#the exile

[exilethegame]

Chapter 5 - Part Two Release

Hello everyone... it's here. It's finally here! Chapter 5, pt. 2 is now out, and is 250k words of new content, meaning The Exile is now over 1 million words!

This release was... rough, to say the least, but it's all in the rear-view mirror now, thankfully. As some of you may know, this is the final chapter of the public demo. I'll make a post later on detailing what the future development of The Exile will be, but for now I just want to take in a deep breath and relax (as I fix what inevitable bugs pop up with release, that is).

Avg. Play length: 114k -> 135k Total Wordcount: 818k -> 1 mil

Some Notes:

You have to replay the entire game. Your old saves won't work. Please, for the love of the gods, do not use them. I know it's tedious to replay the entire demo sometimes, but the new release will not work properly otherwise.

I HIGHLY recommend saving at the beginning of when Esmerelda goes to visit Marcelle, or where the old demo ended. This is because when I do bug fixes (and I will have to do bug fixes), all saves that were on the file I updated cease to work properly. Saving at the scene with Esmerelda is the closest to the new content that you can save w/o having to worry about losing your save progress frequently near release. (Though I will update Chapter 5, pt. 1 at some point)

DO NOT spread info you got by code diving. Please and thank you! :)

Preferably send bugs + typos to the Discord. Otherwise, feel free to send them here! Also, keep an eye out for broken symbols next to choices! (It would help if you tell me what chapter it's in as well :))

There are two versions of The Exile on Dashingdon. The right one has [Current] next to it. The reason there are two is b/c for some reason or another, I couldn't get into my old account, and I couldn't reset the password, and it was just... a whole mess. So I couldn't delete the old demo when I uploaded the new one on my new account. Just keep this in mind if you're trying to look The Exile up right into a search engine as opposed to going through links on the Tumblr or Forum!

Play Chapter 5, Pt. 2!

#chapter five #the exile game #exile the game #chapter update #the exile

[incorrect-kotor-quotes]

#kotor 2 #the exile #kreia #i keep seeing stuff like this and it annoys me

[edexeen]

HUNGRY.

i am so so not ready (extremely ready) for the next chapter. i cant wait for him too hurt /pos (i love ocs gaining new trauma what can i say its so scrumptious)

this is zenith :3 ive posted him before but this is new. im so happy with it

oc and lore from @exilethegame

#tw scars #tw blood #art #oc #zenith vamirel #the exile #exilethegame #fanart #exile fanart #animation

[eatingyarn]

they made me and then they broke me

angst? don't mind me if i do! @exilethegame

i made also a small gif out of this under the cut, but there are flashing lights, so please be careful!

#the exile #exile the game #exile #exile art #exile commander #phoenix commander #elaine vamirel #tw blood #tw flashing lights #under the cut tho #my art #can we appreciate i drew the whole background #applause pls #it was MUCH more fun than expected #the whole piece tbh #poor little elaine

[avame]

something about a connection you'll always want but can never make

#atris #the exile #jedi exile #kotor #kotor 2 #kotor ii #my art #honestly this is maybe the first time in over a month i didn't just close csp after five minutes in frustration #not to say that i'm too happy with this but at least it's passably finished #but like!! i get atris!! as a person who cannot make or keep connections i WOULD both resent and admire a person to whom that came easy!!!! #you trick yourself into believing you should be an outside observer because you've never really been on the inside! atris is really just a #lonely girl on the jedi academy playground at heart

[nukbody]

"I know."

@exilethegame

#brainrot.txt #everyone meet my comannder #her name is Madona #the exile game #the exile #exile commander #syfyn javall #nukbody sketch dump

[vigilskeep]

sovereign spaw: now i need you to kill a drow and free deep gnome slaves

shadowheart, whispering: oh here we go

astarion, whispering: i can see the cogs turning in his head

the exile: well. that is fine for me to do. because. ah. because

wyll, whispering: you’ve got this. you justified the goblin camp you’ve got this

gale, whispering: shhh he’s almost there

lae’zel, barely whispering: this is absurd

the exile: because. ahem. because the drow probably serves the absolute, as everyone we come across seems to, so lolth would WANT me to kill such a traitor and destroy his power over the gnomes

karlach: that’ll do let’s go!

