@[subwayboy](/user/show/10040965) Next chapter just waiting for approval!

@[hvt](/user/show/909753) Thanks, appreciate it! Balancing the buildup and the release is such a challenge!

@[TexMuscle](/user/show/10002223) Oh, I've got plans, lol... Boyfriend and... you ever wonder what those old bullies are up to? ;)

@[WhiskeyPup](/user/show/2976763) Glad ya enjoyed it! And, yeah, I find the resistance aspect to be especially fun to write.

@[Marik29](/user/show/10021139) Thank you! I'm inclined to agree with you that this isn't the 'bad' ending, given how everybody came out of it happy! Glad you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Now there's just the 'other' ending to go,...

@[Blazargus](/user/show/10012784) And I'm really looking forward to it! Though it makes it wonder. If this bad ending had everyone happy, will the 'good' ending be the opposite?

@[Marik29](/user/show/10021139) That's right,... but more in the sense I can guarantee that _not_ everyone will be happy, rather than everyone being _unhappy_. Some characters just get to have a 'good' ending whichever way the wind blows!

@[Anon](/user/show/10049352) I have opened a separate thread for the discussion over my stories in the GKS forum so you wouldn't have to abridge your comment at https://forum.gaykinkystories.com/t/discussion-for-the-plot-characters-and-setting-ofknightly-duties-and-hunt-kill-breed/6993, you can post there if you want! I will keep my reply as succint as possible here. I too am pleasantly surprised how handsome the AI makes Henrich look! It's why I let him be a full wolfman rather than merely lust-corrupted human. I kinda want people to cheer for Gil's "submission" to the corruptive force by showing how good he is feeling sexually and emotionally without invoking the "we are actually the good guys" troped for the villain. I consider my goal accomplished if I could make any reader want Gil to give in fully to be with his loving family. The stuff with the mad baron will be expanded on, what makes you thibk Ruby is an Eastern spy, though? I think that I have not specifically stated that the "god" is just a "wolf" god though... :grinning:

@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) Hmm...with ruby, her allegiance to aigles even after his death seems to imply there are loyalists still to him. If he was part of a campaign that suppressed western faith and traditions- to bloody fashion if back then it was revealed the wolfman shifts could occur and the east likely saw this as akin to demons to an extent (hence mad baron) , she may have at one point been in his household as he did so, and was sworn to protect gil. She's going to try to find him. What she may find though...well that's a different story. In that vein, her being connected to the knights doesn't seem to odd. I just hope she and Rudolf don't hurt each other... As for the spirit, I'm assuming it's a wolf based on how the spirit henrich met was one. Tad eerie he decided to discard his own name though- it seems to some extent he's possessed to a degree. This however could be wrong and their just a general diety of the hunt in essence. As for the wolf king, perhaps henrich as a name reminds him too much of his sickly days and he wishes to be reborn anew. I think what worries me is that this story takes place in an area clearly bordering or near enough to travel to the east. Yet fifty years later in Williams time, there is not even an allusion to a Wolfman outbreak hacing occured. Either the west was completely converted....or all these characters are going to have their pelts or the like likely hidden away somewhere in a old magically sealed archive due to having been slain. The fact that the wolves want to convert all men (but clearly didn't- the order of the dawn would have been fighting a two pronged war in Williams time if so- seems to imply they failed.) Though I wonder how exactly these folk are even going to navigate society? I mean...until Wolfman are accepted (read- they manage to convert enough people), they can't just wander about. Will they be able to disguise themselves in human form- their past forms in this context?

@[Anon](/user/show/10049352) Your theories are very interesting (and might even be accurate to the story)! I gotta say though, I don't plan to make Wolfmen good at covert subtlety (as in capacity for artful deception and skullduggery, holding covert ambush is another thing), wouldn't the Eastern knights have been siding with the Baron if there were open supernatural outbreaks? I meant to convey the spirit seen in Henrich's dream as an amorphous being (for now), His first follower just happened to turn wolfish. Your analydis of Henrich's character is actually spot on! I am also excited to integrate the lore here into Knightly Duties as well, can't wait to share it my readers!

@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) Hmm...that does make sense- wolves are known for pursuit hunting and direct chases- they can do ambushes, but I can see them favoring more direct methods. Yet, the fact remains that if they do go direct they will be found out very fast- and that may be their undoing. Brute force will only work for so long in matters like these. William and the others know this lesson well in their plotting. Though, if they spin the idea that they are a return to western orthodoxy- then they could potentially take a more direct approach. That's why I wonder if their attempt failed- if it had been won, William and the others should have been wolfmen themselves. Either they won in the west and the east fended them off- but that would imply a two pronged war between wolfmen and demons which seems unlikely as that's not in knightly duties, they certainly didn't take over the east, or they're all dead and were killed off by a successful eastern war campaign in the fifty year time gap between the stories after possibly gaining some victories in the west. Or they somehow won in the west and stabilized themselves as an actual country and society- but this is likely the least possible outcome- or maybe not? I do agree with you that the eastern knights would have sided with the baron as per their traditions in the face of open outbreaks- which is why I would argue Ruby might follow in such a fashion to some extent in her desire to see Gil safe in honor of her dead liege lord, Rudolf's conversation to her likely rang some alarm bells- hence why I hope things don't go bad for her and Rudolf- they do seem to genuinely care for each other, and I hope they don't come to blows. Even despite Rudolf's bestial nature now, he does love her. The fact that the worship of the hunter spirit has been mostly forgotten seems to imply some kind of religious shift had occurred, weather by force or genuine conversions. I see what you mean now, the hunter spirit is not confined to a form then, but could potentially embody other creatures as well, for itself and those it converts. I look forward to see how you integrate the lore. I'm going to stop here for now to avoid any further comment overflow. I look forward for the upcoming chapter.