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We introduced prince Thalie and his cool cape, so now let’s move on to the last candidate: Genèse!

Minor spoilers ahead: the setting and characters of the route are revealed.

Genèse is the prince of the D route and lives so far away that’s he’s actually ruling the kingdom of a different country. If that’s not a change of pace, I don’t know what is! He’s just a little older than Griselde and Thalie but maybe that’s just accentuated by his serious air. As a religious and righteous man, he may look stern at a first glance but surely you’ll be able to melt his heart~ Though, truthfully, Genèse is already king, and a widow at that, so you’ll be the one comforting him for once!

Genèse’s in-game sprite, by Anako. This cape is also pretty cool!

Genèse’s city is bursting with life and populated by merchants, including this young man called Georges. He’s travelling the world as a peddler, going both to marketplaces and people’s houses to sell various useful items. And since there was no radio or newspaper in the Middle Ages (let alone Internet), he also spread rumors and news about the various locations he visits. Georges actually appears in several routes of Chronotopia: Second Skin and is a precious source of information for Kionna.

God bless you Georges for being the good version of the internet!

Speaking of the city, the D route takes place in a real one: Genoa. You don't really see that in the backgrounds since those are supposed to be applicable to several cities at the same time (we don't need 3 different versions of a medieval street, after all). But you do see it on a map when the spice trade is mentioned. As a side note: the events of Chronotopia happen way before triangular trade becomes a thing. So there is no slavery involved, blessedly.

There is unfortunately no gameplay segment for this route. Too bad, a minigame to sell goods in the marketplace would have been fun but again, time and ressources! You will have to be content with my map animation, I suppose. That asset is from MelowBee BTW!

And that’s the end of the routes presentation. For obvious reasons, I won’t tackle the endings as I don’t want to say too much: writing those posts without spoiling was already hard enough. But worry not, we haven’t explored everything just yet!