Einin

Way back in January of 2019, I spoke to Savin and Tobs at length about contributing a companion to CoC2. For as long as Leila has been in development, maybe longer, Einin has been in the background. Thanks to the CoC2 team's help, we kept her secret up until late August where I softly announced her in the public discord.

Currently she is technically more developed than Leila is (but that will change, believe you me). Here is a blurb I wrote that will serve as the future patch note featuring her.

In due course, you will encounter a Mecian named Einin, an insouciant thief prowling the outskirts of Hawkethorne -- and a potential companion! Investigate her crimes and bring her to justice, or dig deeper to unearth her motivations. Whatever choices you make to coerce or befriend the mouse, you can expect much teasing, tenderness, intimate lovemaking, rough sex, and plenty of delicious bullying.

Einin is a thief-mage in practice. I will elect not to talk about her personality or her traits or what the player can do to her in detail for a couple of reasons. CoC2 has a heavier narrative focus due to being kickstarted by the entire kitsune saga that Tobs had spent years writing up, and so to contribute to that, I've written a character with multiple recruitment methods and a few branching paths, as well as an entire conversation battle. How you will gain her in the future will have some benefits or maluses.

What I'm most excited to have people comment on when they can encounter her is how they choose to deal with her. It'll still be some time yet before she's finalized, but her pre-recruitment is essentially done. It'll need a little more polish and then a surfeit of repeatable sex scenes and other important topics to add her. One of the more time consuming things I'll have to do is read through much of CoC2 and find places to insert her for more immersion as well.

It may not be the best look for me right now with a backlog the size of the grand canyon, but this is also what I was referring to when I said you'd get a huge windfall of content from me all at once. Things are piecing together, and with 6900 words written just today jumpstarting September, I'm optimistic.

Einin as a companion is great for me as a light contributor towards CoC2 as well. She is a platform from which I can write as much as I like and work on making her as in-depth as possible. Everything about the companion system jives with what I like to do as a creator. I hope that when she is added that folks will find her worth the time. Thank you.