#every interaction #the exile

[doobermcgoober]

Riven

#riven #the exile #league of legends #lol #I haven't drawn her enough lately

[koipepo]

Thinking about KOTOR 2 again.

First time drawing my favorite Iridonian tech guy. I absolutely love Bao Dur and the Exile's history & relationship so ofc I ship them (alongside Atton/Exile too) 🥲

#my art #my fanart #fanart #kotor 2 #sw: kotor #sw: the sith lords #bao dur #the exile #i still never got a name for my male exile.... goddamit

[criterioncollected]

a not admitting of the wound - emily dickinson / knights of the old republic ii: the sith lords

#web weaving #compilations #compilation #star wars #emily dickinson #poetry #kotor 2 #kotor #kotor ii #the jedi exile #the exile #the exile kotor #revan #darth revan #bao-dur #bao dur #malachor #malachor v

[spagottti]

Jedi Knight Revan and The Exile being tried for their warcrimes (again)

#who are they being tried by? #I dunno #its probably just Bastila and Atton scolding them for their shenanigans #I am sorry if this has already been done I could not help myself #star wars #jedi #darth revan #revan #the exile #revan and the exile #kotor #kotor 1 #kotor 2

[macewinduu]

I haven't finished Kotor games yet but something I appreciate about them is that they feel so bleak. Maybe it's the old visuals or the music or the way they make my computer cry despite being old as balls. But they feel like the end, like the final gasping, heaves after a crying spell, like sweeping up the glass you knocked by accident while having a breakdown. The dust has settled and you are so much fucking worse for it.

#kotor #kotor 2 #knights of the old republic #idk if this makes sense but #revan #the exile #star wars

[incorrect-kotor-quotes]

I found a new fun thing to do on Malachor. It's very easy to use Beast Control to bring one of the academy's pet Storm Beasts over to your side, then use Stasis Field to keep all the surrounding Sith immobilized (but presumably aware of their surroundings) while an abomination mauls them to death one at a time.

Because I'm the good guy.

So I let him kill everyone in a room, then kited him to the door once he turned hostile again, made him friendly, opened the door, froze everyone, and gave him some enrichment.

"Okay everybody, this is my newest apprentice, his name is Padawan Fluffles. Candy, I need you to escort him back to the Hawk with everyone else."

It seems Padawan Fluffles interferes with the cutscene's ending.

No, Fluffles, no! Bad Storm Beast!

Oh shit Fluffles killed everyone. It wasn't even a close fight, he's got most of his health left.

Sadly, I couldn't get Fluffles through the door into Sion's boss fight, but I highly recommend recruiting this super-secret companion if you have the right power. He’s arguably the strongest companion in the game. Fluffles killed every other living thing in the area, so he’s got plenty of food and a nice open space to roam until I deal with Kreia. I just hope he gets along better with Atton... but I will choose Fluffles if it comes to that.

#kotor 2 #the exile #canderous ordo #mical #visas marr

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Kreia: Exile, you have a good heart. The Exile: [smiles brightly] Kreia: It is super annoying.

#kreia #the exile #kotor 2 #star wars #star wars legends #incorrect star wars quotes #original: the dragon prince

[gncrezan]

@exilethegame updated and now i’m thinking so hard about marcelle’s relationship with the commander and my own incomprehensible theory about her (based off the “but it still matters that the love was there” textpost <3)

#exile the game #the exile #alpheus agonios #marcelle naulvonte #esmerelda naulvonte #emeline #syfyn javall #sabir du vaelas #trystan ryder #SORRY THIS IS A MILE LONG... #AND PRETTY SCRUFFY I JUST NEEDED THIS OUT THE SYSTEM!! #but the whole comic thing was made to scroll as one so.... yeah.... #also peep the mirrored layout smthn smthn its a tragedy but we sing it anyway as though it might turn out this time etc (starts sobbing) #everyone clap for tumblr user gncrezan who has suddenly turned into 1 marcelle apologist. because they are deluded by their own theory #that is most likely wrong. but here we are #long post #edit: minor replacement cause the bloodstains were not working out. its fine now tho

[whothecrappadoodlecares]

So it may just be me and my personal interpretation, but one thing that absolutely infuriates me is the "Cardan is a genius for his banishment plan and Jude did a dumb dumb by not returning" idea that some readers have.

Because that plan, as it was, would only work if, and only if, Jude was fae.

