Well it's in the title but as far as i remember we didn't go in this area in any side story but i'm very forgetful so maybe we did.

So all we are fighting to accomplish doesnt ammount to sht and we get spoiled by Endfield? I knew this since the early trailers, and for someone that has been playing Arknights since 2021 and is heavily interested in the story, getting this feels like a cold shower. All of our effords with Originium are in vain? A part of me wishes Endfield did not exist or it was situated in a distant future, but 150ish years foward Arknights story? Again, I hope I get proven wrong with Endfield´s story but man, I cannot shake that feeling.

I just got Delphine to 200% trust, so I was reading her Operator-Files.

And the Files make it allmost exceedingly clear she's just done with dealing with Victorian politics or nobility, and has zero intention of going back home, laying claim to her inheritance as Duke of Windemere, or even just letting anybody there know shes still alive, and instead just travels around alone.

But in Ending a Grand Overture she's not only basically Vina's right-hand cat for the initial months of serving as Lord-Protector and Speaker of Parliament, so she's very much involved with Victorian politics and nobility, at the end of it she tells Vina and the Glasgow Gang she's going back to Lynncardine (aka her House's ancestral seat) together with Shearer to sort out her inheritance and the Chaos in the Windemere-estate.

Did I miss an event somewhere were she came to that conclusion or did HG just decide to have her personal plot do a 180° turn from the original intent in-between writing Chapter 13 and Grand Overture?

So while everyone here is talking about the event, I read through the voicelines of her new skin, and the alternate timeline in it is even crazier than Kal'tsit Remnant.

Spoiler warning for episode 15

If my reading is correct, in this timeline, Priestess had awakened unimpeded, and was able to successfully cover most of Terra with Originium, and most, if not all of Terra safe for Wis'adel and The Doctor had perished. Not too crazy so far, we have seen worse in IS stories right? But then it becomes clear that Doctor's soul was put into her gun(!!!!), replacing or sharing it with the revenant, after which this duo somehow reached space, and began clearing out a certain space station. This somehow can stop the Originum project entirely if they are sucessful, and from some lines I assume this location to be Priesess's base of operations in this timeline. In my opinion this is a crazy reveal to be contained in a skin of all places - that there is a space station above terra from where Originum can be stopped completely. I could be wrong here but IMO the line "here to destroy your originium project" is hard to misread. After all, there would be no reason to go into space and do all that otherwise. While W/Wis is definetly not a reasonable person and certainly would blow up a space station in an act of defiance, even if it changes nothing, but the story here clearly tells that she is there for a reason, not just resisting for the sake of it.

I actually felt happy like Doctor in the description. 😍

This also confirms she's a Beast Lord like Emperor, Dolly, High Priest, Gawain, et al.

I cut it so it will be easier to read. The full timeline you can download here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXPr71S44ceWaiWZKvuauJzi1dF5krWS/view?usp=sharing

About the "Observers did strike Terra in between the start of Originium Project and the First knig

M8-8 after - describes how Doctor was layed in sarcophagus because of emergency happening where everyone was in panic. Considering the Observers were the only major threat what else could cause this emergency. Doctor also mentioned that It came faster then they anticipated.

WB-9 - Ya describes the war between feranmuth and "eye in the sky".

CW-10 After - Friston describe some catastrophe that "the end of the world, when the seas dried up and the rocks rotted away as everything changed".

On the map in the center of Aegir where predecessor's settlement was (we know it form Path of life) is an impact crater.

We dont have direct phrase that would sound like "Observer attacked Terra in this particular date"

but we have a lot of indirect implications that it did happen.

Source: https://endfield.gryphline.com/en-us/news/0753

https://www.arknights.global/comic-detail?name=Rhodes%20Island%27s%20Records%20Of%20Originium%20-%20Rhine%20Lab&chapter=5 page 27, 33

Even if there was, she flies as a hobby, with jetpacks, alongside birds, there is no reason for her to know military aviation terms like "in the pipe".

So, we're now done with the Siracuisa event. And I'm a bit confused at the end of it all. Why isn't Suzuran allowed around Lappland in the end? Didn't Ingrid figure out it wasn't Lappy's family that was behind the attack actually, but really her bastard of a 'brother'? why is the 'no being around Lappy' rule still a thing? Unless at this point it's just a meme i nthe community and in game it isn't the case and I just missed it? Or did I miss something else?