Chapter 10 Early Access (Tier 3)

The release is finally here, and with it, happy Valentine's Day 💖💖💖

Thank you all so much for pledging, it's incredibly appreciated!!

There was a lot of editing involved in this chapter regarding which scenes to include; I have close to 11k words worth of scenes that I wrote for CH10 initially, but scrapped and am saving for later moments. There simply wasn't the space for it this chapter.

That being said, this chapter still amounts to a total of 56k words, with the average playthrough being 34-42k words depending on player choices regarding personality, plot, and romance. So, as always, I far surpassed my word count estimates in the run up to this chapter.

You can see why I had to scrap some scenes lol

Some notable changes with this new chapter:

• The codex page for the Crescent Blades has been added, including character art! It should be unlocked for all saves that are past Chapter 1
• Changed various lore related names, mainly the ones referring to the Major Spirits, in order to better reference the Zoroastrian inspirations that Arsur's religion is based on
• Darkened the background color further to be friendlier on the eyes. Some day, I'll add a proper dark mode, but that day is not today haha
• Edited the Arsurian Calendar to match with the new background color, and also corrected the start and end dates of the months!
• IMPORTANT!!!: It's highly recommended to replay the entirety of CH9 before getting to CH10. CH9 has some changes relating to LI relationship stats, so if you don't go back to play through those, you risk relationship flavor text messing up in CH10 (high relationship described as a low relationship, etc).

You can discuss any spoilers freely on the Patreon Discord channels, or if you'd like to post about it on Tumblr don't forget to tag it as 'atoc spoilers' or 'ch10 spoilers' so that others won't be spoiled!!

Now, without further ado, here's the link for Chapter 10 💖