - You just want release!
*****'''Titfuck''' - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****'''Cait Threesome''' ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Dual Worship'''
******'''Sloppy Seconds''' - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******'''Clean Cait''' - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****'''Etheryn Threesome''' ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''' ''(when travelling through explorable non-settlement tiles with Arona at <=25 Resolve, Champion Knockup chance, and if [[Cait]] is present, she will join and make it a threesome)
**Sleep With ''(different scenes for Dom and Sub Arona but will always involve sex before or after sleeping)
**Challenge Me (SubArona only but if she wins, she will fuck the Champion + knockup chance)

===As a [[Companions|Companion]]===
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*As a companion (Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona, and outside Arona's own sex options):
**[[Bad Ends]] ''(only unique non-generic ones placed here):
***[[Den of Foxes]] - [[Bad Ends#Breeding Vessel|Breeding Vessel]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
**[[Centaur Pack]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''DoubleTitJob''' - Grab a breasted companion and blow this stud's mind together. ''(requires non-Flat breasts)
**[[Cultist Evangelist]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''Spitroast''' - This goblin's thick enough that you could probably share her with someone else. Hope you have a friend in mind... ''(requires a cock)
****'''Arona'''
**During [[Etheryn]] Confession:
***'''Give2Arona''' - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry.
**During [[Mad Cow]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]):
***On Brint's heat problem:
****'''Ask Arona''' - Get the orc studbitch to 'help' Brint out of his predicament.
**[[Elthara]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***During Winter City:
****'''DoubleTeam''' - Fuck this priestess to bits with a friend. ''(requires a cock)
*****'''Arona''' - Ask Arona to pound out this elf slut with you.
***'''Sic Companion''' - Send a delegate in your place to make Elthara happy.
****'''Arona''' - Give Arona some room to work and some privacy with Elthara and you suspect that needy elven libido is going to be cleared ''right'' up... for now.
**[[Sleepy Snake]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***After the Champion fucks the snake, [[Cait]], [[Brint]] or Arona may have their fun with the snake
****'''Watch''' - Follow your companion inside and watch them fuck the unsuspecting naga lady.
*****'''Join In''' - Help Arona fuck the placid snakewoman and maybe get some of her for yourself.
******'''Reward''' - Get your reward.
******'''Don't''' - Servicing her is its own reward.
*****'''Don't''' - Remain a bystander.
****'''Don't''' - Wait it out.
**The [[Alraune]]
***'''Arona Fetilize''' - Have your buxom orc take charge and seed the planty milf. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]])

===Pregnancy===
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====As the Orc Warband====
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The Champion can become pregnant through the Defeat Catch and '''Ride''' sex scenes with Arona. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Arona Father|Arona Pregnancy]] for more details.

=====Acknowledge=====
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If the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child and has never seen this scene before, the next time the Champion encounters her and her orc warband will be replaced by this scene.

Upon encounter the Champion again, she will growl at them and plant the head of her hammer on the ground as a challenge, however, when her eyes wander over their belly, her fighting stance relaxes as she realizes they're pregnant. When Arona realizes she's the 'father', she laughs, sets her hammer aside and waves off the rest of her warband. She will saunter over to the Champion and her normal hostility melts away as she places a hand on the Champion's stomach. With a tusky little smile, she says:
::''"Hell, I didn't come to the Marches lookin' something like this, but... but I'm happy. And here my brother said I'd never be a mom. Ha, you really showed him, huh!"

She continues to stroke the Champion's belly with genuine affection and the two have a short moment, before the rest of Arona's amazons start getting impatient as they cat-call their captain. Before she leaves, she takes their shoulder and says:
::''"You just... stay in town, okay? I don't want you gettin' hurt by any of the other patrols. Or anything! Something tries hurting my kid, it's gonna answer to me, you got that!?"

She will then give the Champion a hug and a squeeze on the ass before rejoining her warband as they find someone else to fight.

If Arona's Dominance score is >= 0; +10, if not; -10.

=====Preg Encounter=====
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For repeat encounters with Arona when the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child.

When the Champion is meandering through the hills, they suddenly feel a sudden lurch in their stomach and they struggle to fight back a wave of nausea. Suddenly Arona calls out and approaches them, setting her hammer and shield down. She will gently urge them against a nearby stone, and they are given the following options:
*'''Refuse''' - You don't want to let a sex-fiend barbarian get too intimate with you again. (+10 Dom score)
*'''Accept''' - You'd be happy to see this gentler side of the big amazon. (-10 Dom score)

Refusing her by making it blatantly clear that they're not interested earns them a snort from Arona. She steps back, saying she's not gonna fight someone pregnant with her kid before stalking off into the mountains.

Relenting and accepting the orc's guidance assumes they're going to be set against the rocks, however, they're set right onto Arona's lap instead. The two share a moment as Arona says she's never gotten pregnant before and (if first Arona preg: she's never gotten anyone pregnant either |else: they're still the only one she's gotten pregnant). She affirms that they're beautiful, that she made them into an idol of fertility. The two go on to have pregnant sexing, complete with a parting kiss and a grope on the butt for good measure.

====As a Companion====
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The Champion can become pregnant from '''Ride Her''', '''Throw the Fight''', '''Fair Fight''' (Arona Victory), '''Get Fucked''', '''Wake up Tits''', '''Wake up Fuck''', '''Wake up Tired''', '''Wake up Blowjob''', '''Dommy Mommy''', and '''Arona Takes Her Pleasure'''.

'''Dommy Mommy''' varies dramatically for Champions who are either already pregnant by Arona or fertile and able to be knocked up; Champ uses the prospect of motherhood to both tease Arona and make the depth of their feelings for each other clear.

After the events of [[Right of Conquest]] and when the Champion has recruited Arona to their party (does not have to be in current party), when they are about to give birth to Arona's child, like most pregnancies, they will be rushed to [[Gwyn]] at the nursery. While they are in labor, Arona will barge into the nursery and take a knee beside the bed to hold the Champion's hand, stating that she wouldn't miss it for the world. Arona expresses her happiness when she sees their newborn child and she goes to stroke its brow, but she will leave as she suggests the Champion get some rest.

==Dreams==
*[[Dreams#Arona Wrestling Match|Arona Wrestling Match]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) ''(requires a cock and has met Arona)
*[[Dreams#Arona Cumslut Dream|Arona Cumslut Dream]] (Written by [[Author-Savin|Savin]]) ''(Arona Dominance Score < 0)

==Quest Related==
===[[Mad Cow]]===
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To satiate [[Brint]]'s heat, the Champion can deal with it by getting Arona to fuck him.

===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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After learning of the Kervus Tribe's presence in the Marches and the location orc warcamp, the Champion will need to keep sparring with Arona and cement their dominance (or submission) in order to get her help.

==Gallery==
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Arona

2023-01-01T19:52:05Z

Alypia: /* As a Companion */

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| creator = [[Author-Savin|Savin]]
| fullname =
| nickname =
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| species = [[Orcs|Orc]]
| gender = Female (pre-tournament) Hermaphrodite
| occupation = War-Captain Warchief (post [[Right of Conquest]] not ambushed)
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| height = 7'10"
| cocksize = 12"
| bustsize = DD
| family = [[Argoth]] (older brother) [[Hretha]] (older sister) Unnamed Father [deceased] Unnamed Mother
| relatives = [[Aretha]] (niece)
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction = [[Kervus Tribe]] [[Kervus Tribe|Ex-Kervus Tribe]] (post [[Right of Conquest]] ambushed)
| nationality =
| location = [[Foothills]] (North and West) [[Kervus Warcamp]] (post [[Right of Conquest]] not ambushed)
| companiontag = Aggressive
| level = 3
| health = 200
| resolve = 100
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"Yeah... it's good to be queen."
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"Been meaning to talk to you, too. See, I'm chieftain now, and I'm starting to set things right in the camp, but it don't need my undivided attention. So you ought to take me with you while you're out fighting. Help me keep my skills sharp! Hretha can handle stuff for me day to day, and you can handle my dick. That's a damn good deal for everyone, huh?"
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"That, uh, that right? Good! Listen: I might be chieftain, now, but I owe you one for putting my ass on this throne. I'd gone alone, and my cheatin'-ass brother would have had his goons gangbang me. So yeah, if you need some help on your quest... or maybe a warm place to lay your head and sheathe your cock/fill your pussy at night... I'm your girl! Hretha can handle things day to day around the camp while we're off having our fun."
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"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard."
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Arona is the youngest sibling to the [[Kervus Tribe]]'s leadership of [[Argoth]], the warchief and [[Hretha]], the orcale. While raiding the [[Foothills]], she travels with an all-female warband that will loot and pillage anything they come across. Arona's personality is quite aggressive, although should the Champion best her, she will treat them differently. Arona was born female, but after she was introduced to a strapon, she loved it but it was difficult to cum from. She wanted something that'd be a part of her, so she won a great orc tournament and got her wish from her sister.

:"Yeah, I'm responsible for that. She had a few boys here and there, but nine out of ten times I'd hear her across the fort with someone, it'd be another woman. When Arona won the grand melee at the tribe's year-end festival, earning herself the right to ask anything of the chief, I already had done the research to give her what she'd inevitably ask for. Only boon she ever asked of me and Argoth both, as far as I recall. Even when she was little, she wanted to do everything for herself. Cook, stitch, build... and when she realized what would make her complete was a throbbing big cock 'tween her legs, she went and won the biggest fight on the island for the right to claim it as her due." —[[Hretha]]
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==Appearance==
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Arona is a mighty orcish warrior, seven feet and ten inches of chiseled muscle and toned, dark green flesh. Like any orcess, she sports a pair of small tusks jutting up from her lower jaw, peeking out from her hard black lips, and slightly tapered ears that are pierced with rows of gold studs along their upper halves. Despite the dusky hardness of her body, Arona's eyes are a brilliant blue, full of more cunning than her battle-forged physique would belie. Her hair is black as sin and naturally thick and shaggy, though it has been shaved down on either side, leaving a hawk of trimmed hair that transitions into a long braid down her back.

Despite her powerful muscles, Arona's femininity is beyond question: a pair of weighty DD-cups breasts sit high on her chest[if [[Companion Sets#Warhides|Warhides]] set:'', only just held back by the tight embrace of her hide-and-leather top, though even with its fur lining, her outfit leaves plenty of enticing cleavage open to your perusal''|else if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:'' beneath her Chieftain's Bronze'']. Her nipples are as black as her lips, broad plates of midnight each pierced with silver bars, keeping them stiff no matter her arousal. Beneath her bountiful amazonian bust is a toned, hard chest and softer belly that shows just a hint of chiseled muscle as it transitions into her flared hips.

Her lower chest is inked with a set of claw-mark tattoos, three sharp savage lines under each breast. Her upper arms are likewise adorned with swirling, softer patterns. A wolf's head bearing a pair of antler-like horns is inked onto her left shoulder, a mark of her clan; the other is patterned with interwoven circles.

Arona's outfit is as eye-catching as its wielder, meant to emphasize the orc's hard-won assets more than to protect her in battle. Her ample chest is supported and contained by a tight wrap of hide and leather, lined with grey fur and held together by a straining bronze clasp suspended between her breasts. It leaves her belly and upper arms completely bare, as if her tattoos and muscle alone are enough to shield her from harm.

[if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:''Her forearms and hands are wrapped in hide gauntlets reinforced with crude metal plates, stained with dried blood and rust. Similar greaves gird her legs, up to the knee, where they once again give way to her thick, muscular thighs and then into a pair of beast-hide breeches that hug her hips snugly. The garment rides up her ass, leaving half of each firm cheek exposed, but the real eye-draw is the thick bulge between her legs. Atop all of that, she wears a great bronze helmet with a feathered plume. Somehow, she's convinced herself all this armor lets her be less defensive in battle...'']

She's carrying an over-sized warhammer slung on her back, looking more like the weapon of an angry storm-god than something a humanoid should be swinging. Yet she handles the massive weapon with ease, making it seem feather-light... until she crashes it into someone with ground-shaking force. A chipped and battered wooden shield complements the grand hammer, bearing the demon-wolf sigil of her clan painted in shades of blood and sable-red.

Arona might have been a full-bodied woman once, if the black-lipped and vice-strong pussy between her legs is any indication, but through some orcish witchcraft, she's become so much more. A pole of dark green cock hangs down from above her twat like an overt challenge to any other would-be man in the room, easily twelve inches long and thick as a halberd's haft. Below that magnificent slab of meat hang a pair of weighty balls, swollen with potent orcish seed and dangling low beneath her cock. The bulk of her nuts all but conceals her feminine sex, as if it's nothing to her now that she can breed like a virile stud.

Opposite that, Arona has a toned, firm behind. Her shallow cheeks conceal a cock-draining asshole, right where it belongs.
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==Interactions==
===During [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====First Encounter====
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The Champion can encounter Arona and her all-female orc warband at the [[Foothills]] '''(North and West)''' when they're at least level 3. Upon encountering Arona, she will state that unlike most raiders who will demand their opponents to surrender, she likes to get warmed up before she'll fuck them.

===Subsequent Encounters===
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Encountering the orcish war-party again will always result in an immediate fight, however, based on Arona's Dominance score, when she locks eyes with the Champion, her gaze will vary; from cool, easy confidence (<= -100) to unabashed, shameless lust (>= 76).

If the Champion had gotten Arona's HP or Resolve below 50% but was defeated, she will remark that it was a good fight and that she's definitely hard after it. If not, she will mock that the Champion came to the Foothills to get pounced on for a good time by some harpies or if they were hoping a big, strong orc babe would come and give them a good beating. The Champion will also be robbed of 11 to 30 EC.

If the Champion is victorious in combat, they will be given the following option:
*'''Interrogate''' - Rather than doing what she'd have done to you, try and get some actual information out of the orcish war-captain. What the hell are they doing all the way out here?`
*'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(Champion knockup chance)
*'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
*'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
**'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
**'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
**'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])

Interrogating Arona will reveal that the tribe is simply in the Marches to loot and pillage, the same as any other orc tribe, but the Champion brings up that half the people in [[Hawkethorne]] couldn't scrape two silvers together and that it's the only real town for miles, unless the Kervus plan on battering down the gates of [[Khor'minos]]. She will simply shrug and state that it's her brother's plan, his rumor, his tribe, and she was perfectly content to kick around and beat down harpies for cocksleeves until the Champion came along. If the Champion has not found the location of the warcamp yet, she will point the Champion to the hills at the north-east.

Once Arona's Dominance score has reached -100 or 100, a new scene will play the next time they encounter her.

====Dominant or Submissive====
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As the Champion continues to fight against Arona and her warband, certain factors will influence her attitude towards the Champion on whether she will act dominant or submissive towards them. This will determine how Arona will treat the Champion and may provide unique options. Note that the score will initially start out at 0 and the score will not change once they hit the upper or lower limit (100 or -100). Note that once Arona is a companion, the Champion can offer Arona a chance to become the dominant one, however, once she is dominant, '''she will not give them the same chance'''.
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=====Dominant Arona=====
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Should Arona be dominant [DomArona] (score of -100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone. She will state that the Champion is quite difficult to track down, however, she's got their scent as she gives them a deep sniff. She remarks that they smell like her cum, which brings her to question if they bathe, but she cuts to the chase by stating that although she might be able to put them over her knee if she wanted, they're still the best fighter she's met since the tribe made landfall. She plans to challenge her brother, [[Argoth]] for control of the tribe, however, he will cheat once she starts winning, so she needs the extra muscle considering she can't trust anyone in the tribe to not fuck her over. The following options are available for the Champion to decide on what to do:
*Sure - That sounds... pretty great. What can you do?
*Hell No - Wait she can't just sign you up for this, you're not her slave... yet.
**Get Off! ''(will result in a fight)
**Sorry! - When she puts it like that... you really don't have much room to maneuver here.

Should the Champion refuse to aid her and attempt to back out, she will attack the Champion, and should they lose, it will result in the [[Bad Ends#Arona's Slave|Arona's Slave Bad End]]. If the Champion wins, Arona will jest about 'where had this side of the Champion been all this time', but states that she still needs their help, although this time as partners. The Champion tells her that they'll think about her deal, causing her to shrug and state that they've earned the right to choose before heading off.

=====Submissive Arona=====
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Should Arona be submissive [SubArona] (score of 100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone, putting a hand up in a sign of peace. She will explain that for once she's not here to fight, that she's met her match, and she loves it, because its given her a new bar to rise to, a new goal to train for till she can beat them. She's here to discuss a mutually beneficial agreement; that [[Hawkethorne]] wants the Kervus gone and that Arona wants to go, however, her brother refuses to move and won't explain himself. She's got it in her mind to challenge her brother for leadership and she needs someone to watch her back when Argoth starts losing. She proposes that if they back her up when she challenges her brother, she'll get the tribe out of the Marches.

====Challenge for Leadership====
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Having gone through the majority of events for [[Right of Conquest]], once they have reached the Orc Pavilion, they will see Arona with [[Hretha]], who's anointing Arona's cheeks and face with war paint as she stands ready to challenge her brother. The Champion will have two options when the two are about to face off:
*Hide&Watch - This is what Arona brought you here for, right: to watch just in case her brother does something fishy?
*Ambush Argoth - Well, this is what Arona brought you here for, right: to jump her brother and make sure she wins?

=====Ambush Argoth=====
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Ambushing Argoth will incur the wrath of the gathered orcs as Argoth declares that his sister plans to assassinate him. Arona will be forced to join the Champion in a battle against the Chief & Goons; consisting of Chief Argoth, the [[Orc Thane]], and an endless wave of orcs. If the Champion loses the fight, it will result in a Bad End in which Argoth will exile his sister and enslave the Champion's party for the Kervus Tribe. Argoth's defeat will end the fight, but because of the Champion's interference, he will remain the warchief and Arona will be exiled for violating ancient tradition. This will greatly anger Arona but she will straighten up and declare that she doesn't need the Kervus. When asked what she'll do now, she asks if there's a tavern in [[Hawkethorne]] because she can't make important decisions sober. The Champion will have the following options on how to respond:
*Nope - There's no tavern in Hawkethorne. She'll have to go somewhere else... and hopefully not come back.
*Yes - There's a great little drinking hole waiting for her. Arona will no doubt be amenable to recruitment after this.

Lying to Arona will have her take a deep breath, say her goodbyes and march off into a dark canyon beneath the shadow of the warcamp, most likely the Champion will never see her again.

Telling her about [[The Frost Hound]] will have her move to the tavern.
:''"Then it's settled! To the Fuck Hound or whatever!"

=====Hide&Watch=====
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Choosing to hide and watch will allow the duel to proceed normally, in which Arona manages to split and snap Argoth's weapon, and send him staggering to his throne. Unwilling to accept his defeat, he will call upon the surrounding warriors to interfere, however, they don't make a move, which causes Argoth to yank a chain that brings [[Benny]], a massive hill troll, into the Orc Pavilion. After being struck by Benny, Arona will call upon the Champion to aid her, to which they may choose to Fight! or Leave. Choosing to leave will result in Benny causing absolute chaos as the orc leadership is demolished, the fates of the orc siblings unknown, but it doesn't matter. Deciding to fight and aid Arona will pit them against Benny and Argoth.

When the Bang Bros have been defeated, the warriors will howl in approval for Arona as their new chieftain. Hretha will inform her sister that she must decide what to do with their brother after having been utterly shamed. For SubArona, she'll offer the Champion a piece of her brother before she exiles him back to the southern islands. Regardless of their decision, a pair of Kervus warriors drag the fallen chieftain out of the pavilion, with Hretha and [[Gerik]] following to chase the fallen chieftain off. With Arona now in power, she'll want to celebrate her victory and new title as chieftain.

===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====Exiled Arona====
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If Arona had gotten exiled from the Kervus and the Champion had told her about [[The Frost Hound]], they can find her at the inn.

Approaching her at the inn for the first time will have them ask how she's handling things, she replies she feels shitty, that she can't believe she fucked up this bad, and she's never gonna see her sister and niece again or until Argoth's killed himself. In the meantime, she'll drink herself into stupor, but an idea comes to mind and she offers that if they need a big battle-hardened bitch to beat somebody down for them, she's their gal.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]].

====Chieftain Arona====
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=====First Visit=====
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Visiting Chieftain Arona for the first time will have her grin as she rhetorically asks that shouldn't the Champion be out fighting a demon or something before the Champion replies that they've come to talk to her.

With SubArona, the Champion will saunter to her, which causes her to squirm for a moment as her breeches tent when the Champion gets close. She will mention that although she is chieftain now, she owes them for putting her ass on the throne, and that if they need help with their quest or a warm place to lay their head and sheathe their cock/fill their pussy at night, then she's their girl. She adds that [[Hretha]] can handle things around the camp while they're off having fun.

With DomArona, the Champion will take a knee before her, which causes her to heft a leg over their shoulder and will later use her knee to yank their face into her musky leather breeches. She says that she's chieftain now and she's starting to set things right in the camp, however, it doesn't need her undivided attention, so they ought to take them with her while they're out fighting so she can sharpen her skills while Hretha can handle that day to day stuff for her, they can handle her dick.

=====Subsequent Visits=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, the Champion will be allowed to enter and leave the [[Kervus Warcamp]] as they see fit. Arona can be found at great pavillion tent where she will be lounging lazily upon her throne with one leg kicked up over an armrest.

Upon visiting Arona, the following events may occur:
*20% chance for:
**'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
**'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(if Orc Guards are not pregnant)
***For DomArona [no option]:
****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
***For SubArona:
****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]]. Note that [no option] implies that the scene will automatically occur when the conditions are satisfied and the Champion will not be provided an option to back out.

=====Chieftain's Bronze=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, she will special order an armor fit for the Kervus' glorious new chieftain. When the Champion has Arona with them, the next time they visit [[Ragnild]] (after her initial meeting scene at the forge), they will find Ragnild fitting Arona's new armor on her which [[Hretha]] claims that it's some of Ragnild's best work.

::''"It's not magic, Arona. Armor exists to give you a last chance to live through blows you fail to deflect, it doesn't make you impervious to them."

::''"Yeah, yeah, I know! I know!"'' the chieftain growls, adjusting her helm. ''"Still, if I end up having to fight this great enemy my brother was howling about, then I want to be prepared! Ain't gonna be parrying demon-magic or mind control; gotta rush in and crush the bitch's skull fast and hard, no holding back. If [name] wants to hide behind my shield, we can talk about that, but for now? I'm going into battle swinging!"

This will unlock Arona's [[Chieftain's Bronze]] companion set.

=====Orc Bodyguards=====
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While Arona is at the warcamp, she has a group of four amazonian bodyguards that remain close to her. As the '''Orc Gangbang''', SubArona will offer her horny bodyguards to the Champion, while DomArona will let her guards have their way with the Champion. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Orc Bodyguards|Orc Bodyguards]] for more details. Note that if the Champion does impregnate the bodyguards, all four of them will become pregnant.

===Companionship===
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At [[The Frost Hound]], Arona can be found doing a variety of things, ranging from arm-wrestling with [[Garret]] when he's available, fruitlessly flirting with [[Brienne]], re-braiding [[Etheryn]]'s hair (if had done a threesome with her), to busily cleaning the bronze face of her shield.

Regardless of where Arona is, the following options are will become available once they approach her:
*Appearance
*Talk - [DomArona:See if your mistress might be willing to talk instead of just fucking you...|SubArona:Swap some words with your beta.]
**Her Homeland - Ask Arona about the islands that her tribe hails from.
**Companions - Ask Arona what she thinks of your friends...
**Her Dick - So what's the story with that dick of hers anyway?
**Her Family - Get Arona's thoughts on her siblings, or any other relations she may have out there.
**Dominance? - After beating Arona over and over in combat in the foothills, she seems to have naturally come to accept you as her "alpha" of sorts, despite her obvious preference to be large and in charge. What's up with that? (SubArona only)
**Challenge Me - Give Arona a chance to try and take back her place as alpha from you. ''(requires '''Dominance?''', had sex with Arona at least once and SubArona)
***Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcishing wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
****Nevermind - Not right now.
*Recruit
*Sex - The big amazon babe is always up for some fun...
**For SubArona:
***Ride Her - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Plow Her Ass - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***Missionary - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***Threesome - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****Cait - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Ride Arona - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****Double Titfuck - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****Etheryn - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the ([[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick). ''(requires recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)

**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****Get Fucked ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Ride Her ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Sex Bone ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance to add to list)
*****Cum Now - You just want release!
*****Titfuck - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****Cait Threesome ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Dual Worship
******Sloppy Seconds - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******Clean Cait - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****Etheryn Threesome ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
*Sleep With
*Throne Fuck - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
**Ride Cock - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
**Fuck Her - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)

Note that ('''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''') occurs when traveling with DomArona whose Resolve is <= 25, when moving through an explorable tile outside of settlements, she will fuck the Champion and includes a knockup chance for champions with a vagina. If [[Cait]] is present in the party, she will join in and make it a threesome.

====Talk====
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=====Her Homeland=====
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On the topic of her homeland, Arona mentions that their islands are off the east coast, past Khor'minos, and although most people call them the northern islands, in orcish, they're called [[The Sailgraves]]. The reason for the name comes from the surrounding reefs that make it impossible for anyone but the natives to sail through. Unlike the elves or humans, the orc tribes don't have empires or take land, they fight fair and square, take a few slaves, some treasure, and then go home. Her home island has a defensive hill covered in rocks and trees, and some room for farming on the coastlands where most of the tribe lives. Arona's kin live in an old fort up on the middle of the hill that was built by her ancestors. The place is pretty cold all year round which makes farming challenging, ''"winters are brutal, summer is cool, and wind's a bitch if you aren't up in the hills"''. There are also:
:''"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Younger gals of the tribe make crowns of 'em, weave 'em into their hair... and boys make a game of snatching 'em off and running. 'Specially to girls they like."

The Champion comments that knowing Arona, she's probably stolen plenty.
:''"Damn right!" she laughs, giving you a lusty grin. "Boys are supposed to just give the flowers back when they get caught. Since I was another girl, though, they had to chase me down and wrestle me for 'em... that's the fun part. Got my first kiss that way, let this big beast of a babe a year or so older'n I was catch me, pin my arms. Crushed her garland but she didn't care at that point, was so fuckin' mad that I was startin' to think she'd rip my tusks out when she leaned down over me. Went for my tongue instead, fished it out with hers. Haha! When I finally got my cock, she was the first orc that got to taste it... in every hole. Shame she didn't come a'raiding with us this year, I'd introduce you. Got an ass so fat she practically bounces right off your lap, but she's near as strong as me. She comes down on your face and your head'd pop like a melon!"

=====Her Dick=====
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On bringing up Arona's favorite topic, the Champion asks what's the story behind it as orcs aren't naturally hermaphrodites. Arona explains that the gods fucked up for not giving them all big ol' cock, that they could have drowned the world in orcish halfbreeds already. When asked if she wishes she'd been born a guy, she howls with laughter and after a long awkward moment, she says that the gods made up for the lack of cock by making her stacked with a great ass and thighs too. However, the problem was that as the chieftain's little sister, she was expected to have kids and that meant a lot of time not fighting while she waddles around the keep. Another problem was that she tends to prefer women, although hard abs and fat cocks have their place, she'd rather have a big pair of tits and a wet juicy quim. Unfortunately, the actual sex of women to women was just alright, but when she was introduced to a strapon, everything changed, but it was hard to cum from, so she wanted something that'd be a part of her. Unfortunately the orcs don't have alchemists, so she competed in a tournament to prove who is the strongest and the toughest where the winner can ask the chieftain and the high shaman for anything. She fought in the tournament fair and square and when she won, marched up to Hretha and told exactly what she wanted, including all the details.
:''"So yeah, that's how I got my cock. Made Hretha pray for it from Lumia, drank a tankard full of a cumshot from every grown man on the island, and the next day I woke up with morning wood pressing into a slave-girl's ass. Ha, she got a hell of a wake-up!

=====Her Family=====
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When asking about her family, there are 4 possible scenes that can play:
*Random Chance for:
**Hretha
**Argoth
**Argoth's Daughter ''(if talked about Argoth from Arona or Hretha)
**Hretha's Relationship with the Champion ''(if has had at least 1 kid with Hretha)

======Hretha======
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On the topic of her sister, Arona describes their relationship as fire and water. She goes on to add that Hretha looks like a chunkier, blinder version of their mother, complete with nagging at all hours anytime she does something Hretha doesn't like. Although Hretha isn't much of a fighter, she can kill with words that can beat them down harder than Arona and her hammer can, although she means well. Hretha only speaks out like that because she cares too much about everyone, and she has no doubt that she'd jump in front of an arrow for Arona, and Arona would do the same for her without hesitation. The two didn't get along as much as they'd like to, although Arona does love her sister and she practically raised Arona when their father died as their mother and Argoth were too busy keeping the tribe from falling apart. If Hretha is pregnant or already had children with the Champion, Arona will warn them that if they hurt her sister, she will cut them in their sleep.

======Argoth======
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On the topic of her brother, Arona will spend a moment collecting her thoughts, although mostly by staring into her drink. She begins by stating that:
:''"My big brother was the best fighter of his generation. Warband leader without equal. When pa died, Argoth stepped up to fill his place even if he was barely big enough to heft the old man's axe. Took command of our tribe's fighters, beat the would-be usurpers into submission, and proved his mettle in ballsy raids all over the Sailgraves. Was a time he was the life of the party, you know, hard drinking and harder fighting, inseparable from his men. Actually looked up to the bastard, I did. Wanted to be just like my big brother..."

Argoth isn't like Arona when it comes to sticking their dicks everywhere they could, he was more like Hretha. He deeply loved his woman but he changed after she got sick and died shortly after childbirth. Her death had broken Argoth as Arona never saw her brother smile again, not even for his kid and years passed where she barely saw him, until Hretha had her prophecy of a great battle. Although he set up the warcamp, the tribe just sat like gargoyles waiting for the end-of-the-world fight 'like a bunch of idiots'. [ExiledArona:The camp had been falling apart and now with Arona gone, there's no one around to keep the amazons busy. Tensions were hot, warriors were restless and supplies were low, all because of Hretha's dream. She hopes that when Argoth find his big war and dies in it, Hretha will allow Arona to come back to the islands.|ChieftArona:Had Arona not challenged Argoth, the camp would have fallen apart, or would have invaded Hawkethorne. When asked if she wished things had turned out differently, she counters by rhetorically asking if she wishes she didn't make her niece an orphan and if she wishes she was never going to see her brother again, but she had to do something.]

======Argoth's Daughter======
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On the topic of Argoth's daughter; [[Aretha]], Arona reassures that even with her father [staying chief, she's pretty much safe/being exiled, if anyone tries anything, they will have to go through Arona]. She's back at the Sailgraves as they can't bring someone that young to a warcamp, even for orcs. Arona continues by stating she's a sweet kid, although she's blind like Hretha, she puts on muscle easily like her and she made Arona teach her how to use a shield and spear. When the Champion notes that they sound pretty close, Arona agrees [ExiledArona: and makes her getting exiled suck all the worse]. Arona was the closest of her family to Aretha's age, and with Argoth 'being all fucked up by his woman dying', it was pretty natural that someone had to teach her how to walk, fight, and live, and despite her blindness, Aretha's a hot-head like her.

======Hretha's Relationship======
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On the topic of the Champion and Hretha having a kid, she's actually quite happy that somebody got to break Hretha's womb and it's by somebody she approves of. The Champion expresses their relief that she's not mad about it, to which Arona asks why would she be. She praises them and she's honestly happy that it wasn't from anyone in the tribe because none of them respected Hretha like Arona and Argoth do, and when the 'demon-hunting bullshit' is over, [SubArona:they can take them both as sister-wives|DomArona:she'll take them back to the islands and the Champion and Hretha can be together, when she's not using them].

=====Dominance?=====
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When asked if it's normal for the orc tribe to naturally come and accept a superior, Arona confirms that's how life has always been in the islands; that it's normal for the strong to rule. The Kervus only rule because they are the strongest, the strongest of the Kervus rules the tribe, and since they've proven themselves stronger than her, she's gotta do what they say. Although she can try and turn the tables, the rule only applies to the Champion. When questioned if they should worry about Arona shiving them in their sleep, she takes offense to it as she explains it's got to be an honorable open challenge.

=====Challenge Me=====
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The thought of challenging the Champion for dominance hadn't come across her mind because of all the demon shit and all that's been going on. Although she loves being the mean alpha bitch, she warns them that if she wins, she's not letting them go again as she's only going to play for keeps, although if the Champion wins, it doesn't change anything as they're already the top. With that, the following options will be available:
*Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcish wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
*Nevermind - Not right now.

======Challenge======
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The challenge, set by the Champion, involves an oiled-up wrestling match for dominance. This makes Arona scoff as she loves the idea, although she's the one who's supposed to be issuing the challenge. When the pair are oiled up and ready, the Champion has the following options:
*Throw the Fight - Let Arona win, and willingly become her submissive. There may be no coming back from this decision.`);
*Fair Fight - Make it a fair fight... and to the best wrestler, victory.

Throwing the Fight results in a default loss as claims her new position by fucking the Champion.

A fair fight involves a bit of RNG as whoever gets the highest number among:
*Arona - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength
*The Champon - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength/Agility (which ever stat is higher)

If Arona wins, like throwing the fight, she will claim her new position by fucking the Champion.

=====Sleep With=====
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The Champion may ask Arona to be their bedmate, regardless if Sub or Dom Arona, so long as they currently don't have an active bedmate.
*For SubArona:
**Random Chance (determines what the Champion will use as a pillow):
***Sleep with Tits ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Belly
***Sleep with Thighs ''(requires gotten fucked by Arona at least once)
*For DomArona:
**Random Chance (determines what Arona will do)
***Sleep with Fuck ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Tired ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Blowjob ''(requires at [[The Frost Hound]] and Champion knockup chance)

Note that each sleep with scene has it's own unique wake up scene.

====[[Orc Lodge]]====
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Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]]
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Upon revisiting/visiting the [[Orc Lodge]] after the events of the [[Right of Conquest]], a trio of orcs present will attempt to pull the Champion into a gangbang. If SubArona, they will have the option to refuse their attempt, knowing full well they have authority over Arona such that the trio need to know their place, however, this option will not be available with DomArona as they don't have authority through Arona.

