The story that saw Bevan’s entire tribe get wiped out and become collective pariahs amongst the ermehn of the Northern Wastes was originally covered, like I said last week, in a Choose Your Own Adventure-esque story that I wrote in Twine for readers many long years ago. It was pretty grim, featuring something like a dozen different ways for Bevan to meet his untimely end and just one ending where he survived.

Obviously the canonical ending is the one we follow in Beyond the Western Deep, and I didn’t want to create any confusion among readers, so I revisited the concept for an Intermission story I posted during our run of Song of the Eastern Sands called Fall of the Evyn-din that covered the same story, but as a prose story instead of a CYOA.

If you’re interested in checking out that story, you can still find it here: https://westerndeep.net/comic/song-of-the-eastern-sands-hiatus-story-3/

Obviously Bevan still carries a bit of guilt surrounding his tribe’s (and many other surrounding tribes’) complete routing at the gates of Deltrada Garrison several years prior, but it’s not exactly something he’s been able to speak to anyone about this openly. In the world of the ermehn, what is it really to lose a friend to canid aggression? A family? A tribe? It happens to everyone in the Wastes, right? For Bevan, there’s little consolation to be had from his own people–and as we can see, that’s been eating away at him for years.

In a bit of personal news, the latest episode of Guild Wars 2: The Icebrood Saga will be launching on November 17th, and I helped to write several sections of it. You can check out the trailer here:

If you’re a player of the game, it’s also worth mentioning that voice acting from our incredible cast (including Matt Mercer, Nolan North, Kari Wahlgren, Jennifer Hale, Steve Blum, Sam Riegel, and more) is finally going to be added to Episodes 3 and 4 of The Icebrood Saga. I was the lead writer on Episode 4: Jormag Rising, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that our storylines are WAY better with voice acting than simple plain text and emote grunts :)

See you all next week!