Demo update

What's new?

The public demo has just been updated with the first half of chapter 5. Elaine and her family have arrived in Lothia in preparation for her upcoming wedding to Gareth. The engagement has taken the castle by storm. Lot is dead set on the engagement while Morgana vehemently opposes it. Explore the aftermath of chapter 4's shocking revelations while navigating the rising tensions, and find some time for your day to day life. Meet Elaine - make a friend or fall in love however inadvisable - deal with Lot, prepare for the wedding and make time for your history lessons.

Besides all that we have some changes made to earlier chapters:

• Reworked Nimue's conversation in chapter 1. Added a new dialogue option
• Morgana's first POV in chapter 3, confronting Arthur has been polished and expanded a bit
  Changes have been made to chapter 4 to reflect that Mordred also keeps in touch with Guinevere if they're close to Arthur (she is not present at the birthday party but she is mentioned in correspondence)
• Some changes have been made to dragon lore: all dragons are now referred to with they/them pronouns and gender neutral terms

So, what are the lore changes? Dragons don't have the same concept of gender as humans do. They have no sexual dimorphism, which is now a newly introduced fact, but it's one I don't think I ever mentioned before.  The way dragons reproduce is pretty similar to birds. There are some dragons who lay eggs, and some dragons who fertilize them, but it's didn't lead to them classifying themselves on that binary. So, all dragons are referred to by they/them pronouns and gender-neutral terms in the story now (and if you see otherwise, it's because I missed that part and I ask you kindly to let me know about it!) I've tried to go through all instances and replace the uses of other pronouns, but there's still some editing and polishing that needs to be done.

A second change that I've been meaning to add: the names of the dragons that we see in the text are their "human names": a lot of dragons and humans have taken to choosing a second name that would be easier for the other party to use. There's a mention of it when you meet your dragon companion. Their actual name in their language isn't written out, but it's described similar to how I describe a dragon's speech in other instances. Note that Mordred doesn't introduce themselves by a "dragon name" there; it'll be included later.

Enjoy the update!