i love to think of the fates of the ox guild if they'd never met each other. like. the fate of g'eth is one thing- g'eth destroyed from liliana and the creatures under the manhole cover, inkwater forever silenced, dettering always being plagued with jeremy hodbuster's horrible idioms, m. channail continuing to turn people into animals and making animals into factory line workers, etc. but like. what about the guild themselves?
corazon most likely wouldn't be able to fight off the pirates on his own for very long, especially once his father gets involved. he'd be killed in what would be "a spot of bother" and then buried as "percival milquetoast," his father coming up with some sort of lie that he was ambushed by pirates while doing an overseas study. i think that lord milquetoast would still eventually find out abt the killmost ancestry and lay his claim on the manor of necropolis on sea, so corazon's father would get to live out the life that he killed his own son over. corazon would be remembered by the name he rejected, not the one he chose for himself (side note: andy has a really good knack for making characters that fit into transgender allegories)
merilwen would have to return to her village eventually and, without her friends with her to intervene, she'd be forced into an adult name by way of the tombola. she wouldn't be allowed to adventure, and sure she would enjoy hunting a bit, but she'd still be trapped. every wildcat she encounters would remind her of simon, but instead she's the one trapped with no one to set her free. she'd watch the birds soar and wish she could fly with them, but she never advanced enough to be able to turn into a giant eagle or a pterodactyl. like corazon, she wouldn't be merilwen, the name she's held so dear to herself. she'd be something else until the world ends around her.
prudence would be forced to renounce cthulu and made to live as a hermit, as much as she despises it. in legacy of dragons, when she gets put in the pocket dimension, she's sad about being lonely. despite her general attitude, it's obvious that it's mostly a persona she puts on because of her scary tiefling warlock visuals. she doesn't like being alone, but that's all a hermit is. solitude. no patron, no friends, not even any enemies to smite down. she was abandoned by her parents as a baby, which most likely is the root cause of why she hates being alone. she was born alone, she lived alone, and she'll die alone.
i don't think dob would ever get reunited with suzette if it weren't for him being apart of the guild. he'd travel the world, singing the lullaby and trying to find his sister, but would overall fail. i like to think that he'd eventually find his way into joining lady fyengeh's troupe of performers, but even that doesn't really last forever. if we suspend enough belief that without the guild, mistmire would still survive jacques darkfall and that chauncey survives, then once lady fyengeh weds chauncey, the troupe is essentially disbanded. i think dob would end up spending the rest of his life with flannery, funnily enough, and it would drive him insane.
finally, egbert. i think he'd fail his paladin trials and not be recognized as a paladin of la vache mauve. exiled from the dragon d'or and a failure to la vache mauve, he wander around pretty aimlessly. i think la vache mauve, being a forgiving deity, would still help him out here and there, but would overall be even more detached from egbert than they are in canon. just by his luck, i think egbert would end up stumbling into liliana and not only his kidney would be taken to form otherberts, but he would be as well. i like the idea of egbert getting magically brainwashed and controlled to be the commanding egbert, essentially liliana's right hand man as g'eth crumbles.