==Combat==
===Enemy===
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The first time the Champion encounters Arona and her '''Orc Warband''', they will fight her and her warband consisting of:
*2x [[Orc Amazon|Orc Amazons]]
*2x [[Orc Executioner|Orc Executioners]]

Repeat encounters with the warband would consist of:
*50% chance for an [[Orc Amazon]] or [[Orc Executioner]] for each of the 4 members

====Stats====
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|Attack Power: 24 || Spellpower: 21
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|Sexiness: 24 || Temptation: 8
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|Armor: 73 || Physical Resist: 32
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|Warding: 43 || Magic Resist: 13
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|Focus: 32 || Mental Resist: 12
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|Evasion: 29 || Frost Resist: -20
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>
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*Big Breasts
*Big Cocks
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>
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*Small Breasts
*Small Cocks
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*[[Guarded Stance]]
*[[Dominance]]
*[[Cleave]]
*[[Prime Target]]
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<div style="text-align: center;">Drops</div>
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*100 XP
*60 EC
*[[Brazenberry Ale]] ''(100% chance)
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==Companion Sets==
===Warhides===
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|Arona's armor, made from padded boar's hide and heavy boiled leather. Calling it skimpy would probably be far too conservative: her clothes are nothing more than a strap across her black nipples to hold back her heavy tits, a pair of crotch-hugging shorts and loincloth that seem designed from the ground up to emphasize her masculine bulge, and her boots. With one well-timed flex, you're pretty sure Arona could shred most of her outfit on her chiseled muscles — all the better to get her cock out and start fucking at a moment's notice.
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Guarded Stance]]
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|rowspan="3"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2
|rowspan="3"|N/A
|[[Dominance]]
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Prime Target]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Hoplon Shield]] ||'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.0.18
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===Chieftain's Bronze===
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!colspan=7|Chieftain's Bronze
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|rowspan="6"|Visiting [[Ragnild]] with [[Arona]] as Warchief ||rowspan="6"|A suit of bronze armor made by the Kervus' master smith on special order for Arona once she became the tribe's chieftain. This armor is bulky enough to leave Arona free to focus all her efforts on massive two-handed hammer swings, forgoing her shield and any attempt at active defense for a berserker's charge in the vanguard, leading her comrades to victory in her wake!
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|rowspan="5"|'''Chieftain's Bronze
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2 ||rowspan="3"|N/A ||[[Blessing|Inspire Wrath]] ''(Blessing rewrite)
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Thunder Strike]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.10
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===Berserker===
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!colspan=7|Berserker
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|rowspan="6"|Returning to [[The Frost Hound]] and witnessing [[Gwyn]] sparring with Arona ''(requires at least 3 days after Arona's Exile) ||rowspan="6"|In her exile, Arona has picked up an even more ferocious fighting style than before. She's forgone her shield—choosing instead to focus all her strength into her mighty hammer—picked up some tricks from Garth, covered herself with blue warpaint, and honed her rage into a weapon all its own. Seems the orc will be leading the charge in the future.
|rowspan="2"|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|rowspan="2"|'''1 ||rowspan="2"|[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|[[Execute]]
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|rowspan="4"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as Warhides set description)
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Shell Cracker]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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===Spirit Totem===
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|rowspan="7"|Crafted by [[Viviane]] at the end of [[I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost]] ||rowspan="7"|Where once Arona carried her trademark '''Mastbreaker''', she now bears '''The Nightfang''', a great runic axe crafted specifically for spectre slaying by Viviane. Around her shoulders and covering her head is a wolfskin cloak, with the head of the beast functioning as a pseudo-helmet. And a tool for intimidation. It seems she now has a way to properly face her fears.
|'''Nightfang
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Arona's Viviane-crafted greataxe. Made specifically to help her overcome her fear of ghosts, this weapon glows with magic power that guarantees that the orc's swings will cut into any and all ethereal foes she encounters.
|rowspan="7"|[[Agility]] [[Strength]] [[Willpower]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="6"|'''Spirit Totem Warhides
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Largely the same as her typical warhides, Arona now wears her wolfen cloak along with it. Crafted by Viviane and warded against foes from beyond the grave, this outfit's headdress does come at the cost of some of the sexiness her choice of clothing usually provides.
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Holy Shock]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="2'|'''4 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Charge Weapon]]
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|[[Smite Evil]]
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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==Sex==
===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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*In the [[Foothills]]:
**Victory sex options:
***'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
***'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
****'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
****'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
***'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])
**Defeat sex scenes:
***Defeat NTR ''(must have a companion, 20% chance and Arona's HP & Resolve must be >= 80%)
***Defeat Gangbang ''(if: Arona's HP & Resolve must at be >= 50% [33% chance], else: 20% chance) (Arona does not fuck the Champion here)
***Defeat Catch ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
**Through the repeat Pregnancy Encounters:
***'''Accept''' (results in the Champion getting preg fucked)
**The Champion pregnant encounters:
***'''Accept''' ''(for repeat Preg Encounter)
*[[Bad Ends]]:
**[[Bad Ends#The Exile's Slave|The Exile's Slave]] (On failed Arona Dominant confrontation)
*After defeating [[Argoth]] and [[Benny]] through '''Hide&Watch''' (choices available for SubArona):
**'''Throne Blow''' - Give Arona a regal blowjob. (default scene for DomArona)
**'''Ride Cock''' - She shouldn't be the only one riding that throne...
**'''Pound Pussy''' - Take Arona's throne from her and make her sit on your dick. ''(requires a cock)
**'''Frot N Lick''' - Frot with Arona while Cait sucks you both off. ''(requires a cock and [[Cait]])
===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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*Chieftain Arona
**20% chance upon visiting Arona at her throne:
***'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
***'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(Orc Guards not pregnant)
****For DomArona [no option]:
*****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
****For SubArona:
*****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
*****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
**Unique sex option:
***'''Throne Fuck''' - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
***'''Ride Cock''' - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
***'''Fuck Her''' - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)
*Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona:
**For SubArona:
***'''Ride Her''' - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***'''Plow Her Ass''' - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Missionary''' - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Threesome''' - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****'''Cait''' - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Ride Arona''' - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****'''Double Titfuck''' - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****'''Etheryn''' - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the[ [[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick]. ''(requires a cock, recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)
**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****'''Get Fucked''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Ride Her''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Sex Bone''' ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance check)
*****'''Cum Now''' - You just want release!
*****'''Titfuck''' - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****'''Cait Threesome''' ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Dual Worship'''
******'''Sloppy Seconds''' - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******'''Clean Cait''' - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****'''Etheryn Threesome''' ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''' ''(when travelling through explorable non-settlement tiles with Arona at <=25 Resolve, Champion Knockup chance, and if [[Cait]] is present, she will join and make it a threesome)
**Sleep With ''(different scenes for Dom and Sub Arona but will always involve sex before or after sleeping)
**Challenge Me (SubArona only but if she wins, she will fuck the Champion + knockup chance)

===As a [[Companions|Companion]]===
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*As a companion (Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona, and outside Arona's own sex options):
**[[Bad Ends]] ''(only unique non-generic ones placed here):
***[[Den of Foxes]] - [[Bad Ends#Breeding Vessel|Breeding Vessel]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
**[[Centaur Pack]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''DoubleTitJob''' - Grab a breasted companion and blow this stud's mind together. ''(requires non-Flat breasts)
**[[Cultist Evangelist]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''Spitroast''' - This goblin's thick enough that you could probably share her with someone else. Hope you have a friend in mind... ''(requires a cock)
****'''Arona'''
**During [[Etheryn]] Confession:
***'''Give2Arona''' - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry.
**During [[Mad Cow]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]):
***On Brint's heat problem:
****'''Ask Arona''' - Get the orc studbitch to 'help' Brint out of his predicament.
**[[Elthara]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***During Winter City:
****'''DoubleTeam''' - Fuck this priestess to bits with a friend. ''(requires a cock)
*****'''Arona''' - Ask Arona to pound out this elf slut with you.
***'''Sic Companion''' - Send a delegate in your place to make Elthara happy.
****'''Arona''' - Give Arona some room to work and some privacy with Elthara and you suspect that needy elven libido is going to be cleared ''right'' up... for now.
**[[Sleepy Snake]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***After the Champion fucks the snake, [[Cait]], [[Brint]] or Arona may have their fun with the snake
****'''Watch''' - Follow your companion inside and watch them fuck the unsuspecting naga lady.
*****'''Join In''' - Help Arona fuck the placid snakewoman and maybe get some of her for yourself.
******'''Reward''' - Get your reward.
******'''Don't''' - Servicing her is its own reward.
*****'''Don't''' - Remain a bystander.
****'''Don't''' - Wait it out.
**The [[Alraune]]
***'''Arona Fetilize''' - Have your buxom orc take charge and seed the planty milf. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]])

===Pregnancy===
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====As the Orc Warband====
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The Champion can become pregnant through the Defeat Catch and '''Ride''' sex scenes with Arona. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Arona Father|Arona Pregnancy]] for more details.

=====Acknowledge=====
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If the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child and has never seen this scene before, the next time the Champion encounters her and her orc warband will be replaced by this scene.

Upon encounter the Champion again, she will growl at them and plant the head of her hammer on the ground as a challenge, however, when her eyes wander over their belly, her fighting stance relaxes as she realizes they're pregnant. When Arona realizes she's the 'father', she laughs, sets her hammer aside and waves off the rest of her warband. She will saunter over to the Champion and her normal hostility melts away as she places a hand on the Champion's stomach. With a tusky little smile, she says:
::''"Hell, I didn't come to the Marches lookin' something like this, but... but I'm happy. And here my brother said I'd never be a mom. Ha, you really showed him, huh!"

She continues to stroke the Champion's belly with genuine affection and the two have a short moment, before the rest of Arona's amazons start getting impatient as they cat-call their captain. Before she leaves, she takes their shoulder and says:
::''"You just... stay in town, okay? I don't want you gettin' hurt by any of the other patrols. Or anything! Something tries hurting my kid, it's gonna answer to me, you got that!?"

She will then give the Champion a hug and a squeeze on the ass before rejoining her warband as they find someone else to fight.

If Arona's Dominance score is >= 0; +10, if not; -10.

=====Preg Encounter=====
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For repeat encounters with Arona when the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child.

When the Champion is meandering through the hills, they suddenly feel a sudden lurch in their stomach and they struggle to fight back a wave of nausea. Suddenly Arona calls out and approaches them, setting her hammer and shield down. She will gently urge them against a nearby stone, and they are given the following options:
*'''Refuse''' - You don't want to let a sex-fiend barbarian get too intimate with you again. (+10 Dom score)
*'''Accept''' - You'd be happy to see this gentler side of the big amazon. (-10 Dom score)

Refusing her by making it blatantly clear that they're not interested earns them a snort from Arona. She steps back, saying she's not gonna fight someone pregnant with her kid before stalking off into the mountains.

Relenting and accepting the orc's guidance assumes they're going to be set against the rocks, however, they're set right onto Arona's lap instead. The two share a moment as Arona says she's never gotten pregnant before and (if first Arona preg: she's never gotten anyone pregnant either |else: they're still the only one she's gotten pregnant). She affirms that they're beautiful, that she made them into an idol of fertility. The two go on to have pregnant sexing, complete with a parting kiss and a grope on the butt for good measure.

====As a Companion====
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The Champion can become pregnant from '''Ride Her''', '''Throw the Fight''', '''Fair Fight''' (Arona Victory), '''Get Fucked''', '''Wake up Tits''', '''Wake up Fuck''', '''Wake up Tired''', '''Wake up Blowjob''', ''Dommy Mommy'', and '''Arona Takes Her Pleasure'''.

After the events of [[Right of Conquest]] and when the Champion has recruited Arona to their party (does not have to be in current party), when they are about to give birth to Arona's child, like most pregnancies, they will be rushed to [[Gwyn]] at the nursery. While they are in labor, Arona will barge into the nursery and take a knee beside the bed to hold the Champion's hand, stating that she wouldn't miss it for the world. Arona expresses her happiness when she sees their newborn child and she goes to stroke its brow, but she will leave as she suggests the Champion get some rest.

==Dreams==
*[[Dreams#Arona Wrestling Match|Arona Wrestling Match]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) ''(requires a cock and has met Arona)
*[[Dreams#Arona Cumslut Dream|Arona Cumslut Dream]] (Written by [[Author-Savin|Savin]]) ''(Arona Dominance Score < 0)

==Quest Related==
===[[Mad Cow]]===
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To satiate [[Brint]]'s heat, the Champion can deal with it by getting Arona to fuck him.

===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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After learning of the Kervus Tribe's presence in the Marches and the location orc warcamp, the Champion will need to keep sparring with Arona and cement their dominance (or submission) in order to get her help.

==Gallery==
===CGs===
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Throne Blow=[[File:Arona-hafruined-CG-throneblow.png|400px]] Found in '''Throne Blow''' sex scene at the end of [[Right of Conquest]] and the Dom Throne Blow scene when entering the [[Kervus Warcamp#Warchief's Pavilion|Warchief's Pavilion]] when Arona is Dominant
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Annika

2023-01-01T19:49:27Z

Alypia:

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| fullname = Annika Rótudóttir
| nickname = Anni
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| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Paladin
| title = Sister of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] Seneschal of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] ''(after [[The Palace of Light]])''
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| family = Pandellin (Father) [deceased] Róta (Mother) [deceased] Unnamed Sister (Elder Sister) Unnamed Brother (Younger Brother) Unnamed Nieces and Nephews
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. [[Etheryn]] must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with [[Etheryn]] and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.

===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*[[Etheryn]] provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. [[Arona]] steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. [[Azyrran]] and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

2023-01-01T19:47:37Z

Alypia: /* Trivia */

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| creator = [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| fullname = Annika Rótudóttir
| nickname = Anni
| alias =
| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Paladin
| title = Sister of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] Seneschal of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] ''(after [[The Palace of Light]])''
| height = 6'3"
| bustsize = D
| family = Pandellin (Father) [deceased] Róta (Mother) [deceased] Unnamed Sister (Elder Sister) Unnamed Brother (Younger Brother) Unnamed Nieces and Nephews
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| significant other =
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| location = [[Glacial Rift]] (before finishing [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]])
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. [[Etheryn]] must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with [[Etheryn]] and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.

===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*[[Etheryn]] provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. [[Arona]] steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. [[Azyrran]] and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. [[Etheryn]] must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with [[Etheryn]] and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.

===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. [[Etheryn]] must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Sieges

2023-01-01T19:44:46Z

Alypia:

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''"Keep digging that ditch. Once you've finished the ditch, dig another one."'' — Emperor Edivus II to his soldiers, shortly before the siege defense of Marouka
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==Writer Credit==
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*Sieges Codex Entry
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==Codex==
===Description===
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[[The Belharan Empire|The Belharans]] built many walled places around their empire, the remnants of a crash fortification program in the midst of the Godswar. It had mixed results during the war itself, but some of the mighty Belharan mural barriers do still stand around and inside Heartlander cities. Other fortified places remain empty, or have been occupied by bandits in the intervening centuries. For these fortifications, the imperials built monumental stone walls, often using blocks cut and fitted together by magic. Modern cities sometimes add onto the extant Belharan fortifications when necessary, but often let them slowly crumble away (or raid them for stone to build other things). It's not usually engineering knowledge that the builders of today lack, save perhaps a few of the more arcane spells and advanced math, but rather labor and resources. Under such constraints, a quick patch job, a wooden palisade, and a ditch are more than sufficient for most defenders' needs.

Ditches, walls, and other fortifications mean that armies rarely assault fortified places if they can avoid it. Few realms have the sort of resources to sustain a real army, let alone a proper engineering corps for their army to overcome such defenses. However, for those that do, like [[Khor'minos]], attacking a walled fortification usually boils down to building a large berm, or mole, of compacted earth that fills in any ditches in front of a wall and reaches high enough to allow archers and mages to scale the mole and fire down on the defenders of a wall. After they clear the wall, it becomes safe enough for infantry to scale it with ladders and capture it. Of course, if there is anyone in the assaulting army who can fly above the fortifications, the task of clearing the wall becomes much simpler — another reason why [[Lumia|Lumia's]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Sorra|Sorra's]] [[Harpies|harpies]] are highly prized warriors in serious conflicts.

It is known that the ancients sometimes had other means of breaking into cities. They had some siege engines, although those few that survive mostly seem to have been used to clear warriors off of the tops of walls rather than breaking the walls themselves. Magic is also a possibility, but few spells have the sort of concussive power needed to seriously damage stone, brick, or earth fortifications. There are also literary references to undermining walls with tunnels so that they collapse, but in the modern era, few can manage such a feat save the myrmarcs of southern Belhar and the Minoans… and these masters of engineering do not share their secrets lightly.

Defenders, of course, have their own countermeasures. They can generally collect more food than their besiegers can, and have the advantage of fortifications to base their fight around. It may take quite a long time for an attacking army to even reach the main walls of a city, let alone overcome them and breach them, and they will be subject to sallying raids by the defenders at every step. The defenders have, in fact, so many advantages that apart from the valkyries and harpies and the legendary engineering prowess of Khor'minos, few in Savarra can reliably assault well-defended stone fortifications. As a result, most such places, if they fall at all, fall to treachery or sneak attacks, or simply negotiate terms with their attackers to avoid the hassle of a siege. A successful propaganda program can be critical to making the last solution viable; the Minoans, for example, often host envoys from foreign powers in chambers decorated with reliefs of the legions assaulting cities, an unsubtle reminder of what they can do better than most.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Entering [[Khor'minos]] or discussing "Flight" with [[Annika]] will award the Sieges Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The quotation and a Silly Mode reference in the text itself both unsubtly refer to the classical historian Roel Konijnendijk's series of YouTube videos for ''Insider''.
*The codex entry describes a state of siege warfare immediately preceding the so-called golden age of sieges, which began in the historical Hellenistic era and saw a vast proliferation of besieging techniques and devices like the remarkable creations of Archimedes of Syrakousai and the infamous ''Helepolis'' of Demetrios Poliorketes.

[[Category:History]]

Past Jassira

2023-01-01T19:44:25Z

Alypia:

<blockquote>
''"But what is most incredible of all is that in journeying beyond these mountains, they arrived very near to the surface of the Moon, a shining land ruled by [[Tira]] herself, and saw many things which must be supposed by others to be exaggerated inventions."'' — The Wonders Beyond the Sands, composed many centuries before the Godswar by an unknown Belharan author
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==Writer Credit==
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar]] conquered most of the world before the outbreak of the Godswar. It sent fleets and armies to strange lands that had seemed mystical and mysterious to those who lived in the Heartlands, and although its rule over some of them, like [[Jassira]] and [[Tronarii]], lasted long enough for them to remain integrated into the Belharan world system even after the empire dissolved, others remain nearly as mysterious as they were before the Belharan invasion… if not more so.

Even the croc-folk and anubians who ply the inland rivers and deserts of Jassira cannot manage to cross the vast sea of dunes that stretches beyond the sultanate's borders. No oases can be found, no safe route devised, no caravans organized to try to reach whatever lies beyond — if anything does. Yet, from time to time, in the suqs of Crocodopolis and the open-air markets of the sultana's mountainous province of Arkacia, blue stones of tremendous beauty and worth appear for sale, sometimes in well-crafted jewelry and sometimes in the raw, with flecks of gold shining out from their oceanic depths. Such stones work better than nearly any other as magical catalysts, and with this use and its beautiful deep-blue coloration in mind, the Jassirans named them azul. Their name has stuck. Belharan geographers knew nothing of whence it came, but hypothesized a "foreign land" and named it, with no sense of irony, Xenaspa. This was the land beyond the desert, and legends of it grew with every fresh sample of azul jewelry that mysteriously appeared.

Only in the era of Belharan conquest did people learn some of the truth behind the stories of Xenaspa. Beyond the sands there truly were populous, wealthy realms, though the deserts and mountains between them and Jassira were so imposing that the Belharans only found them by sailing around the mountains entirely, through treacherous waters and against difficult currents, aided by powerful magics. Most of the details of the lands they found are lost, but what is known is that the lockstep legions triumphed in many battles over the peoples who lived there in "the land of a thousand cities" — some of which were of the races that remain familiar to Belharans from their home continent, and others of decidedly new ones. When it was done, they had conquered a vast new imperial province bearing the name Xenaspa after the legendary realm. Heartlanders came to live there to govern and garrison it, intensify cultivation, extract what wealth came from it, and bring a flavor of imperial culture and religion; by all appearances, within a century Xenaspa was a relatively stable and well-integrated part of the imperial realm, even if all travel remained by sea and magical portal.

When the darkness of the Godswar descended, the lands beyond the desert vanished from history. Some Xenaspan imperial subjects — liontaurs in particular, as they were prized by the Belharan army and often became generals in its ranks — had come to live in the Heartlands and retained some of their ancestral memories, so their original homeland wasn't seen as a wholly mythical place. But all contact was lost, and it could not be regained. Even the flow of azul stopped for well over a century. One cannot know what transpired in the former province while the rest of the empire convulsed with apocalyptic destruction, though there were rumors of great battles waged between warlords vying for power on the edges of the desert.

The only people who have managed to travel there since are the mighty-winged [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who are sworn to answer prayers to Lumia all over the world and have the endurance to soar even over the trackless Jassiran desert. Their global journeys are infrequent and cloaked in legend, and they are not exactly ethnographers, so many of the stories that they do tell must be taken with a large grain of salt. But in the lands beyond the desert, at least, a Heartlander can correlate their often-tall tales with what little is known from Belharan history and determine that there are now several successor realms to the old imperial province. One, Ariana, is ruled by a native dynasty of [[Harpies|harpy-queens]] reduced to governors during the Belharan conquest but once again proudly independent; another, which still claims the name Xenaspa, has elven rulers. Both appear to be peopled by the same mix of Heartland-descended and indigenous folk that they were in imperial times, and both count an almost-intelligible variant of Belharan among the many tongues that they speak.

According to the valkyries, the azul that has once again appeared in Arkacian markets is indeed originally from Xenaspa. The dust elves and myrmarcs that dwell there create mines to rival any in Khor'minos, extracting not merely azul but all manner of precious metals and building-stones. With the bounty of the earth, both stone and metal, they create great, well-engineered cities — albeit on the surface, rather than underground. While they cannot trade in any great amount with Jassira, they can trade in great volumes with the other places on the far side of the deserts and mountains. Their fabulous trade-wealth and well-irrigated river valleys feed a large population, a court of [[Nareva|Narevan]] snake-like scholars, and a thoroughly-drilled military that still holds memories of making war like the Belharans of old. As for Ariana, it is nearly as wealthy and populous, but its greatest tradition is as the womb of heroes. Arianan legends tell of lone warriors journeying into the mountains to tame the great birds that dwell there and ally with them to vanquish darkness. Their warriors are equal in pride and prowess to any Yvennese, and many are just-as-devout worshipers of [[Lumia]], lady of fire and sun. Some have apparently even joined the valkyrie order itself.

Ariana and Xenaspa, despite still being shrouded in myth, are only the nearest of the lands that lie beyond the great desert. The tales the valkyries tell of them mostly tally with what we can reasonably verify. But as the valkyries' stories get further from Ariana and Xenaspa, the tales get taller. What lies beyond them are places without names, known mostly by the fact that their traders once ventured (and, according to the valkyries, still do) into Xenaspan markets selling wares that seem as fabulous as azul: exotic spices that lend food any taste one can imagine, horses with tremendous endurance and undying loyalty to their riders, corals even more elaborate than the ones in the seas between Jassira and the Heartlands, and clothes that are somehow light and strong at the same time and dyed with a riot of beautiful color.

As ever, one of the first hints of lands beyond the horizon is trade. These things must come from somewhere, and perhaps someday the intrepid traders and explorers of the Heartlands will be able to journey to their source. Perhaps they will even journey beyond the lands that Old Belhar knew.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Travel" with [[Annika]] or "Fun?" with [[Serena]] will award the Past Jassira Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*''The Wonders Beyond the Sands'' is a reference to the classical romance by Antonios Diogenes, ''The Wonders Beyond Thule''.
*Crocodopolis - Krokodeilopolis - was a polis in Greek Egypt located in the Fayyum, so named because of the cult center of the god Sobek.
*Azul is essentially ''lapis lazuli''.

[[Category:History]]

Nature of Battle

2023-01-01T19:44:08Z

Alypia:

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''"You wicked children! How dare you? Sinning against your mothers and fathers, who conquered the world?"'' — Antigone, general of the veteran Belharan Silver Shields, haranguing the opposing army shortly before winning the Battle of Amoltos
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==Writer Credit==
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Even in the war-torn Heartlands, set-piece battles with large armies after the fashion of the Godswar, the [[Tronarii]] conflicts, or the Khushkan war are relatively uncommon. Most combat is the result of smaller-scale engagements: raids, ambushes, banditry. No matter what kind of fighting one is doing, though, it usually takes up relatively little of a warrior's daily experience. A soldier in a mass army on campaign spends most of their time marching, making camp, or standing guard; one who spends their months clearing out bandits or the Wraith-touched still takes more time to search for their foes than to battle them. For their own part, raiders and bandits usually try to avoid fighting whenever possible, because it's bad business. In all circumstances, combat is a small, even tiny, amount of terror, shock, and death amidst a broader reality of grinding drudgery.

Ambushes, skirmishes, and raids, the most common forms of combat, often involve little straight-up fighting at all — and a great deal of killing or subduing enemies through surprise. Set-piece fights with large armies are different. Thanks to the existence of shields and body armor and to the tightly packed nature of many formations, most set-piece battles result in very few casualties - at least, during the battles themselves. The two opposing forces maneuver against each other, sometimes clashing and jabbing away with their spears before separating again to lick their wounds and recover their strength, but few fighters die in the face-to-face melee. What truly determines who wins a battle is morale. As soon as enough warriors on one side take enough counsel of their fear to want to run away, that side starts to retreat whether the general wants to do so or not… and that, not the main clash of spear against spear, is usually when the slaughter begins. Unable to remain in formation, a fleeing foe is easy prey for the opposing side.

As a result, the thing that generals and soldiers alike care most about is warding off terror. A mark of a truly well-trained warrior, such as a paladin of one of the divine military orders, is being able to join battle silently, without needing to pause to psychologically prepare for the clash of spears and shields. Most warriors cannot do this, and need to remind themselves that they are part of a larger whole, alongside sisters and brothers fighting for the same purpose. They sing songs to lighten their mood and subsume their own emotions into a pounding beat or a warrior’s chant. Many such pieces were originally composed by [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who don't need to sing them for their own good but who often lead larger allied armies of the less-professional both in battle and in music. Lest anyone get the impression that valkyries are always prim and proper, [[Lumia|Lumia's]] sun warriors, who've often fought in the ranks before joining the Order of the Argent Wing, are as likely to teach their allies grimly comic or raunchy joke songs as they are hymns or wistful ballads. Anything to keep nervous allied warriors in the line alongside their comrades.

This also means, though, that warriors take whatever opportunity they can to frighten their enemy. Shining, well-maintained armor and shields, gleaming weapons, a display of magical power, a host of physically unusual allies like centaurs, the gleam of valkyries' wings, a magically-amplified battle cry or grim warning from the opposing general: all can make an warrior rethink the likely outcome of a clash with such dangerous foes. Some mages even possess powers of mind to directly attack the willpower of the soldiers fighting them. It is possible, however, to take this too far, and go beyond cleverness into military uselessness. Some small professional forces have tried to demonstrate complicated formations and maneuvers as a sign of how well-drilled they are, which can frighten a less-talented foe, but if their opponents simply keep their heads and attack, the resulting confusion usually results in the collapse of the 'well-drilled' army's formation.

When battle is joined, it is usually for a purpose. The most obvious one is material. Just as bandits attack lone travelers to take their possessions, so too do great armies fight each other for spoils. After all, the entourage of [[Evelyn|an aristocrat from, say, Yvennes]] contains a great deal of plunder: the large assortment of expensive bronze weapons and gear, the food, the slaves and servants brought along with the army, the camp followers and families that can be enslaved or ransomed by the winning side, and of course plenty of [[Currency|the ubiquitous electrum coins]]. Because of this, even a dangerously well-armed aristocrat's entourage is a better target than a poor village. Looting is not merely an activity for after the battle, either. When a well-equipped warrior falls, the fighting will refocus on their body as wealthy and poor combatants alike try to seize it and strip it of its valuables. And if there are any prisoners after a battle, they are invariably ransomed or enslaved — usually the latter.

One thing does often alleviate casualties, and has become somewhat more common since the Godswar: rather than face slaughter or maiming in the pursuit after a lost battle, many defeated foes are willing (or downright excited) to offer up their bodies in exchange for their lives. As far as the undisciplined and brutish are concerned, a foe in one's power is better used for baser purposes anyway, and besides, killing is usually a worst-choice in the lean years following the apocalypse. The [[Orcs|orcs]] of the Sailgraves are the most notorious practitioners of this right of conquest, but even if otherwise uncommon, the possibility of less-than-lethal combat ending with sexual gratification and either an assertion of dominance or enslavement is at least known and understood by anyone in Savarra who takes part in battle — when it is not the explicit reason for battle, which it may well be.

Not all combat is about loot or lust, of course. There are battles of conquest, fought to seize territory and subjects, which were uncommon in the immediate aftermath of the Godswar but now occur more and more frequently as the Heartlands' wealth in productive land and people grows. There are battles fought against the Wraith-touched, to defend lives against the soulless monsters that continue to lurk in the shadows. Finally, of course, there are battles between groups of the living who fight simply because they hate each other, where plunder and even conquest are secondary conditions.

Plunder, honor, hunger, hatred, justice, fame: all are good enough to get ordinary soldiers to march into battle. But once they're in the thick of the fighting, things become different, and men and women seize on different reasons to avoid running away from the spear-points in front of them. More than a few stand fast for the sake of those next to them, to avoid letting them down. Others, especially in mass armies, fight because they have little choice, because the densely packed infantry formations box them in and make flight impossible. Last, but not least, there are those rare professionals whose greatest bulwark against terror is that they have simply been doing this for a long time, they are good at it, and they have a pride of craft and skill that keeps them from fleeing like woodcocks.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Nature of Battle Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in this codex entry.
**The quote of "Antigone" is directly taken from a line said by the general Antigenes at the historical Battle of Gabiene. Antigenes also commanded a unit of Silver Shields (or ''Argyraspides'').
**The Silly Mode reference to the Lakedaimonians at Leuktra is a comment on the usefulness of classical drill. Although there is little scholarly consensus on what actually took place at the Battle of Leuktra, one interpretation was that the well-drilled Lakedaimonians (or Spartans, as they are more well known) were attempting a complex formation when they were destroyed by the Boiotians.
**Even out of Silly Mode, the commentary on overly complex formations also refers to the practice by classical Chinese armies of supposedly (there is some dispute over whether it would have ever been possible to do this) creating absurdly complicated, almost artistic battle formations with zero utility in actual combat, like the infamous Eight Gates Formation made famous by the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. The reason for the practice is somewhat unclear, but one hypothesis is the one advanced in the codex entry: making complicated formations would confuse and overawe enemies who were not as well trained.
**The incentives for battle are adapted from an argument made by Guy Halsall in ''Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West''.
*Amoltos is one of the cities of Xenaspa.

[[Category:History]]

Culture of War

2023-01-01T19:43:57Z

Alypia:

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''"Among warriors with no access to the proper ceremonies, the rituals for [[Sorra|Sorra's]] blessing of storms in battle are these: first and most efficacious, chanting the lay of Heaven's Air; second, offering a willow wreath or a [[Leananstone|leananstone]] to a well, or to the sea; third, chasing dogs while asking the sky for rain; last, shouting angrily and throwing a javelin at the sky."'' — Enno, Taelian priest of Sorra
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar's]] lockstep legions marched around the world winning victory after victory under monarchs and generals like Sanna Rutiliana, Edivus II, and Michael Melissenos, but Belharan aristocratic society also valorized leisure; a noble who had profited enough to allow himself or herself to avoid having to work had time for politics or the opportunity to dabble in civic, magical, or scientific pursuits, after all. In this era, though, warriors are at the top of the social hierarchy in nearly every culture that exists amid the wreckage of the empire, and it's not merely because of their wealth and power. Heartlander aristocrats have their position because of their military bona fides earned by protecting the city or the realm from foreign threats. So do the untitled wealthy whom the city-states of the south elect as generals over their citizen militia. For their part, tribal warriors like those of the Sailgraves [[Orcs|orcs]] are the ones who bring plunder and slaves from the mainland back to their windswept isles, making a difference between subsistence and a semblance of prosperity… at least for those selfsame warriors. Being a warrior is key to the identity of the 'powerful' in much of the post-imperial world. Perhaps only in [[Khor’minos]] and some of the great independent cities like [[Sheepfolk|Barania]] and Marouka is there a semblance of the old Belharan sense of noble leisure used for the benefit of everyone else.

Those warrior-aristocrats and champions who possess literary or musical ability usually write about their way of life, and those with money pay for the same from the troubadours and bards of Savarra’s byways. Elite culture, however, is not the only place for tales of war and songs of battle. The poor hear them (and sing them) as well. To be sure, a peasant’s viewpoint often (fairly) depicts warriors as the rapacious thugs who enslave children, ravish families, steal crops and livestock, or just casually murder people. But some figures of song like Goar, a tragic hero of the Khushkan war, have more positive depictions among ordinary Savarrans. And, of course, [[Lumia|Lumia’s]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Nareva|Nareva’s]] [[Order Astrida|Astrida]], and paladins of every deity are almost universally admired in both aristocratic and peasant culture for both military prowess and saving the innocent regardless of wealth or station.

These stories and songs circulate as more or less common currency throughout the lands that once lived under imperial rule. From [[Tronarii]] to [[Tychris]], it is reasonable to say that the post-imperial peoples all have shared expectations of what warfare is like. Warriors bound together not just by a common tongue and [[The Seven|common religion]] (even if one god or another of the Seven happens to predominate in a given land) but by common experiences (especially for mercenary companies, which can operate in lands very far afield) tend to have similar views about what is acceptable in war. This does not mean that battle is the same for the mountaineers of Zhenna as it is for the urban militia of Taelia or the woodsmen and wyld elves of Sartanni, but it can mean that all of those groups would have similar understandings of what constitutes an acceptable target in the eyes of their peoples and their gods.

All of the Seven are, in some form or another, deities of war. Generals might pray to [[Nareva]] or [[Keros]] when employing clever stratagems, to [[Mallach]] for soldierly unity and comradeship, to [[Sorra]] for favorable weather, or to [[Velun]] when seeking a wild battle frenzy. [[Lumia]], of course, is the patron goddess of just war: defending against attackers, or bringing fire and sword down upon the truly wicked. But [[Tira]] perhaps embodies the spirit of warriors best, for she is not merely the goddess of battle and death but the goddess of chance and fate. Everyone who bears arms in Savarra knows that war is the province of uncertainty, that the results of most battles amount to a roll of the dice (or, by common metaphor, Tira’s bones). In such circumstances, who better to have on one’s side than the goddess who decrees mortals’ allotted time?
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Culture of War Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The ritual described in the codex quotation is adapted from the practices of Mongolian shamans. The major adaptation is that the Mongolians throw poo into the air rather than a javelin.
*Rutiliana and Melissenos are names adapted from Roman history: the Western Empire generated the former family and the Eastern Empire generated the latter.

[[Category:History]]

Arms & Tactics

2023-01-01T19:43:40Z

Alypia:

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''"Audacious? Certainly. Reckless? Perhaps. But I say to you now, to be more cautious would embrace certain defeat. Take refuge in our audacity. They expect us to demonstrate in front of our camp, not attack."'' — Michael Melissenos, Belharan general, shortly before the Battle of Satricum

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In every society around the world, warriors fight in different ways, and those ways are dependent on the society that produces them and the arms and armor available to them. Weapons and protection are the tools of the trade, and tactics the method.

Bronze weapons and gear remain the favored choice of all those who can afford them, but thanks to the labor (and rare tin ore) that goes into making military-worthy bronze, they are uncommon outside the warrior elite. In fact, their price forces even aristocrats into economies. When wearing body armor, many warriors concentrate their bronze around their vitals and cover much of the rest with thick textiles, such as laminated linen or layered wool. Similarly, the trusty bronze spear is usually the weapon of choice, not least because it requires less bronze than does a larger war-axe or sword; it may be complemented by a bronze dagger or hand axe as a sidearm. Anyone who uses more bronze than that is truly a wealthy individual. Many cannot even muster that much bronze, and are forced to use weapons of relatively soft iron, sharpened wood, or stone.

Infantry remains the core of most fighting forces, with obvious exceptions like pastoral herding tribes (who favor horseback) or [[Centaurs|centaurs]] (who must rely on allies or subjects if they want to field infantry). Usually, the most experienced warriors will be those who have the training to accurately employ ranged weapons like javelins, arrows, and especially magic, although a few veteran champions choose instead to make themselves well-armed and -armored enough to anchor a battle line often composed primarily of those less well-equipped. Combat generally begins with an exchange of missiles and, if applicable, magic, followed eventually by a clash of battle lines when the missiles are exhausted or when one side or the other can no longer stand the onslaught of arrows, javelins, and sling bullets.

Centuries ago, [[The Belharan Empire|Belharan]] notables preferred chariotry to slogging around on foot; chariots allowed great warriors to ride into battle quickly, or to stay mobile as they flung javelins or loosed arrows at the foe. Contact with centaur tribes and the gradual submission of the great herds changed this, as did the breeding of horses both large and small to carry single riders. Nowadays, despite Belhar's fall, chariots remain popular as ceremonial vehicles and in combat on relatively flat lands, but cavalry and centaury are becoming more and more prevalent for military purposes. [[Lieutenant Jen|Horse-riding bipeds]] and centaurs, usually in the same tribes, now dominate the great steppelands, herding stock and clashing over pasturage. It is these tribes that have begun to trade cavalry horses and camels as far afield as [[Tronarii]], Yvennes, Gaba, and [[Jassira]], all of which have begun to mount warriors of their own on them. Bipeds who ride horses often arm themselves with bows, javelins, or light spears to harass slower-moving infantry. Centaurs, however, remain the most prized hoof-warriors for would-be potentates, and the few taurs that deign to serve outside their tribe or herd [[Alante|often achieve positions of great military prominence]]. There are even small populations of other taur groups in the Heartlands, descendants of immigrants from long-lost lands once ruled by Old Belhar. Some are humpbacked and well-adapted to waterless places, others ferocious and strong with the fur and tails of lionesses.

Battlemages are prized additions to any military force because of how few people (let alone warriors) have special magical education beyond a few casual cantrips — and because magic can have an outsize effect on any battlefield. The most favored large formation for infantry packs them together in large, fairly-dense blocks to keep soldiers from running away, but a well-placed concussive blast or chain lightning spell can tear the heart out of any such battle line. Since many infantry formations are effectively useless if they need to disperse, this means that in order for their own foot soldiers to stay together, battlemages spend as much of their time warding magic away from their own allies as they do casting offensive magic against the enemy. Because of this disproportionate effect in combat and their necessary separation from the rank and file — one cannot see where to cast spells if one is packed into the ranks with everyone else — battlemages often rise to command mercenary companies or achieve high rank in formal militaries. The fact that many of the military orders of the Seven are primarily composed of magic-wielding warriors (even if magic is not necessarily their strongest suit) is one of the things that makes them so impressive on the battlefield.

Difficulties of command and control inhibit easy maneuver on the battlefield. Flank attacks, ambushes, feigned retreats, and the like are sometimes employed by large armies at the beginning of a fight according to a pre-agreed plan, especially if they contain well-trained troops, but complex evolutions in the midst of battle are usually beyond the abilities of large armies. In smaller groups — for example, warbands — shouted voices make complex orders and tactics much more viable. For larger armies, once fighting is joined, there is often little for a commander to do but hope their army is victorious; they cannot command beyond shouting range of their own voice, and they can rarely disengage their forces from a melee once committed. Often, then, the best thing for a commander to do is simply plunge into the fighting themselves, or to place themselves with one of the few groups that can take new orders mid-fighting: cavalry, chariotry, missile infantry, battlemages, or flying forces like [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Harpies|harpies]].
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Valkyries" with [[Annika]] or encountering [[Lieutenant Jen]] will award the Arms and Tactics Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in the codex entry.
**"Melissenos" is, like many Belharan surnames, the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family.
**The transition from chariotry to horseback cavalry is an aspect of the historical late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Many of the other particulars of warfare are adapted from classical history.
**In Silly Mode, "warband" is given a specific numerical qualification, based on the definition in the Laws of Ine of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon legal code from the seventh century preserved in the legislation of Aelfraed the Great.
*The Silly Mode version of the codex entry jokes about how many weapons and armor pieces in the game are there simply for Rule of Cool purposes and not because they make any sense given the time period, technology, etc.

