np and I love sharing theories so thanks for listening lol. now to the responses to you
I agree that Logan prolly won't want anything to do with her, but i think if she came back and seemed either repentant or like she was tricked Logan might let her be friends and if MC doesn't pursue him, she will prolly get back with him over like a VERY long time, maybe 10 years or something to build back a relationship. Also, I don't think the Alpha turned people who weren't strong or at least slightly strong physically into Werewolves, like he turned Bernard, Caleb and Logan because they seemed to be the strongest in the village, what I meant was she prolly is just there as a slut for them to fuck like crazy and eventually we can either take her away from the cave and help her recover or choose to let Logan handle that mess of a person, which he might leave her and she could continue into becoming "the goddess" I theorized about earlier. then the Alpha, thinking about it, it would make more sense to keep him close to the swamp if they got him already so yeah, it's prolly something else. what if it's scrap lol, he decided to sneak into Bareshade and now he is just random chilling around XD.
then Ruben, your idea the teacher kinda just told him to help with his projects could be interesting and has a bit of merit, they both are invested in learning and the teacher literally has an apprentice to teach his ways too (us), so it would make sense he would help someone else if he believes they or even he could learn something new. so maybe this was an attempt to gain more materials for potions or other things later? like using the infected werewolves slobber or infected werewolves' flesh/fur in a potion to recreate its enhancement effects but something else to remove the parasitic part of the swamp taking over? which could benefit Northcrest and Ruben so he could take a risk after gaining some off time from gaining assistance from another herbalist who knows nothing about this.... if that's true I'm SOO beating his ass first chance we get. I happen to be biased towards werewolves so him using us to hurt them is starting a war against a person who is FULLY willing to cheat to beat the fuck out of someone.
and my theory on the tree is that it was either always alive but only created the swamp creatures to protect it/the swamp in case the lizard folk failed, or the nameless created it by accident with his curse of lust and now everything that has been spreading the curse to the wildlife creating unnatural things and starting to infect the living with its influence.
then the kingdom, it would be fun tbh. like imagine getting to hang out with a KING OF WEREWOLVES! then proceeding to seduce him and become a king as well via marriage. I would LOVE that, and maybe we could find out its a curse and his entire kingdom needs Antilycan (which I just realized is literally Anti Lycan.) or else it will soon fall to madness because wolf's bane is failing them. then Serena, if she really is a werewolf too and they have her still mentally broken, I wonder what would bring her back to humanity? and how she would cope with being a wolf as well, would she hate it as a reminder of her infidelity or love it as a connection to a time she felt nothing but pure bliss and pleasure?
also, I wanna beat his ass but I'm curious if he cute or not, which isn't important but like maybe corruption wouldn't be so bad if he is kinda good looking XD, however that's off topic and we will most definitely need to examine it and it will also prolly take a large part of the story to either find out how to use it, or actually use it. it is absolutely important to magical things though, why else would the nameless even try to steal it? a demon with essentially God like powers wouldn't do that for some measly relic. when we find out its true power, maybe we could even banish the Nameless and take back the other gem?
then that scene. imagining it literally makes my heart melt, the idea of Roushk walking up behind you with no fear and grabbing you looking you in the eyes and helping keep you sane while you absorb the corruption sounds heart meltingly adorable, or both him and Othra doing it by grabbing one hand and saying they are there for you. maybe even Rhot could join in by hugging you or wrapping his tail around your thigh and being all embarrassed about it or Xer walking forwards and hugging you or something I'm uncertain what his Physical signs are for affection. then Grushk too could be just chilling with his presence saying "I'm here" because again I don't know his love type either. then afterwards they could just like all check up on the herbalist and just panic, like Xer would be panicking thinking you got hurt Othra would hug you while crying being all happy and relieved you're ok and Roushk would just be standing all happy saying "my hero..." while Rhot would be resisting all his urges to run and hug you while no one else resists it at first but some back off while Othra and Xer check to see if your secretly just like dead or something.
also yeah, thinking about the length of time before those hearts, it doesn't fully make sense to have that without having a lot more Lizard content coming out asap....
plus, the bad ending thing makes sense if it was like Hishh but maybe since we disappear it could have a storyline where the leaders and others seek us out and if we have enough like + love from certain characters we could "wake up" in the cleansing water in a similar way to Roushk with the people who care about you holding you, or we could corrupt it/not get saved and eternally live in the second corrupted lake.
and yeah! the Xer being a warrior cleanser with something like that could work pretty well, just needs a well added storyline where he finally makes a breakthrough in his cleansing studies.
No btw, I meant Feliar. he is HELLA suspicious, but I absolutely feel how I said about Feliar lol. which would be only changed by him committing mass murder on an entire world, Vic though I don't think she wrote the traitor thing. I don't know anyone else who would, but I don't think she did.
also, yeah Jester feels more likely because of his attitude and him attempting to befriend us when we could be a threat, you know the saying "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." (Purely because if he is a shapeshifter, he might think us a threat and try to befriend us so if he reveals it, we tell him we won't tell anyone, and he gains a REAL ally.) but at the same time, it could be Scar and that's why he is so distrustful, he doesn't want anyone finding out he isn't who he says he is. he also might be trying to keep Jester away from Northcrest and the nobles might not be as bad as we thought and its him keeping Jester away while his father is trying to find him because he knows about Scar being the shapeshifter and he thinks his son is in danger being near him.
then the Golems, I wonder if he is a LifeSource for them? maybe that crystal inside him is what keeps all of them alive?
now on Paulo and John, we might be able to convince Bernard to let us build a shipyard and maybe if John wants a custom place, we could ask Bernard to let us do it as a favor due to the hell they went through. this could also lead into Tao, where we could build a shipyard and since we helped build it maybe Tao could get a free Ferry from here to his home and we could keep him safe until the shipyard is built! and Scrap could build a house in Bareshade or if he is too anxious, he could build a house near the forest with us!
and on Vic, she feels like the "oh? privacy? I don't know what that means!" type of person is what I'm worried about lol. she is also a demon, so I doubt she has any morals against either killing or subduing our dog if he gets in her way.... and Korg even finding out we hang with her might make him dislike us because of what she did.
that also should be everything, sorry I'm Hella late in responding XD.