Update and Name Poll
- Haesara de Vespe 18
- Saboné de Vespe 67
- Edena de Vespe 12
- Sidonia de Vespe 28
- Galanna de Vespe 7
- Chiara de Vespe 8
- Corvina de Vespe 61
- Nerine de Vespe 17
- Camilla de Vespe 89
- Selene de Vespe 53
- Something else 1
Hi everybody, it feels like it's been a while since I last gave you an official update, even though it's only been, like... three weeks? 😂 I hope you're all doing very well and enjoying the start of your summer! (I never know when spring, summer, or fall actually starts in other places... In Arizona, it feels like spring comes around Valentine's Day (or even earlier) and persists with very lovely weather until the end of May, which is when it starts to get a bit hotter here and school lets out; but I think that's earlier than a lot of places because we have to avoid the heat? And then the summer heat kicks in around June and lasts all the way until mid-October... 🫠 And we haven't even gotten to monsoon season yet!)
Anyway, I had an extremely busy month last month, so thank you all for your continued patience and understanding! As I mentioned in my last update post, I had to leave the country for a few weeks due to a family emergency. [Warning: the rest of this paragraph references a death in the family, though it will be kept brief. You can skip this paragraph if you want!] Tragically, I'm sorry to share that the family member we traveled to see passed away unexpectedly as a result of that emergency, the same day that we landed to see him. My family and I are all okay now and dealing with the loss the best way we can (and trying to support our other family members in the process), and ultimately, coming together as a family after a few years of not being able to see each other due to COVID was cathartic and healing, even though it was also a very emotional and fraught time for all of us, especially with having to suddenly plan a funeral. I'm back home now, and I only share all of that to preface that I'm hoping this month is where I can get things back to our regular schedule. However, I'm leaving things tentatively flexible in case anything else arises or my family needs me to step in to help with various things in the coming weeks. I hope that all makes sense! And again, I can't emphasize how much I appreciated everyone's kindness and support while I was going through such a tumultuous time. Things could have been twice as stressful and upsetting, but having your understanding and patience made a world of difference and allowed me to focus on being there for my family without having to worry about anything else. Thank you all very much for everything; I can't tell you how much of a comfort it was to me! ❤️
Anyway, to give you an update on where Shepherds stands:
All that being said, I need your help to name the new antagonist that will be making her official debut in Chapter 9! She's Enik's new Court Mage, a beautiful, ambitious, cunning, and extremely powerful Enchanter in the service of the Autarch. (She's basically an evil version of Lavinet if Lavinet had remained a villain in my original draft of the game.) But I haven't figured out her name yet! I'm very fond of using the surname "de Vespe" in my head and have been privately calling her Cordelia de Vespe, which is an extremely blatant reference to a game I enjoyed earlier this year, Greedfall--so I'm going to run with it for now, but I might change it later down the road if I find it too obvious!
But let's just use it as a placeholder for now! What do you think the name of this new villainess should be?