The Dread League and especially the Coven of Blood in my opinion is the most interesting nation in this mod. The story it is comprised of something extremely new and interesting no matter how one looks at it... Yet it feels like its ending story is horribly rushed compared to its beginning. Sure Rosa Maledicta brings death to the world in the end and then nothing? If one focuses on Rosa's background you can tell she is a pony disgruntled with the world enough to want to bring about its demise but exactly so wouldnt she want to change it in her own wicked ways? Right now there is nothing after that very short notice of the success of the black crusade.
What i am saying is that it almost feels like The Dread League gets an ending of a cliche zombie apocalypse that wasnt stopped but instead took over the world. Which is a shame since the way the Dread League is written it looked bleak and dark while at the same time avoiding that boring trope we so often see in movies and series like 'The Walking Dead'. The Dread League as is presented is the forces of death that have such an evil plan that much exceeds the usual 'kill everything'. If one was to describe it in a shorter manner i could say that the goal of the Dread League is to plunge the world into an endless nightmare. Something which in my mind includes much more than the demise of all life.
I will not talk about points other players have so often made namely that the Dread League when played by the AI is completely hopeless or that unless you play in a very specific manner it is nearly impossible to win the black crusade. For the first point i say that the Dread League is not a nation meant to do things unless it is played by the player. For the second i would say that as i have already said that while true you need to rush the black crusade in order to win, namely being forced to play a specific way, that doesnt mean that a late black crusade is 100% doomed to fail. So this post is not about these certain shortcomings but rather about the story-line of Rosa Maledicta and specifically about its certain uninspiring ending while it began promising and delivering a great plot.
I write this as i feel that the plot of the Dread League has a lot of wasted potential. I know this is just a mod made by modders, people not paid to do what they are doing and who as all of us players have real life issues to attend to. And i am truly grateful for this momentous mod which has blessed this community, i truly am. I am just saying that if possible this opportunity for a decent ending to the story of the Dread League that i can only describe as marvelous and nothing less is effectively exploited.
For the suggestion i have given i am willing, nay more than willing, to contribute in case the modders see that as a beneficial idea. I cannot mod per say but i have some suggestions for the Dread League which may be useful. Not only that but i can actually write the story altering just the events about the Windigo and the ending event. If then the modders of this mod think my changes are, say, an improvement to the current situation they could implement them in the next update. Of course i say that unknowing of how modding works and whether it is a difficult issue to change the event descriptions or not.
The sole reason i am writing this is because i have extremely enjoyed this mod so far and especially the Dread League. Furthermore i have seen a growing interest in recent days about the mod and for the Dread League specifically meaning that people other than myself would be more than glad to see some sort of change in that 'loose end' of Rosa Maledicta's story-line.