[[Category:History]]

Armies & Warriors

2023-01-01T19:43:28Z

Alypia:

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''"A good king may rely on his Friends and his Friends' warriors. Foreign warriors are the tool of a tyrant."'' — Lady Kalypso of [[Tychris]]
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[[The Belharan Empire|Belhar]] survived the Godswar — barely. Its society and unity were shattered, divided under the rule of disparate potentates and city-states. Its [[Currency|economy]] was wrecked, capable of little production let alone long-distance trade. Many of the people who had worked on the land were dead, leaving agricultural production at terrifyingly low levels. Those that remained had their hands full feeding themselves, let alone producing enough food to allow others to live in cities (or, indeed, military camps) without farming their own food. These were the things that ended the era of the great lockstep legions, not stupidity or obscurantism. The people who lived in the Empire did not forget how to make complex war on a large scale; they simply lacked the resources to do so. Individual cities or warlords could not muster the vast professional armies that the united imperials had been able to, and given their losses, even if the Empire had still been united, the imperials would not have been able to do so, either.

What was left was societies that only contained very small groups of people that had the resources to maintain the ability to fight, let alone spend all of their time on it in ways sufficient to become good at it. Only the wealthiest of elites could finance training, armor, and good weapons. This meant that those whom historians often call 'the powerful' were the ones who did most of the fighting. In this they would usually be accompanied by small groups of trained and experienced retainers, albeit usually of lesser military quality; only very rarely would larger groups of people leave their land, flocks, fish, or towns to take up arms as untrained levies. Sometimes the 'powerful' fought for a particular ruler or city; other times, they would turn [[Marked Merk Mercenaries|mercenary]], crossing boundaries to battle for whomever they pleased if price and land were right. Whether they inherited it from [[The Baroness|aristocratic Belharan parents]] or [[Lyla|took it by force in battle]], they were the ones who controlled most of what little wealth existed in the lean years following the apocalypse, and thus most of the modern noble houses count them as ancestors.

Ironically, the slowly growing prosperity of the last century has upset this state of affairs. Now, many realms and city-states have the resources and population to build larger armies… and, less happily, there’s enough food in most parts of the world to sustain larger groups of bandits preying on farmers, shepherds, and fishers. City-states field forces of citizen militia who arm themselves out of their personal wealth; princes and princesses can call on their "friends", warriors of note with their own groups of retainers. Mighty [[Khor'minos]] has even gone a long way toward recreating Old Belhar's lockstep legions, as has Taelia on a somewhat smaller scale. And with more food and wealth in abundance, mercenary companies have emerged, especially in the Heartlands and [[Tronarii]].

Mercenaries in particular bear mention as a fungible quantity. A mercenary company (and they are almost always organized in companies; a single warrior without a support network of some kind is essentially useless and usually dead) can move from war to war in the Heartlands more or less seamlessly, provided its leaders, who are usually aristocracy or of the untitled wealthy, survive as a nucleus around which to recruit fresh warriors. But while they may seem common now compared to several years ago, there are still not all that many compared to the days of yore. Growing prosperity is one thing, but it will be many decades, if not centuries, before there is enough food to feed large groups of warriors who do not cultivate their own crops. As a result, even the largest mercenary companies tend to keep barely a hundred or so spears in their establishment. More than that they cannot pay. Well do the Heartlanders remember the tragedies that resulted when the Khushkan entrepreneurs hired on more warriors than they could pay or feed — a whirlwind march of conquest in a desperate effort to keep their forces together, and then, when they faced defeat, a turn to dark powers that nearly turned tragedy into apocalypse.

As ever, the best-trained and -equipped warriors remain the small groups of paladins and champions that comprise the military orders of the Seven. (In fact, the very word paladin exists because the greatest founding members of the divine military orders came from the Belharan palace bodyguards, or palatini. The Lumian Warriors of White trace their lineage directly to the imperial Candidati, an elite formation of palatine soldiers set apart because they wore white robes with their armor.) After the Godswar, many temporal leaders quibbled about these divine warriors, who for the most part remained outside their direct control. But despite some friction, no one seriously considered eliminating the organizations that had saved civilization, and both nobles and ordinary people continued to donate to the gods and sacrifice to them, supplying the resources that enabled the military orders to continue to do their work. The [[Order Astrida|Astrida]] continued to keep dangerous portals closed, the [[Valkyries|valkyries]] continued to fight their long twilight war against the remnants of the Wraith-touched, the [[Leofric|Tiran paladins]] continued to destroy undead, and so on. Thanks to this, all of them, both godsworn and more mortal paladins, have more experience and more training than almost any other warriors in the known world.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "War Stories" or "Philosophy" with [[Annika]] will award the Armies and Warriors Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*"Friends" in the codex entry is an allusion to ''philoi'', a term ancient Greek monarchs like Alexander the Great used to describe their aristocratic retainers.
*The ''Candidati'' were a historical military formation in the Roman Empire.
*The reference to "the powerful" is an allusion to the debate in Byzantine historiography about the so-called ''dynatoi'', and the silly mode version of the codex entry specifically refers to the work of the historian George Ostrogorsky on the subject.

[[Category:History]]

Sieges

2023-01-01T19:42:42Z

Alypia:

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''"Keep digging that ditch. Once you've finished the ditch, dig another one."'' -Emperor Edivus II to his soldiers, shortly before the siege defense of Marouka
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[[The Belharan Empire|The Belharans]] built many walled places around their empire, the remnants of a crash fortification program in the midst of the Godswar. It had mixed results during the war itself, but some of the mighty Belharan mural barriers do still stand around and inside Heartlander cities. Other fortified places remain empty, or have been occupied by bandits in the intervening centuries. For these fortifications, the imperials built monumental stone walls, often using blocks cut and fitted together by magic. Modern cities sometimes add onto the extant Belharan fortifications when necessary, but often let them slowly crumble away (or raid them for stone to build other things). It's not usually engineering knowledge that the builders of today lack, save perhaps a few of the more arcane spells and advanced math, but rather labor and resources. Under such constraints, a quick patch job, a wooden palisade, and a ditch are more than sufficient for most defenders' needs.

Ditches, walls, and other fortifications mean that armies rarely assault fortified places if they can avoid it. Few realms have the sort of resources to sustain a real army, let alone a proper engineering corps for their army to overcome such defenses. However, for those that do, like [[Khor'minos]], attacking a walled fortification usually boils down to building a large berm, or mole, of compacted earth that fills in any ditches in front of a wall and reaches high enough to allow archers and mages to scale the mole and fire down on the defenders of a wall. After they clear the wall, it becomes safe enough for infantry to scale it with ladders and capture it. Of course, if there is anyone in the assaulting army who can fly above the fortifications, the task of clearing the wall becomes much simpler — another reason why [[Lumia|Lumia's]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Sorra|Sorra's]] [[Harpies|harpies]] are highly prized warriors in serious conflicts.

It is known that the ancients sometimes had other means of breaking into cities. They had some siege engines, although those few that survive mostly seem to have been used to clear warriors off of the tops of walls rather than breaking the walls themselves. Magic is also a possibility, but few spells have the sort of concussive power needed to seriously damage stone, brick, or earth fortifications. There are also literary references to undermining walls with tunnels so that they collapse, but in the modern era, few can manage such a feat save the myrmarcs of southern Belhar and the Minoans… and these masters of engineering do not share their secrets lightly.

Defenders, of course, have their own countermeasures. They can generally collect more food than their besiegers can, and have the advantage of fortifications to base their fight around. It may take quite a long time for an attacking army to even reach the main walls of a city, let alone overcome them and breach them, and they will be subject to sallying raids by the defenders at every step. The defenders have, in fact, so many advantages that apart from the valkyries and harpies and the legendary engineering prowess of Khor'minos, few in Savarra can reliably assault well-defended stone fortifications. As a result, most such places, if they fall at all, fall to treachery or sneak attacks, or simply negotiate terms with their attackers to avoid the hassle of a siege. A successful propaganda program can be critical to making the last solution viable; the Minoans, for example, often host envoys from foreign powers in chambers decorated with reliefs of the legions assaulting cities, an unsubtle reminder of what they can do better than most.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Entering [[Khor'minos]] or discussing "Flight" with [[Annika]] will award the Sieges Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The quotation and a Silly Mode reference in the text itself both unsubtly refer to the classical historian Roel Konijnendijk's series of YouTube videos for ''Insider''.
*The codex entry describes a state of siege warfare immediately preceding the so-called golden age of sieges, which began in the historical Hellenistic era and saw a vast proliferation of besieging techniques and devices like the remarkable creations of Archimedes of Syrakousai and the infamous ''Helepolis'' of Demetrios Poliorketes.

[[Category:History]]

Past Jassira

2023-01-01T19:42:30Z

Alypia:

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''"But what is most incredible of all is that in journeying beyond these mountains, they arrived very near to the surface of the Moon, a shining land ruled by [[Tira]] herself, and saw many things which must be supposed by others to be exaggerated inventions."'' -The Wonders Beyond the Sands, composed many centuries before the Godswar by an unknown Belharan author
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar]] conquered most of the world before the outbreak of the Godswar. It sent fleets and armies to strange lands that had seemed mystical and mysterious to those who lived in the Heartlands, and although its rule over some of them, like [[Jassira]] and [[Tronarii]], lasted long enough for them to remain integrated into the Belharan world system even after the empire dissolved, others remain nearly as mysterious as they were before the Belharan invasion… if not more so.

Even the croc-folk and anubians who ply the inland rivers and deserts of Jassira cannot manage to cross the vast sea of dunes that stretches beyond the sultanate's borders. No oases can be found, no safe route devised, no caravans organized to try to reach whatever lies beyond — if anything does. Yet, from time to time, in the suqs of Crocodopolis and the open-air markets of the sultana's mountainous province of Arkacia, blue stones of tremendous beauty and worth appear for sale, sometimes in well-crafted jewelry and sometimes in the raw, with flecks of gold shining out from their oceanic depths. Such stones work better than nearly any other as magical catalysts, and with this use and its beautiful deep-blue coloration in mind, the Jassirans named them azul. Their name has stuck. Belharan geographers knew nothing of whence it came, but hypothesized a "foreign land" and named it, with no sense of irony, Xenaspa. This was the land beyond the desert, and legends of it grew with every fresh sample of azul jewelry that mysteriously appeared.

Only in the era of Belharan conquest did people learn some of the truth behind the stories of Xenaspa. Beyond the sands there truly were populous, wealthy realms, though the deserts and mountains between them and Jassira were so imposing that the Belharans only found them by sailing around the mountains entirely, through treacherous waters and against difficult currents, aided by powerful magics. Most of the details of the lands they found are lost, but what is known is that the lockstep legions triumphed in many battles over the peoples who lived there in "the land of a thousand cities" — some of which were of the races that remain familiar to Belharans from their home continent, and others of decidedly new ones. When it was done, they had conquered a vast new imperial province bearing the name Xenaspa after the legendary realm. Heartlanders came to live there to govern and garrison it, intensify cultivation, extract what wealth came from it, and bring a flavor of imperial culture and religion; by all appearances, within a century Xenaspa was a relatively stable and well-integrated part of the imperial realm, even if all travel remained by sea and magical portal.

When the darkness of the Godswar descended, the lands beyond the desert vanished from history. Some Xenaspan imperial subjects — liontaurs in particular, as they were prized by the Belharan army and often became generals in its ranks — had come to live in the Heartlands and retained some of their ancestral memories, so their original homeland wasn't seen as a wholly mythical place. But all contact was lost, and it could not be regained. Even the flow of azul stopped for well over a century. One cannot know what transpired in the former province while the rest of the empire convulsed with apocalyptic destruction, though there were rumors of great battles waged between warlords vying for power on the edges of the desert.

The only people who have managed to travel there since are the mighty-winged [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who are sworn to answer prayers to Lumia all over the world and have the endurance to soar even over the trackless Jassiran desert. Their global journeys are infrequent and cloaked in legend, and they are not exactly ethnographers, so many of the stories that they do tell must be taken with a large grain of salt. But in the lands beyond the desert, at least, a Heartlander can correlate their often-tall tales with what little is known from Belharan history and determine that there are now several successor realms to the old imperial province. One, Ariana, is ruled by a native dynasty of [[Harpies|harpy-queens]] reduced to governors during the Belharan conquest but once again proudly independent; another, which still claims the name Xenaspa, has elven rulers. Both appear to be peopled by the same mix of Heartland-descended and indigenous folk that they were in imperial times, and both count an almost-intelligible variant of Belharan among the many tongues that they speak.

According to the valkyries, the azul that has once again appeared in Arkacian markets is indeed originally from Xenaspa. The dust elves and myrmarcs that dwell there create mines to rival any in Khor'minos, extracting not merely azul but all manner of precious metals and building-stones. With the bounty of the earth, both stone and metal, they create great, well-engineered cities — albeit on the surface, rather than underground. While they cannot trade in any great amount with Jassira, they can trade in great volumes with the other places on the far side of the deserts and mountains. Their fabulous trade-wealth and well-irrigated river valleys feed a large population, a court of [[Nareva|Narevan]] snake-like scholars, and a thoroughly-drilled military that still holds memories of making war like the Belharans of old. As for Ariana, it is nearly as wealthy and populous, but its greatest tradition is as the womb of heroes. Arianan legends tell of lone warriors journeying into the mountains to tame the great birds that dwell there and ally with them to vanquish darkness. Their warriors are equal in pride and prowess to any Yvennese, and many are just-as-devout worshipers of [[Lumia]], lady of fire and sun. Some have apparently even joined the valkyrie order itself.

Ariana and Xenaspa, despite still being shrouded in myth, are only the nearest of the lands that lie beyond the great desert. The tales the valkyries tell of them mostly tally with what we can reasonably verify. But as the valkyries' stories get further from Ariana and Xenaspa, the tales get taller. What lies beyond them are places without names, known mostly by the fact that their traders once ventured (and, according to the valkyries, still do) into Xenaspan markets selling wares that seem as fabulous as azul: exotic spices that lend food any taste one can imagine, horses with tremendous endurance and undying loyalty to their riders, corals even more elaborate than the ones in the seas between Jassira and the Heartlands, and clothes that are somehow light and strong at the same time and dyed with a riot of beautiful color.

As ever, one of the first hints of lands beyond the horizon is trade. These things must come from somewhere, and perhaps someday the intrepid traders and explorers of the Heartlands will be able to journey to their source. Perhaps they will even journey beyond the lands that Old Belhar knew.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Travel" with [[Annika]] or "Fun?" with [[Serena]] will award the Past Jassira Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*''The Wonders Beyond the Sands'' is a reference to the classical romance by Antonios Diogenes, ''The Wonders Beyond Thule''.
*Crocodopolis - Krokodeilopolis - was a polis in Greek Egypt located in the Fayyum, so named because of the cult center of the god Sobek.
*Azul is essentially ''lapis lazuli''.

[[Category:History]]

Nature of Battle

2023-01-01T19:42:17Z

Alypia:

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''"You wicked children! How dare you? Sinning against your mothers and fathers, who conquered the world?"'' -Antigone, general of the veteran Belharan Silver Shields, haranguing the opposing army shortly before winning the Battle of Amoltos
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==Writer Credit==
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*Nature of Battle Codex Entry
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===Description===
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<blockquote>
Even in the war-torn Heartlands, set-piece battles with large armies after the fashion of the Godswar, the [[Tronarii]] conflicts, or the Khushkan war are relatively uncommon. Most combat is the result of smaller-scale engagements: raids, ambushes, banditry. No matter what kind of fighting one is doing, though, it usually takes up relatively little of a warrior's daily experience. A soldier in a mass army on campaign spends most of their time marching, making camp, or standing guard; one who spends their months clearing out bandits or the Wraith-touched still takes more time to search for their foes than to battle them. For their own part, raiders and bandits usually try to avoid fighting whenever possible, because it's bad business. In all circumstances, combat is a small, even tiny, amount of terror, shock, and death amidst a broader reality of grinding drudgery.

Ambushes, skirmishes, and raids, the most common forms of combat, often involve little straight-up fighting at all — and a great deal of killing or subduing enemies through surprise. Set-piece fights with large armies are different. Thanks to the existence of shields and body armor and to the tightly packed nature of many formations, most set-piece battles result in very few casualties - at least, during the battles themselves. The two opposing forces maneuver against each other, sometimes clashing and jabbing away with their spears before separating again to lick their wounds and recover their strength, but few fighters die in the face-to-face melee. What truly determines who wins a battle is morale. As soon as enough warriors on one side take enough counsel of their fear to want to run away, that side starts to retreat whether the general wants to do so or not… and that, not the main clash of spear against spear, is usually when the slaughter begins. Unable to remain in formation, a fleeing foe is easy prey for the opposing side.

As a result, the thing that generals and soldiers alike care most about is warding off terror. A mark of a truly well-trained warrior, such as a paladin of one of the divine military orders, is being able to join battle silently, without needing to pause to psychologically prepare for the clash of spears and shields. Most warriors cannot do this, and need to remind themselves that they are part of a larger whole, alongside sisters and brothers fighting for the same purpose. They sing songs to lighten their mood and subsume their own emotions into a pounding beat or a warrior’s chant. Many such pieces were originally composed by [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who don't need to sing them for their own good but who often lead larger allied armies of the less-professional both in battle and in music. Lest anyone get the impression that valkyries are always prim and proper, [[Lumia|Lumia's]] sun warriors, who've often fought in the ranks before joining the Order of the Argent Wing, are as likely to teach their allies grimly comic or raunchy joke songs as they are hymns or wistful ballads. Anything to keep nervous allied warriors in the line alongside their comrades.

This also means, though, that warriors take whatever opportunity they can to frighten their enemy. Shining, well-maintained armor and shields, gleaming weapons, a display of magical power, a host of physically unusual allies like centaurs, the gleam of valkyries' wings, a magically-amplified battle cry or grim warning from the opposing general: all can make an warrior rethink the likely outcome of a clash with such dangerous foes. Some mages even possess powers of mind to directly attack the willpower of the soldiers fighting them. It is possible, however, to take this too far, and go beyond cleverness into military uselessness. Some small professional forces have tried to demonstrate complicated formations and maneuvers as a sign of how well-drilled they are, which can frighten a less-talented foe, but if their opponents simply keep their heads and attack, the resulting confusion usually results in the collapse of the 'well-drilled' army's formation.

When battle is joined, it is usually for a purpose. The most obvious one is material. Just as bandits attack lone travelers to take their possessions, so too do great armies fight each other for spoils. After all, the entourage of [[Evelyn|an aristocrat from, say, Yvennes]] contains a great deal of plunder: the large assortment of expensive bronze weapons and gear, the food, the slaves and servants brought along with the army, the camp followers and families that can be enslaved or ransomed by the winning side, and of course plenty of [[Currency|the ubiquitous electrum coins]]. Because of this, even a dangerously well-armed aristocrat's entourage is a better target than a poor village. Looting is not merely an activity for after the battle, either. When a well-equipped warrior falls, the fighting will refocus on their body as wealthy and poor combatants alike try to seize it and strip it of its valuables. And if there are any prisoners after a battle, they are invariably ransomed or enslaved — usually the latter.

One thing does often alleviate casualties, and has become somewhat more common since the Godswar: rather than face slaughter or maiming in the pursuit after a lost battle, many defeated foes are willing (or downright excited) to offer up their bodies in exchange for their lives. As far as the undisciplined and brutish are concerned, a foe in one's power is better used for baser purposes anyway, and besides, killing is usually a worst-choice in the lean years following the apocalypse. The [[Orcs|orcs]] of the Sailgraves are the most notorious practitioners of this right of conquest, but even if otherwise uncommon, the possibility of less-than-lethal combat ending with sexual gratification and either an assertion of dominance or enslavement is at least known and understood by anyone in Savarra who takes part in battle — when it is not the explicit reason for battle, which it may well be.

Not all combat is about loot or lust, of course. There are battles of conquest, fought to seize territory and subjects, which were uncommon in the immediate aftermath of the Godswar but now occur more and more frequently as the Heartlands' wealth in productive land and people grows. There are battles fought against the Wraith-touched, to defend lives against the soulless monsters that continue to lurk in the shadows. Finally, of course, there are battles between groups of the living who fight simply because they hate each other, where plunder and even conquest are secondary conditions.

Plunder, honor, hunger, hatred, justice, fame: all are good enough to get ordinary soldiers to march into battle. But once they're in the thick of the fighting, things become different, and men and women seize on different reasons to avoid running away from the spear-points in front of them. More than a few stand fast for the sake of those next to them, to avoid letting them down. Others, especially in mass armies, fight because they have little choice, because the densely packed infantry formations box them in and make flight impossible. Last, but not least, there are those rare professionals whose greatest bulwark against terror is that they have simply been doing this for a long time, they are good at it, and they have a pride of craft and skill that keeps them from fleeing like woodcocks.
</blockquote>

==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Nature of Battle Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in this codex entry.
**The quote of "Antigone" is directly taken from a line said by the general Antigenes at the historical Battle of Gabiene. Antigenes also commanded a unit of Silver Shields (or ''Argyraspides'').
**The Silly Mode reference to the Lakedaimonians at Leuktra is a comment on the usefulness of classical drill. Although there is little scholarly consensus on what actually took place at the Battle of Leuktra, one interpretation was that the well-drilled Lakedaimonians (or Spartans, as they are more well known) were attempting a complex formation when they were destroyed by the Boiotians.
**Even out of Silly Mode, the commentary on overly complex formations also refers to the practice by classical Chinese armies of supposedly (there is some dispute over whether it would have ever been possible to do this) creating absurdly complicated, almost artistic battle formations with zero utility in actual combat, like the infamous Eight Gates Formation made famous by the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. The reason for the practice is somewhat unclear, but one hypothesis is the one advanced in the codex entry: making complicated formations would confuse and overawe enemies who were not as well trained.
**The incentives for battle are adapted from an argument made by Guy Halsall in ''Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West''.
*Amoltos is one of the cities of Xenaspa.

[[Category:History]]

Education

2023-01-01T19:42:06Z

Alypia:

<blockquote>
''"You see these markings, boy? These are no mere scribbles — they're incantations of power. Any one of these mystical symbols can change a man's life; all of them together could make a warlord of a peasant. Follow me and I will show you these and so many more secrets of the ancient past."'' — Mikal of Eldenstone, hedge mage and charlatan
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==Writer Credit==
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*Education Codex Entry
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==Codex==
===Description===
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<blockquote>
Outside of a select few, formal education is largely unknown to [[Savarra|Savarrans]]. No one knows exactly how widespread literacy is, but the best guesses place it at less than a tenth of the population. Knowledge of magic, while slightly more common, is largely confined to ordinary spells, with true mages and archmages a sadly (or beneficially, given unchecked magic's role in nearly causing the apocalypse) tiny minority. And alchemy is hit-or-miss, with some casual knowledge using local herbs relatively common but really in-depth understanding limited in the extreme. Few rulers provide for the education of their city-dwelling subjects, and if one resides in the countryside — as most Savarrans do — the likelihood of having anyone other than perhaps [[Mistress Matiha|a local hedge mage or witch]] for a teacher is approximately nil.

This state of affairs is partly because of how close to the edge of starvation many Savarrans live their lives. Subsistence agriculture, pastoralism, and fishing still dominate ordinary people's daily rhythms, leaving them without much leisure time fit for education. Even when the time to devote to learning is there, the resources rarely exist; the few people who purport to have formal education in the countryside are often malevolent, or charlatans, or both. And many of the others possess the knowledge of what letters look like and how they sound but no actual ''literacy'' as such. Several of the current fables in the rural parts of what used to be [[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar]] warn against accepting the kindness of ostensibly learned strangers, and one can easily see why, given the number of unscrupulous mages promising power only to lure their charges into being magical experiments instead. As such, what skills one can find outside city walls are usually passed down by [[Viviane|apprenticeship]], [[Hretha|tribal shamans]], or [[Atani|family]], and those are usually the practical skills of spoken language, herbology, arithmetic, personal organization, and whatever one needs to do to keep the food coming in throughout the year.

To be clear, there are often rich non-written traditions that boast a great deal of creativity. The Godswar might have wiped out much, but one thing that survived was [[River|the rhapsodic profession]], which blesses every town and village with its melodies. From traveling bards who keep all their songs in their head to loud village festivals to stories told over the firepit, the people of rural Savarra know how to create art. And even if reading is uncommon outside the cities, it's still possible to find educated travelers who can enthrall villages by reading stories out loud to an audience much like the rhapsodes memorize and sing their tales. In this way, many of the most famous written traditions have made their way out into the countryside in varying forms. And this flows both ways, too, for some of the great epics began as stories sung out in the country that were eventually put to ink. The sophistication of Belharan oral tradition speaks to the endless originality of the people who live outside cities' walls — and to the favor of [[Mallach]], prince of passion and art. But it also speaks to the extent to which formal education and literacy do not exist in the countryside.

In the towns and cities that remain amid the wreckage of Old Belhar the situation is different, and there are more ways in which a person can be trained and educated like the imperials of old. Personal tutors are thicker on the ground and more likely to actually possess the skills they claim to have. Some of the ancient imperial colleges still exist as academies of higher learning for the training of mages and scholars. The religious institutions of [[The Seven|the Seven]] still school their acolytes in reading, writing, and in whatever magic is practical for temple clergy and paladins. To be sure, these courses of study, especially the former two, are still routes that exist primarily for those of means, who can afford to allow a child to spend valuable work time on things that will only pay off later in life. It is theoretically possible for a poor city-dweller to achieve a certain amount of literacy… but possible and likely are not the same thing.

[[Khor'minos]], with its great wealth and engineering prowess, is the most obvious exception to the rule that education is for the few. With the Minoans' customary combination of civic virtue and competitiveness (and, of course, the realm's prosperity), cowgirl magistrates take it upon themselves to tax citizens — and ''only'' citizens, not [[Vitra|other]] [[Vitruvius|resident]] [[Nieves|subjects]] — an additional percentage to finance a certain level of formal education, much as they do with village games and other community events. This literacy has a purpose, even in the rural villages, for Minoans use inscriptions and the written word for most of their public notices. Many boys get their letters and take them into the legion, where they're used for military orders and inventories; many girls (and a few boys) go even further with additional understanding of rhetoric, history, mathematics, and engineering.

Literacy is also not solely an urban phenomenon in the Deeprealms. Khor'minos itself, with its multiple city lycea, is the most well-educated, but depending on the village (and the magistrate, and [[Serena|the village teacher]]) even a rural cowgirl can emerge from her education capable of organizing a tunnel excavation, brewing safe alchemical potions, or holding her own in a poetry competition. The word 'can' is important here, for Minoan education is not compulsory, and even for those who attend a citizens' lyceum, knowledge retention rates are not always what Khor'minos' long-suffering cowgirl teachers would like. Compared to most of the rest of what used to be the Empire, though, the Deeprealms are a veritable literary paradise.

Basic literacy training, whether in Khor'minos or on the surface, generally involves the classics. The Belharan epics that survive, like the ''Tarandaiad'' and the ''Etymandrika'', are common currency in both sung and written form, making them familiar objects for young readers. They keep listeners and readers interested with hefty doses of warfare, adventure, and romance, while also imparting moral lessons on how good and bad people behave. Advanced students develop the rhetorical skill to call upon these examples from the past for allusions. To be able to sing Euphrosyne's song or recite the grim warning of Demetrios is to display one's learning and distinction on one's sleeve; to be able to replicate the meter of ancient Mallachite poetry is to lend your own work the same sort of gravitas. Learning by rote memorization is key here, establishing a vast library of details upon which one can call with relative ease. For those who continue on to even higher education, memorization remains crucial as one's repertoire of classics broadens. And spells — for the most rarefied levels of academia are always the arcane ones — are no different, relying on mental pathways and patterns of energy weaving that become much, much easier to follow for those who can turn them into over-learned behaviors through repetition.

Even outside of Khor'minos, all this education is meant to be deeply ''practical''; only the wealthiest of city nobility can afford to learn things without ever intending to actually use that knowledge. Those who learn to write do so because a business or ruler needs to be able to keep written records. Those who learn history do so at the behest of rulers who wish to buttress their claims to rule by creating politically useful narratives of their family's past, or to make a life singing the stories of the past for those with coin to spare, or to find Belharan ruins for the high-risk occupation of treasure hunting. Those who learn magic do so because their spells will help around the home, or protect them from harm, or slay their enemies. And rulers who maintain the old Belharan colleges do so because they expect a return on investment, often in the form of new or rediscovered potions or spells. They hold the power of the purse, which can make academia rather competitive. A scholar who can exceed her colleagues' accomplishments can become a legend, but one who fails to match them is usually out of a job in short order, consigned to village alchemy or attempting battle magic for bands of mercenaries. There is always a tension between the struggle to keep one's position and the shared community of learning and mentoring. Thankfully, collegiality still wins out most of the time… but not always.

Magical institutions are subject to the vicissitudes of the southlands' endless wars, too. The riparian city of Marouka, for example, has managed to hold onto its ancient college, thanks to luck in warfare and a great deal of investment from the citizens' council. Marouka's warrior-scholars, urban militia, and riverine trade have ensured it a degree of prosperity amid the often-violent Belharan Heartlands, and would-be academics continue to flock to the city to try their luck at gaining grants from the council. Not all such cities have enjoyed the same sort of success, though. In days of yore, Marouka was connected to the college of Drapsa by {//finished Inheritor of the Idols: Waystone //else: ancient magical devices}, but neither the portal nor the Drapsacan college exists anymore. The former was annihilated in the Godswar, and the latter burned to the ground when the city was attacked by the infamous Khushkan Horde. What remains is a barely-populated ruin that is but a shadow of even its post-Godswar self. Institutions of higher learning can readily find support from warlords and princes. They can become targets just as easily.

Foreign armies are not the only danger to rulers whose reach for magical power exceeds their grasp. Under most circumstances, the [[Order Astrida]], [[Nareva|Nareva's]] godservants, are welcome sights at institutions of higher learning. After all, the Belharan colleges are universally graced by statues and icons of the purveyor of knowledge and keeper of secrets, and many a young student betakes himself to the shrine of the naga goddess to beseech her blessing. Astrida themselves are assiduous students of lore and arcana, and even the most warlike among them can hold her own in a conversation with excited academics. But their visits become considerably less friendly on those rare occasions when a mage starts to poke at the all-too-thin boundary of the space between worlds; they're far from a murderous magical inquisition, but a mage's conversations with an Astrida about magic are a bit chillier if that Astrida has just finished rendering that mage's dangerous portal device harmless. Fortunately, peer pressure from fellow academics — and the reasonable fear of a second apocalypse — usually prevents even the least scrupulous of mages from continuing their research far enough to gain the attention of Nareva's finest.

One cannot say that Savarra after the Godswar is obscurantist, despite the dangers of portal magic and the wary eyes of the Astrida. But education in general, to say nothing of arcane knowledge, remains available to all too few, and is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.
</blockquote>

==Codex Acquisition==
Speaking to [[Serena]] will unlock the Education Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The Education codex entry is a synthesis of several things: the Scholar, Acolyte, and Arcanist backgrounds for the Champion; the existence of the Order Astrida; and the nature of education in Khor'minos as described in the [[Minotaurs|Minotaur]] codex entry. Within those constraints, it describes education (for those who can access it) largely in the sense of Greek and Roman education, focusing on the so-called ''trivium'' and ''quadrivium'' of classical and medieval learning - with allowances made for the existence of magic and alchemy as well.
*The ''Etymandrika'' and ''Tarandaiad'' are just two of the epic poems that form Savarra's literary underpinning, as the ''Iliad'', ''Odyssey'', and ''Aeneid'' did for the West or the ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata'' did for India.
*Originally, [[User:Alypia|Alypia]], the author of the codex entry, wanted to structure it as a direct quotation from a primary source, a letter from the rector of Marouka's magical college to a member of that city's council. Although it provided much the same information as the current version, it was not implemented in order to avoid confusion on the parts of readers and other writers. Aly preserved this alternative codex entry in a post in her author's thread on the game's official forums.
*The silly mode version of the codex entry begins with a quotation from Antonios II, Emperor of the Belharans: "Our empire's top priority was, is, and always will be education, education, education." This is a reference to a comment once made by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
*The silly mode reference to Demetrios is a quotation from the "Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales'', which refers to "Emetreus, kyng of Inde" - probably the historical Demetrios I Aniketos, Greco-Baktrian conqueror of parts of northern India and Pakistan.

[[Category:History]]

Education

2023-01-01T19:41:57Z

Alypia:

<blockquote>
''"You see these markings, boy? These are no mere scribbles — they're incantations of power. Any one of these mystical symbols can change a man's life; all of them together could make a warlord of a peasant. Follow me and I will show you these and so many more secrets of the ancient past." — Mikal of Eldenstone, hedge mage and charlatan
</blockquote>
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==Writer Credit==
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*Education Codex Entry
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==Codex==
===Description===
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<blockquote>
Outside of a select few, formal education is largely unknown to [[Savarra|Savarrans]]. No one knows exactly how widespread literacy is, but the best guesses place it at less than a tenth of the population. Knowledge of magic, while slightly more common, is largely confined to ordinary spells, with true mages and archmages a sadly (or beneficially, given unchecked magic's role in nearly causing the apocalypse) tiny minority. And alchemy is hit-or-miss, with some casual knowledge using local herbs relatively common but really in-depth understanding limited in the extreme. Few rulers provide for the education of their city-dwelling subjects, and if one resides in the countryside — as most Savarrans do — the likelihood of having anyone other than perhaps [[Mistress Matiha|a local hedge mage or witch]] for a teacher is approximately nil.

This state of affairs is partly because of how close to the edge of starvation many Savarrans live their lives. Subsistence agriculture, pastoralism, and fishing still dominate ordinary people's daily rhythms, leaving them without much leisure time fit for education. Even when the time to devote to learning is there, the resources rarely exist; the few people who purport to have formal education in the countryside are often malevolent, or charlatans, or both. And many of the others possess the knowledge of what letters look like and how they sound but no actual ''literacy'' as such. Several of the current fables in the rural parts of what used to be [[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar]] warn against accepting the kindness of ostensibly learned strangers, and one can easily see why, given the number of unscrupulous mages promising power only to lure their charges into being magical experiments instead. As such, what skills one can find outside city walls are usually passed down by [[Viviane|apprenticeship]], [[Hretha|tribal shamans]], or [[Atani|family]], and those are usually the practical skills of spoken language, herbology, arithmetic, personal organization, and whatever one needs to do to keep the food coming in throughout the year.

To be clear, there are often rich non-written traditions that boast a great deal of creativity. The Godswar might have wiped out much, but one thing that survived was [[River|the rhapsodic profession]], which blesses every town and village with its melodies. From traveling bards who keep all their songs in their head to loud village festivals to stories told over the firepit, the people of rural Savarra know how to create art. And even if reading is uncommon outside the cities, it's still possible to find educated travelers who can enthrall villages by reading stories out loud to an audience much like the rhapsodes memorize and sing their tales. In this way, many of the most famous written traditions have made their way out into the countryside in varying forms. And this flows both ways, too, for some of the great epics began as stories sung out in the country that were eventually put to ink. The sophistication of Belharan oral tradition speaks to the endless originality of the people who live outside cities' walls — and to the favor of [[Mallach]], prince of passion and art. But it also speaks to the extent to which formal education and literacy do not exist in the countryside.

In the towns and cities that remain amid the wreckage of Old Belhar the situation is different, and there are more ways in which a person can be trained and educated like the imperials of old. Personal tutors are thicker on the ground and more likely to actually possess the skills they claim to have. Some of the ancient imperial colleges still exist as academies of higher learning for the training of mages and scholars. The religious institutions of [[The Seven|the Seven]] still school their acolytes in reading, writing, and in whatever magic is practical for temple clergy and paladins. To be sure, these courses of study, especially the former two, are still routes that exist primarily for those of means, who can afford to allow a child to spend valuable work time on things that will only pay off later in life. It is theoretically possible for a poor city-dweller to achieve a certain amount of literacy… but possible and likely are not the same thing.

[[Khor'minos]], with its great wealth and engineering prowess, is the most obvious exception to the rule that education is for the few. With the Minoans' customary combination of civic virtue and competitiveness (and, of course, the realm's prosperity), cowgirl magistrates take it upon themselves to tax citizens — and ''only'' citizens, not [[Vitra|other]] [[Vitruvius|resident]] [[Nieves|subjects]] — an additional percentage to finance a certain level of formal education, much as they do with village games and other community events. This literacy has a purpose, even in the rural villages, for Minoans use inscriptions and the written word for most of their public notices. Many boys get their letters and take them into the legion, where they're used for military orders and inventories; many girls (and a few boys) go even further with additional understanding of rhetoric, history, mathematics, and engineering.

Literacy is also not solely an urban phenomenon in the Deeprealms. Khor'minos itself, with its multiple city lycea, is the most well-educated, but depending on the village (and the magistrate, and [[Serena|the village teacher]]) even a rural cowgirl can emerge from her education capable of organizing a tunnel excavation, brewing safe alchemical potions, or holding her own in a poetry competition. The word 'can' is important here, for Minoan education is not compulsory, and even for those who attend a citizens' lyceum, knowledge retention rates are not always what Khor'minos' long-suffering cowgirl teachers would like. Compared to most of the rest of what used to be the Empire, though, the Deeprealms are a veritable literary paradise.

