JeVondair Family/Selenia/Deliberations
JeVondair's Question
I am having difficulty and need advice, player to player. You're an experienced story teller and, in my opinion, a fine player of this game. It kind of reminds me of the old days where Rynn would rely on Kharyn as his sounding board. So please, hear me out.
To me, Selenia feels as though she is in a strange twilight. She feels like everything she's built has come undone. She has resigned herself, she's seen too many friends, vassals, and disciples die. She's had to smuggle her only son out of the country with Gia just to give him a better chance at life. In the past few days, she's not spoken a word to anyone. She's morose, bereft of motivation bc she sees no future for herself. After all, her leadership brought her people to ruin, she failed, she was defeated. I fully expected her to die gloriously defending Xavax one last time, or if she didn't actually die, I was going to pause her if a TO was ever started in Xavax City.
But Messages from the north keep piling up. Redwings asking her what to do, foreign leaders asking her for her influence in controlling her people. On the one hand, as a player, I could step back, keep Sel depressed and quiet and in doing so leave the redwings and the north with the adventure of figuring things out for themselves. I've prepared Selenia to die. She's ready. I'm ready. A new chapter in the East was about to begin: one without her. OR, I could reinvigorate Sel, have her provide the guidance and control that is being requested of her. Rally the nobles left in Xavax for one last push and bring her herself to live in the north in Exile, gather her supporters around herself, and do what she does best...
I could do that, I really could, but for the first time in a long time, I don't know what to do. My first responsibility as Selenia's player has always been to make things fun for the folks who play with me. What should I do? Should I bring her north? Should I let her die? Will the "Redwings," in your opinion, have more fun interpreting what they think she'd want them to do, or would they rather her take the lead again?
I could really use the advice.
– JeVondair
