Apr 08, 2025
Author's Commentary #401:
Time to talk about Chapter 401: Sus happenings and assholes aplenty.
First off, an important announcement. Season 1's edits are complete, however, many of the Author Commentaries are now all mixed up along with the game logs. I'll eventually get around to fixing those and doing the ones for the newly added chapters, but for now, I hope you enjoy the new games and chapters that will grace Season 1 of this series. One other thing of note is that I've officially changed the country names of the New Kingdom of Simien and Mongolia to the Israeli Kingdom of Simien and the New Empire of Mongolia, respectively. In the Simien's case, I felt the need to better emphasize the roots of the Simiens as just "New Kingdom of Simien" felt like it was lacking that. The old name is still officially used, but now that "Israeli" is in the country's name, "Israeli" can now also be used as the demonym for it's people meaning it's nation's people can now be referred to as either Israelis or Simiens. In the Mongolia's case, I felt "empire" needed to be in it's official title since it's borders are now beginning to resemble that of the Mongol Empire of old. Not to mention, the Japanese name of the country, モンゴルの新帝国 {Mongoru no shin teikoku} translates to "The New Mongol Empire". It can still and will often be referred to as Mongolia just as Simien, Prussia, etc. are. And on the topic of nations names in Japanese, Simien's would be イスラエルのシミエン王国 {Isuraeru no shimi en oukoku} while Prussia's would be ドイツ プロイセン帝国 {Doitsu Puroisen teikoku}, Egypt's would be エジプト新王国 {Ejiputo shin oukoku}, Babylonia's would be 新バビロニア帝国 {Shin babironia teikoku}, and Paeonia's would be パエオニア新共和国 {Paeonia shin kyouwakoku}. It is funny though that Simien and Mongolia always tend to come in a pair when it comes to his series. Anyway, let's move on to the bios.
モー・ライドン (Moe Rydon) is how Moe's name would be spelled in katakana.
His birthday is November 20th, which he shares with 46th United States president, Joe Biden.
His favorite piece is the bishop.
Moe is an obvious parody of 46th United States president, Joe Biden. He actually debuted back in Chapter 136: Grandstanding, but wasn't really fleshed out. He was also being semi-controlled by Pewler at the time, but now that Pewler's dead, he's back to normal. However, Agatha now has the power to seize control over him at any time via her magic. Moe was also reinstated as president once more light was shown on Pewler's scheme and his game logs were made public. Pewler's movement is now in shambles, with many Misericordia party officials now turning on him and his views. They're still likely to lose the election though. One final thing to note is that Fianna is now the new vice-president, but thanks to the Pewler debacle, Moe can't simply resign and allow her to become president as the supreme courts ruled that the only one that can assume the office once Moe is no longer president is the one that wins the election. And in case anyone is wondering, parodies of other American presidents do exist with Trump being a semi-truck driver that lives in his semi-truck and does EVERYTHING from it, while Obama is a surfer bro into cougars, the old lady kind. Though I doubt they'll show up much in the story aside from maybe a brief cameo or two.
エルメンガルド・エベ (Ermengarde Æbbe) is how Ermengarde's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is May 21st. I chose this date at random, so there's no greater significance behind why this date is her birthday.
Her favorite piece is the queen.
キンバー・エルフレッド (Kymber Ælfflæd) is how Kymber's name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is May 23rd. I chose this date at random, so there's no greater significance behind why this date is her birthday.
Her favorite piece is the queen.
无云珠 (Wun Yunzhu) is how Ynuzhu's name would be spelled in kanji. ウー・ユンジュ (Wu Yunzhu) is how her name would be spelled in katakana. 无 means "none" while 云珠 means "cloud" and "beads".
(If I made any mistakes with the translations, feel free to correct me).
Her birthday is April 22nd. I chose this date at random, so there's no greater significance behind why this date is her birthday.
Her favorite piece is the queen.
Originally, I had no plans to shed a light on or even showcase who China's leader was, but ended up deciding to anyway. Thanks to the rise of the New Empire of Mongolia, China has now lost parts of it's original territory, which resulted in a regime change. Yunzhu doesn't play chess, but is a top Go and Xiangqi player. Though as shown in this chapter, she can be extremely violent. In fact, it's hard to find a world leader in this series that isn't an asshole and/or war criminal. On the topic of world leaders, since I've decided to show off China's, I'll likely be showing off Japan's prime minister in this world as well. I was originally not going to even have them play a role in the story, but since Japan is now the only major nation in the story who's leader hasn't been revealed, I feel I at least need to showcase them.
And now, onto the chapter itself. As you can tell by the bios, this was mainly a chapter centered around introducing new characters. Though the primary character I meant to draw focus to was Gwen. If you recall, she was shown off back in Chapter 386: Discussing DSPCMs after all. Now she has finally debuted properly, and yet, I still can't go into too much detail on her without spoiling her overall role in the story. All I'll say is that she'll play a role in this next mini-arc within the current arc of the series.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