Basic literacy training, whether in Khor'minos or on the surface, generally involves the classics. The Belharan epics that survive, like the ''Tarandaiad'' and the ''Etymandrika'', are common currency in both sung and written form, making them familiar objects for young readers. They keep listeners and readers interested with hefty doses of warfare, adventure, and romance, while also imparting moral lessons on how good and bad people behave. Advanced students develop the rhetorical skill to call upon these examples from the past for allusions. To be able to sing Euphrosyne's song or recite the grim warning of Demetrios is to display one's learning and distinction on one's sleeve; to be able to replicate the meter of ancient Mallachite poetry is to lend your own work the same sort of gravitas. Learning by rote memorization is key here, establishing a vast library of details upon which one can call with relative ease. For those who continue on to even higher education, memorization remains crucial as one's repertoire of classics broadens. And spells — for the most rarefied levels of academia are always the arcane ones — are no different, relying on mental pathways and patterns of energy weaving that become much, much easier to follow for those who can turn them into over-learned behaviors through repetition.

Even outside of Khor'minos, all this education is meant to be deeply ''practical''; only the wealthiest of city nobility can afford to learn things without ever intending to actually use that knowledge. Those who learn to write do so because a business or ruler needs to be able to keep written records. Those who learn history do so at the behest of rulers who wish to buttress their claims to rule by creating politically useful narratives of their family's past, or to make a life singing the stories of the past for those with coin to spare, or to find Belharan ruins for the high-risk occupation of treasure hunting. Those who learn magic do so because their spells will help around the home, or protect them from harm, or slay their enemies. And rulers who maintain the old Belharan colleges do so because they expect a return on investment, often in the form of new or rediscovered potions or spells. They hold the power of the purse, which can make academia rather competitive. A scholar who can exceed her colleagues' accomplishments can become a legend, but one who fails to match them is usually out of a job in short order, consigned to village alchemy or attempting battle magic for bands of mercenaries. There is always a tension between the struggle to keep one's position and the shared community of learning and mentoring. Thankfully, collegiality still wins out most of the time… but not always.

Magical institutions are subject to the vicissitudes of the southlands' endless wars, too. The riparian city of Marouka, for example, has managed to hold onto its ancient college, thanks to luck in warfare and a great deal of investment from the citizens' council. Marouka's warrior-scholars, urban militia, and riverine trade have ensured it a degree of prosperity amid the often-violent Belharan Heartlands, and would-be academics continue to flock to the city to try their luck at gaining grants from the council. Not all such cities have enjoyed the same sort of success, though. In days of yore, Marouka was connected to the college of Drapsa by {//finished Inheritor of the Idols: Waystone //else: ancient magical devices}, but neither the portal nor the Drapsacan college exists anymore. The former was annihilated in the Godswar, and the latter burned to the ground when the city was attacked by the infamous Khushkan Horde. What remains is a barely-populated ruin that is but a shadow of even its post-Godswar self. Institutions of higher learning can readily find support from warlords and princes. They can become targets just as easily.

Foreign armies are not the only danger to rulers whose reach for magical power exceeds their grasp. Under most circumstances, the [[Order Astrida]], [[Nareva|Nareva's]] godservants, are welcome sights at institutions of higher learning. After all, the Belharan colleges are universally graced by statues and icons of the purveyor of knowledge and keeper of secrets, and many a young student betakes himself to the shrine of the naga goddess to beseech her blessing. Astrida themselves are assiduous students of lore and arcana, and even the most warlike among them can hold her own in a conversation with excited academics. But their visits become considerably less friendly on those rare occasions when a mage starts to poke at the all-too-thin boundary of the space between worlds; they're far from a murderous magical inquisition, but a mage's conversations with an Astrida about magic are a bit chillier if that Astrida has just finished rendering that mage's dangerous portal device harmless. Fortunately, peer pressure from fellow academics — and the reasonable fear of a second apocalypse — usually prevents even the least scrupulous of mages from continuing their research far enough to gain the attention of Nareva's finest.

One cannot say that Savarra after the Godswar is obscurantist, despite the dangers of portal magic and the wary eyes of the Astrida. But education in general, to say nothing of arcane knowledge, remains available to all too few, and is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.
</blockquote>

==Codex Acquisition==
Speaking to [[Serena]] will unlock the Education Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The Education codex entry is a synthesis of several things: the Scholar, Acolyte, and Arcanist backgrounds for the Champion; the existence of the Order Astrida; and the nature of education in Khor'minos as described in the [[Minotaurs|Minotaur]] codex entry. Within those constraints, it describes education (for those who can access it) largely in the sense of Greek and Roman education, focusing on the so-called ''trivium'' and ''quadrivium'' of classical and medieval learning - with allowances made for the existence of magic and alchemy as well.
*The ''Etymandrika'' and ''Tarandaiad'' are just two of the epic poems that form Savarra's literary underpinning, as the ''Iliad'', ''Odyssey'', and ''Aeneid'' did for the West or the ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata'' did for India.
*Originally, [[User:Alypia|Alypia]], the author of the codex entry, wanted to structure it as a direct quotation from a primary source, a letter from the rector of Marouka's magical college to a member of that city's council. Although it provided much the same information as the current version, it was not implemented in order to avoid confusion on the parts of readers and other writers. Aly preserved this alternative codex entry in a post in her author's thread on the game's official forums.
*The silly mode version of the codex entry begins with a quotation from Antonios II, Emperor of the Belharans: "Our empire's top priority was, is, and always will be education, education, education." This is a reference to a comment once made by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
*The silly mode reference to Demetrios is a quotation from the "Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales'', which refers to "Emetreus, kyng of Inde" - probably the historical Demetrios I Aniketos, Greco-Baktrian conqueror of parts of northern India and Pakistan.

[[Category:History]]

Culture of War

2023-01-01T19:41:36Z

Alypia:

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''"Among warriors with no access to the proper ceremonies, the rituals for [[Sorra|Sorra's]] blessing of storms in battle are these: first and most efficacious, chanting the lay of Heaven's Air; second, offering a willow wreath or a [[Leananstone|leananstone]] to a well, or to the sea; third, chasing dogs while asking the sky for rain; last, shouting angrily and throwing a javelin at the sky."'' -Enno, Taelian priest of Sorra
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar's]] lockstep legions marched around the world winning victory after victory under monarchs and generals like Sanna Rutiliana, Edivus II, and Michael Melissenos, but Belharan aristocratic society also valorized leisure; a noble who had profited enough to allow himself or herself to avoid having to work had time for politics or the opportunity to dabble in civic, magical, or scientific pursuits, after all. In this era, though, warriors are at the top of the social hierarchy in nearly every culture that exists amid the wreckage of the empire, and it's not merely because of their wealth and power. Heartlander aristocrats have their position because of their military bona fides earned by protecting the city or the realm from foreign threats. So do the untitled wealthy whom the city-states of the south elect as generals over their citizen militia. For their part, tribal warriors like those of the Sailgraves [[Orcs|orcs]] are the ones who bring plunder and slaves from the mainland back to their windswept isles, making a difference between subsistence and a semblance of prosperity… at least for those selfsame warriors. Being a warrior is key to the identity of the 'powerful' in much of the post-imperial world. Perhaps only in [[Khor’minos]] and some of the great independent cities like [[Sheepfolk|Barania]] and Marouka is there a semblance of the old Belharan sense of noble leisure used for the benefit of everyone else.

Those warrior-aristocrats and champions who possess literary or musical ability usually write about their way of life, and those with money pay for the same from the troubadours and bards of Savarra’s byways. Elite culture, however, is not the only place for tales of war and songs of battle. The poor hear them (and sing them) as well. To be sure, a peasant’s viewpoint often (fairly) depicts warriors as the rapacious thugs who enslave children, ravish families, steal crops and livestock, or just casually murder people. But some figures of song like Goar, a tragic hero of the Khushkan war, have more positive depictions among ordinary Savarrans. And, of course, [[Lumia|Lumia’s]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Nareva|Nareva’s]] [[Order Astrida|Astrida]], and paladins of every deity are almost universally admired in both aristocratic and peasant culture for both military prowess and saving the innocent regardless of wealth or station.

These stories and songs circulate as more or less common currency throughout the lands that once lived under imperial rule. From [[Tronarii]] to [[Tychris]], it is reasonable to say that the post-imperial peoples all have shared expectations of what warfare is like. Warriors bound together not just by a common tongue and [[The Seven|common religion]] (even if one god or another of the Seven happens to predominate in a given land) but by common experiences (especially for mercenary companies, which can operate in lands very far afield) tend to have similar views about what is acceptable in war. This does not mean that battle is the same for the mountaineers of Zhenna as it is for the urban militia of Taelia or the woodsmen and wyld elves of Sartanni, but it can mean that all of those groups would have similar understandings of what constitutes an acceptable target in the eyes of their peoples and their gods.

All of the Seven are, in some form or another, deities of war. Generals might pray to [[Nareva]] or [[Keros]] when employing clever stratagems, to [[Mallach]] for soldierly unity and comradeship, to [[Sorra]] for favorable weather, or to [[Velun]] when seeking a wild battle frenzy. [[Lumia]], of course, is the patron goddess of just war: defending against attackers, or bringing fire and sword down upon the truly wicked. But [[Tira]] perhaps embodies the spirit of warriors best, for she is not merely the goddess of battle and death but the goddess of chance and fate. Everyone who bears arms in Savarra knows that war is the province of uncertainty, that the results of most battles amount to a roll of the dice (or, by common metaphor, Tira’s bones). In such circumstances, who better to have on one’s side than the goddess who decrees mortals’ allotted time?
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Culture of War Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The ritual described in the codex quotation is adapted from the practices of Mongolian shamans. The major adaptation is that the Mongolians throw poo into the air rather than a javelin.
*Rutiliana and Melissenos are names adapted from Roman history: the Western Empire generated the former family and the Eastern Empire generated the latter.

[[Category:History]]

Arms & Tactics

2023-01-01T19:41:24Z

Alypia:

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''"Audacious? Certainly. Reckless? Perhaps. But I say to you now, to be more cautious would embrace certain defeat. Take refuge in our audacity. They expect us to demonstrate in front of our camp, not attack."'' -Michael Melissenos, Belharan general, shortly before the Battle of Satricum

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In every society around the world, warriors fight in different ways, and those ways are dependent on the society that produces them and the arms and armor available to them. Weapons and protection are the tools of the trade, and tactics the method.

Bronze weapons and gear remain the favored choice of all those who can afford them, but thanks to the labor (and rare tin ore) that goes into making military-worthy bronze, they are uncommon outside the warrior elite. In fact, their price forces even aristocrats into economies. When wearing body armor, many warriors concentrate their bronze around their vitals and cover much of the rest with thick textiles, such as laminated linen or layered wool. Similarly, the trusty bronze spear is usually the weapon of choice, not least because it requires less bronze than does a larger war-axe or sword; it may be complemented by a bronze dagger or hand axe as a sidearm. Anyone who uses more bronze than that is truly a wealthy individual. Many cannot even muster that much bronze, and are forced to use weapons of relatively soft iron, sharpened wood, or stone.

Infantry remains the core of most fighting forces, with obvious exceptions like pastoral herding tribes (who favor horseback) or [[Centaurs|centaurs]] (who must rely on allies or subjects if they want to field infantry). Usually, the most experienced warriors will be those who have the training to accurately employ ranged weapons like javelins, arrows, and especially magic, although a few veteran champions choose instead to make themselves well-armed and -armored enough to anchor a battle line often composed primarily of those less well-equipped. Combat generally begins with an exchange of missiles and, if applicable, magic, followed eventually by a clash of battle lines when the missiles are exhausted or when one side or the other can no longer stand the onslaught of arrows, javelins, and sling bullets.

Centuries ago, [[The Belharan Empire|Belharan]] notables preferred chariotry to slogging around on foot; chariots allowed great warriors to ride into battle quickly, or to stay mobile as they flung javelins or loosed arrows at the foe. Contact with centaur tribes and the gradual submission of the great herds changed this, as did the breeding of horses both large and small to carry single riders. Nowadays, despite Belhar's fall, chariots remain popular as ceremonial vehicles and in combat on relatively flat lands, but cavalry and centaury are becoming more and more prevalent for military purposes. [[Lieutenant Jen|Horse-riding bipeds]] and centaurs, usually in the same tribes, now dominate the great steppelands, herding stock and clashing over pasturage. It is these tribes that have begun to trade cavalry horses and camels as far afield as [[Tronarii]], Yvennes, Gaba, and [[Jassira]], all of which have begun to mount warriors of their own on them. Bipeds who ride horses often arm themselves with bows, javelins, or light spears to harass slower-moving infantry. Centaurs, however, remain the most prized hoof-warriors for would-be potentates, and the few taurs that deign to serve outside their tribe or herd [[Alante|often achieve positions of great military prominence]]. There are even small populations of other taur groups in the Heartlands, descendants of immigrants from long-lost lands once ruled by Old Belhar. Some are humpbacked and well-adapted to waterless places, others ferocious and strong with the fur and tails of lionesses.

Battlemages are prized additions to any military force because of how few people (let alone warriors) have special magical education beyond a few casual cantrips — and because magic can have an outsize effect on any battlefield. The most favored large formation for infantry packs them together in large, fairly-dense blocks to keep soldiers from running away, but a well-placed concussive blast or chain lightning spell can tear the heart out of any such battle line. Since many infantry formations are effectively useless if they need to disperse, this means that in order for their own foot soldiers to stay together, battlemages spend as much of their time warding magic away from their own allies as they do casting offensive magic against the enemy. Because of this disproportionate effect in combat and their necessary separation from the rank and file — one cannot see where to cast spells if one is packed into the ranks with everyone else — battlemages often rise to command mercenary companies or achieve high rank in formal militaries. The fact that many of the military orders of the Seven are primarily composed of magic-wielding warriors (even if magic is not necessarily their strongest suit) is one of the things that makes them so impressive on the battlefield.

Difficulties of command and control inhibit easy maneuver on the battlefield. Flank attacks, ambushes, feigned retreats, and the like are sometimes employed by large armies at the beginning of a fight according to a pre-agreed plan, especially if they contain well-trained troops, but complex evolutions in the midst of battle are usually beyond the abilities of large armies. In smaller groups — for example, warbands — shouted voices make complex orders and tactics much more viable. For larger armies, once fighting is joined, there is often little for a commander to do but hope their army is victorious; they cannot command beyond shouting range of their own voice, and they can rarely disengage their forces from a melee once committed. Often, then, the best thing for a commander to do is simply plunge into the fighting themselves, or to place themselves with one of the few groups that can take new orders mid-fighting: cavalry, chariotry, missile infantry, battlemages, or flying forces like [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Harpies|harpies]].
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Valkyries" with [[Annika]] or encountering [[Lieutenant Jen]] will award the Arms and Tactics Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in the codex entry.
**"Melissenos" is, like many Belharan surnames, the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family.
**The transition from chariotry to horseback cavalry is an aspect of the historical late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Many of the other particulars of warfare are adapted from classical history.
**In Silly Mode, "warband" is given a specific numerical qualification, based on the definition in the Laws of Ine of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon legal code from the seventh century preserved in the legislation of Aelfraed the Great.
*The Silly Mode version of the codex entry jokes about how many weapons and armor pieces in the game are there simply for Rule of Cool purposes and not because they make any sense given the time period, technology, etc.

[[Category:History]]

Armies & Warriors

2023-01-01T19:41:10Z

Alypia:

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''"A good king may rely on his Friends and his Friends' warriors. Foreign warriors are the tool of a tyrant."'' -Lady Kalypso of [[Tychris]]
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[[The Belharan Empire|Belhar]] survived the Godswar — barely. Its society and unity were shattered, divided under the rule of disparate potentates and city-states. Its [[Currency|economy]] was wrecked, capable of little production let alone long-distance trade. Many of the people who had worked on the land were dead, leaving agricultural production at terrifyingly low levels. Those that remained had their hands full feeding themselves, let alone producing enough food to allow others to live in cities (or, indeed, military camps) without farming their own food. These were the things that ended the era of the great lockstep legions, not stupidity or obscurantism. The people who lived in the Empire did not forget how to make complex war on a large scale; they simply lacked the resources to do so. Individual cities or warlords could not muster the vast professional armies that the united imperials had been able to, and given their losses, even if the Empire had still been united, the imperials would not have been able to do so, either.

What was left was societies that only contained very small groups of people that had the resources to maintain the ability to fight, let alone spend all of their time on it in ways sufficient to become good at it. Only the wealthiest of elites could finance training, armor, and good weapons. This meant that those whom historians often call 'the powerful' were the ones who did most of the fighting. In this they would usually be accompanied by small groups of trained and experienced retainers, albeit usually of lesser military quality; only very rarely would larger groups of people leave their land, flocks, fish, or towns to take up arms as untrained levies. Sometimes the 'powerful' fought for a particular ruler or city; other times, they would turn [[Marked Merk Mercenaries|mercenary]], crossing boundaries to battle for whomever they pleased if price and land were right. Whether they inherited it from [[The Baroness|aristocratic Belharan parents]] or [[Lyla|took it by force in battle]], they were the ones who controlled most of what little wealth existed in the lean years following the apocalypse, and thus most of the modern noble houses count them as ancestors.

Ironically, the slowly growing prosperity of the last century has upset this state of affairs. Now, many realms and city-states have the resources and population to build larger armies… and, less happily, there’s enough food in most parts of the world to sustain larger groups of bandits preying on farmers, shepherds, and fishers. City-states field forces of citizen militia who arm themselves out of their personal wealth; princes and princesses can call on their "friends", warriors of note with their own groups of retainers. Mighty [[Khor'minos]] has even gone a long way toward recreating Old Belhar's lockstep legions, as has Taelia on a somewhat smaller scale. And with more food and wealth in abundance, mercenary companies have emerged, especially in the Heartlands and [[Tronarii]].

Mercenaries in particular bear mention as a fungible quantity. A mercenary company (and they are almost always organized in companies; a single warrior without a support network of some kind is essentially useless and usually dead) can move from war to war in the Heartlands more or less seamlessly, provided its leaders, who are usually aristocracy or of the untitled wealthy, survive as a nucleus around which to recruit fresh warriors. But while they may seem common now compared to several years ago, there are still not all that many compared to the days of yore. Growing prosperity is one thing, but it will be many decades, if not centuries, before there is enough food to feed large groups of warriors who do not cultivate their own crops. As a result, even the largest mercenary companies tend to keep barely a hundred or so spears in their establishment. More than that they cannot pay. Well do the Heartlanders remember the tragedies that resulted when the Khushkan entrepreneurs hired on more warriors than they could pay or feed — a whirlwind march of conquest in a desperate effort to keep their forces together, and then, when they faced defeat, a turn to dark powers that nearly turned tragedy into apocalypse.

As ever, the best-trained and -equipped warriors remain the small groups of paladins and champions that comprise the military orders of the Seven. (In fact, the very word paladin exists because the greatest founding members of the divine military orders came from the Belharan palace bodyguards, or palatini. The Lumian Warriors of White trace their lineage directly to the imperial Candidati, an elite formation of palatine soldiers set apart because they wore white robes with their armor.) After the Godswar, many temporal leaders quibbled about these divine warriors, who for the most part remained outside their direct control. But despite some friction, no one seriously considered eliminating the organizations that had saved civilization, and both nobles and ordinary people continued to donate to the gods and sacrifice to them, supplying the resources that enabled the military orders to continue to do their work. The [[Order Astrida|Astrida]] continued to keep dangerous portals closed, the [[Valkyries|valkyries]] continued to fight their long twilight war against the remnants of the Wraith-touched, the [[Leofric|Tiran paladins]] continued to destroy undead, and so on. Thanks to this, all of them, both godsworn and more mortal paladins, have more experience and more training than almost any other warriors in the known world.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "War Stories" or "Philosophy" with [[Annika]] will award the Armies and Warriors Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*"Friends" in the codex entry is an allusion to ''philoi'', a term ancient Greek monarchs like Alexander the Great used to describe their aristocratic retainers.
*The ''Candidati'' were a historical military formation in the Roman Empire.
*The reference to "the powerful" is an allusion to the debate in Byzantine historiography about the so-called ''dynatoi'', and the silly mode version of the codex entry specifically refers to the work of the historian George Ostrogorsky on the subject.

[[Category:History]]

Armies & Warriors

2023-01-01T19:41:01Z

Alypia:

<blockquote>
''"A good king may rely on his Friends and his Friends' warriors. Foreign warriors are the tool of a tyrant."'' -Lady Kalypso of Tychris
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[[The Belharan Empire|Belhar]] survived the Godswar — barely. Its society and unity were shattered, divided under the rule of disparate potentates and city-states. Its [[Currency|economy]] was wrecked, capable of little production let alone long-distance trade. Many of the people who had worked on the land were dead, leaving agricultural production at terrifyingly low levels. Those that remained had their hands full feeding themselves, let alone producing enough food to allow others to live in cities (or, indeed, military camps) without farming their own food. These were the things that ended the era of the great lockstep legions, not stupidity or obscurantism. The people who lived in the Empire did not forget how to make complex war on a large scale; they simply lacked the resources to do so. Individual cities or warlords could not muster the vast professional armies that the united imperials had been able to, and given their losses, even if the Empire had still been united, the imperials would not have been able to do so, either.

What was left was societies that only contained very small groups of people that had the resources to maintain the ability to fight, let alone spend all of their time on it in ways sufficient to become good at it. Only the wealthiest of elites could finance training, armor, and good weapons. This meant that those whom historians often call 'the powerful' were the ones who did most of the fighting. In this they would usually be accompanied by small groups of trained and experienced retainers, albeit usually of lesser military quality; only very rarely would larger groups of people leave their land, flocks, fish, or towns to take up arms as untrained levies. Sometimes the 'powerful' fought for a particular ruler or city; other times, they would turn [[Marked Merk Mercenaries|mercenary]], crossing boundaries to battle for whomever they pleased if price and land were right. Whether they inherited it from [[The Baroness|aristocratic Belharan parents]] or [[Lyla|took it by force in battle]], they were the ones who controlled most of what little wealth existed in the lean years following the apocalypse, and thus most of the modern noble houses count them as ancestors.

Ironically, the slowly growing prosperity of the last century has upset this state of affairs. Now, many realms and city-states have the resources and population to build larger armies… and, less happily, there’s enough food in most parts of the world to sustain larger groups of bandits preying on farmers, shepherds, and fishers. City-states field forces of citizen militia who arm themselves out of their personal wealth; princes and princesses can call on their "friends", warriors of note with their own groups of retainers. Mighty [[Khor'minos]] has even gone a long way toward recreating Old Belhar's lockstep legions, as has Taelia on a somewhat smaller scale. And with more food and wealth in abundance, mercenary companies have emerged, especially in the Heartlands and [[Tronarii]].

Mercenaries in particular bear mention as a fungible quantity. A mercenary company (and they are almost always organized in companies; a single warrior without a support network of some kind is essentially useless and usually dead) can move from war to war in the Heartlands more or less seamlessly, provided its leaders, who are usually aristocracy or of the untitled wealthy, survive as a nucleus around which to recruit fresh warriors. But while they may seem common now compared to several years ago, there are still not all that many compared to the days of yore. Growing prosperity is one thing, but it will be many decades, if not centuries, before there is enough food to feed large groups of warriors who do not cultivate their own crops. As a result, even the largest mercenary companies tend to keep barely a hundred or so spears in their establishment. More than that they cannot pay. Well do the Heartlanders remember the tragedies that resulted when the Khushkan entrepreneurs hired on more warriors than they could pay or feed — a whirlwind march of conquest in a desperate effort to keep their forces together, and then, when they faced defeat, a turn to dark powers that nearly turned tragedy into apocalypse.

As ever, the best-trained and -equipped warriors remain the small groups of paladins and champions that comprise the military orders of the Seven. (In fact, the very word paladin exists because the greatest founding members of the divine military orders came from the Belharan palace bodyguards, or palatini. The Lumian Warriors of White trace their lineage directly to the imperial Candidati, an elite formation of palatine soldiers set apart because they wore white robes with their armor.) After the Godswar, many temporal leaders quibbled about these divine warriors, who for the most part remained outside their direct control. But despite some friction, no one seriously considered eliminating the organizations that had saved civilization, and both nobles and ordinary people continued to donate to the gods and sacrifice to them, supplying the resources that enabled the military orders to continue to do their work. The [[Order Astrida|Astrida]] continued to keep dangerous portals closed, the [[Valkyries|valkyries]] continued to fight their long twilight war against the remnants of the Wraith-touched, the [[Leofric|Tiran paladins]] continued to destroy undead, and so on. Thanks to this, all of them, both godsworn and more mortal paladins, have more experience and more training than almost any other warriors in the known world.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "War Stories" or "Philosophy" with [[Annika]] will award the Armies and Warriors Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*"Friends" in the codex entry is an allusion to ''philoi'', a term ancient Greek monarchs like Alexander the Great used to describe their aristocratic retainers.
*The ''Candidati'' were a historical military formation in the Roman Empire.
*The reference to "the powerful" is an allusion to the debate in Byzantine historiography about the so-called ''dynatoi'', and the silly mode version of the codex entry specifically refers to the work of the historian George Ostrogorsky on the subject.

[[Category:History]]

Sieges

2023-01-01T19:38:14Z

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''"Keep digging that ditch. Once you've finished the ditch, dig another one." -Emperor Edivus II to his soldiers, shortly before the siege defense of Marouka
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[[The Belharan Empire|The Belharans]] built many walled places around their empire, the remnants of a crash fortification program in the midst of the Godswar. It had mixed results during the war itself, but some of the mighty Belharan mural barriers do still stand around and inside Heartlander cities. Other fortified places remain empty, or have been occupied by bandits in the intervening centuries. For these fortifications, the imperials built monumental stone walls, often using blocks cut and fitted together by magic. Modern cities sometimes add onto the extant Belharan fortifications when necessary, but often let them slowly crumble away (or raid them for stone to build other things). It's not usually engineering knowledge that the builders of today lack, save perhaps a few of the more arcane spells and advanced math, but rather labor and resources. Under such constraints, a quick patch job, a wooden palisade, and a ditch are more than sufficient for most defenders' needs.

Ditches, walls, and other fortifications mean that armies rarely assault fortified places if they can avoid it. Few realms have the sort of resources to sustain a real army, let alone a proper engineering corps for their army to overcome such defenses. However, for those that do, like [[Khor'minos]], attacking a walled fortification usually boils down to building a large berm, or mole, of compacted earth that fills in any ditches in front of a wall and reaches high enough to allow archers and mages to scale the mole and fire down on the defenders of a wall. After they clear the wall, it becomes safe enough for infantry to scale it with ladders and capture it. Of course, if there is anyone in the assaulting army who can fly above the fortifications, the task of clearing the wall becomes much simpler — another reason why [[Lumia|Lumia's]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Sorra|Sorra's]] [[Harpies|harpies]] are highly prized warriors in serious conflicts.

It is known that the ancients sometimes had other means of breaking into cities. They had some siege engines, although those few that survive mostly seem to have been used to clear warriors off of the tops of walls rather than breaking the walls themselves. Magic is also a possibility, but few spells have the sort of concussive power needed to seriously damage stone, brick, or earth fortifications. There are also literary references to undermining walls with tunnels so that they collapse, but in the modern era, few can manage such a feat save the myrmarcs of southern Belhar and the Minoans… and these masters of engineering do not share their secrets lightly.

Defenders, of course, have their own countermeasures. They can generally collect more food than their besiegers can, and have the advantage of fortifications to base their fight around. It may take quite a long time for an attacking army to even reach the main walls of a city, let alone overcome them and breach them, and they will be subject to sallying raids by the defenders at every step. The defenders have, in fact, so many advantages that apart from the valkyries and harpies and the legendary engineering prowess of Khor'minos, few in Savarra can reliably assault well-defended stone fortifications. As a result, most such places, if they fall at all, fall to treachery or sneak attacks, or simply negotiate terms with their attackers to avoid the hassle of a siege. A successful propaganda program can be critical to making the last solution viable; the Minoans, for example, often host envoys from foreign powers in chambers decorated with reliefs of the legions assaulting cities, an unsubtle reminder of what they can do better than most.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Entering [[Khor'minos]] or discussing "Flight" with [[Annika]] will award the Sieges Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The quotation and a Silly Mode reference in the text itself both unsubtly refer to the classical historian Roel Konijnendijk's series of YouTube videos for ''Insider''.
*The codex entry describes a state of siege warfare immediately preceding the so-called golden age of sieges, which began in the historical Hellenistic era and saw a vast proliferation of besieging techniques and devices like the remarkable creations of Archimedes of Syrakousai and the infamous ''Helepolis'' of Demetrios Poliorketes.

[[Category:History]]

Past Jassira

2023-01-01T19:31:55Z

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''"But what is most incredible of all is that in journeying beyond these mountains, they arrived very near to the surface of the Moon, a shining land ruled by [[Tira]] herself, and saw many things which must be supposed by others to be exaggerated inventions." -The Wonders Beyond the Sands, composed many centuries before the Godswar by an unknown Belharan author
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar]] conquered most of the world before the outbreak of the Godswar. It sent fleets and armies to strange lands that had seemed mystical and mysterious to those who lived in the Heartlands, and although its rule over some of them, like [[Jassira]] and [[Tronarii]], lasted long enough for them to remain integrated into the Belharan world system even after the empire dissolved, others remain nearly as mysterious as they were before the Belharan invasion… if not more so.

Even the croc-folk and anubians who ply the inland rivers and deserts of Jassira cannot manage to cross the vast sea of dunes that stretches beyond the sultanate's borders. No oases can be found, no safe route devised, no caravans organized to try to reach whatever lies beyond — if anything does. Yet, from time to time, in the suqs of Crocodopolis and the open-air markets of the sultana's mountainous province of Arkacia, blue stones of tremendous beauty and worth appear for sale, sometimes in well-crafted jewelry and sometimes in the raw, with flecks of gold shining out from their oceanic depths. Such stones work better than nearly any other as magical catalysts, and with this use and its beautiful deep-blue coloration in mind, the Jassirans named them azul. Their name has stuck. Belharan geographers knew nothing of whence it came, but hypothesized a "foreign land" and named it, with no sense of irony, Xenaspa. This was the land beyond the desert, and legends of it grew with every fresh sample of azul jewelry that mysteriously appeared.

Only in the era of Belharan conquest did people learn some of the truth behind the stories of Xenaspa. Beyond the sands there truly were populous, wealthy realms, though the deserts and mountains between them and Jassira were so imposing that the Belharans only found them by sailing around the mountains entirely, through treacherous waters and against difficult currents, aided by powerful magics. Most of the details of the lands they found are lost, but what is known is that the lockstep legions triumphed in many battles over the peoples who lived there in "the land of a thousand cities" — some of which were of the races that remain familiar to Belharans from their home continent, and others of decidedly new ones. When it was done, they had conquered a vast new imperial province bearing the name Xenaspa after the legendary realm. Heartlanders came to live there to govern and garrison it, intensify cultivation, extract what wealth came from it, and bring a flavor of imperial culture and religion; by all appearances, within a century Xenaspa was a relatively stable and well-integrated part of the imperial realm, even if all travel remained by sea and magical portal.

When the darkness of the Godswar descended, the lands beyond the desert vanished from history. Some Xenaspan imperial subjects — liontaurs in particular, as they were prized by the Belharan army and often became generals in its ranks — had come to live in the Heartlands and retained some of their ancestral memories, so their original homeland wasn't seen as a wholly mythical place. But all contact was lost, and it could not be regained. Even the flow of azul stopped for well over a century. One cannot know what transpired in the former province while the rest of the empire convulsed with apocalyptic destruction, though there were rumors of great battles waged between warlords vying for power on the edges of the desert.

The only people who have managed to travel there since are the mighty-winged [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who are sworn to answer prayers to Lumia all over the world and have the endurance to soar even over the trackless Jassiran desert. Their global journeys are infrequent and cloaked in legend, and they are not exactly ethnographers, so many of the stories that they do tell must be taken with a large grain of salt. But in the lands beyond the desert, at least, a Heartlander can correlate their often-tall tales with what little is known from Belharan history and determine that there are now several successor realms to the old imperial province. One, Ariana, is ruled by a native dynasty of [[Harpies|harpy-queens]] reduced to governors during the Belharan conquest but once again proudly independent; another, which still claims the name Xenaspa, has elven rulers. Both appear to be peopled by the same mix of Heartland-descended and indigenous folk that they were in imperial times, and both count an almost-intelligible variant of Belharan among the many tongues that they speak.

According to the valkyries, the azul that has once again appeared in Arkacian markets is indeed originally from Xenaspa. The dust elves and myrmarcs that dwell there create mines to rival any in Khor'minos, extracting not merely azul but all manner of precious metals and building-stones. With the bounty of the earth, both stone and metal, they create great, well-engineered cities — albeit on the surface, rather than underground. While they cannot trade in any great amount with Jassira, they can trade in great volumes with the other places on the far side of the deserts and mountains. Their fabulous trade-wealth and well-irrigated river valleys feed a large population, a court of [[Nareva|Narevan]] snake-like scholars, and a thoroughly-drilled military that still holds memories of making war like the Belharans of old. As for Ariana, it is nearly as wealthy and populous, but its greatest tradition is as the womb of heroes. Arianan legends tell of lone warriors journeying into the mountains to tame the great birds that dwell there and ally with them to vanquish darkness. Their warriors are equal in pride and prowess to any Yvennese, and many are just-as-devout worshipers of [[Lumia]], lady of fire and sun. Some have apparently even joined the valkyrie order itself.

Ariana and Xenaspa, despite still being shrouded in myth, are only the nearest of the lands that lie beyond the great desert. The tales the valkyries tell of them mostly tally with what we can reasonably verify. But as the valkyries' stories get further from Ariana and Xenaspa, the tales get taller. What lies beyond them are places without names, known mostly by the fact that their traders once ventured (and, according to the valkyries, still do) into Xenaspan markets selling wares that seem as fabulous as azul: exotic spices that lend food any taste one can imagine, horses with tremendous endurance and undying loyalty to their riders, corals even more elaborate than the ones in the seas between Jassira and the Heartlands, and clothes that are somehow light and strong at the same time and dyed with a riot of beautiful color.

As ever, one of the first hints of lands beyond the horizon is trade. These things must come from somewhere, and perhaps someday the intrepid traders and explorers of the Heartlands will be able to journey to their source. Perhaps they will even journey beyond the lands that Old Belhar knew.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Travel" with [[Annika]] or "Fun?" with [[Serena]] will award the Past Jassira Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*''The Wonders Beyond the Sands'' is a reference to the classical romance by Antonios Diogenes, ''The Wonders Beyond Thule''.
*Crocodopolis - Krokodeilopolis - was a polis in Greek Egypt located in the Fayyum, so named because of the cult center of the god Sobek.
*Azul is essentially ''lapis lazuli''.

[[Category:History]]

Nature of Battle

2023-01-01T19:21:56Z

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''"You wicked children! How dare you? Sinning against your mothers and fathers, who conquered the world?" -Antigone, general of the veteran Belharan Silver Shields, haranguing the opposing army shortly before winning the Battle of Amoltos
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Even in the war-torn Heartlands, set-piece battles with large armies after the fashion of the Godswar, the [[Tronarii]] conflicts, or the Khushkan war are relatively uncommon. Most combat is the result of smaller-scale engagements: raids, ambushes, banditry. No matter what kind of fighting one is doing, though, it usually takes up relatively little of a warrior's daily experience. A soldier in a mass army on campaign spends most of their time marching, making camp, or standing guard; one who spends their months clearing out bandits or the Wraith-touched still takes more time to search for their foes than to battle them. For their own part, raiders and bandits usually try to avoid fighting whenever possible, because it's bad business. In all circumstances, combat is a small, even tiny, amount of terror, shock, and death amidst a broader reality of grinding drudgery.

Ambushes, skirmishes, and raids, the most common forms of combat, often involve little straight-up fighting at all — and a great deal of killing or subduing enemies through surprise. Set-piece fights with large armies are different. Thanks to the existence of shields and body armor and to the tightly packed nature of many formations, most set-piece battles result in very few casualties - at least, during the battles themselves. The two opposing forces maneuver against each other, sometimes clashing and jabbing away with their spears before separating again to lick their wounds and recover their strength, but few fighters die in the face-to-face melee. What truly determines who wins a battle is morale. As soon as enough warriors on one side take enough counsel of their fear to want to run away, that side starts to retreat whether the general wants to do so or not… and that, not the main clash of spear against spear, is usually when the slaughter begins. Unable to remain in formation, a fleeing foe is easy prey for the opposing side.

As a result, the thing that generals and soldiers alike care most about is warding off terror. A mark of a truly well-trained warrior, such as a paladin of one of the divine military orders, is being able to join battle silently, without needing to pause to psychologically prepare for the clash of spears and shields. Most warriors cannot do this, and need to remind themselves that they are part of a larger whole, alongside sisters and brothers fighting for the same purpose. They sing songs to lighten their mood and subsume their own emotions into a pounding beat or a warrior’s chant. Many such pieces were originally composed by [[Valkyries|valkyries]], who don't need to sing them for their own good but who often lead larger allied armies of the less-professional both in battle and in music. Lest anyone get the impression that valkyries are always prim and proper, [[Lumia|Lumia's]] sun warriors, who've often fought in the ranks before joining the Order of the Argent Wing, are as likely to teach their allies grimly comic or raunchy joke songs as they are hymns or wistful ballads. Anything to keep nervous allied warriors in the line alongside their comrades.

