Is my story lore-friendly?

[Princess_Cassandra]

Still good, though you might want to get an idea of how/where they fought, just for the sake of it. Did they join one of the three Grand Companies uniting to fight the battle? If so, which banner did they fight under? If not, how did they get there and where did they fight? The Grand Companies each have a unit of enlisted adventurers, called upon in times of need but otherwise allowed to pursue their own means and ends. These units were given priority in the retreat, with full-time enlisted soldiers defending the rear. If you weren't one of the Echo-blessed, primal-slaying, Darnus-killing elite adventurers standing with Louisoix, it's not to hard to write escaping Carteneau without going into the rift.

Thank you for such an informative post! You have given me many ideas and directions to elaborate Fleurent's story, I think his adventures would have him questing around Thanalan and fighting alongside The Immortal Flames at Carteneau.

This would be the most tricky part to write, I'd think. His flight from Coerthas would almost assuredly be interpreted and presented as admission of guilt to whatever he was accused of (and likely without him there to defend it, these enemies would heap some extra ones on the pyre). How does he bridge this gap? Did someone "hold the fort" within his house in the county and give him a way to take back his story in a "redemption arc" narrative? Does he come as a stranger to a family in another county and gain valorous attention there before admitting who he is and trying to turn the tide of his reputation? Does he embrace the socio-political games and start moving rivals of rivals against one another to re-write what "really" happened? Did he make his entrance with such a grand gesture that it was impossible to deny hearing him out? It's up to you!

You are right about this, his reputation and his house's name would be severely shamed, almost irreversibly so for most. I would like to write this so he makes his first reappearance during a pretty desperate, potentially losing battle against Dravanians and he fights in a way that inspires Ishgardian troops and slays/helps to slay a significant foe. So it happens in a way that kind of makes it impossible to deny hearing him out, he boosts the moral of some of the men, and garners an overwhelming amount of witnesses of him killing Dravanians which would help to dispel the notion of him being a heretic. As an NPC in Camp Dragonhead named Belmont says "I tell you, the high and mighty around these parts don't even see in black and white. They see in "dragon" and "not dragon," you know of what I speak."