#horseborn

Given that The Banner Saga is a game where your decisions can result in the permanent deaths of different characters, I was trying hard to read the in-game situations and react intelligently. So when one of the characters, who (allegedly) has the gift of foresight, told me to beware “blue and yellow”, I made that a priority. When I was meeting new characters, I scanned their outfits to see how much blue and yellow they were wearing. Who was Blue and Yellow? What exactly was Blue and Yellow going to do to me? What can I do to protect everyone from the threat of Blue and Yellow? Oh my gosh, Rugga’s bodyguard who barely ever speaks and who looks like a strange old man is wearing blue and yellow (and brown and gray and more brown). Is he the one?

I did not forget what seemed to me to be a very helpful warning from a game with many strategic pitfalls. Whatever Blue and Yellow was going to do, I was going to be on top of it.

And then we got to centaur country and I met Canary and that whole Blue and Yellow warning didn’t even enter my brain because I was too busy thinking Oooh cool horsey warrior lady! I hope she joins my group!!!!