This also means, though, that warriors take whatever opportunity they can to frighten their enemy. Shining, well-maintained armor and shields, gleaming weapons, a display of magical power, a host of physically unusual allies like centaurs, the gleam of valkyries' wings, a magically-amplified battle cry or grim warning from the opposing general: all can make an warrior rethink the likely outcome of a clash with such dangerous foes. Some mages even possess powers of mind to directly attack the willpower of the soldiers fighting them. It is possible, however, to take this too far, and go beyond cleverness into military uselessness. Some small professional forces have tried to demonstrate complicated formations and maneuvers as a sign of how well-drilled they are, which can frighten a less-talented foe, but if their opponents simply keep their heads and attack, the resulting confusion usually results in the collapse of the 'well-drilled' army's formation.

When battle is joined, it is usually for a purpose. The most obvious one is material. Just as bandits attack lone travelers to take their possessions, so too do great armies fight each other for spoils. After all, the entourage of [[Evelyn|an aristocrat from, say, Yvennes]] contains a great deal of plunder: the large assortment of expensive bronze weapons and gear, the food, the slaves and servants brought along with the army, the camp followers and families that can be enslaved or ransomed by the winning side, and of course plenty of [[Currency|the ubiquitous electrum coins]]. Because of this, even a dangerously well-armed aristocrat's entourage is a better target than a poor village. Looting is not merely an activity for after the battle, either. When a well-equipped warrior falls, the fighting will refocus on their body as wealthy and poor combatants alike try to seize it and strip it of its valuables. And if there are any prisoners after a battle, they are invariably ransomed or enslaved — usually the latter.

One thing does often alleviate casualties, and has become somewhat more common since the Godswar: rather than face slaughter or maiming in the pursuit after a lost battle, many defeated foes are willing (or downright excited) to offer up their bodies in exchange for their lives. As far as the undisciplined and brutish are concerned, a foe in one's power is better used for baser purposes anyway, and besides, killing is usually a worst-choice in the lean years following the apocalypse. The [[Orcs|orcs]] of the Sailgraves are the most notorious practitioners of this right of conquest, but even if otherwise uncommon, the possibility of less-than-lethal combat ending with sexual gratification and either an assertion of dominance or enslavement is at least known and understood by anyone in Savarra who takes part in battle — when it is not the explicit reason for battle, which it may well be.

Not all combat is about loot or lust, of course. There are battles of conquest, fought to seize territory and subjects, which were uncommon in the immediate aftermath of the Godswar but now occur more and more frequently as the Heartlands' wealth in productive land and people grows. There are battles fought against the Wraith-touched, to defend lives against the soulless monsters that continue to lurk in the shadows. Finally, of course, there are battles between groups of the living who fight simply because they hate each other, where plunder and even conquest are secondary conditions.

Plunder, honor, hunger, hatred, justice, fame: all are good enough to get ordinary soldiers to march into battle. But once they're in the thick of the fighting, things become different, and men and women seize on different reasons to avoid running away from the spear-points in front of them. More than a few stand fast for the sake of those next to them, to avoid letting them down. Others, especially in mass armies, fight because they have little choice, because the densely packed infantry formations box them in and make flight impossible. Last, but not least, there are those rare professionals whose greatest bulwark against terror is that they have simply been doing this for a long time, they are good at it, and they have a pride of craft and skill that keeps them from fleeing like woodcocks.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Nature of Battle Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in this codex entry.
**The quote of "Antigone" is directly taken from a line said by the general Antigenes at the historical Battle of Gabiene. Antigenes also commanded a unit of Silver Shields (or ''Argyraspides'').
**The Silly Mode reference to the Lakedaimonians at Leuktra is a comment on the usefulness of classical drill. Although there is little scholarly consensus on what actually took place at the Battle of Leuktra, one interpretation was that the well-drilled Lakedaimonians (or Spartans, as they are more well known) were attempting a complex formation when they were destroyed by the Boiotians.
**Even out of Silly Mode, the commentary on overly complex formations also refers to the practice by classical Chinese armies of supposedly (there is some dispute over whether it would have ever been possible to do this) creating absurdly complicated, almost artistic battle formations with zero utility in actual combat, like the infamous Eight Gates Formation made famous by the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. The reason for the practice is somewhat unclear, but one hypothesis is the one advanced in the codex entry: making complicated formations would confuse and overawe enemies who were not as well trained.
**The incentives for battle are adapted from an argument made by Guy Halsall in ''Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West''.
*Amoltos is one of the cities of Xenaspa.

[[Category:History]]

Culture of War

2023-01-01T19:06:48Z

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''"Among warriors with no access to the proper ceremonies, the rituals for [[Sorra|Sorra's]] blessing of storms in battle are these: first and most efficacious, chanting the lay of Heaven's Air; second, offering a willow wreath or a [[Leananstone|leananstone]] to a well, or to the sea; third, chasing dogs while asking the sky for rain; last, shouting angrily and throwing a javelin at the sky." -Enno, Taelian priest of Sorra
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[[The Belharan Empire|Old Belhar's]] lockstep legions marched around the world winning victory after victory under monarchs and generals like Sanna Rutiliana, Edivus II, and Michael Melissenos, but Belharan aristocratic society also valorized leisure; a noble who had profited enough to allow himself or herself to avoid having to work had time for politics or the opportunity to dabble in civic, magical, or scientific pursuits, after all. In this era, though, warriors are at the top of the social hierarchy in nearly every culture that exists amid the wreckage of the empire, and it's not merely because of their wealth and power. Heartlander aristocrats have their position because of their military bona fides earned by protecting the city or the realm from foreign threats. So do the untitled wealthy whom the city-states of the south elect as generals over their citizen militia. For their part, tribal warriors like those of the Sailgraves [[Orcs|orcs]] are the ones who bring plunder and slaves from the mainland back to their windswept isles, making a difference between subsistence and a semblance of prosperity… at least for those selfsame warriors. Being a warrior is key to the identity of the 'powerful' in much of the post-imperial world. Perhaps only in [[Khor’minos]] and some of the great independent cities like [[Sheepfolk|Barania]] and Marouka is there a semblance of the old Belharan sense of noble leisure used for the benefit of everyone else.

Those warrior-aristocrats and champions who possess literary or musical ability usually write about their way of life, and those with money pay for the same from the troubadours and bards of Savarra’s byways. Elite culture, however, is not the only place for tales of war and songs of battle. The poor hear them (and sing them) as well. To be sure, a peasant’s viewpoint often (fairly) depicts warriors as the rapacious thugs who enslave children, ravish families, steal crops and livestock, or just casually murder people. But some figures of song like Goar, a tragic hero of the Khushkan war, have more positive depictions among ordinary Savarrans. And, of course, [[Lumia|Lumia’s]] [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Nareva|Nareva’s]] [[Order Astrida|Astrida]], and paladins of every deity are almost universally admired in both aristocratic and peasant culture for both military prowess and saving the innocent regardless of wealth or station.

These stories and songs circulate as more or less common currency throughout the lands that once lived under imperial rule. From [[Tronarii]] to [[Tychris]], it is reasonable to say that the post-imperial peoples all have shared expectations of what warfare is like. Warriors bound together not just by a common tongue and [[The Seven|common religion]] (even if one god or another of the Seven happens to predominate in a given land) but by common experiences (especially for mercenary companies, which can operate in lands very far afield) tend to have similar views about what is acceptable in war. This does not mean that battle is the same for the mountaineers of Zhenna as it is for the urban militia of Taelia or the woodsmen and wyld elves of Sartanni, but it can mean that all of those groups would have similar understandings of what constitutes an acceptable target in the eyes of their peoples and their gods.

All of the Seven are, in some form or another, deities of war. Generals might pray to [[Nareva]] or [[Keros]] when employing clever stratagems, to [[Mallach]] for soldierly unity and comradeship, to [[Sorra]] for favorable weather, or to [[Velun]] when seeking a wild battle frenzy. [[Lumia]], of course, is the patron goddess of just war: defending against attackers, or bringing fire and sword down upon the truly wicked. But [[Tira]] perhaps embodies the spirit of warriors best, for she is not merely the goddess of battle and death but the goddess of chance and fate. Everyone who bears arms in Savarra knows that war is the province of uncertainty, that the results of most battles amount to a roll of the dice (or, by common metaphor, Tira’s bones). In such circumstances, who better to have on one’s side than the goddess who decrees mortals’ allotted time?
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Big Battles" with [[Annika]] will award the Culture of War Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*The ritual described in the codex quotation is adapted from the practices of Mongolian shamans. The major adaptation is that the Mongolians throw poo into the air rather than a javelin.
*Rutiliana and Melissenos are names adapted from Roman history: the Western Empire generated the former family and the Eastern Empire generated the latter.

[[Category:History]]

Arms & Tactics

2023-01-01T18:58:28Z

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''"Audacious? Certainly. Reckless? Perhaps. But I say to you now, to be more cautious would embrace certain defeat. Take refuge in our audacity. They expect us to demonstrate in front of our camp, not attack." -Michael Melissenos, Belharan general, shortly before the Battle of Satricum

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In every society around the world, warriors fight in different ways, and those ways are dependent on the society that produces them and the arms and armor available to them. Weapons and protection are the tools of the trade, and tactics the method.

Bronze weapons and gear remain the favored choice of all those who can afford them, but thanks to the labor (and rare tin ore) that goes into making military-worthy bronze, they are uncommon outside the warrior elite. In fact, their price forces even aristocrats into economies. When wearing body armor, many warriors concentrate their bronze around their vitals and cover much of the rest with thick textiles, such as laminated linen or layered wool. Similarly, the trusty bronze spear is usually the weapon of choice, not least because it requires less bronze than does a larger war-axe or sword; it may be complemented by a bronze dagger or hand axe as a sidearm. Anyone who uses more bronze than that is truly a wealthy individual. Many cannot even muster that much bronze, and are forced to use weapons of relatively soft iron, sharpened wood, or stone.

Infantry remains the core of most fighting forces, with obvious exceptions like pastoral herding tribes (who favor horseback) or [[Centaurs|centaurs]] (who must rely on allies or subjects if they want to field infantry). Usually, the most experienced warriors will be those who have the training to accurately employ ranged weapons like javelins, arrows, and especially magic, although a few veteran champions choose instead to make themselves well-armed and -armored enough to anchor a battle line often composed primarily of those less well-equipped. Combat generally begins with an exchange of missiles and, if applicable, magic, followed eventually by a clash of battle lines when the missiles are exhausted or when one side or the other can no longer stand the onslaught of arrows, javelins, and sling bullets.

Centuries ago, [[The Belharan Empire|Belharan]] notables preferred chariotry to slogging around on foot; chariots allowed great warriors to ride into battle quickly, or to stay mobile as they flung javelins or loosed arrows at the foe. Contact with centaur tribes and the gradual submission of the great herds changed this, as did the breeding of horses both large and small to carry single riders. Nowadays, despite Belhar's fall, chariots remain popular as ceremonial vehicles and in combat on relatively flat lands, but cavalry and centaury are becoming more and more prevalent for military purposes. [[Lieutenant Jen|Horse-riding bipeds]] and centaurs, usually in the same tribes, now dominate the great steppelands, herding stock and clashing over pasturage. It is these tribes that have begun to trade cavalry horses and camels as far afield as [[Tronarii]], Yvennes, Gaba, and [[Jassira]], all of which have begun to mount warriors of their own on them. Bipeds who ride horses often arm themselves with bows, javelins, or light spears to harass slower-moving infantry. Centaurs, however, remain the most prized hoof-warriors for would-be potentates, and the few taurs that deign to serve outside their tribe or herd [[Alante|often achieve positions of great military prominence]]. There are even small populations of other taur groups in the Heartlands, descendants of immigrants from long-lost lands once ruled by Old Belhar. Some are humpbacked and well-adapted to waterless places, others ferocious and strong with the fur and tails of lionesses.

Battlemages are prized additions to any military force because of how few people (let alone warriors) have special magical education beyond a few casual cantrips — and because magic can have an outsize effect on any battlefield. The most favored large formation for infantry packs them together in large, fairly-dense blocks to keep soldiers from running away, but a well-placed concussive blast or chain lightning spell can tear the heart out of any such battle line. Since many infantry formations are effectively useless if they need to disperse, this means that in order for their own foot soldiers to stay together, battlemages spend as much of their time warding magic away from their own allies as they do casting offensive magic against the enemy. Because of this disproportionate effect in combat and their necessary separation from the rank and file — one cannot see where to cast spells if one is packed into the ranks with everyone else — battlemages often rise to command mercenary companies or achieve high rank in formal militaries. The fact that many of the military orders of the Seven are primarily composed of magic-wielding warriors (even if magic is not necessarily their strongest suit) is one of the things that makes them so impressive on the battlefield.

Difficulties of command and control inhibit easy maneuver on the battlefield. Flank attacks, ambushes, feigned retreats, and the like are sometimes employed by large armies at the beginning of a fight according to a pre-agreed plan, especially if they contain well-trained troops, but complex evolutions in the midst of battle are usually beyond the abilities of large armies. In smaller groups — for example, warbands — shouted voices make complex orders and tactics much more viable. For larger armies, once fighting is joined, there is often little for a commander to do but hope their army is victorious; they cannot command beyond shouting range of their own voice, and they can rarely disengage their forces from a melee once committed. Often, then, the best thing for a commander to do is simply plunge into the fighting themselves, or to place themselves with one of the few groups that can take new orders mid-fighting: cavalry, chariotry, missile infantry, battlemages, or flying forces like [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Harpies|harpies]].
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Valkyries" with [[Annika]] or encountering [[Lieutenant Jen]] will award the Arms and Tactics Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in the codex entry.
**"Melissenos" is, like many Belharan surnames, the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family.
**The transition from chariotry to horseback cavalry is an aspect of the historical late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Many of the other particulars of warfare are adapted from classical history.
**In Silly Mode, "warband" is given a specific numerical qualification, based on the definition in the Laws of Ine of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon legal code from the seventh century preserved in the legislation of Aelfraed the Great.
*The Silly Mode version of the codex entry jokes about how many weapons and armor pieces in the game are there simply for Rule of Cool purposes and not because they make any sense given the time period, technology, etc.

[[Category:History]]

Arms & Tactics

2023-01-01T18:58:14Z

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''"Audacious? Certainly. Reckless? Perhaps. But I say to you now, to be more cautious would embrace certain defeat. Take refuge in our audacity. They expect us to demonstrate in front of our camp, not attack." -Michael Melissenos, Belharan general, shortly before the Battle of Satricum

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In every society around the world, warriors fight in different ways, and those ways are dependent on the society that produces them and the arms and armor available to them. Weapons and protection are the tools of the trade, and tactics the method.

Bronze weapons and gear remain the favored choice of all those who can afford them, but thanks to the labor (and rare tin ore) that goes into making military-worthy bronze, they are uncommon outside the warrior elite. In fact, their price forces even aristocrats into economies. When wearing body armor, many warriors concentrate their bronze around their vitals and cover much of the rest with thick textiles, such as laminated linen or layered wool. Similarly, the trusty bronze spear is usually the weapon of choice, not least because it requires less bronze than does a larger war-axe or sword; it may be complemented by a bronze dagger or hand axe as a sidearm. Anyone who uses more bronze than that is truly a wealthy individual. Many cannot even muster that much bronze, and are forced to use weapons of relatively soft iron, sharpened wood, or stone.

Infantry remains the core of most fighting forces, with obvious exceptions like pastoral herding tribes (who favor horseback) or [[Centaurs|centaurs]] (who must rely on allies or subjects if they want to field infantry). Usually, the most experienced warriors will be those who have the training to accurately employ ranged weapons like javelins, arrows, and especially magic, although a few veteran champions choose instead to make themselves well-armed and -armored enough to anchor a battle line often composed primarily of those less well-equipped. Combat generally begins with an exchange of missiles and, if applicable, magic, followed eventually by a clash of battle lines when the missiles are exhausted or when one side or the other can no longer stand the onslaught of arrows, javelins, and sling bullets.

Centuries ago, [[The Belharan Empire|Belharan]] notables preferred chariotry to slogging around on foot; chariots allowed great warriors to ride into battle quickly, or to stay mobile as they flung javelins or loosed arrows at the foe. Contact with centaur tribes and the gradual submission of the great herds changed this, as did the breeding of horses both large and small to carry single riders. Nowadays, despite Belhar's fall, chariots remain popular as ceremonial vehicles and in combat on relatively flat lands, but cavalry and centaury are becoming more and more prevalent for military purposes. [[Lieutenant Jen|Horse-riding bipeds]] and centaurs, usually in the same tribes, now dominate the great steppelands, herding stock and clashing over pasturage. It is these tribes that have begun to trade cavalry horses and camels as far afield as [[Tronarii]], Yvennes, Gaba, and [[Jassira[[, all of which have begun to mount warriors of their own on them. Bipeds who ride horses often arm themselves with bows, javelins, or light spears to harass slower-moving infantry. Centaurs, however, remain the most prized hoof-warriors for would-be potentates, and the few taurs that deign to serve outside their tribe or herd [[Alante|often achieve positions of great military prominence]]. There are even small populations of other taur groups in the Heartlands, descendants of immigrants from long-lost lands once ruled by Old Belhar. Some are humpbacked and well-adapted to waterless places, others ferocious and strong with the fur and tails of lionesses.

Battlemages are prized additions to any military force because of how few people (let alone warriors) have special magical education beyond a few casual cantrips — and because magic can have an outsize effect on any battlefield. The most favored large formation for infantry packs them together in large, fairly-dense blocks to keep soldiers from running away, but a well-placed concussive blast or chain lightning spell can tear the heart out of any such battle line. Since many infantry formations are effectively useless if they need to disperse, this means that in order for their own foot soldiers to stay together, battlemages spend as much of their time warding magic away from their own allies as they do casting offensive magic against the enemy. Because of this disproportionate effect in combat and their necessary separation from the rank and file — one cannot see where to cast spells if one is packed into the ranks with everyone else — battlemages often rise to command mercenary companies or achieve high rank in formal militaries. The fact that many of the military orders of the Seven are primarily composed of magic-wielding warriors (even if magic is not necessarily their strongest suit) is one of the things that makes them so impressive on the battlefield.

Difficulties of command and control inhibit easy maneuver on the battlefield. Flank attacks, ambushes, feigned retreats, and the like are sometimes employed by large armies at the beginning of a fight according to a pre-agreed plan, especially if they contain well-trained troops, but complex evolutions in the midst of battle are usually beyond the abilities of large armies. In smaller groups — for example, warbands — shouted voices make complex orders and tactics much more viable. For larger armies, once fighting is joined, there is often little for a commander to do but hope their army is victorious; they cannot command beyond shouting range of their own voice, and they can rarely disengage their forces from a melee once committed. Often, then, the best thing for a commander to do is simply plunge into the fighting themselves, or to place themselves with one of the few groups that can take new orders mid-fighting: cavalry, chariotry, missile infantry, battlemages, or flying forces like [[Valkyries|valkyries]] and [[Harpies|harpies]].
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "Valkyries" with [[Annika]] or encountering [[Lieutenant Jen]] will award the Arms and Tactics Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*There are several historical allusions in the codex entry.
**"Melissenos" is, like many Belharan surnames, the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family.
**The transition from chariotry to horseback cavalry is an aspect of the historical late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Many of the other particulars of warfare are adapted from classical history.
**In Silly Mode, "warband" is given a specific numerical qualification, based on the definition in the Laws of Ine of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon legal code from the seventh century preserved in the legislation of Aelfraed the Great.
*The Silly Mode version of the codex entry jokes about how many weapons and armor pieces in the game are there simply for Rule of Cool purposes and not because they make any sense given the time period, technology, etc.

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Armies & Warriors

2023-01-01T18:44:51Z

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''"A good king may rely on his Friends and his Friends' warriors. Foreign warriors are the tool of a tyrant." -Lady Kalypso of Tychris
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==Writer Credit==
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[[The Belharan Empire|Belhar]] survived the Godswar — barely. Its society and unity were shattered, divided under the rule of disparate potentates and city-states. Its [[Currency|economy]] was wrecked, capable of little production let alone long-distance trade. Many of the people who had worked on the land were dead, leaving agricultural production at terrifyingly low levels. Those that remained had their hands full feeding themselves, let alone producing enough food to allow others to live in cities (or, indeed, military camps) without farming their own food. These were the things that ended the era of the great lockstep legions, not stupidity or obscurantism. The people who lived in the Empire did not forget how to make complex war on a large scale; they simply lacked the resources to do so. Individual cities or warlords could not muster the vast professional armies that the united imperials had been able to, and given their losses, even if the Empire had still been united, the imperials would not have been able to do so, either.

What was left was societies that only contained very small groups of people that had the resources to maintain the ability to fight, let alone spend all of their time on it in ways sufficient to become good at it. Only the wealthiest of elites could finance training, armor, and good weapons. This meant that those whom historians often call 'the powerful' were the ones who did most of the fighting. In this they would usually be accompanied by small groups of trained and experienced retainers, albeit usually of lesser military quality; only very rarely would larger groups of people leave their land, flocks, fish, or towns to take up arms as untrained levies. Sometimes the 'powerful' fought for a particular ruler or city; other times, they would turn [[Marked Merk Mercenaries|mercenary]], crossing boundaries to battle for whomever they pleased if price and land were right. Whether they inherited it from [[The Baroness|aristocratic Belharan parents]] or [[Lyla|took it by force in battle]], they were the ones who controlled most of what little wealth existed in the lean years following the apocalypse, and thus most of the modern noble houses count them as ancestors.

Ironically, the slowly growing prosperity of the last century has upset this state of affairs. Now, many realms and city-states have the resources and population to build larger armies… and, less happily, there’s enough food in most parts of the world to sustain larger groups of bandits preying on farmers, shepherds, and fishers. City-states field forces of citizen militia who arm themselves out of their personal wealth; princes and princesses can call on their "friends", warriors of note with their own groups of retainers. Mighty [[Khor'minos]] has even gone a long way toward recreating Old Belhar's lockstep legions, as has Taelia on a somewhat smaller scale. And with more food and wealth in abundance, mercenary companies have emerged, especially in the Heartlands and [[Tronarii]].

Mercenaries in particular bear mention as a fungible quantity. A mercenary company (and they are almost always organized in companies; a single warrior without a support network of some kind is essentially useless and usually dead) can move from war to war in the Heartlands more or less seamlessly, provided its leaders, who are usually aristocracy or of the untitled wealthy, survive as a nucleus around which to recruit fresh warriors. But while they may seem common now compared to several years ago, there are still not all that many compared to the days of yore. Growing prosperity is one thing, but it will be many decades, if not centuries, before there is enough food to feed large groups of warriors who do not cultivate their own crops. As a result, even the largest mercenary companies tend to keep barely a hundred or so spears in their establishment. More than that they cannot pay. Well do the Heartlanders remember the tragedies that resulted when the Khushkan entrepreneurs hired on more warriors than they could pay or feed — a whirlwind march of conquest in a desperate effort to keep their forces together, and then, when they faced defeat, a turn to dark powers that nearly turned tragedy into apocalypse.

As ever, the best-trained and -equipped warriors remain the small groups of paladins and champions that comprise the military orders of the Seven. (In fact, the very word paladin exists because the greatest founding members of the divine military orders came from the Belharan palace bodyguards, or palatini. The Lumian Warriors of White trace their lineage directly to the imperial Candidati, an elite formation of palatine soldiers set apart because they wore white robes with their armor.) After the Godswar, many temporal leaders quibbled about these divine warriors, who for the most part remained outside their direct control. But despite some friction, no one seriously considered eliminating the organizations that had saved civilization, and both nobles and ordinary people continued to donate to the gods and sacrifice to them, supplying the resources that enabled the military orders to continue to do their work. The [[Order Astrida|Astrida]] continued to keep dangerous portals closed, the [[Valkyries|valkyries]] continued to fight their long twilight war against the remnants of the Wraith-touched, the [[Leofric|Tiran paladins]] continued to destroy undead, and so on. Thanks to this, all of them, both godsworn and more mortal paladins, have more experience and more training than almost any other warriors in the known world.
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==Codex Acquisition==
Discussing "War Stories" or "Philosophy" with [[Annika]] will award the Armies and Warriors Codex Entry.

==Trivia==
*"Friends" in the codex entry is an allusion to ''philoi'', a term ancient Greek monarchs like Alexander the Great used to describe their aristocratic retainers.
*The ''Candidati'' were a historical military formation in the Roman Empire.
*The reference to "the powerful" is an allusion to the debate in Byzantine historiography about the so-called ''dynatoi'', and the silly mode version of the codex entry specifically refers to the work of the historian George Ostrogorsky on the subject.

[[Category:History]]

User:Alypia

2023-01-01T18:34:24Z

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Annika

2023-01-01T17:33:02Z

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| fullname = Annika Rótudóttir
| nickname = Anni
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| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
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| occupation = Paladin
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
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''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. ''Requires a pussy.''
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. ''Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.''
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. ''Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Oral & Fuck, or 69)''
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. ''Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)''
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.

==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

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Alypia: /* Talk */

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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".'' ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? ''This is a one-time conversation.''
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.''

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. Requires a pussy.
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.
==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

2023-01-01T17:30:47Z

Alypia: /* Talk */

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| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
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| occupation = Paladin
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".''
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie". ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? This is a one-time conversation.
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. Requires a pussy.
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.
==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

2023-01-01T17:30:19Z

Alypia: /* Talk */

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| creator = [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| fullname = Annika Rótudóttir
| nickname = Anni
| alias =
| pronunciation = Ah-nee-kaa
| species = [[Boreal Elves|Boreal Elf]]
[[Valkyries|Valkyrie]]
| gender = Dickgirl
| occupation = Paladin
| title = Sister of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] Seneschal of the [[Valkyries|Order of the Argent Wing]] ''(after [[The Palace of Light]])''
| height = 6'3"
| bustsize = D
| family = Pandellin (Father) [deceased] Róta (Mother) [deceased] Unnamed Sister (Elder Sister) Unnamed Brother (Younger Brother) Unnamed Nieces and Nephews
| relatives =
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| significant other =
| children =
| faction =
| nationality =
| location = [[Glacial Rift]] (before finishing [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]])
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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
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''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? ''Requires asking her about her family first.'' ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie". ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? This is a one-time conversation.
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. Requires a pussy.
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.
==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? Requires asking her about her family first. ''There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.''
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? ''This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.''
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. ''This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.''
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie". ''Completing all of these talks is tracked.''
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? ''Locked behind talking about "Travel".''
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? ''Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".''
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? This is a one-time conversation.
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.

===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. Requires a pussy.
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.
==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Annika

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Alypia:

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''"It's been a little more than a hundred years since I took my vows. Long enough to remember a lot of friends who aren't here anymore." She closes her eyes and shakes her head and, after some moments, manages to find her warm, friendly smile again. "But also long enough to develop my skills and spend decades passing them on to younger sisters. That's the part I like best: helping brave women grow into their own."''
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'''Annika Rótudóttir''' is a long-serving [[Boreal Elves|elven]] [[Valkyries|valkyrie]], a frontline warrior for the Order of the Argent Wing. Thanks to the growing strength of [[Wraiths|Wraith]] power in the north, and in order to keep them from traveling south, she and her shield-sisters are trapped in endless battles against waves of corrupted enemies. While in the [[Glacial Rift]], the Champion can find her battling against them, and from there agree to help the valkyries find a way to defeat the Wraiths and so free up forces to battle the [[Demons|demons]]. This begins the quest [[The Palace of Light]], which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction. This begins the quest "[[The Palace of Light]]", which upon completion opens the goddess [[Lumia]], the other valkyries, and the Lumian Keep for interaction.

After completing the quest, Annika remains in the Keep. Lumia elevates her to the rank of seneschal and asks her to serve as a mentor and guide to the younger valkyrie warriors as they join the campaign against the demons. Although she is capable, she struggles with accepting the new position and feels as though she should be back out in the world fighting to keep people safe with the rest of her sisters.

As Seneschal, Annika is welcoming to the Champion on their visits to Lumia's Keep and insists on furnishing them with hospitality. After accepting her offer to bake some snacks and helping her sort out her feelings about the responsibilities of being seneschal, the Champion can optionally make their affections for her clear. Even in a platonic relationship, Annika is friendly and gracious, but as a lover, she leans very romantic and affectionate. She is only interested in sex with Champions who are serious about a relationship.

Mature and muscular, Annika is an athletic half-sexed frost elf who prefers to pitch in bed, but is willing to catch anally if Champ does the same for her. She mostly tops, either with her penis or with her tongue, but is happy to cuddle or sixty-nine instead, and will even sometimes bottom for a Champion who has a pussy.

:''"That's the thing about scars, you know. Sometimes they make you stronger. Sometimes they make for good stories that you can laugh about when you tell them. And, well, sometimes they leave you a little broken. Or a lot broken." She gently taps you on the chest. "No matter where the scars are: out there… or in here."
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==Appearance==
<blockquote>
''Lumia's chosen, the valkyries, all boast enormous diaphanous wings, and Annika's no exception; the eye-catching magical appendages are the first things that ensnare the eye as you look at her. From where they emanate on her upper back, they can stretch far wider than she is tall, although at rest they remain folded demurely… and no less golden for that. Otherwise (and also so like many other valkyries), she is a very feminine boreal elf, with cool blue skin, loose shoulder-length white hair, and six-inch-long tapered emotive ears. Of all the valkyries you've met, Anni is probably the oldest. With frost elves age is hard to see; her smooth-featured face doesn't offer much of a hint of it, nor do her lively ice-blue eyes. But there is a white scar on her jaw that does speak to a life of combat, and a little bit of weary sadness that sometimes appears in her generally friendly smile.

''Now that she's not on the battlefield, Anni's attire is casual in the frost elven way — which means it's barely there at all. Fortunately, that means you have a very clear view of her biceps, shoulders, back, and rock-hard tummy, all of which have the kind of well-defined functional musculature of an agile warrior. A few more white battle scars slash across her arms and middle as well, testaments to the fights she's survived. Practically the only clothing the valkyrie has on above her waist are her golden bracers, detailed with flowing elven lines and resting over comfortable white linen, and her similarly well-decorated top. The latter is little more than a bra, a pair of golden Lumian sun-flare cups to support her D-cup breasts. A golden neckpiece and a large winged-sun icon on a necklace, her seneschal's badge of office, complete the ensemble; all else is taut blue elf-flesh over powerful sinew.

''With that said, Anni's a bit more fully attired below the waist. A long white dress, slitted to allow both legs through and decorated with golden patterning, hangs from her belt; its chryselephantine motif, traditional for Lumians, is set off by a few gauzy blue strips of silk that flutter to the side. A pair of ivory-and-gold leggings stretch from ankle to thigh, making her powerful blue thighs visible through the slits of her dress… not that you're complaining. Nor would you complain about how easy it is to see the outline of her gently flaring hips and taut, tight elven musclebutt through the fabric.

''Finally, you know that underneath the dress, Annika boasts a thick, footlong elven shaft, complete with a dark throbbing cockhead and a pair of juicy balls. She also has one asshole, placed right between her tight chiseled buttcheeks where it belongs.

''As you look over her, Anni's posture, which is normally so upright as to be nearly military, shifts slightly so that she's placing more of her weight on a single leg. With one hand on her hip and the other hanging down by her thigh, she gazes at you with no small amount of amusement. "Distracted?"

''"Very."

''Her answer comes back in her lightly-accented singsongy tone: "My, my. We do have ways of solving that problem here."

''Or making it worse… in the best ways.
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==Interactions==
===[[The Palace of Light]]===
====Quest Start====
Annika's initial encounter with the Champion is a random event in the [[Glacial Rift]] that only happens after completing the [[Abyssal Depths]] part of the quest [[Winter Wolf]]. The party encounters a snowstorm in the Rift, and within it, they can hear and see the sounds of combat and the use of holy magic. They have the options of '''Investigating''' or '''Leaving'''.
*'''Leave''' - Discretion is the better part of valor. ''Something like this probably won't go away forever'', so you can probably investigate later when you're ready.
*'''Investigate''' - A big fight up here in the Rift isn't something you can easily ignore. ''If you investigate, you probably won't be able to avoid getting into a battle!''
Leaving will reset the encounter, although it will be unavailable for a day after departing.

Investigating will throw the Champion into a fight alongside a slightly-injured '''Valkyrie''' against several Wraith-corrupted beasts. Winning proceeds things normally; losing does as well, as the valkyrie simply goes beast-mode and wins the fight single-handedly (or with the help of Champ's companions, if the party has any). After the fight, the valkyrie introduces herself as '''Annika''' and says that she's been looking for the Champion on a matter of great importance. After healing the party and finding shelter, she lays out the crisis that has led to the valkyries' current difficulties.
*'''Valkyries''' - What's life like for Lumia's warmaidens, anyway?
*'''Cult''' - You could've used their help against Kasyrra, or against Tollus and the Cult.
*'''The Keep''' - From what she's said, something's going wrong at Lumia's Keep.
*'''Lumia?''' - And the Dawn Maiden herself is doing what exactly?
*'''What Next?''' - Hmm. None of this sounds good at all. What's the plan?

Completing this conversation results in Annika telling Champ where to meet her elsewhere in the Rift in order to meet Lumia herself and continue [[The Palace of Light|the Palace of Light quest]].
====Continuing the Quest====
When the Champion visits Lumia's grove, Annika is present to open the way. She mostly just cameos in this scene though, keeping busy by tending her wounds.
====Quest End====
At the end of the quest, when the Champion leaves the dream and wakes up in the Keep, Annika is present. If the Champion has the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory (and thus gets the wakeup scene where Lumia cleanses the sword), Annika greets the Champion effusively, thanks them for their heroism, and introduces them to [[Thrud]] and [[Hjörr]]. If the Champion does ''not'' have the Corrupted Dawnsword equipped or in inventory, a similar event plays out, but with the option to either '''Hug''' Annika or give her a '''Handshake'''. (The choice exists primarily for flavor.)
*'''Handshake''' - Crisp, cool, professional.
*'''Hug''' - Publicly affectionate and congratulatory in a way that's appropriate both for friends ''and'' for people who might want to eventually be more than friends.
Either way, Annika assumes the role of '''Seneschal of the Order of the Argent Wing''' and mistress of Lumia's Keep. She tells the Champion that they are always welcome there, and assures them of the valkyries' help against the demons.
===Being the Seneschal===
Following the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], Annika disappears for a day while she gets up to speed on the duties of a seneschal. After that, she is available for interaction at all hours in the K18 tile of the Keep.

Annika's interactions require doing two "friendly" events with her before getting to her regular talks and, potentially, sex. First, she insists on baking treats as a thank-you for Champ's role in the defeat of the Wraith. During this event, she brings the party to a side room where they can be present while she's baking the almond cakes, asks Champ about themselves and what they've been up to, and even plays host to Lumia for a short time near the end. Although the cakes do come out great, Annika has to leave abruptly at the end of the event to take care of other duties as a seneschal, although she promises to be available an hour later. Champ can separate from her with a '''hug''' or a '''wave'''; these actions are mostly for roleplaying and do not have a significant impact on her relationship.

The second friendly event occurs when selecting her tile interaction after the appointed hour. Annika is on the other side of the great hall, maintaining her calm and composure while constantly being interrupted by other valkyries. [[Thrud]] and Halima commiserate with the Champion about how busy and stressed she seems under the surface. At this point, Champ can choose to help resolve her stress in one of two ways:
*'''Talk It Out''' - Encourage Annika to work through her problems verbally, as a friend. You're sure that, if you want to, you can express romantic or sexual interest later, and you'd rather not do it so suddenly.
*'''Sex Relief''' - Annika needs to get blown. By you. Specifically. When dealing with a dickgirl who has this much top energy, it's the best way to calm her down.
If talking it out, Champ and the other valkyries chat with Annika on the balcony, where she expresses her frustration at not being out there fighting and her struggles with managing the needs of the entire Keep, a much more difficult job than the quiet mentorship role she'd had before. Then, with Champ and the other valkyries providing suggestions, she works through better ways to handle her new position. If relieving her sexually, Champ intentionally teases her into taking control and frog-marching them away from the other valkyries to a side room, where she visibly relaxes and offers Champ the opportunity to show what they can do with twelve inches of elf cock. Either way, she ends the event relaxed, relieved, and more at ease with her leadership role, and firm friends with Champ. She also offers to let the Champ call her "Anni", like the other valkyries do.

Completing both of these events gains Annika's friendship, which is necessary to become a valkyrie ''and'' to be able to do her regular interactions, both platonic and romantic.
===At Lumia's Keep===
From then on, Annika remains in tile K18 in Lumia's Keep and is available at all hours of the day and night.

