Because The Wolffort Clan And The Darkwood/Greenwood (Woodlands) Are My Chosen Spots Of Interest, Carryover

Because the Wolffort clan and the Darkwood/Greenwood (Woodlands) are my chosen spots of interest, carryover notes so that I can refer back to it later if needed:

The Hawk and the Wolf: legend goes that the Wolffort ancestor was lead to their approximate current residence under the guidance of a hawk. The hawk then becomes the united clans banner as seen for House Wolffort for pride and fearlessness.

A possible design angle from a team to approach not naming the current dominant family name (Wolffort) after the hawk (like a name like "Falkes") was to be signifiers of both Draefendi's companions: the hawk and the wolf, as according to the Octopath TTRPG.

The hawk of legend would be the literal placeholder to the companion while the other is honored in namesake and so meant to be seen as the vehicle for the Huntress. This also amplifies itself with Serenoa as a unit, ex. Hawk Dive, battle dialogue "when a wolf is cornered," therein taking both companions. Then, noting that Draefendi's ring is the plume (CotC), the hawk likely has more significance in regards to the goddess and would then be more readily recognizable imagery in local legend.

If Wolffort's ancestor was an emigrant of the Darkwood/Greenwood, the symbolism of Draefendi and the old Wolffort legend seem less of a fanatical myth and more of an actuality that happened reasonably where Wolffort's ancestor was able to understand the desires of that one hawk, provided the latent ability of those clans to possibly borne a child able to connect/commune with beasts a little more readily. Of course, visually both the Wolffort demesne and Woodlands share a lot of the same inspiration, but that's understandable on a surface level for far simpler design reasons.

This ancestor then sees the two feuding tribes, Falkes and Telliore, as ancedote to the Darkwood/Greenwood peoples and so unites them as an opposition to Orsterran history.

In a completely different direction from left field, the parallels and crossovers between these people and/or similarities of Orsterra and Norzelia is that Triangle Strategy's stories might be a collection of Orsterran fables or cautionary tales (or a story a novelist made up for fun. Triangle Strategy could just be someone's choose your own adventure story, which would be funny). This really has no grounds other than the usage of "ser" and maybe possibly the cardinal directions somewhat being used.

As a fable anecdote however, it would make the tie in much cooler and more powerful as a story of "old versus new" or "light versus dark" and such in the sense that weather or not the old gods of Norzelia are actually the Osterran pantheon is individual headcanon, but then Serenoa as protagonist, as a Wolffort tied to the "old gods" through iconography and symbolism and the Scales themselves, facing off against not only something that was created by human hand in hatred and pride, the Goddess of Salt (the "new," the sacrilege of it) but also the powers of what is more tied to the fallen god, Galdera, than its namesake, Aelfric, and an Osterran would likely recognize those connections for hopefully easier digestion about the lesser clean cut parts in both Osterra and "Triangle Strategy."

Triangle Strategy Timeline

Ta-da! I finally have a relatively complete timeline for the Triangle Strategy canon events (albeit a really speculative one). It’s stored on Google Drive as a sheet:

Triangle Strategy Timeline

The fun thing about using Google Sheets is that I could make it completely adjustable, meaning you can plug in different amounts of days for different events and it'll calculate the whole thing automatically. I purposefully made it this way because Triangle Strategy's timeline is really pretty flexible and a lot of it is up to interpretation.

I feel like I might've mentioned this before on a previous post, but one weird thing about the timeline (and the reason why I wanted to do those polls the other day and get a reality check) is that there's really nothing to say that the events of the story took more than about one month. That's 1 (one) ONE month. As a lot of people agreed on the polls, it definitely feel like the war takes a lot longer than that, but there just aren't a ton of explicit references to the amount of time passing that would prove it took place over a longer amount of time. In fact, there are a lot of places where it kind of feels like the game implies otherwise, that things are happening over the course of hours/days vs weeks/months.

One of the worst examples of this is this sequence from Chapter 4 where everything from Dragan finding the salt to Maxwell's death on Whiteholm Bridge seems to be implied to take place in less than 24 hours.

In order:

We see Dragan find the salt

It immediately cuts to House Wolffort talking about Frederica's wedding dress and say they are leaving at once to make the request

Frederica arrives in the Rosellan village and they start taking her measurements

There's a "Meanwhile..." title card and then a scene that shows Roland leaving Whiteholm to head toward the Wolffort demesne

Dragan sends a letter to Gustadolph about the salt

Gustadolph receives his note

As Frederica finishes up her measurements (implying that all the stuff in between has happened in the same day!!!), Roland meets up with Serenoa and co. and takes them to the mines

they get to the mines, everything goes down and Dragan is killed

they hear about the invasion in Whiteholm

they run down to Whiteholm and get there that!! same!!! night!!! during the invasion

You can make arguments that some of the scenes were flashback-ish and/or weren't meant to be strictly chronological (which is what I did lol), but the game does seem to at least imply that Gustadolph found out about the salt and then managed to mobilize his entire army and get down to Whiteholm in the span of like. a few hours

There are other factors that make the timeline weird as well, which I talk about more in the timeline itself. But mostly I just wanted to say: this timeline is sort of goofy to begin with and at some point it really became more of a "you can use this as a tool to plot out your fanfic's timeline" than it is a "this is a strict canon timeline" lol. There's so little to go off of that you can really just assume whatever you want and then go with it :)

And as always, feel free to point out if there's anything you see that's inaccurate. There's so much going on in Triangle Strategy and I almost definitely missed things/got things wrong in different places. Comments are enabled on the sheets, so if you want to leave a note that way, definitely go ahead!

It's been a hot sec since I've drawn anything other than reference sheets and want a little bit of warm up before I work on bigger pieces, as well as wanting to practice combining my usual shading with the sketchy marker rendering, so I drew my Paladin!Cordelia design from a few months back haha

there she is......

back at ohtori academy

My beloved triangles