In fact, Jude even thinks about pardoning herself, and how that would not work (given the current situation as she knows it).

(I will illustrate my points with extracts of Queen of Nothing (QoN), and The Wicked King (TWK) of the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black)

recap: the plan was to exile Jude, and have her return via her pardoning herself a bit later when the coast was clear (lol unintentional sea pun) of the wrath of the Undersea disturbing negotiations.

"I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown. (...) Meaning by the King of Faerie. Or it's queen. You could have returned anytime you wanted." (QoN chap 18)

Here is where the issue lies. Jude is High Queen of Elfhame, but has literally no way to prove it. She doesn't have the powers conferred to her as queen yet, she doesn't have the trust of the people, and she doesn't have the magical inability to lie that the fae have.

Now if Cardan had proclaimed her queen, she could, but he didn't. In fact, when he first exiles her, she proclaims that he can't do that on account of her being queen, which no one believes:

"But I am the Queen of Faerie," I shout, and for a moment, there is silence. Then everyone around me begins the laugh. (...) "Deny it, then," I yell. "Deny me!" He cannot, of course, so he does not. (TWK chap 30)

Which leads to Jude seeing through the plan and pushing it away because she could not trust Cardan to do what would be needed for it:

It occurs to me that maybe he made a mistake with that phrasing. Maybe I can pardon myself. But then I remember when I insisted I was the Queen of Faerie, and the guards laughed. Cardan didn't need to deny me. He only had to say nothing. And if I pardoned myself, he would only have to say nothing again. (QoN chap 6)

Meaning for her to actually pardon herself, she would have needed to illegally enter Faerie, not get caught, get into presence of Cadan so he could confirm the claim she is rightful queen, and then pardon herself publicly. Of course many of those steps are dangerous, and she has no reason trust Cardan.

If at any point she was caught in Faerie before being pardoned and confirmed queen by Cardan, well, it pretty much almost happens in the book.

"Clap her in chains," says Randalin. Never have I so wished there was a way for me to show I was telling the truth. But there isn't. No oath of mine carries any weight. (QoN chap 16)

The only thing that stops them from trying to arrest or kill her?

"Whatever do you mean?" Randalin says. "She's-" "She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. "The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile." (QoN chap 16)

Cardan even seems to be aware of it at one point (a couple hours before he names her queen in fact):

"Since you're mortal, Jude, I cannot hold you to your promises . But you can hold me to mine: I guarantee you safe passage. Come back to Elfhame with me and I will give you the means to end your exile." (QoN chap 13)

Okay, so the plan was flawed, but why make it then?

"Let me remind you that I didn't know you'd murdered my brother, the ambassador to the Undersea, until that very morning," he says. "My plans were made in haste. And perhaps I was a little annoyed. I thought it would pacify Queen Orlagh, at least until all promises were finalized in the treaty. By the time you guessed the answer, the negotiations would be over." (QoN chap 18)

So we get the entire picture: the entire thing was a hastily made plan with expected flaws (Cardan's lack of undertanding of the treatment of mortals and the consequences thereof on Jude's decisions), born from the miscommunication and lack of communication between them, that ultimately worked, only with a couple hiccups.

It makes sense to their characters, to where they are in their character growth, individually and as a couple, to their understanding of each other.

Jude, who has figured out, manipulated, and maneuvered entire coups to take the throne and subsequently took one of the highest political positions did not suddenly become an idiot ignorant of political maneuvering. And Cardan, who did not expect, want, or even took over the functions of the throne if he didn't absolutely have to, did not suddenly become a political genius.

Instead, Jude, who often works alone, trusts only herself, and consequently does not report everything to Cardan, accidentally put him in a difficult position, and Candan, who has yet to really work with Jude and take into account her limitations and differences, did not take them into consideration in the plan he had to come up with on the fly. And then the complete lack of communication (and trust) aggravated the problem.

Lo and behold, what happens after their reunion? They start working together, communicating better, and developing trust.

Character development stemming from an incident caused and aggravated from their flaws. Aka good storytelling.

I.e. when the political fantasy book with a sprinkle of romance in the background actually brings the romance to the foreground and starts working on the couple.

This is of course, my own interpretation at the end of the day.

#queen of nothing #the wicked king #the folk of the air #jude cardan #jude duarte #jude x cardan #cardan greenbriar #the exile #holly black