Annika has...many talk topics. She also offers hugs and is even willing to cuddle platonically. In order to unlock her sex content, Champ must make it clear to her that they are interested in a serious relationship. This can either be done by kissing her during the conversation that happens when returning to her tile following the '''sex relief''' event ''or'' by '''cuddling''' with her platonically and then '''kissing''' her, the second of which is a repeatable event that can be accessed at any time (in case a casual blowjob wasn't the way that the player wished to roleplay their relationship with Annika starting).
===Talk===
*'''Personal''' - What's she like?
**'''Family''' - So, how was life for her growing up in the distant mists of the past?
**'''Warrior''' - How'd she end up wielding a weapon in the service of Lumia? Requires asking her about her family first. There are three potential responses to what she says the first time you have this conversation. These responses are one-time only and exist more to roleplay than to have a significant impact on your relationship.
***'''Bright Side''' - Hey, it could be worse, right?
***'''Sympathize''' - That sounds awful.
***'''That's Life''' - What'd she expect?
**'''Relationship''' - So. You're a couple. How do she and you feel about each other? This is locked behind having kissed Annika. It is a one-time talk. The two potential responses exist solely for roleplaying and do not change your relationship.
***'''Be Shy''' - Oh! Oh. Oh ''my''. (Melt into a puddle.)
***'''Be Cool''' - Oh yeah. It does. Now here's your answer... (Flirt right back.)
*'''Lumia''' - Chat about things relating to her goddess, her faith, and her place in the Order.
**'''Religion''' - What's her take on her goddess's worship?
**'''Valkyrie''' - What's her life been like as a valkyrie?
**'''Schism''' - She mentioned that the schism was 'complicated'. Might be worth delving into a little deeper. This is a one-time talk locked behind having spoken about both "Warrior" and "Religion".
**'''Atheldred''' - So, Annika's made it fairly clear that she knew Ryn's grandmother pretty well. It might be worthwhile for both elves to talk about it. This is a one-time talk locked behind having both asked Annika about "Schism" and completing [[Specter of the Wyld]]. Etheryn must be in the active party to discuss it.
**'''Seneschal''' - So you've already spoken about being a seneschal, but only in general terms. What does she do now that she didn't when she was just a valkyrie? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".
*'''Valk Stories''' - Any less, um, violent tales about being in the Order? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".
**'''Livestock''' - Blessing actual herds of pigs for elven swineherds. Not pigfolk.
**'''Festivals''' - The fun kinds of religious celebration!
**'''Pilgrims''' - Lots of people travel to holy sites all over the world.
**'''Travel''' - She's mentioned visiting interesting places and seeing exotic things...
*'''War Stories''' - Any memorable fights she'd feel like sharing? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie". Completing all of these talks is tracked.
**'''Last Stand''' - Fighting alongside the army of Khor'minos against Wraith-touched.
**'''Flight''' - Chat about valkyries' ability to fly and how that helps them fight.
**'''Big Battles''' - Huge clashes of armies that decide the fates of nations - most haven't lived through any, but Annika's probably seen at least one.
**'''Faraway Lands''' - She left a little bit unsaid when you were chatting about her journey to the lands beyond Jassira. Any war stories in that mix? Locked behind talking about "Travel".
*'''Philosophy''' - People who spend a lot of time fighting must spend a lot of time thinking about war too, right? Like, in the abstract? Locked behind talking about "Valkyrie".
**'''Preparation''' - How should a warrior get ready for battle?
**'''Leadership''' - Fighting's one thing; fighting while being in charge is another.
**'''After Battle''' - Sometimes the end of a fight isn't the end of a fight.
**'''Cleverness''' - Fighting smarter, not harder, is a good thing, right?
*'''Cultists''' - Any updates on the cultists she'd been tracking before you cleaned the Wraith out of the Keep? This is a one-time conversation.
*'''[[Aileh]]''' - What does she think about your draconic lover and daughter? This is a one-time talk locked behind having seen Annika's event with Aileh and her daughter in the Wayfort.
===Training===
Annika is a [[Powers#Trainers|move trainer]] for a mixture of white magic/warrior skills. She works the same as all other move trainers do.
===Etheryn?===
Twenty-four hours after completing the "Atheldred" conversation with Etheryn and Annika, a one-time talk becomes available if Etheryn is in the active party where Champ can check in on what the two half-sexed frost elves have been talking about together.
===Fertility===
If the Champion has a vagina and has kissed Anni, there's a one-time talk available that discusses whether it's safe for her to cum inside. She reassures Champ that valkyries, being servants of the goddess of fertility, can be as safe as they want to be, and that she has no intention of being ''un''safe unless there's mutual agreement from both partners, something she personally doesn't feel comfortable with...for the moment.
===Hug===
Champ can hug Annika at any time regardless of their relationship - although the hug goes from friendly to affectionate if they're lovers.
===Cuddle===
Champ can also cuddle Annika at any time regardless of relationship. If platonic, there is the option to kiss her at the end of the cuddle, or simply keep it friendly. Intimate cuddles are only available to Champs who are romantically entangled with Anni and have several branching variations, one of which leads to outercourse.
*'''Casual''' - Just hang out in the Keep's great hall and snuggle. Anni is likely to bestow headpats as well.
**'''Leave''' - You did have a lovely time. (Platonic option.)
**'''Kiss''' - Give your lover a smooch. (Romantic option.)
*'''Intimate''' - Go back to her room and cuddle by the fire, just the two of you.
**'''Stay Cozy''' - You'd rather keep cuddling right now.
**'''Lap Pillow''' - Put your head on your elven lover's thighs, gaze into the fire, and drift off into rest.
**'''Massage Her''' - Work out all the kinks in Anni's muscular body... and do a little worshiping on the side.
**'''Cuddlefuck''' - Tempt the valkyrie into exchanging some cuddly cummies.
===Sex===
This is locked behind having kissed Annika at some point. The first time Champ asks about sex (unless they've already cuddlefucked), Anni puts the moves on and suggests that she top, but leaves it open to different suggestions too. Choosing '''Meal''' leads to the "Service Her" scene, where Champ gives her a blow job that can optionally transition into getting vaginally or anally fucked. '''Suggestions?''' opens up the "Oral and Fuck" and "69" options for something a little less subby. Champ can also back out with '''Nope'''. Subsequent offers simply open directly onto her sex menu.
*'''Service Her''' - If you lavish some oral attention on Anni's cock, she's sure to let you choose where her load goes.
**'''Pussy''' - Standing missionary against the wall - specifically, with your back to the wall, your butt in Anni's hands, and your legs wrapped around your hips. Requires a pussy.
**'''Ass''' - Hee hee. Butts.
**'''Mouth''' - Stick with the classic.
*'''Oral & Fuck''' - With a divinely-blessed, fat-dicked, well-muscled elven service top like Annika, there's only one thing to do: get [pc.hasVag|eaten out|your dick sucked, your ass lubed up,] and thoroughly penetrated.
*'''69''' - The ouroboros is Nareva's special symbol, but the all-female order of valkyries is pretty good at making it, too.
*'''Face Sitting''' - Take advantage of the mighty valkyrie's weakness for eating pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
**'''Good Top''' - Keep riding Annika's face while giving her the release she deserves.
**'''Go Too Far''' - Accidentally-on-purpose rile your lover into taking control and pleasuring your pussy in another way. With her dick. That's the other way. Big, fat elfcock. Champ cannot be a vaginal virgin.
*'''Restraints''' - Maybe the big strong righteous valkyrie should tie a bad [pc.boyGirl] like you up and have her way with your pussy. Requires a vagina and having done a sex scene that includes Annika performing cunnilingus (Cuddlefuck, Service Her > Pussy, Oral & Fuck, or 69)
*'''Pitch Anal''' - A dominant, muscular valkyrie riding you with her ass? You know exactly what you're in for. Requires a Real Cock or a magicock, and Annika must have dick-topped Champ at some point (Oral & Fuck, Go Too Far variant of Face Sitting, all varieties of Service Her)
*'''Not Now''' - You don't actually want to have sex with Annika right now.
==Other Interactions==
*After the completion of [[The Palace of Light|LumiaQuest]], if the Champion has started a family with [[Aileh]], Annika can visit the Wayfort to give Aileh's daughter Lumia's gift. Champ can ask about this event back at the Lumian Keep.
==Trivia==
*Annika is about a hundred and fifty years old, making her the oldest living boreal elf in the game.
**Although she does her best to be a smiling, reassuring mentor figure, the amount of loss she's seen in her life clearly leaks through in several of her talks, both before and after LumiaQuest.
*Despite being encountered very far into the game, Annika's penetrative sex scenes vary based on whether Champ is a virgin, and her "Pitch Anal" scene differs if Champ has a Real Cock and this is their first time using it. The writer has said that she's still not sure why she did this.
*Annika is overjoyed if the player chooses to become a valkyrie, and much of her interaction dialogue changes to account for her friend/lover also being a servant of Lumia.
*Etheryn provides several additional interactions with Anni if she is in the active party. Arona steps in frequently to talk about warfighting during the "Philosophy" talks. Azyrran and Annika trade compliments in the "Valkyrie" talk. Several companions have comments on her various stories of being a valkyrie or a warrior.
*Annika speaks with a slightly thicker accent than the rest of the elves, sometimes replacing the "ch" sound with "sh". This, along with her name, points up the Swedishness of the frost elves, and indeed in silly mode she sometimes speaks in Swedish.
*Annika's other silly mode content is very extensive.
**When discussing warfare, she references modern historians, historical battles and soldiers, and makes jokes about Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military writer.
**Her mentorship role, long service, and overall competence are somewhat like those of Lester Freamon, the detective from ''The Wire'', and some of her silly-mode dialogue makes this explicit: making dollhouse miniatures, riding a desk for thirteen years and four months, insisting that "all the pieces matter".
**Her "Restraints" sex scene includes following appropriate bondage safety to the point of distraction, because this is rarely done in written bondage scenes.
**When first encountering her penis, Champ can say that it's a giant mushroom, and wonder if it's friendly. Annika responds in the affirmative, and then promises that it'll quench you. It is, in fact, the quenchiest.
**In the "Sex Relief" scene, [[Thrud|Thrud's]] discomfort with the thought of Annika having sex mirrors Amy Santiago's discomfort with the thought of Captain Holt having sex in ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''.

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Alypia:

Annika

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Alypia: /* The Palace of Light */

Arona

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"Yeah... it's good to be queen."
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"Been meaning to talk to you, too. See, I'm chieftain now, and I'm starting to set things right in the camp, but it don't need my undivided attention. So you ought to take me with you while you're out fighting. Help me keep my skills sharp! Hretha can handle stuff for me day to day, and you can handle my dick. That's a damn good deal for everyone, huh?"
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"That, uh, that right? Good! Listen: I might be chieftain, now, but I owe you one for putting my ass on this throne. I'd gone alone, and my cheatin'-ass brother would have had his goons gangbang me. So yeah, if you need some help on your quest... or maybe a warm place to lay your head and sheathe your cock/fill your pussy at night... I'm your girl! Hretha can handle things day to day around the camp while we're off having our fun."
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"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard."
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Arona is the youngest sibling to the [[Kervus Tribe]]'s leadership of [[Argoth]], the warchief and [[Hretha]], the orcale. While raiding the [[Foothills]], she travels with an all-female warband that will loot and pillage anything they come across. Arona's personality is quite aggressive, although should the Champion best her, she will treat them differently. Arona was born female, but after she was introduced to a strapon, she loved it but it was difficult to cum from. She wanted something that'd be a part of her, so she won a great orc tournament and got her wish from her sister.

:"Yeah, I'm responsible for that. She had a few boys here and there, but nine out of ten times I'd hear her across the fort with someone, it'd be another woman. When Arona won the grand melee at the tribe's year-end festival, earning herself the right to ask anything of the chief, I already had done the research to give her what she'd inevitably ask for. Only boon she ever asked of me and Argoth both, as far as I recall. Even when she was little, she wanted to do everything for herself. Cook, stitch, build... and when she realized what would make her complete was a throbbing big cock 'tween her legs, she went and won the biggest fight on the island for the right to claim it as her due." —[[Hretha]]
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==Appearance==
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Arona is a mighty orcish warrior, seven feet and ten inches of chiseled muscle and toned, dark green flesh. Like any orcess, she sports a pair of small tusks jutting up from her lower jaw, peeking out from her hard black lips, and slightly tapered ears that are pierced with rows of gold studs along their upper halves. Despite the dusky hardness of her body, Arona's eyes are a brilliant blue, full of more cunning than her battle-forged physique would belie. Her hair is black as sin and naturally thick and shaggy, though it has been shaved down on either side, leaving a hawk of trimmed hair that transitions into a long braid down her back.

Despite her powerful muscles, Arona's femininity is beyond question: a pair of weighty DD-cups breasts sit high on her chest[if [[Companion Sets#Warhides|Warhides]] set:'', only just held back by the tight embrace of her hide-and-leather top, though even with its fur lining, her outfit leaves plenty of enticing cleavage open to your perusal''|else if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:'' beneath her Chieftain's Bronze'']. Her nipples are as black as her lips, broad plates of midnight each pierced with silver bars, keeping them stiff no matter her arousal. Beneath her bountiful amazonian bust is a toned, hard chest and softer belly that shows just a hint of chiseled muscle as it transitions into her flared hips.

Her lower chest is inked with a set of claw-mark tattoos, three sharp savage lines under each breast. Her upper arms are likewise adorned with swirling, softer patterns. A wolf's head bearing a pair of antler-like horns is inked onto her left shoulder, a mark of her clan; the other is patterned with interwoven circles.

Arona's outfit is as eye-catching as its wielder, meant to emphasize the orc's hard-won assets more than to protect her in battle. Her ample chest is supported and contained by a tight wrap of hide and leather, lined with grey fur and held together by a straining bronze clasp suspended between her breasts. It leaves her belly and upper arms completely bare, as if her tattoos and muscle alone are enough to shield her from harm.

[if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:''Her forearms and hands are wrapped in hide gauntlets reinforced with crude metal plates, stained with dried blood and rust. Similar greaves gird her legs, up to the knee, where they once again give way to her thick, muscular thighs and then into a pair of beast-hide breeches that hug her hips snugly. The garment rides up her ass, leaving half of each firm cheek exposed, but the real eye-draw is the thick bulge between her legs. Atop all of that, she wears a great bronze helmet with a feathered plume. Somehow, she's convinced herself all this armor lets her be less defensive in battle...'']

She's carrying an over-sized warhammer slung on her back, looking more like the weapon of an angry storm-god than something a humanoid should be swinging. Yet she handles the massive weapon with ease, making it seem feather-light... until she crashes it into someone with ground-shaking force. A chipped and battered wooden shield complements the grand hammer, bearing the demon-wolf sigil of her clan painted in shades of blood and sable-red.

Arona might have been a full-bodied woman once, if the black-lipped and vice-strong pussy between her legs is any indication, but through some orcish witchcraft, she's become so much more. A pole of dark green cock hangs down from above her twat like an overt challenge to any other would-be man in the room, easily twelve inches long and thick as a halberd's haft. Below that magnificent slab of meat hang a pair of weighty balls, swollen with potent orcish seed and dangling low beneath her cock. The bulk of her nuts all but conceals her feminine sex, as if it's nothing to her now that she can breed like a virile stud.

Opposite that, Arona has a toned, firm behind. Her shallow cheeks conceal a cock-draining asshole, right where it belongs.
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==Interactions==
===During [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====First Encounter====
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The Champion can encounter Arona and her all-female orc warband at the [[Foothills]] '''(North and West)''' when they're at least level 3. Upon encountering Arona, she will state that unlike most raiders who will demand their opponents to surrender, she likes to get warmed up before she'll fuck them.

===Subsequent Encounters===
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Encountering the orcish war-party again will always result in an immediate fight, however, based on Arona's Dominance score, when she locks eyes with the Champion, her gaze will vary; from cool, easy confidence (<= -100) to unabashed, shameless lust (>= 76).

If the Champion had gotten Arona's HP or Resolve below 50% but was defeated, she will remark that it was a good fight and that she's definitely hard after it. If not, she will mock that the Champion came to the Foothills to get pounced on for a good time by some harpies or if they were hoping a big, strong orc babe would come and give them a good beating. The Champion will also be robbed of 11 to 30 EC.

If the Champion is victorious in combat, they will be given the following option:
*'''Interrogate''' - Rather than doing what she'd have done to you, try and get some actual information out of the orcish war-captain. What the hell are they doing all the way out here?`
*'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(Champion knockup chance)
*'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
*'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
**'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
**'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
**'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])

Interrogating Arona will reveal that the tribe is simply in the Marches to loot and pillage, the same as any other orc tribe, but the Champion brings up that half the people in [[Hawkethorne]] couldn't scrape two silvers together and that it's the only real town for miles, unless the Kervus plan on battering down the gates of [[Khor'minos]]. She will simply shrug and state that it's her brother's plan, his rumor, his tribe, and she was perfectly content to kick around and beat down harpies for cocksleeves until the Champion came along. If the Champion has not found the location of the warcamp yet, she will point the Champion to the hills at the north-east.

Once Arona's Dominance score has reached -100 or 100, a new scene will play the next time they encounter her.

====Dominant or Submissive====
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As the Champion continues to fight against Arona and her warband, certain factors will influence her attitude towards the Champion on whether she will act dominant or submissive towards them. This will determine how Arona will treat the Champion and may provide unique options. Note that the score will initially start out at 0 and the score will not change once they hit the upper or lower limit (100 or -100). Note that once Arona is a companion, the Champion can offer Arona a chance to become the dominant one, however, once she is dominant, '''she will not give them the same chance'''.
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=====Dominant Arona=====
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Should Arona be dominant [DomArona] (score of -100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone. She will state that the Champion is quite difficult to track down, however, she's got their scent as she gives them a deep sniff. She remarks that they smell like her cum, which brings her to question if they bathe, but she cuts to the chase by stating that although she might be able to put them over her knee if she wanted, they're still the best fighter she's met since the tribe made landfall. She plans to challenge her brother, [[Argoth]] for control of the tribe, however, he will cheat once she starts winning, so she needs the extra muscle considering she can't trust anyone in the tribe to not fuck her over. The following options are available for the Champion to decide on what to do:
*Sure - That sounds... pretty great. What can you do?
*Hell No - Wait she can't just sign you up for this, you're not her slave... yet.
**Get Off! ''(will result in a fight)
**Sorry! - When she puts it like that... you really don't have much room to maneuver here.

Should the Champion refuse to aid her and attempt to back out, she will attack the Champion, and should they lose, it will result in the [[Bad Ends#Arona's Slave|Arona's Slave Bad End]]. If the Champion wins, Arona will jest about 'where had this side of the Champion been all this time', but states that she still needs their help, although this time as partners. The Champion tells her that they'll think about her deal, causing her to shrug and state that they've earned the right to choose before heading off.

=====Submissive Arona=====
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Should Arona be submissive [SubArona] (score of 100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone, putting a hand up in a sign of peace. She will explain that for once she's not here to fight, that she's met her match, and she loves it, because its given her a new bar to rise to, a new goal to train for till she can beat them. She's here to discuss a mutually beneficial agreement; that [[Hawkethorne]] wants the Kervus gone and that Arona wants to go, however, her brother refuses to move and won't explain himself. She's got it in her mind to challenge her brother for leadership and she needs someone to watch her back when Argoth starts losing. She proposes that if they back her up when she challenges her brother, she'll get the tribe out of the Marches.

====Challenge for Leadership====
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Having gone through the majority of events for [[Right of Conquest]], once they have reached the Orc Pavilion, they will see Arona with [[Hretha]], who's anointing Arona's cheeks and face with war paint as she stands ready to challenge her brother. The Champion will have two options when the two are about to face off:
*Hide&Watch - This is what Arona brought you here for, right: to watch just in case her brother does something fishy?
*Ambush Argoth - Well, this is what Arona brought you here for, right: to jump her brother and make sure she wins?

=====Ambush Argoth=====
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Ambushing Argoth will incur the wrath of the gathered orcs as Argoth declares that his sister plans to assassinate him. Arona will be forced to join the Champion in a battle against the Chief & Goons; consisting of Chief Argoth, the [[Orc Thane]], and an endless wave of orcs. If the Champion loses the fight, it will result in a Bad End in which Argoth will exile his sister and enslave the Champion's party for the Kervus Tribe. Argoth's defeat will end the fight, but because of the Champion's interference, he will remain the warchief and Arona will be exiled for violating ancient tradition. This will greatly anger Arona but she will straighten up and declare that she doesn't need the Kervus. When asked what she'll do now, she asks if there's a tavern in [[Hawkethorne]] because she can't make important decisions sober. The Champion will have the following options on how to respond:
*Nope - There's no tavern in Hawkethorne. She'll have to go somewhere else... and hopefully not come back.
*Yes - There's a great little drinking hole waiting for her. Arona will no doubt be amenable to recruitment after this.

Lying to Arona will have her take a deep breath, say her goodbyes and march off into a dark canyon beneath the shadow of the warcamp, most likely the Champion will never see her again.

Telling her about [[The Frost Hound]] will have her move to the tavern.
:''"Then it's settled! To the Fuck Hound or whatever!"

=====Hide&Watch=====
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Choosing to hide and watch will allow the duel to proceed normally, in which Arona manages to split and snap Argoth's weapon, and send him staggering to his throne. Unwilling to accept his defeat, he will call upon the surrounding warriors to interfere, however, they don't make a move, which causes Argoth to yank a chain that brings [[Benny]], a massive hill troll, into the Orc Pavilion. After being struck by Benny, Arona will call upon the Champion to aid her, to which they may choose to Fight! or Leave. Choosing to leave will result in Benny causing absolute chaos as the orc leadership is demolished, the fates of the orc siblings unknown, but it doesn't matter. Deciding to fight and aid Arona will pit them against Benny and Argoth.

When the Bang Bros have been defeated, the warriors will howl in approval for Arona as their new chieftain. Hretha will inform her sister that she must decide what to do with their brother after having been utterly shamed. For SubArona, she'll offer the Champion a piece of her brother before she exiles him back to the southern islands. Regardless of their decision, a pair of Kervus warriors drag the fallen chieftain out of the pavilion, with Hretha and [[Gerik]] following to chase the fallen chieftain off. With Arona now in power, she'll want to celebrate her victory and new title as chieftain.

===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====Exiled Arona====
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If Arona had gotten exiled from the Kervus and the Champion had told her about [[The Frost Hound]], they can find her at the inn.

Approaching her at the inn for the first time will have them ask how she's handling things, she replies she feels shitty, that she can't believe she fucked up this bad, and she's never gonna see her sister and niece again or until Argoth's killed himself. In the meantime, she'll drink herself into stupor, but an idea comes to mind and she offers that if they need a big battle-hardened bitch to beat somebody down for them, she's their gal.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]].

====Chieftain Arona====
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=====First Visit=====
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Visiting Chieftain Arona for the first time will have her grin as she rhetorically asks that shouldn't the Champion be out fighting a demon or something before the Champion replies that they've come to talk to her.

With SubArona, the Champion will saunter to her, which causes her to squirm for a moment as her breeches tent when the Champion gets close. She will mention that although she is chieftain now, she owes them for putting her ass on the throne, and that if they need help with their quest or a warm place to lay their head and sheathe their cock/fill their pussy at night, then she's their girl. She adds that [[Hretha]] can handle things around the camp while they're off having fun.

With DomArona, the Champion will take a knee before her, which causes her to heft a leg over their shoulder and will later use her knee to yank their face into her musky leather breeches. She says that she's chieftain now and she's starting to set things right in the camp, however, it doesn't need her undivided attention, so they ought to take them with her while they're out fighting so she can sharpen her skills while Hretha can handle that day to day stuff for her, they can handle her dick.

=====Subsequent Visits=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, the Champion will be allowed to enter and leave the [[Kervus Warcamp]] as they see fit. Arona can be found at great pavillion tent where she will be lounging lazily upon her throne with one leg kicked up over an armrest.

Upon visiting Arona, the following events may occur:
*20% chance for:
**'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
**'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(if Orc Guards are not pregnant)
***For DomArona [no option]:
****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
***For SubArona:
****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]]. Note that [no option] implies that the scene will automatically occur when the conditions are satisfied and the Champion will not be provided an option to back out.

=====Chieftain's Bronze=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, she will special order an armor fit for the Kervus' glorious new chieftain. When the Champion has Arona with them, the next time they visit [[Ragnild]] (after her initial meeting scene at the forge), they will find Ragnild fitting Arona's new armor on her which [[Hretha]] claims that it's some of Ragnild's best work.

::''"It's not magic, Arona. Armor exists to give you a last chance to live through blows you fail to deflect, it doesn't make you impervious to them."

::''"Yeah, yeah, I know! I know!"'' the chieftain growls, adjusting her helm. ''"Still, if I end up having to fight this great enemy my brother was howling about, then I want to be prepared! Ain't gonna be parrying demon-magic or mind control; gotta rush in and crush the bitch's skull fast and hard, no holding back. If [name] wants to hide behind my shield, we can talk about that, but for now? I'm going into battle swinging!"

This will unlock Arona's [[Chieftain's Bronze]] companion set.

=====Orc Bodyguards=====
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While Arona is at the warcamp, she has a group of four amazonian bodyguards that remain close to her. As the '''Orc Gangbang''', SubArona will offer her horny bodyguards to the Champion, while DomArona will let her guards have their way with the Champion. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Orc Bodyguards|Orc Bodyguards]] for more details. Note that if the Champion does impregnate the bodyguards, all four of them will become pregnant.

===Companionship===
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At [[The Frost Hound]], Arona can be found doing a variety of things, ranging from arm-wrestling with [[Garret]] when he's available, fruitlessly flirting with [[Brienne]], re-braiding [[Etheryn]]'s hair (if had done a threesome with her), to busily cleaning the bronze face of her shield.

Regardless of where Arona is, the following options are will become available once they approach her:
*Appearance
*Talk - [DomArona:See if your mistress might be willing to talk instead of just fucking you...|SubArona:Swap some words with your beta.]
**Her Homeland - Ask Arona about the islands that her tribe hails from.
**Companions - Ask Arona what she thinks of your friends...
**Her Dick - So what's the story with that dick of hers anyway?
**Her Family - Get Arona's thoughts on her siblings, or any other relations she may have out there.
**Dominance? - After beating Arona over and over in combat in the foothills, she seems to have naturally come to accept you as her "alpha" of sorts, despite her obvious preference to be large and in charge. What's up with that? (SubArona only)
**Challenge Me - Give Arona a chance to try and take back her place as alpha from you. ''(requires '''Dominance?''', had sex with Arona at least once and SubArona)
***Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcishing wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
****Nevermind - Not right now.
*Recruit
*Sex - The big amazon babe is always up for some fun...
**For SubArona:
***Ride Her - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Plow Her Ass - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***Missionary - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***Threesome - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****Cait - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Ride Arona - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****Double Titfuck - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****Etheryn - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the ([[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick). ''(requires recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)

**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****Get Fucked ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Ride Her ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Sex Bone ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance to add to list)
*****Cum Now - You just want release!
*****Titfuck - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****Cait Threesome ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Dual Worship
******Sloppy Seconds - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******Clean Cait - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****Etheryn Threesome ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
*Sleep With
*Throne Fuck - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
**Ride Cock - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
**Fuck Her - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)

Note that ('''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''') occurs when traveling with DomArona whose Resolve is <= 25, when moving through an explorable tile outside of settlements, she will fuck the Champion and includes a knockup chance for champions with a vagina. If [[Cait]] is present in the party, she will join in and make it a threesome.

====Talk====
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=====Her Homeland=====
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On the topic of her homeland, Arona mentions that their islands are off the east coast, past Khor'minos, and although most people call them the northern islands, in orcish, they're called [[The Sailgraves]]. The reason for the name comes from the surrounding reefs that make it impossible for anyone but the natives to sail through. Unlike the elves or humans, the orc tribes don't have empires or take land, they fight fair and square, take a few slaves, some treasure, and then go home. Her home island has a defensive hill covered in rocks and trees, and some room for farming on the coastlands where most of the tribe lives. Arona's kin live in an old fort up on the middle of the hill that was built by her ancestors. The place is pretty cold all year round which makes farming challenging, ''"winters are brutal, summer is cool, and wind's a bitch if you aren't up in the hills"''. There are also:
:''"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Younger gals of the tribe make crowns of 'em, weave 'em into their hair... and boys make a game of snatching 'em off and running. 'Specially to girls they like."

The Champion comments that knowing Arona, she's probably stolen plenty.
:''"Damn right!" she laughs, giving you a lusty grin. "Boys are supposed to just give the flowers back when they get caught. Since I was another girl, though, they had to chase me down and wrestle me for 'em... that's the fun part. Got my first kiss that way, let this big beast of a babe a year or so older'n I was catch me, pin my arms. Crushed her garland but she didn't care at that point, was so fuckin' mad that I was startin' to think she'd rip my tusks out when she leaned down over me. Went for my tongue instead, fished it out with hers. Haha! When I finally got my cock, she was the first orc that got to taste it... in every hole. Shame she didn't come a'raiding with us this year, I'd introduce you. Got an ass so fat she practically bounces right off your lap, but she's near as strong as me. She comes down on your face and your head'd pop like a melon!"

=====Her Dick=====
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On bringing up Arona's favorite topic, the Champion asks what's the story behind it as orcs aren't naturally hermaphrodites. Arona explains that the gods fucked up for not giving them all big ol' cock, that they could have drowned the world in orcish halfbreeds already. When asked if she wishes she'd been born a guy, she howls with laughter and after a long awkward moment, she says that the gods made up for the lack of cock by making her stacked with a great ass and thighs too. However, the problem was that as the chieftain's little sister, she was expected to have kids and that meant a lot of time not fighting while she waddles around the keep. Another problem was that she tends to prefer women, although hard abs and fat cocks have their place, she'd rather have a big pair of tits and a wet juicy quim. Unfortunately, the actual sex of women to women was just alright, but when she was introduced to a strapon, everything changed, but it was hard to cum from, so she wanted something that'd be a part of her. Unfortunately the orcs don't have alchemists, so she competed in a tournament to prove who is the strongest and the toughest where the winner can ask the chieftain and the high shaman for anything. She fought in the tournament fair and square and when she won, marched up to Hretha and told exactly what she wanted, including all the details.
:''"So yeah, that's how I got my cock. Made Hretha pray for it from Lumia, drank a tankard full of a cumshot from every grown man on the island, and the next day I woke up with morning wood pressing into a slave-girl's ass. Ha, she got a hell of a wake-up!

=====Her Family=====
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When asking about her family, there are 4 possible scenes that can play:
*Random Chance for:
**Hretha
**Argoth
**Argoth's Daughter ''(if talked about Argoth from Arona or Hretha)
**Hretha's Relationship with the Champion ''(if has had at least 1 kid with Hretha)

======Hretha======
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On the topic of her sister, Arona describes their relationship as fire and water. She goes on to add that Hretha looks like a chunkier, blinder version of their mother, complete with nagging at all hours anytime she does something Hretha doesn't like. Although Hretha isn't much of a fighter, she can kill with words that can beat them down harder than Arona and her hammer can, although she means well. Hretha only speaks out like that because she cares too much about everyone, and she has no doubt that she'd jump in front of an arrow for Arona, and Arona would do the same for her without hesitation. The two didn't get along as much as they'd like to, although Arona does love her sister and she practically raised Arona when their father died as their mother and Argoth were too busy keeping the tribe from falling apart. If Hretha is pregnant or already had children with the Champion, Arona will warn them that if they hurt her sister, she will cut them in their sleep.

======Argoth======
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On the topic of her brother, Arona will spend a moment collecting her thoughts, although mostly by staring into her drink. She begins by stating that:
:''"My big brother was the best fighter of his generation. Warband leader without equal. When pa died, Argoth stepped up to fill his place even if he was barely big enough to heft the old man's axe. Took command of our tribe's fighters, beat the would-be usurpers into submission, and proved his mettle in ballsy raids all over the Sailgraves. Was a time he was the life of the party, you know, hard drinking and harder fighting, inseparable from his men. Actually looked up to the bastard, I did. Wanted to be just like my big brother..."

Argoth isn't like Arona when it comes to sticking their dicks everywhere they could, he was more like Hretha. He deeply loved his woman but he changed after she got sick and died shortly after childbirth. Her death had broken Argoth as Arona never saw her brother smile again, not even for his kid and years passed where she barely saw him, until Hretha had her prophecy of a great battle. Although he set up the warcamp, the tribe just sat like gargoyles waiting for the end-of-the-world fight 'like a bunch of idiots'. [ExiledArona:The camp had been falling apart and now with Arona gone, there's no one around to keep the amazons busy. Tensions were hot, warriors were restless and supplies were low, all because of Hretha's dream. She hopes that when Argoth find his big war and dies in it, Hretha will allow Arona to come back to the islands.|ChieftArona:Had Arona not challenged Argoth, the camp would have fallen apart, or would have invaded Hawkethorne. When asked if she wished things had turned out differently, she counters by rhetorically asking if she wishes she didn't make her niece an orphan and if she wishes she was never going to see her brother again, but she had to do something.]

======Argoth's Daughter======
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On the topic of Argoth's daughter; [[Aretha]], Arona reassures that even with her father [staying chief, she's pretty much safe/being exiled, if anyone tries anything, they will have to go through Arona]. She's back at the Sailgraves as they can't bring someone that young to a warcamp, even for orcs. Arona continues by stating she's a sweet kid, although she's blind like Hretha, she puts on muscle easily like her and she made Arona teach her how to use a shield and spear. When the Champion notes that they sound pretty close, Arona agrees [ExiledArona: and makes her getting exiled suck all the worse]. Arona was the closest of her family to Aretha's age, and with Argoth 'being all fucked up by his woman dying', it was pretty natural that someone had to teach her how to walk, fight, and live, and despite her blindness, Aretha's a hot-head like her.

======Hretha's Relationship======
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On the topic of the Champion and Hretha having a kid, she's actually quite happy that somebody got to break Hretha's womb and it's by somebody she approves of. The Champion expresses their relief that she's not mad about it, to which Arona asks why would she be. She praises them and she's honestly happy that it wasn't from anyone in the tribe because none of them respected Hretha like Arona and Argoth do, and when the 'demon-hunting bullshit' is over, [SubArona:they can take them both as sister-wives|DomArona:she'll take them back to the islands and the Champion and Hretha can be together, when she's not using them].

=====Dominance?=====
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When asked if it's normal for the orc tribe to naturally come and accept a superior, Arona confirms that's how life has always been in the islands; that it's normal for the strong to rule. The Kervus only rule because they are the strongest, the strongest of the Kervus rules the tribe, and since they've proven themselves stronger than her, she's gotta do what they say. Although she can try and turn the tables, the rule only applies to the Champion. When questioned if they should worry about Arona shiving them in their sleep, she takes offense to it as she explains it's got to be an honorable open challenge.

=====Challenge Me=====
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The thought of challenging the Champion for dominance hadn't come across her mind because of all the demon shit and all that's been going on. Although she loves being the mean alpha bitch, she warns them that if she wins, she's not letting them go again as she's only going to play for keeps, although if the Champion wins, it doesn't change anything as they're already the top. With that, the following options will be available:
*Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcish wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
*Nevermind - Not right now.

======Challenge======
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The challenge, set by the Champion, involves an oiled-up wrestling match for dominance. This makes Arona scoff as she loves the idea, although she's the one who's supposed to be issuing the challenge. When the pair are oiled up and ready, the Champion has the following options:
*Throw the Fight - Let Arona win, and willingly become her submissive. There may be no coming back from this decision.`);
*Fair Fight - Make it a fair fight... and to the best wrestler, victory.

Throwing the Fight results in a default loss as claims her new position by fucking the Champion.

A fair fight involves a bit of RNG as whoever gets the highest number among:
*Arona - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength
*The Champon - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength/Agility (which ever stat is higher)

If Arona wins, like throwing the fight, she will claim her new position by fucking the Champion.

=====Sleep With=====
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The Champion may ask Arona to be their bedmate, regardless if Sub or Dom Arona, so long as they currently don't have an active bedmate.
*For SubArona:
**Random Chance (determines what the Champion will use as a pillow):
***Sleep with Tits ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Belly
***Sleep with Thighs ''(requires gotten fucked by Arona at least once)
*For DomArona:
**Random Chance (determines what Arona will do)
***Sleep with Fuck ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Tired ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Blowjob ''(requires at [[The Frost Hound]] and Champion knockup chance)

Note that each sleep with scene has it's own unique wake up scene.

====[[Orc Lodge]]====
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Upon revisiting/visiting the [[Orc Lodge]] after the events of the [[Right of Conquest]], a trio of orcs present will attempt to pull the Champion into a gangbang. If SubArona, they will have the option to refuse their attempt, knowing full well they have authority over Arona such that the trio need to know their place, however, this option will not be available with DomArona as they don't have authority through Arona.

