Erne

1) They still do help cookies, especially with outside threats or more complicated stuff but they dont commit their entire life to their original purpose anymore. As for the lights and souljams; they're staying the same as before. (We're ignoring the lights beeing revealed as chuds in canon ok)

2) They dont just retire from one day to another, the whole point of it is that the cookies are supposed to become independent and that also means educating successors for these positions.

3)I would say the exact specifics depend on the pair but theyre all positive?

4) He would probably remain as guardian but after retiring salt and lily would probably go travel around the lands but often return to the fairy kingdom? It would also generally not be as secluded in beast yeast since the whole destruction and corruption didn't happen.

5) well kingdoms would rise and fall to time eventually even without the beasts corrupting. I guess it could still end up similar to how it is in canon (aside from beast yeast ofc). There's also nothing stopping the beasts or companions to help someone establish a kingdom if they wanted?

6) no, since dark enchantress doesn't exist.

7) They are still friends, yes. But their relationship is different since they never went to school together in their youth? The companions did spend some years together, adjusting to the life of regular cookies, before beeing sent to the virtues.

8) Depends? Some of the minions already existed before the virtues corrupted so those would stay the same, as for the others, well they would either not have met under these circumstances or... not be evil?

9) if they came into beeing the same as before and ran into them somehow they would probably be friends? Its a bit complicated and depends on how you see stuff like pure vanilla and custard the IIIrds relation too ig? They would probably have other goals?

10) look... I haven't played any other game besides kingdom and while I do know their general lore, we still dont even know how much of that is canon to kingdom, if at all. So I dont know😭