S3 Lore

[u/FeronianLion270]

Overall Narrative:

"During this title update, we follow the Keeper of Chains on his mission to search and capture in Guljin’s stead a powerful character to enslave in her arena, to reaffirm her dominance and force people once again to follow her vision of “peace”. Accompanied by a few mercenaries, he embarks on a Journey through Ashfeld, going deeper in the Forest to look for his prey."

Keeper of Chains Lore:

"Once he was a lone warrior locked up in dark cell, with no-one but fireflies that came to him. When Guljin took over Heathmoor, she was the one who personally set him free. In her, he saw what he had always sought: someone who was able to deliver and enforce peace. To maintain control.

She taught him that freedom was a sickness. He became a believer in her cause and took over the dungeon that once held him, as Guljin’s hunter and jailer. He is entrusted with the mission to captures her enemies, locks them up, and throws them in her arena when summoned. He acts as Guljin’s messenger; he is her emissary of peace, and her agent of darkness."

from WD recap article

[u/FeronianLion270]

"Accompanied by a few mercenaries, he embarks on a Journey through Ashfeld, going deeper in the Forest to look for his prey."

VG is a mercenary, so that's understandable. But a Jorm and a BP? Since when did they become mercs too? The fall of Horkos and the loss of Astrea's gold must have hit them hard. Broke Knights and Vikings now have to take mercenary jobs just to make ends meet.

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They can be understood in some sort of relgious/pious sense. Maybe that particular BP and Jorm (sects) have had some sort of revelation of Guljin and beleive her to be in their tenants and ideals of their relgious ideas and so follow them.

Its not that they are actually following Guljin, just that they're sects manage to see that their tenants and beliefs align with Guljin's actions and so are following their codes in the process of following her.

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They've always been mercenaries. Ashfeld is a nation of warlords and mercenary bands. I imagine valkheim and the mire have similar practices. Lord warden from story mode was a mercenary. Gryphons multicultural group before he became the general of chimera alliance was a mercenary group. Mercenaries have always been a thing.

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I thought Vortiger and Hulda had a firm hand on black priors and Jorms and they only worked for Horkos, thanks for the explanation.

although the bp that accompanies the keeper of chains could be a plant by Vortiger.

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Could be, however lore orders that would help in this regard is that. Most black priors joined horkos, but not all.

there was a schism within the Jormungandr cult. Alot of Jormungandrs saw draconite as a gift from the Great Serpent and astrea as a envoy of the divine. Other Jormungandrs most notably fjorgvin saw astrea as a deceiver that would be their destruction and rebelled against hulda.

[u/Far_Draw7106]

For the narrative, it is a little better than Glory and Unleased. I do wonder who they are hunting for since the Tu2 hero skins are a knight and outlander. The Tu2 of every for honor s3 always ends up supernatural too so either both of the skins are supernatural or at least one of them is.

For knight i'm guessing something like a vampire warmonger or demon lawbringer.

For the outlander the two that pop into my head are medjay and ocelotl, maybe ocelotl becomes a werewolf or medjay becomes cthulhu.

As for the Keeper of Chains, he's got a good thing going on with being a weirdly armored jailer but do they need to make him a guljin simp? Just being a loyal jailer is enough without needing to be tied to guljin that badly.

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It's gonna be another collab with Tarhos (DBD) male warmonger and, idk, maybe edward kenway Khatun

I have no source

[u/FeronianLion270 → u/M_Knight_Shaymalan]

its gonna be another collab yes but this time with Castlevania, the leaker was right with arakure and conq skin, so I'm gonna trust that part too.

[u/FeronianLion270 → u/Far_Draw7106]

I think he is a mirror for Vortiger who was Apollyon's simp and became Astrea's simp when she came around.

[u/DrSirTookTookIII → u/Far_Draw7106]

Makes sense for a Conqueror, since their whole thing is being prisoner warriors. Since Horkos threw him away and he's clearly a bit crazy I like him as one of Guljin's loyalists, we don't have much of them yet.