Hello, just finished playing through chp 14 on my A save and then starting entirely new playthrough with X to refresh myself on the whole story. And I’ll probably do another playthrough on D’s route after that (where I’ll make the crown extremely short because I’m a sucker for size difference). I probably won’t do an R route playthrough, though I do love them they feel more like a best friend than a love interest, at least when it comes to my personal preferences. I’m really enjoying your writing and worldbuilding and I can’t wait to see where we’re headed.
But I did just want to let you know I encountered a minor continuity error. In chp 14 when the group departs for the expedition, the crown and R notice a bird that uses magic to create illusory doubles while in flight and R makes a comment about always wondering which is the real bird. The crown tells R it’s the one that doesn’t shimmer at the edges and says their mother was the one who taught them that. This was a great character moment and I wouldn’t have noticed anything wrong with it if after finishing the chapter I hadn’t immediately started a fresh playthrough. In the first chapter if you ride with R, they show off their horse’s internal magic and the crown expresses surprise that animals can use magic and thinks of it as something their parents never bothered to teach them, directly contradicting the moment in chp 14. Sorry if that was a needlessly long-winded explanation!