==Combat==
===Enemy===
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The first time the Champion encounters Arona and her '''Orc Warband''', they will fight her and her warband consisting of:
*2x [[Orc Amazon|Orc Amazons]]
*2x [[Orc Executioner|Orc Executioners]]

Repeat encounters with the warband would consist of:
*50% chance for an [[Orc Amazon]] or [[Orc Executioner]] for each of the 4 members

====Stats====
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|Attack Power: 24 || Spellpower: 21
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|Sexiness: 24 || Temptation: 8
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|Armor: 73 || Physical Resist: 32
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|Warding: 43 || Magic Resist: 13
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|Focus: 32 || Mental Resist: 12
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|Evasion: 29 || Frost Resist: -20
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>
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*Big Breasts
*Big Cocks
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>
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*Small Breasts
*Small Cocks
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*[[Guarded Stance]]
*[[Dominance]]
*[[Cleave]]
*[[Prime Target]]
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<div style="text-align: center;">Drops</div>
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*100 XP
*60 EC
*[[Brazenberry Ale]] ''(100% chance)
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==Companion Sets==
===Warhides===
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|Arona's armor, made from padded boar's hide and heavy boiled leather. Calling it skimpy would probably be far too conservative: her clothes are nothing more than a strap across her black nipples to hold back her heavy tits, a pair of crotch-hugging shorts and loincloth that seem designed from the ground up to emphasize her masculine bulge, and her boots. With one well-timed flex, you're pretty sure Arona could shred most of her outfit on her chiseled muscles — all the better to get her cock out and start fucking at a moment's notice.
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Guarded Stance]]
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|rowspan="3"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2
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|[[Dominance]]
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Prime Target]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Hoplon Shield]] ||'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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===Chieftain's Bronze===
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|rowspan="6"|Visiting [[Ragnild]] with [[Arona]] as Warchief ||rowspan="6"|A suit of bronze armor made by the Kervus' master smith on special order for Arona once she became the tribe's chieftain. This armor is bulky enough to leave Arona free to focus all her efforts on massive two-handed hammer swings, forgoing her shield and any attempt at active defense for a berserker's charge in the vanguard, leading her comrades to victory in her wake!
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|rowspan="5"|'''Chieftain's Bronze
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2 ||rowspan="3"|N/A ||[[Blessing|Inspire Wrath]] ''(Blessing rewrite)
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Thunder Strike]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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===Berserker===
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|rowspan="6"|Returning to [[The Frost Hound]] and witnessing [[Gwyn]] sparring with Arona ''(requires at least 3 days after Arona's Exile) ||rowspan="6"|In her exile, Arona has picked up an even more ferocious fighting style than before. She's forgone her shield—choosing instead to focus all her strength into her mighty hammer—picked up some tricks from Garth, covered herself with blue warpaint, and honed her rage into a weapon all its own. Seems the orc will be leading the charge in the future.
|rowspan="2"|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|rowspan="2"|'''1 ||rowspan="2"|[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|[[Execute]]
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|rowspan="4"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as Warhides set description)
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Shell Cracker]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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===Spirit Totem===
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|rowspan="7"|Crafted by [[Viviane]] at the end of [[I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost]] ||rowspan="7"|Where once Arona carried her trademark '''Mastbreaker''', she now bears '''The Nightfang''', a great runic axe crafted specifically for spectre slaying by Viviane. Around her shoulders and covering her head is a wolfskin cloak, with the head of the beast functioning as a pseudo-helmet. And a tool for intimidation. It seems she now has a way to properly face her fears.
|'''Nightfang
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Arona's Viviane-crafted greataxe. Made specifically to help her overcome her fear of ghosts, this weapon glows with magic power that guarantees that the orc's swings will cut into any and all ethereal foes she encounters.
|rowspan="7"|[[Agility]] [[Strength]] [[Willpower]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="6"|'''Spirit Totem Warhides
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Largely the same as her typical warhides, Arona now wears her wolfen cloak along with it. Crafted by Viviane and warded against foes from beyond the grave, this outfit's headdress does come at the cost of some of the sexiness her choice of clothing usually provides.
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Holy Shock]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="2'|'''4 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Charge Weapon]]
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|[[Smite Evil]]
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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==Sex==
===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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*In the [[Foothills]]:
**Victory sex options:
***'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
***'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
****'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
****'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
***'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])
**Defeat sex scenes:
***Defeat NTR ''(must have a companion, 20% chance and Arona's HP & Resolve must be >= 80%)
***Defeat Gangbang ''(if: Arona's HP & Resolve must at be >= 50% [33% chance], else: 20% chance) (Arona does not fuck the Champion here)
***Defeat Catch ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
**Through the repeat Pregnancy Encounters:
***'''Accept''' (results in the Champion getting preg fucked)
**The Champion pregnant encounters:
***'''Accept''' ''(for repeat Preg Encounter)
*[[Bad Ends]]:
**[[Bad Ends#The Exile's Slave|The Exile's Slave]] (On failed Arona Dominant confrontation)
*After defeating [[Argoth]] and [[Benny]] through '''Hide&Watch''' (choices available for SubArona):
**'''Throne Blow''' - Give Arona a regal blowjob. (default scene for DomArona)
**'''Ride Cock''' - She shouldn't be the only one riding that throne...
**'''Pound Pussy''' - Take Arona's throne from her and make her sit on your dick. ''(requires a cock)
**'''Frot N Lick''' - Frot with Arona while Cait sucks you both off. ''(requires a cock and [[Cait]])
===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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*Chieftain Arona
**20% chance upon visiting Arona at her throne:
***'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
***'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(Orc Guards not pregnant)
****For DomArona [no option]:
*****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
****For SubArona:
*****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
*****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
**Unique sex option:
***'''Throne Fuck''' - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
***'''Ride Cock''' - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
***'''Fuck Her''' - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)
*Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona:
**For SubArona:
***'''Ride Her''' - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***'''Plow Her Ass''' - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Missionary''' - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Threesome''' - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****'''Cait''' - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Ride Arona''' - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****'''Double Titfuck''' - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****'''Etheryn''' - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the[ [[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick]. ''(requires a cock, recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)
**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****'''Get Fucked''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Ride Her''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Sex Bone''' ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance check)
*****'''Cum Now''' - You just want release!
*****'''Titfuck''' - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****'''Cait Threesome''' ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Dual Worship'''
******'''Sloppy Seconds''' - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******'''Clean Cait''' - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****'''Etheryn Threesome''' ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''' ''(when travelling through explorable non-settlement tiles with Arona at <=25 Resolve, Champion Knockup chance, and if [[Cait]] is present, she will join and make it a threesome)
**Sleep With ''(different scenes for Dom and Sub Arona but will always involve sex before or after sleeping)
**Challenge Me (SubArona only but if she wins, she will fuck the Champion + knockup chance)

===As a [[Companions|Companion]]===
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*As a companion (Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona, and outside Arona's own sex options):
**[[Bad Ends]] ''(only unique non-generic ones placed here):
***[[Den of Foxes]] - [[Bad Ends#Breeding Vessel|Breeding Vessel]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
**[[Centaur Pack]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''DoubleTitJob''' - Grab a breasted companion and blow this stud's mind together. ''(requires non-Flat breasts)
**[[Cultist Evangelist]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''Spitroast''' - This goblin's thick enough that you could probably share her with someone else. Hope you have a friend in mind... ''(requires a cock)
****'''Arona'''
**During [[Etheryn]] Confession:
***'''Give2Arona''' - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry.
**During [[Mad Cow]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]):
***On Brint's heat problem:
****'''Ask Arona''' - Get the orc studbitch to 'help' Brint out of his predicament.
**[[Elthara]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***During Winter City:
****'''DoubleTeam''' - Fuck this priestess to bits with a friend. ''(requires a cock)
*****'''Arona''' - Ask Arona to pound out this elf slut with you.
***'''Sic Companion''' - Send a delegate in your place to make Elthara happy.
****'''Arona''' - Give Arona some room to work and some privacy with Elthara and you suspect that needy elven libido is going to be cleared ''right'' up... for now.
**[[Sleepy Snake]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***After the Champion fucks the snake, [[Cait]], [[Brint]] or Arona may have their fun with the snake
****'''Watch''' - Follow your companion inside and watch them fuck the unsuspecting naga lady.
*****'''Join In''' - Help Arona fuck the placid snakewoman and maybe get some of her for yourself.
******'''Reward''' - Get your reward.
******'''Don't''' - Servicing her is its own reward.
*****'''Don't''' - Remain a bystander.
****'''Don't''' - Wait it out.
**The [[Alraune]]
***'''Arona Fetilize''' - Have your buxom orc take charge and seed the planty milf. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]])

===Pregnancy===
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====As the Orc Warband====
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The Champion can become pregnant through the Defeat Catch and '''Ride''' sex scenes with Arona. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Arona Father|Arona Pregnancy]] for more details.

=====Acknowledge=====
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If the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child and has never seen this scene before, the next time the Champion encounters her and her orc warband will be replaced by this scene.

Upon encounter the Champion again, she will growl at them and plant the head of her hammer on the ground as a challenge, however, when her eyes wander over their belly, her fighting stance relaxes as she realizes they're pregnant. When Arona realizes she's the 'father', she laughs, sets her hammer aside and waves off the rest of her warband. She will saunter over to the Champion and her normal hostility melts away as she places a hand on the Champion's stomach. With a tusky little smile, she says:
::''"Hell, I didn't come to the Marches lookin' something like this, but... but I'm happy. And here my brother said I'd never be a mom. Ha, you really showed him, huh!"

She continues to stroke the Champion's belly with genuine affection and the two have a short moment, before the rest of Arona's amazons start getting impatient as they cat-call their captain. Before she leaves, she takes their shoulder and says:
::''"You just... stay in town, okay? I don't want you gettin' hurt by any of the other patrols. Or anything! Something tries hurting my kid, it's gonna answer to me, you got that!?"

She will then give the Champion a hug and a squeeze on the ass before rejoining her warband as they find someone else to fight.

If Arona's Dominance score is >= 0; +10, if not; -10.

=====Preg Encounter=====
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For repeat encounters with Arona when the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child.

When the Champion is meandering through the hills, they suddenly feel a sudden lurch in their stomach and they struggle to fight back a wave of nausea. Suddenly Arona calls out and approaches them, setting her hammer and shield down. She will gently urge them against a nearby stone, and they are given the following options:
*'''Refuse''' - You don't want to let a sex-fiend barbarian get too intimate with you again. (+10 Dom score)
*'''Accept''' - You'd be happy to see this gentler side of the big amazon. (-10 Dom score)

Refusing her by making it blatantly clear that they're not interested earns them a snort from Arona. She steps back, saying she's not gonna fight someone pregnant with her kid before stalking off into the mountains.

Relenting and accepting the orc's guidance assumes they're going to be set against the rocks, however, they're set right onto Arona's lap instead. The two share a moment as Arona says she's never gotten pregnant before and (if first Arona preg: she's never gotten anyone pregnant either |else: they're still the only one she's gotten pregnant). She affirms that they're beautiful, that she made them into an idol of fertility. The two go on to have pregnant sexing, complete with a parting kiss and a grope on the butt for good measure.

====As a Companion====
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The Champion can become pregnant from '''Ride Her''', '''Throw the Fight''', '''Fair Fight''' (Arona Victory), '''Get Fucked''', '''Wake up Tits''', '''Wake up Fuck''', '''Wake up Tired''', '''Wake up Blowjob''', and '''Arona Takes Her Pleasure'''.

After the events of [[Right of Conquest]] and when the Champion has recruited Arona to their party (does not have to be in current party), when they are about to give birth to Arona's child, like most pregnancies, they will be rushed to [[Gwyn]] at the nursery. While they are in labor, Arona will barge into the nursery and take a knee beside the bed to hold the Champion's hand, stating that she wouldn't miss it for the world. Arona expresses her happiness when she sees their newborn child and she goes to stroke its brow, but she will leave as she suggests the Champion get some rest.

==Dreams==
*[[Dreams#Arona Wrestling Match|Arona Wrestling Match]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) ''(requires a cock and has met Arona)
*[[Dreams#Arona Cumslut Dream|Arona Cumslut Dream]] (Written by [[Author-Savin|Savin]]) ''(Arona Dominance Score < 0)

==Quest Related==
===[[Mad Cow]]===
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To satiate [[Brint]]'s heat, the Champion can deal with it by getting Arona to fuck him.

===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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After learning of the Kervus Tribe's presence in the Marches and the location orc warcamp, the Champion will need to keep sparring with Arona and cement their dominance (or submission) in order to get her help.

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Arona

2022-11-08T20:52:11Z

Alypia: /* Post Right of Conquest */

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| creator = [[Author-Savin|Savin]]
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| species = [[Orcs|Orc]]
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| occupation = War-Captain Warchief (post [[Right of Conquest]] not ambushed)
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| cocksize = 12"
| bustsize = DD
| family = [[Argoth]] (older brother) [[Hretha]] (older sister) Unnamed Father [deceased] Unnamed Mother
| relatives = [[Aretha]] (niece)
| religion = [[Lumia|Lumian]]
| faction = [[Kervus Tribe]] [[Kervus Tribe|Ex-Kervus Tribe]] (post [[Right of Conquest]] ambushed)
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| location = [[Foothills]] (North and West) [[Kervus Warcamp]] (post [[Right of Conquest]] not ambushed)
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"Yeah... it's good to be queen."
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"Been meaning to talk to you, too. See, I'm chieftain now, and I'm starting to set things right in the camp, but it don't need my undivided attention. So you ought to take me with you while you're out fighting. Help me keep my skills sharp! Hretha can handle stuff for me day to day, and you can handle my dick. That's a damn good deal for everyone, huh?"
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"That, uh, that right? Good! Listen: I might be chieftain, now, but I owe you one for putting my ass on this throne. I'd gone alone, and my cheatin'-ass brother would have had his goons gangbang me. So yeah, if you need some help on your quest... or maybe a warm place to lay your head and sheathe your cock/fill your pussy at night... I'm your girl! Hretha can handle things day to day around the camp while we're off having our fun."
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"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard."
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Arona is the youngest sibling to the [[Kervus Tribe]]'s leadership of [[Argoth]], the warchief and [[Hretha]], the orcale. While raiding the [[Foothills]], she travels with an all-female warband that will loot and pillage anything they come across. Arona's personality is quite aggressive, although should the Champion best her, she will treat them differently. Arona was born female, but after she was introduced to a strapon, she loved it but it was difficult to cum from. She wanted something that'd be a part of her, so she won a great orc tournament and got her wish from her sister.

:"Yeah, I'm responsible for that. She had a few boys here and there, but nine out of ten times I'd hear her across the fort with someone, it'd be another woman. When Arona won the grand melee at the tribe's year-end festival, earning herself the right to ask anything of the chief, I already had done the research to give her what she'd inevitably ask for. Only boon she ever asked of me and Argoth both, as far as I recall. Even when she was little, she wanted to do everything for herself. Cook, stitch, build... and when she realized what would make her complete was a throbbing big cock 'tween her legs, she went and won the biggest fight on the island for the right to claim it as her due." —[[Hretha]]
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==Appearance==
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Arona is a mighty orcish warrior, seven feet and ten inches of chiseled muscle and toned, dark green flesh. Like any orcess, she sports a pair of small tusks jutting up from her lower jaw, peeking out from her hard black lips, and slightly tapered ears that are pierced with rows of gold studs along their upper halves. Despite the dusky hardness of her body, Arona's eyes are a brilliant blue, full of more cunning than her battle-forged physique would belie. Her hair is black as sin and naturally thick and shaggy, though it has been shaved down on either side, leaving a hawk of trimmed hair that transitions into a long braid down her back.

Despite her powerful muscles, Arona's femininity is beyond question: a pair of weighty DD-cups breasts sit high on her chest[if [[Companion Sets#Warhides|Warhides]] set:'', only just held back by the tight embrace of her hide-and-leather top, though even with its fur lining, her outfit leaves plenty of enticing cleavage open to your perusal''|else if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:'' beneath her Chieftain's Bronze'']. Her nipples are as black as her lips, broad plates of midnight each pierced with silver bars, keeping them stiff no matter her arousal. Beneath her bountiful amazonian bust is a toned, hard chest and softer belly that shows just a hint of chiseled muscle as it transitions into her flared hips.

Her lower chest is inked with a set of claw-mark tattoos, three sharp savage lines under each breast. Her upper arms are likewise adorned with swirling, softer patterns. A wolf's head bearing a pair of antler-like horns is inked onto her left shoulder, a mark of her clan; the other is patterned with interwoven circles.

Arona's outfit is as eye-catching as its wielder, meant to emphasize the orc's hard-won assets more than to protect her in battle. Her ample chest is supported and contained by a tight wrap of hide and leather, lined with grey fur and held together by a straining bronze clasp suspended between her breasts. It leaves her belly and upper arms completely bare, as if her tattoos and muscle alone are enough to shield her from harm.

[if [[Chieftain's Bronze]] set:''Her forearms and hands are wrapped in hide gauntlets reinforced with crude metal plates, stained with dried blood and rust. Similar greaves gird her legs, up to the knee, where they once again give way to her thick, muscular thighs and then into a pair of beast-hide breeches that hug her hips snugly. The garment rides up her ass, leaving half of each firm cheek exposed, but the real eye-draw is the thick bulge between her legs. Atop all of that, she wears a great bronze helmet with a feathered plume. Somehow, she's convinced herself all this armor lets her be less defensive in battle...'']

She's carrying an over-sized warhammer slung on her back, looking more like the weapon of an angry storm-god than something a humanoid should be swinging. Yet she handles the massive weapon with ease, making it seem feather-light... until she crashes it into someone with ground-shaking force. A chipped and battered wooden shield complements the grand hammer, bearing the demon-wolf sigil of her clan painted in shades of blood and sable-red.

Arona might have been a full-bodied woman once, if the black-lipped and vice-strong pussy between her legs is any indication, but through some orcish witchcraft, she's become so much more. A pole of dark green cock hangs down from above her twat like an overt challenge to any other would-be man in the room, easily twelve inches long and thick as a halberd's haft. Below that magnificent slab of meat hang a pair of weighty balls, swollen with potent orcish seed and dangling low beneath her cock. The bulk of her nuts all but conceals her feminine sex, as if it's nothing to her now that she can breed like a virile stud.

Opposite that, Arona has a toned, firm behind. Her shallow cheeks conceal a cock-draining asshole, right where it belongs.
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==Interactions==
===During [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====First Encounter====
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The Champion can encounter Arona and her all-female orc warband at the [[Foothills]] '''(North and West)''' when they're at least level 3. Upon encountering Arona, she will state that unlike most raiders who will demand their opponents to surrender, she likes to get warmed up before she'll fuck them.

===Subsequent Encounters===
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Encountering the orcish war-party again will always result in an immediate fight, however, based on Arona's Dominance score, when she locks eyes with the Champion, her gaze will vary; from cool, easy confidence (<= -100) to unabashed, shameless lust (>= 76).

If the Champion had gotten Arona's HP or Resolve below 50% but was defeated, she will remark that it was a good fight and that she's definitely hard after it. If not, she will mock that the Champion came to the Foothills to get pounced on for a good time by some harpies or if they were hoping a big, strong orc babe would come and give them a good beating. The Champion will also be robbed of 11 to 30 EC.

If the Champion is victorious in combat, they will be given the following option:
*'''Interrogate''' - Rather than doing what she'd have done to you, try and get some actual information out of the orcish war-captain. What the hell are they doing all the way out here?`
*'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(Champion knockup chance)
*'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
*'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
**'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
**'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
**'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])

Interrogating Arona will reveal that the tribe is simply in the Marches to loot and pillage, the same as any other orc tribe, but the Champion brings up that half the people in [[Hawkethorne]] couldn't scrape two silvers together and that it's the only real town for miles, unless the Kervus plan on battering down the gates of [[Khor'minos]]. She will simply shrug and state that it's her brother's plan, his rumor, his tribe, and she was perfectly content to kick around and beat down harpies for cocksleeves until the Champion came along. If the Champion has not found the location of the warcamp yet, she will point the Champion to the hills at the north-east.

Once Arona's Dominance score has reached -100 or 100, a new scene will play the next time they encounter her.

====Dominant or Submissive====
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As the Champion continues to fight against Arona and her warband, certain factors will influence her attitude towards the Champion on whether she will act dominant or submissive towards them. This will determine how Arona will treat the Champion and may provide unique options. Note that the score will initially start out at 0 and the score will not change once they hit the upper or lower limit (100 or -100). Note that once Arona is a companion, the Champion can offer Arona a chance to become the dominant one, however, once she is dominant, '''she will not give them the same chance'''.
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=====Dominant Arona=====
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Should Arona be dominant [DomArona] (score of -100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone. She will state that the Champion is quite difficult to track down, however, she's got their scent as she gives them a deep sniff. She remarks that they smell like her cum, which brings her to question if they bathe, but she cuts to the chase by stating that although she might be able to put them over her knee if she wanted, they're still the best fighter she's met since the tribe made landfall. She plans to challenge her brother, [[Argoth]] for control of the tribe, however, he will cheat once she starts winning, so she needs the extra muscle considering she can't trust anyone in the tribe to not fuck her over. The following options are available for the Champion to decide on what to do:
*Sure - That sounds... pretty great. What can you do?
*Hell No - Wait she can't just sign you up for this, you're not her slave... yet.
**Get Off! ''(will result in a fight)
**Sorry! - When she puts it like that... you really don't have much room to maneuver here.

Should the Champion refuse to aid her and attempt to back out, she will attack the Champion, and should they lose, it will result in the [[Bad Ends#Arona's Slave|Arona's Slave Bad End]]. If the Champion wins, Arona will jest about 'where had this side of the Champion been all this time', but states that she still needs their help, although this time as partners. The Champion tells her that they'll think about her deal, causing her to shrug and state that they've earned the right to choose before heading off.

=====Submissive Arona=====
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Should Arona be submissive [SubArona] (score of 100), the next time the Champion encounters Arona, she will be alone, putting a hand up in a sign of peace. She will explain that for once she's not here to fight, that she's met her match, and she loves it, because its given her a new bar to rise to, a new goal to train for till she can beat them. She's here to discuss a mutually beneficial agreement; that [[Hawkethorne]] wants the Kervus gone and that Arona wants to go, however, her brother refuses to move and won't explain himself. She's got it in her mind to challenge her brother for leadership and she needs someone to watch her back when Argoth starts losing. She proposes that if they back her up when she challenges her brother, she'll get the tribe out of the Marches.

====Challenge for Leadership====
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Having gone through the majority of events for [[Right of Conquest]], once they have reached the Orc Pavilion, they will see Arona with [[Hretha]], who's anointing Arona's cheeks and face with war paint as she stands ready to challenge her brother. The Champion will have two options when the two are about to face off:
*Hide&Watch - This is what Arona brought you here for, right: to watch just in case her brother does something fishy?
*Ambush Argoth - Well, this is what Arona brought you here for, right: to jump her brother and make sure she wins?

=====Ambush Argoth=====
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Ambushing Argoth will incur the wrath of the gathered orcs as Argoth declares that his sister plans to assassinate him. Arona will be forced to join the Champion in a battle against the Chief & Goons; consisting of Chief Argoth, the [[Orc Thane]], and an endless wave of orcs. If the Champion loses the fight, it will result in a Bad End in which Argoth will exile his sister and enslave the Champion's party for the Kervus Tribe. Argoth's defeat will end the fight, but because of the Champion's interference, he will remain the warchief and Arona will be exiled for violating ancient tradition. This will greatly anger Arona but she will straighten up and declare that she doesn't need the Kervus. When asked what she'll do now, she asks if there's a tavern in [[Hawkethorne]] because she can't make important decisions sober. The Champion will have the following options on how to respond:
*Nope - There's no tavern in Hawkethorne. She'll have to go somewhere else... and hopefully not come back.
*Yes - There's a great little drinking hole waiting for her. Arona will no doubt be amenable to recruitment after this.

Lying to Arona will have her take a deep breath, say her goodbyes and march off into a dark canyon beneath the shadow of the warcamp, most likely the Champion will never see her again.

Telling her about [[The Frost Hound]] will have her move to the tavern.
:''"Then it's settled! To the Fuck Hound or whatever!"

=====Hide&Watch=====
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Choosing to hide and watch will allow the duel to proceed normally, in which Arona manages to split and snap Argoth's weapon, and send him staggering to his throne. Unwilling to accept his defeat, he will call upon the surrounding warriors to interfere, however, they don't make a move, which causes Argoth to yank a chain that brings [[Benny]], a massive hill troll, into the Orc Pavilion. After being struck by Benny, Arona will call upon the Champion to aid her, to which they may choose to Fight! or Leave. Choosing to leave will result in Benny causing absolute chaos as the orc leadership is demolished, the fates of the orc siblings unknown, but it doesn't matter. Deciding to fight and aid Arona will pit them against Benny and Argoth.

When the Bang Bros have been defeated, the warriors will howl in approval for Arona as their new chieftain. Hretha will inform her sister that she must decide what to do with their brother after having been utterly shamed. For SubArona, she'll offer the Champion a piece of her brother before she exiles him back to the southern islands. Regardless of their decision, a pair of Kervus warriors drag the fallen chieftain out of the pavilion, with Hretha and [[Gerik]] following to chase the fallen chieftain off. With Arona now in power, she'll want to celebrate her victory and new title as chieftain.

===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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====Exiled Arona====
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If Arona had gotten exiled from the Kervus and the Champion had told her about [[The Frost Hound]], they can find her at the inn.

Approaching her at the inn for the first time will have them ask how she's handling things, she replies she feels shitty, that she can't believe she fucked up this bad, and she's never gonna see her sister and niece again or until Argoth's killed himself. In the meantime, she'll drink herself into stupor, but an idea comes to mind and she offers that if they need a big battle-hardened bitch to beat somebody down for them, she's their gal.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]].

====Chieftain Arona====
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=====First Visit=====
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Visiting Chieftain Arona for the first time will have her grin as she rhetorically asks that shouldn't the Champion be out fighting a demon or something before the Champion replies that they've come to talk to her.

With SubArona, the Champion will saunter to her, which causes her to squirm for a moment as her breeches tent when the Champion gets close. She will mention that although she is chieftain now, she owes them for putting her ass on the throne, and that if they need help with their quest or a warm place to lay their head and sheathe their cock/fill their pussy at night, then she's their girl. She adds that [[Hretha]] can handle things around the camp while they're off having fun.

With DomArona, the Champion will take a knee before her, which causes her to heft a leg over their shoulder and will later use her knee to yank their face into her musky leather breeches. She says that she's chieftain now and she's starting to set things right in the camp, however, it doesn't need her undivided attention, so they ought to take them with her while they're out fighting so she can sharpen her skills while Hretha can handle that day to day stuff for her, they can handle her dick.

=====Subsequent Visits=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, the Champion will be allowed to enter and leave the [[Kervus Warcamp]] as they see fit. Arona can be found at great pavillion tent where she will be lounging lazily upon her throne with one leg kicked up over an armrest.

Upon visiting Arona, the following events may occur:
*20% chance for:
**'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
**'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(if Orc Guards are not pregnant)
***For DomArona [no option]:
****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
***For SubArona:
****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
*****'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
*****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
*****'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.

For interactions, see [[Arona#Companionship|Companionship]]. Note that [no option] implies that the scene will automatically occur when the conditions are satisfied and the Champion will not be provided an option to back out.

=====Chieftain's Bronze=====
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With Arona as the new warchief, she will special order an armor fit for the Kervus' glorious new chieftain. When the Champion has Arona with them, the next time they visit [[Ragnild]] (after her initial meeting scene at the forge), they will find Ragnild fitting Arona's new armor on her which [[Hretha]] claims that it's some of Ragnild's best work.

::''"It's not magic, Arona. Armor exists to give you a last chance to live through blows you fail to deflect, it doesn't make you impervious to them."

::''"Yeah, yeah, I know! I know!"'' the chieftain growls, adjusting her helm. ''"Still, if I end up having to fight this great enemy my brother was howling about, then I want to be prepared! Ain't gonna be parrying demon-magic or mind control; gotta rush in and crush the bitch's skull fast and hard, no holding back. If [name] wants to hide behind my shield, we can talk about that, but for now? I'm going into battle swinging!"

This will unlock Arona's [[Chieftain's Bronze]] companion set.

=====Orc Bodyguards=====
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While Arona is at the warcamp, she has a group of four amazonian bodyguards that remain close to her. As the '''Orc Gangbang''', SubArona will offer her horny bodyguards to the Champion, while DomArona will let her guards have their way with the Champion. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Orc Bodyguards|Orc Bodyguards]] for more details. Note that if the Champion does impregnate the bodyguards, all four of them will become pregnant.

===Companionship===
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At [[The Frost Hound]], Arona can be found doing a variety of things, ranging from arm-wrestling with [[Garret]] when he's available, fruitlessly flirting with [[Brienne]], re-braiding [[Etheryn]]'s hair (if had done a threesome with her), to busily cleaning the bronze face of her shield.

Regardless of where Arona is, the following options are will become available once they approach her:
*Appearance
*Talk - [DomArona:See if your mistress might be willing to talk instead of just fucking you...|SubArona:Swap some words with your beta.]
**Her Homeland - Ask Arona about the islands that her tribe hails from.
**Companions - Ask Arona what she thinks of your friends...
**Her Dick - So what's the story with that dick of hers anyway?
**Her Family - Get Arona's thoughts on her siblings, or any other relations she may have out there.
**Dominance? - After beating Arona over and over in combat in the foothills, she seems to have naturally come to accept you as her "alpha" of sorts, despite her obvious preference to be large and in charge. What's up with that? (SubArona only)
**Challenge Me - Give Arona a chance to try and take back her place as alpha from you. ''(requires '''Dominance?''', had sex with Arona at least once and SubArona)
***Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcishing wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
****Nevermind - Not right now.
*Recruit
*Sex - The big amazon babe is always up for some fun...
**For SubArona:
***Ride Her - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Plow Her Ass - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***Missionary - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***Threesome - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****Cait - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Ride Arona - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****Double Titfuck - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****Etheryn - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the ([[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick). ''(requires recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****Get Fucked ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Ride Her ''(Champion knockup chance)
****Sex Bone ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance to add to list)
*****Cum Now - You just want release!
*****Titfuck - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****Cait Threesome ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****Dual Worship
******Sloppy Seconds - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******Clean Cait - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****Etheryn Threesome ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****Watch Them - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****Spitroast Ryn
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
*Sleep With
*Throne Fuck - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
**Ride Cock - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
**Fuck Her - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)

Note that ('''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''') occurs when traveling with DomArona whose Resolve is <= 25, when moving through an explorable tile outside of settlements, she will fuck the Champion and includes a knockup chance for champions with a vagina. If [[Cait]] is present in the party, she will join in and make it a threesome.

====Talk====
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=====Her Homeland=====
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On the topic of her homeland, Arona mentions that their islands are off the east coast, past Khor'minos, and although most people call them the northern islands, in orcish, they're called [[The Sailgraves]]. The reason for the name comes from the surrounding reefs that make it impossible for anyone but the natives to sail through. Unlike the elves or humans, the orc tribes don't have empires or take land, they fight fair and square, take a few slaves, some treasure, and then go home. Her home island has a defensive hill covered in rocks and trees, and some room for farming on the coastlands where most of the tribe lives. Arona's kin live in an old fort up on the middle of the hill that was built by her ancestors. The place is pretty cold all year round which makes farming challenging, ''"winters are brutal, summer is cool, and wind's a bitch if you aren't up in the hills"''. There are also:
:''"These little golden flowers bloom all up the sides of 'em come springtime. Hretha loves the smell but they make me sneeze like crazy; she says it's the plants cumming into the air and I'm breathing it in, but that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Younger gals of the tribe make crowns of 'em, weave 'em into their hair... and boys make a game of snatching 'em off and running. 'Specially to girls they like."

The Champion comments that knowing Arona, she's probably stolen plenty.
:''"Damn right!" she laughs, giving you a lusty grin. "Boys are supposed to just give the flowers back when they get caught. Since I was another girl, though, they had to chase me down and wrestle me for 'em... that's the fun part. Got my first kiss that way, let this big beast of a babe a year or so older'n I was catch me, pin my arms. Crushed her garland but she didn't care at that point, was so fuckin' mad that I was startin' to think she'd rip my tusks out when she leaned down over me. Went for my tongue instead, fished it out with hers. Haha! When I finally got my cock, she was the first orc that got to taste it... in every hole. Shame she didn't come a'raiding with us this year, I'd introduce you. Got an ass so fat she practically bounces right off your lap, but she's near as strong as me. She comes down on your face and your head'd pop like a melon!"

=====Her Dick=====
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On bringing up Arona's favorite topic, the Champion asks what's the story behind it as orcs aren't naturally hermaphrodites. Arona explains that the gods fucked up for not giving them all big ol' cock, that they could have drowned the world in orcish halfbreeds already. When asked if she wishes she'd been born a guy, she howls with laughter and after a long awkward moment, she says that the gods made up for the lack of cock by making her stacked with a great ass and thighs too. However, the problem was that as the chieftain's little sister, she was expected to have kids and that meant a lot of time not fighting while she waddles around the keep. Another problem was that she tends to prefer women, although hard abs and fat cocks have their place, she'd rather have a big pair of tits and a wet juicy quim. Unfortunately, the actual sex of women to women was just alright, but when she was introduced to a strapon, everything changed, but it was hard to cum from, so she wanted something that'd be a part of her. Unfortunately the orcs don't have alchemists, so she competed in a tournament to prove who is the strongest and the toughest where the winner can ask the chieftain and the high shaman for anything. She fought in the tournament fair and square and when she won, marched up to Hretha and told exactly what she wanted, including all the details.
:''"So yeah, that's how I got my cock. Made Hretha pray for it from Lumia, drank a tankard full of a cumshot from every grown man on the island, and the next day I woke up with morning wood pressing into a slave-girl's ass. Ha, she got a hell of a wake-up!

=====Her Family=====
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When asking about her family, there are 4 possible scenes that can play:
*Random Chance for:
**Hretha
**Argoth
**Argoth's Daughter ''(if talked about Argoth from Arona or Hretha)
**Hretha's Relationship with the Champion ''(if has had at least 1 kid with Hretha)

======Hretha======
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On the topic of her sister, Arona describes their relationship as fire and water. She goes on to add that Hretha looks like a chunkier, blinder version of their mother, complete with nagging at all hours anytime she does something Hretha doesn't like. Although Hretha isn't much of a fighter, she can kill with words that can beat them down harder than Arona and her hammer can, although she means well. Hretha only speaks out like that because she cares too much about everyone, and she has no doubt that she'd jump in front of an arrow for Arona, and Arona would do the same for her without hesitation. The two didn't get along as much as they'd like to, although Arona does love her sister and she practically raised Arona when their father died as their mother and Argoth were too busy keeping the tribe from falling apart. If Hretha is pregnant or already had children with the Champion, Arona will warn them that if they hurt her sister, she will cut them in their sleep.

======Argoth======
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On the topic of her brother, Arona will spend a moment collecting her thoughts, although mostly by staring into her drink. She begins by stating that:
:''"My big brother was the best fighter of his generation. Warband leader without equal. When pa died, Argoth stepped up to fill his place even if he was barely big enough to heft the old man's axe. Took command of our tribe's fighters, beat the would-be usurpers into submission, and proved his mettle in ballsy raids all over the Sailgraves. Was a time he was the life of the party, you know, hard drinking and harder fighting, inseparable from his men. Actually looked up to the bastard, I did. Wanted to be just like my big brother..."

Argoth isn't like Arona when it comes to sticking their dicks everywhere they could, he was more like Hretha. He deeply loved his woman but he changed after she got sick and died shortly after childbirth. Her death had broken Argoth as Arona never saw her brother smile again, not even for his kid and years passed where she barely saw him, until Hretha had her prophecy of a great battle. Although he set up the warcamp, the tribe just sat like gargoyles waiting for the end-of-the-world fight 'like a bunch of idiots'. [ExiledArona:The camp had been falling apart and now with Arona gone, there's no one around to keep the amazons busy. Tensions were hot, warriors were restless and supplies were low, all because of Hretha's dream. She hopes that when Argoth find his big war and dies in it, Hretha will allow Arona to come back to the islands.|ChieftArona:Had Arona not challenged Argoth, the camp would have fallen apart, or would have invaded Hawkethorne. When asked if she wished things had turned out differently, she counters by rhetorically asking if she wishes she didn't make her niece an orphan and if she wishes she was never going to see her brother again, but she had to do something.]

======Argoth's Daughter======
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On the topic of Argoth's daughter; [[Aretha]], Arona reassures that even with her father [staying chief, she's pretty much safe/being exiled, if anyone tries anything, they will have to go through Arona]. She's back at the Sailgraves as they can't bring someone that young to a warcamp, even for orcs. Arona continues by stating she's a sweet kid, although she's blind like Hretha, she puts on muscle easily like her and she made Arona teach her how to use a shield and spear. When the Champion notes that they sound pretty close, Arona agrees [ExiledArona: and makes her getting exiled suck all the worse]. Arona was the closest of her family to Aretha's age, and with Argoth 'being all fucked up by his woman dying', it was pretty natural that someone had to teach her how to walk, fight, and live, and despite her blindness, Aretha's a hot-head like her.

======Hretha's Relationship======
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On the topic of the Champion and Hretha having a kid, she's actually quite happy that somebody got to break Hretha's womb and it's by somebody she approves of. The Champion expresses their relief that she's not mad about it, to which Arona asks why would she be. She praises them and she's honestly happy that it wasn't from anyone in the tribe because none of them respected Hretha like Arona and Argoth do, and when the 'demon-hunting bullshit' is over, [SubArona:they can take them both as sister-wives|DomArona:she'll take them back to the islands and the Champion and Hretha can be together, when she's not using them].

=====Dominance?=====
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When asked if it's normal for the orc tribe to naturally come and accept a superior, Arona confirms that's how life has always been in the islands; that it's normal for the strong to rule. The Kervus only rule because they are the strongest, the strongest of the Kervus rules the tribe, and since they've proven themselves stronger than her, she's gotta do what they say. Although she can try and turn the tables, the rule only applies to the Champion. When questioned if they should worry about Arona shiving them in their sleep, she takes offense to it as she explains it's got to be an honorable open challenge.

