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Month 11: Lone Moon: What do you mean I’m an archbishop now I haven’t even read the Dragon Bible.
Edelgard’s betrayal was so shocking that the first half of the month gave up and immediately died. Now we only have two weeks to prepare. Thanks for nothing, Lone Moon. Karen calls us over and says that she is fighting in the battle. She might actually die so she declares us as her successor in the church. I mean… I have no idea what the creed of this church even is? No one ever read me whatever their bible equivalent is and all I know from watching you is that betrayal isn’t allowed. I suppose that since the Sothis merger happened we are, for all intents and purposes God so maybe it’ll be all right. Ok as our first commandment we declare the wearing of creepy masks a sin. Anyone who disobeys this commandment will be given dirty looks until they stop because killing people just because they think differently is (1) too much energy and (2) kinda gross.
Karen ignores this.
Most of the people in the monastery are in disarray. What remains of the Black Eagle House just looks confused and sad. Everyone else is fearing for their lives. We run into Gilbert and he says that if we live through this he will be leaving the Knights of Seiros and return to the kingdom as a Knight of the Kingdom. Good for you, try not to ignore your daughter before she possibly dies ok?
Dimitri is not remotely ok. Dedue, being a good mother, asks Dimitri how he is feeling and Dimitri’s response is, “AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! THE GHOSTS! THE GHOSTS! CAN YOU HEAR? THEY WANT HER? DO THEY WANT THE EMPRESSES PRETTY NECK? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!”
… Who decided it was a good idea to give this dude weapons? Oh yeah me apparently. Everybody else just shrugs and goes “I’m sure he’ll be fine. This is how normal people talk.” Like is the Kingdom ok? Fearghus are you ok? I grab some tranquilizers just in case we need to retreat or something.
Edelgards army finally comes. We defend the gates of Garrach Mach and try to crush Edelgard before she can cause any damage. It’s a tense fight With Sylvain and Dimitri almost being taken out by the Dark Knight (yes he did something this time but only because I got cocky). But Pinkert manages to get to Edelgard basically by himself (guys armored knight MC can be stupid op) and causes her to fall back… but then she calls on her reserves. Millions of soldiers begin to march to Garrach Mach. Karen steps onto the battlefield and TRANSFORMS INTO A DRAGON. She begins to decimate the imperial army but the Edelgard too has monsters and they begin to mob her. For some reason we try to help but make ourselves vulnerable in the process. Thalas blasts us with dark energy and we fall off a cliff into nothingness and blackness...
5 years later…
The Empire has all but consolidated the Kingdom of Fearghus only a few houses such as Sylvain’s house Gautier and Felix’ house Frauldarius continues to offer resistance. A new puppet leader called Cornelia rules the empires holdings in the Kingdom of Fearghus now called the Dukedom of Fearghus.
The Leiceister Aliience meanwhile is being rocked with infighting. Half of the lords support the empire while half are heavily opposed. Poor Claude is left juggling the two and tries to bluff the world into leaving them alone. It’s working but mostly because the empire hasn’t eaten the kingdom yet.
Karen has gone missing and the Knights of Seiros have gone looking for her leaving the monastery abandoned and infested with thieves and bandits.
Meanwhile, we are dreaming… lost in the twilight and silence when a familiar voice enters our ears they implore us to get up, to stop the war, to bring salvation to the people! We must rise!
I try to hit the snooze button.
The resulting cacophony manages to wake us up we are… by a river? And there’s this guy? YO GUY WHAT UP?!
Guy: Well I found you in a river and we’ve had five years of war. Why were you in a river.
Me: No clue, hey what month is it?
Guy: Ethereal Moon? There was going to be a whole shindig this year y’know. Shame about this whole war thing.
Me: Oh heck I gotta get to Garrach Mach.
Guy: Wait Why?
But instead of answering him, we book it back to Garrach Mach. It’s pretty close even though we’ve been floating in a river for 5 years. Hopefully our students will remember there promise to meet for the Festival even though it is super canceled. Everywhere is a war zone, and I have no way of RSVPing.
When we get to Garrach Mach we come across the corpses of Imperial soldiers… weirdly fresh corpses of Imperial soldiers. We follow this morbid trail to its source. A sad, edgy, Chihuahua of a man with a spear, eyepatch and a look that screams that he only sleeps 2 hours max a day. It’s Dimitri! Dimitri came YAY! Dimitri however is not happy to see us. At first he thinks we are a ghost come to haunt him like every other dead person in his life. When we show that we are alive somehow he acts briefly surprised and then descends into a sulk. If we’re here we might as well make ourselves useful. We should go rat killing.
“Rat killing” in Dimitri-bark apparently means killing all the bandits that have made their home in Garrach Mach. The past 5 years has given Dimitri a very simplistic view of life. If you’re bad he’ll murder you. If you’re not bad he’ll ignore you. As we kill the bandits the other Blue Lions come in one by one. They remembered the meeting time! And unlike Dimitri they’re acting like human beings and are glad to see us! YAY AGAIN! Oh and Gilbert is here too! Hi Gilbert! Do you know who’s not here? Dedue. I wonder why… The bandits all die and the gang gets back together. Everyone tries to rally around being united and maybe we can shift the momentum and stop Edelgard from enforcing Agnosticism or whatever but Dimitri remains shockingly unmoved and surly. In fact, he’s barely communicating now that the killing is over. Only stating that he wants to decapitate Edelgard and literally nothing else matters. Even Felix thinks his edge has gone too far. We ask if he knows what’s happened to Dedue and Dimitri snarls that he’s dead. Killed trying to rescue him. Ok, so that is a tender subject.
Later a few of the Knights of Seiros return. And by a few I Manuela, Seteth, and Flayn because they are the only knights in our army. Their main goal is to rescue Karen and make their religion legal again and since that aligns with our goals they think they’ll stick around. Oh and I’m the archbishop now since Karen is gone! Cool! Maybe I should read the dragon bible now?
At the end of the day, Gilbert takes me to the side and we talk. Dimitri is essentially is king and lord but we both agree that he is cuckoo for cocoa puffs and needs therapy. Unfortunately, this is medieval times and therapy does not exist. We might have a chance because we are Dimitri’s dads 2 and 4 after all. So it begins! Operation-stop-the-empire-and-give-Dimitri-therapy! LETS GO!!!!!!!!
Ignatz promots to Assasin and Flayn becoms a War Cleric! Now she can heal AND punch people!
MVP: PinkertX2