Well, it’s less about the historical events but the implications these events might have for the upcoming game that I don’t want to spoil for people.

and start the player on fresh ground without having to hit his head to reset him back to a low level character sheet.

Well, obviously Henry lost all but his smithing skills while working in Skalitz for a couple of years. Just making stuff up but here’s my take:

• Hans gets married off
• Henry moves with Theresa back to Skalitz
• … time passes …
• Hans shows up in Skalitz because he is dying of boredom from being a “responsible adult”
• “Henry mate, I heard our friend X has this thing going on. Let’s go and check it out”
• “Na, mate. I am good here. It’s not much, but it’s honest work”.
• Erik shows up with a war band from the opposing side, using the new conflict for his own vendetta.
• Henry's reaction

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Edit: Aaaaaaactually Henry being in the new game makes perfect sense. Theresa mentions specifically in game one that she wants to go to Prague and see the guy responsible for the whole mess that is about to go down. So yeah: Henry and Theresa go to Prague get caught up in the whole affair, and we can either pick playing as Henry or Theresa or play Theresa and there is no need for a character reset for Henry.

Guess they should hire me as a writer if that’s not what they have come up with already.