=====Challenge Me=====
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The thought of challenging the Champion for dominance hadn't come across her mind because of all the demon shit and all that's been going on. Although she loves being the mean alpha bitch, she warns them that if she wins, she's not letting them go again as she's only going to play for keeps, although if the Champion wins, it doesn't change anything as they're already the top. With that, the following options will be available:
*Challenge - Challenge the big ol' dickgirl to a session of oiled-up orcish wrestling, as her ancestors demand. Or maybe that's your libido talking. Either way... ''(can't be done if any of the two are pregnant)
*Nevermind - Not right now.

======Challenge======
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The challenge, set by the Champion, involves an oiled-up wrestling match for dominance. This makes Arona scoff as she loves the idea, although she's the one who's supposed to be issuing the challenge. When the pair are oiled up and ready, the Champion has the following options:
*Throw the Fight - Let Arona win, and willingly become her submissive. There may be no coming back from this decision.`);
*Fair Fight - Make it a fair fight... and to the best wrestler, victory.

Throwing the Fight results in a default loss as claims her new position by fucking the Champion.

A fair fight involves a bit of RNG as whoever gets the highest number among:
*Arona - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength
*The Champon - (rand# 0 ~ 9) + Strength/Agility (which ever stat is higher)

If Arona wins, like throwing the fight, she will claim her new position by fucking the Champion.

=====Sleep With=====
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The Champion may ask Arona to be their bedmate, regardless if Sub or Dom Arona, so long as they currently don't have an active bedmate.
*For SubArona:
**Random Chance (determines what the Champion will use as a pillow):
***Sleep with Tits ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Belly
***Sleep with Thighs ''(requires gotten fucked by Arona at least once)
*For DomArona:
**Random Chance (determines what Arona will do)
***Sleep with Fuck ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Tired ''(Champion knockup chance)
***Sleep with Blowjob ''(requires at [[The Frost Hound]] and Champion knockup chance)

Note that each sleep with scene has it's own unique wake up scene.

====[[Orc Lodge]]====
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Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]]
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Upon revisiting/visiting the [[Orc Lodge]] after the events of the [[Right of Conquest]], a trio of orcs present will attempt to pull the Champion into a gangbang. If SubArona, they will have the option to refuse their attempt, knowing full well they have authority over Arona such that the trio need to know their place, however, this option will not be available with DomArona as they don't have authority through Arona.

==Combat==
===Enemy===
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The first time the Champion encounters Arona and her '''Orc Warband''', they will fight her and her warband consisting of:
*2x [[Orc Amazon|Orc Amazons]]
*2x [[Orc Executioner|Orc Executioners]]

Repeat encounters with the warband would consist of:
*50% chance for an [[Orc Amazon]] or [[Orc Executioner]] for each of the 4 members

====Stats====
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|Attack Power: 24 || Spellpower: 21
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|Sexiness: 24 || Temptation: 8
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|Armor: 73 || Physical Resist: 32
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|Warding: 43 || Magic Resist: 13
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|Focus: 32 || Mental Resist: 12
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|Evasion: 29 || Frost Resist: -20
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Likes]]</div>
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*Big Breasts
*Big Cocks
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<div style="text-align: center;">[[Combat Mechanics#Likes & Dislikes|Dislikes]]</div>
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*Small Breasts
*Small Cocks
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*[[Guarded Stance]]
*[[Dominance]]
*[[Cleave]]
*[[Prime Target]]
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<div style="text-align: center;">Drops</div>
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*100 XP
*60 EC
*[[Brazenberry Ale]] ''(100% chance)
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==Companion Sets==
===Warhides===
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|rowspan="6"|Default ||rowspan="6"|Arona's armor, made from padded boar's hide and heavy boiled leather. Calling it skimpy would probably be far too conservative: her clothes are nothing more than a strap across her black nipples to hold back her heavy tits, a pair of crotch-hugging shorts and loincloth that seem designed from the ground up to emphasize her masculine bulge, and her boots. With one well-timed flex, you're pretty sure Arona could shred most of her outfit on her chiseled muscles — all the better to get her cock out and start fucking at a moment's notice.
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Guarded Stance]]
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|rowspan="3"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2
|rowspan="3"|N/A
|[[Dominance]]
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Prime Target]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Hoplon Shield]] ||'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.0.18
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===Chieftain's Bronze===
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|rowspan="6"|Visiting [[Ragnild]] with [[Arona]] as Warchief ||rowspan="6"|A suit of bronze armor made by the Kervus' master smith on special order for Arona once she became the tribe's chieftain. This armor is bulky enough to leave Arona free to focus all her efforts on massive two-handed hammer swings, forgoing her shield and any attempt at active defense for a berserker's charge in the vanguard, leading her comrades to victory in her wake!
|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|rowspan="5"|'''Chieftain's Bronze
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''(same as set description)
|rowspan="3"|'''2 ||rowspan="3"|N/A ||[[Blessing|Inspire Wrath]] ''(Blessing rewrite)
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|[[Cleave]]
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|[[Thunder Strike]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Savin|Savin]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.10
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===Berserker===
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|rowspan="6"|Returning to [[The Frost Hound]] and witnessing [[Gwyn]] sparring with Arona ''(requires at least 3 days after Arona's Exile) ||rowspan="6"|In her exile, Arona has picked up an even more ferocious fighting style than before. She's forgone her shield—choosing instead to focus all her strength into her mighty hammer—picked up some tricks from Garth, covered herself with blue warpaint, and honed her rage into a weapon all its own. Seems the orc will be leading the charge in the future.
|rowspan="2"|'''Arona's Mastbreaker
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Arona's massive bronze two-handed hammer, a personal favorite of the island amazon. She's used it through countless raids and boarding parties to devastating effect.
|rowspan="6"|[[Presence]] [[Strength]] [[Toughness]]
|rowspan="2"|'''1 ||rowspan="2"|[[Veteran]] ||[[Wide Sweep]]
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|[[Execute]]
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|rowspan="4"|'''Arona's Warhides
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''(same as Warhides set description)
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Shell Cracker]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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===Spirit Totem===
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|rowspan="7"|Crafted by [[Viviane]] at the end of [[I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost]] ||rowspan="7"|Where once Arona carried her trademark '''Mastbreaker''', she now bears '''The Nightfang''', a great runic axe crafted specifically for spectre slaying by Viviane. Around her shoulders and covering her head is a wolfskin cloak, with the head of the beast functioning as a pseudo-helmet. And a tool for intimidation. It seems she now has a way to properly face her fears.
|'''Nightfang
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Arona's Viviane-crafted greataxe. Made specifically to help her overcome her fear of ghosts, this weapon glows with magic power that guarantees that the orc's swings will cut into any and all ethereal foes she encounters.
|rowspan="7"|[[Agility]] [[Strength]] [[Willpower]]
|'''1 ||[[Veteran]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="6"|'''Spirit Totem Warhides
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Largely the same as her typical warhides, Arona now wears her wolfen cloak along with it. Crafted by Viviane and warded against foes from beyond the grave, this outfit's headdress does come at the cost of some of the sexiness her choice of clothing usually provides.
|rowspan="2"|'''2 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Holy Shock]]
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|[[Warcry]]
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|'''3 ||[[War Paint]] ||N/A
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|rowspan="2'|'''4 ||rowspan="2"|N/A ||[[Charge Weapon]]
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|[[Smite Evil]]
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|'''5 ||[[Iron Will]] ||[[Berserkergang]]
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!|Author ||[[Author-Balak Knightfang|Balak Knightfang]] ||colspan="5"|'''Version added: 0.3.40
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==Sex==
===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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*In the [[Foothills]]:
**Victory sex options:
***'''Ride''' - Take the hermaphrodite leader's big, fat cock for a ride! ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
***'''BendHerOver''' - Shove the haughty orc onto her hands and knees and plow her hard from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Breed Orcs''' - Get these orcish sluts on the ground and fuck them full of your seed. ''(requires a cock & ([[Cum Quantity]] >= 500 or [[Libido]] >= 33))
****'''LetHerFinish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
****'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her... ''(Arona Dominance score < 0 or Champion is a [[Personality#Bimbo|Bimbo]])
****'''Fuck Her''' - No getting off without your say-so. Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
***'''BrintFuckHer''' - Let loose your minotaur [stud/friend] on Arona while you watch. ''(requires [[Brint]])
**Defeat sex scenes:
***Defeat NTR ''(must have a companion, 20% chance and Arona's HP & Resolve must be >= 80%)
***Defeat Gangbang ''(if: Arona's HP & Resolve must at be >= 50% [33% chance], else: 20% chance) (Arona does not fuck the Champion here)
***Defeat Catch ''(if vagina: Champion knockup chance)
**Through the repeat Pregnancy Encounters:
***'''Accept''' (results in the Champion getting preg fucked)
**The Champion pregnant encounters:
***'''Accept''' ''(for repeat Preg Encounter)
*[[Bad Ends]]:
**[[Bad Ends#The Exile's Slave|The Exile's Slave]] (On failed Arona Dominant confrontation)
*After defeating [[Argoth]] and [[Benny]] through '''Hide&Watch''' (choices available for SubArona):
**'''Throne Blow''' - Give Arona a regal blowjob. (default scene for DomArona)
**'''Ride Cock''' - She shouldn't be the only one riding that throne...
**'''Pound Pussy''' - Take Arona's throne from her and make her sit on your dick. ''(requires a cock)
**'''Frot N Lick''' - Frot with Arona while Cait sucks you both off. ''(requires a cock and [[Cait]])
===Post [[Right of Conquest]]===
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*Chieftain Arona
**20% chance upon visiting Arona at her throne:
***'''Throne Blow''' [no option] (DomArona only)
***'''Orc Gangbang''' ''(Orc Guards not pregnant)
****For DomArona [no option]:
*****'''Breed Guard''' ''(if has a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
*****'''Guard Fembang''' ''(if does not have a cock)
****For SubArona:
*****'''Guard Fembang''' - Let Arona's guards have their way with you! ''(Orc Guard knockup chance if has a cock)
*****'''Breed Guard''' - Take each of Arona's pet bodyguards in turn, giving her a creamy load to remember you by. ''(requires a cock and Orc Guard knockup chance)
******'''Let Her Finish''' - Do the orcess a solid and let her finish herself off.
******'''Help Her''' - Take care of that big, juicy boner for her...
******'''Fuck Her''' - Spin Arona around and pump her pussy with one last load.
**Unique sex option:
***'''Throne Fuck''' - Fuck Arona in view of anyone who cares to watch. Assert your dominance. (For SubChieftainArona only and must be at her throne)
***'''Ride Cock''' - Mount her cock and make her breed your [vag/ass] for the whole tribe to see.
***'''Fuck Her''' - Put Arona on your lap and bounce the big ol' amazon on your [cock]. ''(requires a cock)
*Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona:
**For SubArona:
***'''Ride Her''' - Plant yourself on Arona's big ol' dick and take her for a ride. ''(Champion knockup chance)
***'''Plow Her Ass''' - Put Arona on her hands and knees and pound the bratty dickgirl from behind. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Missionary''' - Get those fat balls out of the way and fuck Arona's dusky womanhood. ''(requires a cock)
***'''Threesome''' - Ask Arona if she'd be down to share one of your friends with you.
****'''Cait''' - Bring your kitty cleric along to worship at the altar of Arona's body. ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Ride Arona''' - You and Cait can drag the muscular beta down and join forces to keep her there, pinned between your thighs while you make out.
*****'''Double Titfuck''' - Have Arona and Cait get on their knees and worship your cock.
****'''Etheryn''' - Surrender little Etheryn's ass to the[ [[Silly Mode]]:horde/big green bully's dick]. ''(requires a cock, recruited and fucked [[Etheryn]], and she's available)
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
***'''Nursing Handjob''' - Your big, bratty girl needs to relax a bit. Put her in your lap and let Mommy take care of her. Some nice {warm milk // sweet honey} and a gentle handjob ought to do the trick. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Dommy Mommy''' - Use your words, some[pc.isMage| magical] rope, and your [pc.vagAss|pussy|ass] to teach Arona some good-girl discipline. "Mommy" is a lovely name, but how about "Mistress" this time? ''(requires feminine pronouns) (Champion knockup chance)
**For DomArona:
***Random Chance [no option]:
****'''Get Fucked''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Ride Her''' ''(Champion knockup chance)
****'''Sex Bone''' ''(requires cock and additional 33% chance check)
*****'''Cum Now''' - You just want release!
*****'''Titfuck''' - Take Arona up on her challenge and try and hold back!
****'''Cait Threesome''' ''(requires [[Cait]])
*****'''Dual Worship'''
******'''Sloppy Seconds''' - Use Arona's creampie as lube to fuck Cait raw while Arona plows you from behind. ''(requires a cock)
******'''Clean Cait''' - Use your mouth to eat up all of Arona's wasted seed while both girls tend to your needs.
****'''Etheryn Threesome''' ''(requires [[Etheryn]])
*****'''Watch Them''' - Arona's right: Ryn is starved for dick. Sit back and watch the big orc plow Ryn's ass.
*****'''Spitroast Ryn'''
****'''Nursing Handjob''' - Arona bullies the Champion out of her {milk // honey}, and demands a crotch handshake to boot. ''(requires feminine pronouns and milky D-cup+ titties)
***'''Arona Takes Her Pleasure''' ''(when travelling through explorable non-settlement tiles with Arona at <=25 Resolve, Champion Knockup chance, and if [[Cait]] is present, she will join and make it a threesome)
**Sleep With ''(different scenes for Dom and Sub Arona but will always involve sex before or after sleeping)
**Challenge Me (SubArona only but if she wins, she will fuck the Champion + knockup chance)

===As a [[Companions|Companion]]===
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*As a companion (Shared between Chieftain and Exiled Arona, and outside Arona's own sex options):
**[[Bad Ends]] ''(only unique non-generic ones placed here):
***[[Den of Foxes]] - [[Bad Ends#Breeding Vessel|Breeding Vessel]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]])
**[[Centaur Pack]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''DoubleTitJob''' - Grab a breasted companion and blow this stud's mind together. ''(requires non-Flat breasts)
**[[Cultist Evangelist]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) (Combat Victory)
***'''Spitroast''' - This goblin's thick enough that you could probably share her with someone else. Hope you have a friend in mind... ''(requires a cock)
****'''Arona'''
**During [[Etheryn]] Confession:
***'''Give2Arona''' - Give Etheryn over to Arona's tender mercies. Your futa orc amazon can sort out her problem in a hurry.
**During [[Mad Cow]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]]):
***On Brint's heat problem:
****'''Ask Arona''' - Get the orc studbitch to 'help' Brint out of his predicament.
**[[Elthara]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***During Winter City:
****'''DoubleTeam''' - Fuck this priestess to bits with a friend. ''(requires a cock)
*****'''Arona''' - Ask Arona to pound out this elf slut with you.
***'''Sic Companion''' - Send a delegate in your place to make Elthara happy.
****'''Arona''' - Give Arona some room to work and some privacy with Elthara and you suspect that needy elven libido is going to be cleared ''right'' up... for now.
**[[Sleepy Snake]] (Written by [[Author-Wsan|Wsan]])
***After the Champion fucks the snake, [[Cait]], [[Brint]] or Arona may have their fun with the snake
****'''Watch''' - Follow your companion inside and watch them fuck the unsuspecting naga lady.
*****'''Join In''' - Help Arona fuck the placid snakewoman and maybe get some of her for yourself.
******'''Reward''' - Get your reward.
******'''Don't''' - Servicing her is its own reward.
*****'''Don't''' - Remain a bystander.
****'''Don't''' - Wait it out.
**The [[Alraune]]
***'''Arona Fetilize''' - Have your buxom orc take charge and seed the planty milf. (Written by [[Author-BubbleLord|BubbleLord]])

===Pregnancy===
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====As the Orc Warband====
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The Champion can become pregnant through the Defeat Catch and '''Ride''' sex scenes with Arona. Standard [[Pregnancy#Pregnancies|Pregnancy Rules]] apply and see [[Pregnancy#Arona Father|Arona Pregnancy]] for more details.

=====Acknowledge=====
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If the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child and has never seen this scene before, the next time the Champion encounters her and her orc warband will be replaced by this scene.

Upon encounter the Champion again, she will growl at them and plant the head of her hammer on the ground as a challenge, however, when her eyes wander over their belly, her fighting stance relaxes as she realizes they're pregnant. When Arona realizes she's the 'father', she laughs, sets her hammer aside and waves off the rest of her warband. She will saunter over to the Champion and her normal hostility melts away as she places a hand on the Champion's stomach. With a tusky little smile, she says:
::''"Hell, I didn't come to the Marches lookin' something like this, but... but I'm happy. And here my brother said I'd never be a mom. Ha, you really showed him, huh!"

She continues to stroke the Champion's belly with genuine affection and the two have a short moment, before the rest of Arona's amazons start getting impatient as they cat-call their captain. Before she leaves, she takes their shoulder and says:
::''"You just... stay in town, okay? I don't want you gettin' hurt by any of the other patrols. Or anything! Something tries hurting my kid, it's gonna answer to me, you got that!?"

She will then give the Champion a hug and a squeeze on the ass before rejoining her warband as they find someone else to fight.

If Arona's Dominance score is >= 0; +10, if not; -10.

=====Preg Encounter=====
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For repeat encounters with Arona when the Champion is at least 30% through their current pregnancy with Arona's child.

When the Champion is meandering through the hills, they suddenly feel a sudden lurch in their stomach and they struggle to fight back a wave of nausea. Suddenly Arona calls out and approaches them, setting her hammer and shield down. She will gently urge them against a nearby stone, and they are given the following options:
*'''Refuse''' - You don't want to let a sex-fiend barbarian get too intimate with you again. (+10 Dom score)
*'''Accept''' - You'd be happy to see this gentler side of the big amazon. (-10 Dom score)

Refusing her by making it blatantly clear that they're not interested earns them a snort from Arona. She steps back, saying she's not gonna fight someone pregnant with her kid before stalking off into the mountains.

Relenting and accepting the orc's guidance assumes they're going to be set against the rocks, however, they're set right onto Arona's lap instead. The two share a moment as Arona says she's never gotten pregnant before and (if first Arona preg: she's never gotten anyone pregnant either |else: they're still the only one she's gotten pregnant). She affirms that they're beautiful, that she made them into an idol of fertility. The two go on to have pregnant sexing, complete with a parting kiss and a grope on the butt for good measure.

====As a Companion====
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The Champion can become pregnant from '''Ride Her''', '''Throw the Fight''', '''Fair Fight''' (Arona Victory), '''Get Fucked''', '''Wake up Tits''', '''Wake up Fuck''', '''Wake up Tired''', '''Wake up Blowjob''', and '''Arona Takes Her Pleasure'''.

After the events of [[Right of Conquest]] and when the Champion has recruited Arona to their party (does not have to be in current party), when they are about to give birth to Arona's child, like most pregnancies, they will be rushed to [[Gwyn]] at the nursery. While they are in labor, Arona will barge into the nursery and take a knee beside the bed to hold the Champion's hand, stating that she wouldn't miss it for the world. Arona expresses her happiness when she sees their newborn child and she goes to stroke its brow, but she will leave as she suggests the Champion get some rest.

==Dreams==
*[[Dreams#Arona Wrestling Match|Arona Wrestling Match]] (Written by [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]) ''(requires a cock and has met Arona)
*[[Dreams#Arona Cumslut Dream|Arona Cumslut Dream]] (Written by [[Author-Savin|Savin]]) ''(Arona Dominance Score < 0)

==Quest Related==
===[[Mad Cow]]===
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To satiate [[Brint]]'s heat, the Champion can deal with it by getting Arona to fuck him.

===[[Right of Conquest]]===
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After learning of the Kervus Tribe's presence in the Marches and the location orc warcamp, the Champion will need to keep sparring with Arona and cement their dominance (or submission) in order to get her help.

==Gallery==
===CGs===
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User:Alypia

2022-11-08T20:49:19Z

Alypia: /* Works */

Writer for CoC2

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==Works==
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|[[The High Ground]] (with [[Author-The Observer|The Observer]]), [[The Palace of Light]] (with [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]]), [[Dye-ing To Get To Know You]]
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|[[Arona]]: Nurse Her (sex) - Dommy Mommy (sex) [[Etheryn]]: Dildo (sex) - Service Top (sex) - Nursing (sex) - Elthara (talk) - Spend Time (Winter City) - Sleep With (all 13 variants) → Wake Up (all 10 variants) [[Gianna's Caravan]]: Etheryn (scene) Ice Rose Encounter ([[Frostwood]] & [[Glacial Rift]]) [[Jael'yn]] (maid): Ride w/ Ryn (sex) [[Lusina]]: Send Off (platonic recruitment) [[Viviane]]: Magicock (sex)
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Palace of Light

2022-10-23T06:56:29Z

Alypia: /* Quest States */

{{Infobox Quest
| name = The Palace of Light
| otherName =
| creator = [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| questGiver = [[Brother Sanders]], [[Annika]]
| requirements = Completed the Abyssal Depths segment of [[Winter Wolf]], or defeated the smugglers in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]]
| levelRange = 6+
| questType = Sidequest
| reward =
| location = [[Glacial Rift]]
| timed = No
| canFail = No
}}
<blockquote>''"I've met valkyries, [pc.name]. The only reason they would not be joining the fight already is if they were already fighting… either the demons, or something else. And that is what is worrying me so much."''</blockquote>
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__TOC__
==Writer Credit==
<blockquote>[[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]</blockquote>
==Quest States==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! State !! Acquisition !! Description
|-
| 0 || Speak to [[Brother Sanders]] about the valkyries before starting [[Winter Wolf]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the [[Demons|demon]] threat, has suggested gaining the assistance of the [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Lumia|Lumia's]] faithful winged warriors. Journey to the Glacial Rift and try to locate them there.''
|-
| 1 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after starting Winter Wolf, or update from 0 after meeting [[Gweyr]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders has suggested that you ally with Lumia's valkyries against the demons, but you'll have to put looking for them on hold until after you and Gweyr deal with the Cult in the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 2 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after finishing the [[Abyssal Depths]], or update from 1 after defeating the [[Lureling]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the demon threat, has suggested gaining additional assistance in the far north. Although you were interrupted by [[Master Tollus|Tollus]] and his minions, you've dealt with them for now, and the way should be clear to find Lumia and her valkyries. Search for them in the open spaces of the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 3 || Complete the combat encounter with [[Annika]] || ''Lumia's sun warriors are itching to join the fight against the demon cult, but they're stuck fighting a much older and more dangerous war that's sapping their goddess's strength… and which may very well threaten the fabric of this world's reality. Only Lumia herself can allow you into the Keep to help them, but unfortunately, she's in seclusion somewhere in the Rift, recuperating from her fight against the Wraiths. Annika, one of the goddess's valkyries, has offered to bring you to her so that you can make your case in person.
|}

==Acquisition==
When exploring the [[Glacial Rift]] after finishing the Abyssal Depths dungeon in [[Winter Wolf]], choose '''Investigate''' during [[Annika|Annika's]] encounter and then successfully complete the fight. Alternatively, it's possible to gain an optional breadcrumb that starts this quest early through an encounter with [[Brother Sanders]] in [[Hawkethorne]], which triggers on the Hawkethorne Waystone tile after either completing [[Winter Wolf]] or the smuggler fight in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]].
==Progress==
If you receive the quest from Sanders before finishing Winter Wolf, it will update as you progress through the quest. Only after finishing Winter Wolf can you find Annika in the Glacial Rift.

Encountering Annika leads to two options: '''Investigate''' and '''Leave'''. The latter returns the encounter to the Rift encounter table for a later date. The former initiates a fight alongside an unnamed, slightly-wounded '''Valkyrie''' against several [[Wraiths|Wraith]]-touched trolls. Regardless of the outcome of the fight, the valkyrie successfully drives off the trolls, introduces herself as Annika, and asks to speak to the party about the reason for the valkyries' disappearance. In short: there is something energizing and empowering the Wraith-touched monsters of the frozen north in their endless quest to annihilate all living beings, and the order of valkyries is fighting them desperately on the field of battle while Lumia, their goddess, seeks a way to destroy whatever is animating the Wraith-touched. Annika offers to meet elsewhere in the Rift and bring the party to a personal meeting with Lumia herself to see what can be done to stem the tide.

This is as far as this quest can be advanced as of 0.5.20.

==Reward==
Completing the fight alongside Annika yields several [[Trail Rations]].

==Trivia==
*If [[The High Ground]] was completed and any option other than a corrupted Dawnsword resulted, Annika recognizes the Champion as either the swordbearer (if Champ got the Dawnsword) or the swordbearer's ally (if [[Liaden]] got the sword). Otherwise, she recognizes them as the Champion of Frost.
*After completing Annika's fight with the trolls, it's possible to roll a random encounter in the Rift where the party visits the wreckage of a battle between valkyries and Wraith-touched trolls.

[[Category:Quests]]

Palace of Light

2022-10-23T06:56:01Z

Alypia: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Quest
| name = The Palace of Light
| otherName =
| creator = [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| questGiver = [[Brother Sanders]], [[Annika]]
| requirements = Completed the Abyssal Depths segment of [[Winter Wolf]], or defeated the smugglers in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]]
| levelRange = 6+
| questType = Sidequest
| reward =
| location = [[Glacial Rift]]
| timed = No
| canFail = No
}}
<blockquote>''"I've met valkyries, [pc.name]. The only reason they would not be joining the fight already is if they were already fighting… either the demons, or something else. And that is what is worrying me so much."''</blockquote>
----
__TOC__
==Writer Credit==
<blockquote>[[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]</blockquote>
==Quest States==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! State !! Acquisition !! Description
|-
| 0 || Speak to [[Brother Sanders]] about the valkyries before starting [[Winter Wolf]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the [[Demons|demon]] threat, has suggested gaining the assistance of the [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Lumia|Lumia's]] faithful winged warriors. Journey to the Glacial Rift and try to locate them there.''
|-
| 1 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after starting Winter Wolf, or update from 0 after meeting [[Gweyr]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders has suggested that you ally with Lumia's valkyries against the demons, but you'll have to put looking for them on hold until after you and Gweyr deal with the Cult in the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 2 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after finishing the [[Abyssal Depths]], or update from 0 after defeating the [[Lureling]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the demon threat, has suggested gaining additional assistance in the far north. Although you were interrupted by [[Master Tollus|Tollus]] and his minions, you've dealt with them for now, and the way should be clear to find Lumia and her valkyries. Search for them in the open spaces of the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 3 || Complete the combat encounter with [[Annika]] || ''Lumia's sun warriors are itching to join the fight against the demon cult, but they're stuck fighting a much older and more dangerous war that's sapping their goddess's strength… and which may very well threaten the fabric of this world's reality. Only Lumia herself can allow you into the Keep to help them, but unfortunately, she's in seclusion somewhere in the Rift, recuperating from her fight against the Wraiths. Annika, one of the goddess's valkyries, has offered to bring you to her so that you can make your case in person.
|}

==Acquisition==
When exploring the [[Glacial Rift]] after finishing the Abyssal Depths dungeon in [[Winter Wolf]], choose '''Investigate''' during [[Annika|Annika's]] encounter and then successfully complete the fight. Alternatively, it's possible to gain an optional breadcrumb that starts this quest early through an encounter with [[Brother Sanders]] in [[Hawkethorne]], which triggers on the Hawkethorne Waystone tile after either completing [[Winter Wolf]] or the smuggler fight in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]].
==Progress==
If you receive the quest from Sanders before finishing Winter Wolf, it will update as you progress through the quest. Only after finishing Winter Wolf can you find Annika in the Glacial Rift.

Encountering Annika leads to two options: '''Investigate''' and '''Leave'''. The latter returns the encounter to the Rift encounter table for a later date. The former initiates a fight alongside an unnamed, slightly-wounded '''Valkyrie''' against several [[Wraiths|Wraith]]-touched trolls. Regardless of the outcome of the fight, the valkyrie successfully drives off the trolls, introduces herself as Annika, and asks to speak to the party about the reason for the valkyries' disappearance. In short: there is something energizing and empowering the Wraith-touched monsters of the frozen north in their endless quest to annihilate all living beings, and the order of valkyries is fighting them desperately on the field of battle while Lumia, their goddess, seeks a way to destroy whatever is animating the Wraith-touched. Annika offers to meet elsewhere in the Rift and bring the party to a personal meeting with Lumia herself to see what can be done to stem the tide.

This is as far as this quest can be advanced as of 0.5.20.

==Reward==
Completing the fight alongside Annika yields several [[Trail Rations]].

==Trivia==
*If [[The High Ground]] was completed and any option other than a corrupted Dawnsword resulted, Annika recognizes the Champion as either the swordbearer (if Champ got the Dawnsword) or the swordbearer's ally (if [[Liaden]] got the sword). Otherwise, she recognizes them as the Champion of Frost.
*After completing Annika's fight with the trolls, it's possible to roll a random encounter in the Rift where the party visits the wreckage of a battle between valkyries and Wraith-touched trolls.

[[Category:Quests]]

Palace of Light

2022-10-23T06:55:24Z

Alypia: /* Quest States */

{{Infobox Quest
| name = The Palace of Light
| otherName =
| creator = [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| questGiver = [[Brother Sanders]], [[Annika]]
| requirements = Completed the Abyssal Depths segment of [[Winter Wolf]], or defeated the smugglers in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]]
| levelRange = 6+
| questType = Sidequest
| reward =
| location = [[Glacial Rift]]
| timed = No
| canFail = No
}}
<blockquote>''"I've met valkyries, [pc.name]. The only reason they would not be joining the fight already is if they were already fighting… either the demons, or something else. And that is what is worrying me so much."''</blockquote>
----
__TOC__
==Writer Credit==
<blockquote>[[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]</blockquote>
==Quest States==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! State !! Acquisition !! Description
|-
| 0 || Speak to [[Brother Sanders]] about the valkyries before starting [[Winter Wolf]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the [[Demons|demon]] threat, has suggested gaining the assistance of the [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Lumia|Lumia's]] faithful winged warriors. Journey to the Glacial Rift and try to locate them there.''
|-
| 1 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after starting Winter Wolf, or update from 0 after meeting [[Gweyr]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders has suggested that you ally with Lumia's valkyries against the demons, but you'll have to put looking for them on hold until after you and Gweyr deal with the Cult in the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 2 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after finishing the [[Abyssal Depths]], or update from 0 after defeating the [[Lureling]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the demon threat, has suggested gaining additional assistance in the far north. Although you were interrupted by [[Master Tollus|Tollus]] and his minions, you've dealt with them for now, and the way should be clear to find Lumia and her valkyries. Search for them in the open spaces of the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 3 || Complete the combat encounter with [[Annika]] || ''Lumia's sun warriors are itching to join the fight against the demon cult, but they're stuck fighting a much older and more dangerous war that's sapping their goddess's strength… and which may very well threaten the fabric of this world's reality. Only Lumia herself can allow you into the Keep to help them, but unfortunately, she's in seclusion somewhere in the Rift, recuperating from her fight against the Wraiths. Annika, one of the goddess's valkyries, has offered to bring you to her so that you can make your case in person.
|}

==Acquisition==
When exploring the [[Glacial Rift]] after finishing the Abyssal Depths dungeon in [[Winter Wolf]], choose '''Investigate''' during [[Annika|Annika's]] encounter and then successfully complete the fight. Alternatively, it's possible to gain an optional breadcrumb that starts this quest early through an encounter with [[Brother Sanders]] in [[Hawkethorne]], which triggers on the Hawkethorne Waystone tile after either completing [[Winter Wolf]] or the smuggler fight in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]].
==Progress==
If you receive the quest from Sanders before finishing Winter Wolf, it will update as you progress through the quest. Only after finishing Winter Wolf can you find Annika in the Glacial Rift.

Encountering Annika leads to two options: '''Investigate''' and '''Leave'''. The latter returns the encounter to the Rift encounter table for a later date. The former initiates a fight alongside an unnamed, slightly-wounded '''Valkyrie''' against several [[Wraiths|Wraith]]-touched trolls. Regardless of the outcome of the fight, the valkyrie successfully drives off the trolls, introduces herself as Annika, and asks to speak to the party about the reason for the valkyries' disappearance. In short: there is something energizing and empowering the Wraith-touched monsters of the frozen north in their endless quest to annihilate all living beings, and the order of valkyries is fighting them desperately on the field of battle while Lumia, their goddess, seeks a way to destroy whatever is animating the Wraith-touched. Annika offers to meet elsewhere in the Rift and bring the party to a personal meeting with Lumia herself to see what can be done to stem the tide.

This is as far as this quest can be advanced as of 0.5.20.

==Reward==
Completing the fight alongside Annika yields several [[Trail Rations]].

==Trivia==
*If [[The High Ground]] was completed and any option other than a corrupted Dawnsword resulted, Annika recognizes the Champion as either the swordbearer (if Champ got the Dawnsword) or the swordbearer's ally (if Liaden got the sword). Otherwise, she recognizes them as the Champion of Frost.
*After completing Annika's fight with the trolls, it's possible to roll a random encounter in the Rift where the party visits the wreckage of a battle between valkyries and Wraith-touched trolls.

[[Category:Quests]]

Palace of Light

2022-10-23T06:54:57Z

Alypia: /* Progress */

{{Infobox Quest
| name = The Palace of Light
| otherName =
| creator = [[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]
| questGiver = [[Brother Sanders]], [[Annika]]
| requirements = Completed the Abyssal Depths segment of [[Winter Wolf]], or defeated the smugglers in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]]
| levelRange = 6+
| questType = Sidequest
| reward =
| location = [[Glacial Rift]]
| timed = No
| canFail = No
}}
<blockquote>''"I've met valkyries, [pc.name]. The only reason they would not be joining the fight already is if they were already fighting… either the demons, or something else. And that is what is worrying me so much."''</blockquote>
----
__TOC__
==Writer Credit==
<blockquote>[[Author-Gardeford|gardeford]], [[User:Alypia|Alypia]]</blockquote>
==Quest States==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! State !! Acquisition !! Description
|-
| 0 || Speak to [[Brother Sanders]] about the valkyries before starting [[Winter Wolf]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the demon threat, has suggested gaining the assistance of the [[Valkyries|valkyries]], [[Lumia|Lumia's]] faithful winged warriors. Journey to the Glacial Rift and try to locate them there.''
|-
| 1 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after starting Winter Wolf, or update from 0 after meeting [[Gweyr]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders has suggested that you ally with Lumia's valkyries against the [[Demons|demons]], but you'll have to put looking for them on hold until after you and Gweyr deal with the Cult in the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 2 || Speak to Sanders about the valkyries after finishing the [[Abyssal Depths]], or update from 0 after defeating the [[Lureling]] ''Optional quest state'' || ''Brother Sanders, worried about the demon threat, has suggested gaining additional assistance in the far north. Although you were interrupted by [[Master Tollus|Tollus]] and his minions, you've dealt with them for now, and the way should be clear to find Lumia and her valkyries. Search for them in the open spaces of the Glacial Rift.''
|-
| 3 || Complete the combat encounter with [[Annika]] || ''Lumia's sun warriors are itching to join the fight against the demon cult, but they're stuck fighting a much older and more dangerous war that's sapping their goddess's strength… and which may very well threaten the fabric of this world's reality. Only Lumia herself can allow you into the Keep to help them, but unfortunately, she's in seclusion somewhere in the Rift, recuperating from her fight against the Wraiths. Annika, one of the goddess's valkyries, has offered to bring you to her so that you can make your case in person.
|}

==Acquisition==
When exploring the [[Glacial Rift]] after finishing the Abyssal Depths dungeon in [[Winter Wolf]], choose '''Investigate''' during [[Annika|Annika's]] encounter and then successfully complete the fight. Alternatively, it's possible to gain an optional breadcrumb that starts this quest early through an encounter with [[Brother Sanders]] in [[Hawkethorne]], which triggers on the Hawkethorne Waystone tile after either completing [[Winter Wolf]] or the smuggler fight in [[The Siege of Khor'minos]].
==Progress==
If you receive the quest from Sanders before finishing Winter Wolf, it will update as you progress through the quest. Only after finishing Winter Wolf can you find Annika in the Glacial Rift.

Encountering Annika leads to two options: '''Investigate''' and '''Leave'''. The latter returns the encounter to the Rift encounter table for a later date. The former initiates a fight alongside an unnamed, slightly-wounded '''Valkyrie''' against several [[Wraiths|Wraith]]-touched trolls. Regardless of the outcome of the fight, the valkyrie successfully drives off the trolls, introduces herself as Annika, and asks to speak to the party about the reason for the valkyries' disappearance. In short: there is something energizing and empowering the Wraith-touched monsters of the frozen north in their endless quest to annihilate all living beings, and the order of valkyries is fighting them desperately on the field of battle while Lumia, their goddess, seeks a way to destroy whatever is animating the Wraith-touched. Annika offers to meet elsewhere in the Rift and bring the party to a personal meeting with Lumia herself to see what can be done to stem the tide.

This is as far as this quest can be advanced as of 0.5.20.

==Reward==
Completing the fight alongside Annika yields several [[Trail Rations]].

==Trivia==
*If [[The High Ground]] was completed and any option other than a corrupted Dawnsword resulted, Annika recognizes the Champion as either the swordbearer (if Champ got the Dawnsword) or the swordbearer's ally (if Liaden got the sword). Otherwise, she recognizes them as the Champion of Frost.
*After completing Annika's fight with the trolls, it's possible to roll a random encounter in the Rift where the party visits the wreckage of a battle between valkyries and Wraith-touched trolls.

[[Category:Quests]]