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Closed Information about Canada and Henry's backstory.

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Title: Information about Canada.

Hello there! I am here in order to propose some lore information for Canada other than Holt's attack to Quebec. Since Henry actually came from Gran Sudbury before being recluted by Brighton, I wanted to request to make a few things cannon as well as make a bit of his lore cannon:

-First things first, Gran Sudbury is Northwest from Pittsford irl and they have quite a quarry, so they are pretty much a safe town settled in the quarry, very well protected and still mining from mines in the quarry. A mining town pretty much. As a suggestion, it could secretly be in control of Brighton but thats a bit more messy to set up I believe.

-Second, there could be a tribe called the White Legs formed by several clans, north and east of Gran Sudbury that have been terrying the little settlements of the area, making caravans and trade harder in Canada. Maybe the reason why the CPF doesn't go norther from the canadian border? This tribe's name come from their camouflage and the fact that they usually wear their feet and sometimes their legs naked and painted white to better hide in snow when they are going to ambush and attack, as well as to look like ghosts - cause they are sneaky like invisibly things -

-Third, and before some else brings this up to you, Henry *heard* of Hope from the Qebec refugees fleeing south, when he was going around the lake he encountered some of them and told him that the reason many of them were alive is because a woman called Anastasia Hope managed to contact them by radio and warn them about the attack - even if their preparation was useless - as well as a group that stood behind on Quebec's bridge and put up such a defense the seariders had to bombard the bridge with artillery and destroy it in order to kill them, giving the refugees the time to flee. I would also like to point out that Henry's whip scars on his back is because he was enslaved in the early years of the apocalypse but I still haven't figured out the details yet.

Thank you for your time.
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1. The Mining Community (Approved)
> I will need to know whether or not you intend on setting up an actual, personal relationship with this faction. Otherwise, I can approve this and have people discover it as more scouting operations sent out by Zed are hosted. There's a chance this faction may, or may not ally with another in-game faction as time progresses.

2. The White Legs (Approved w/edits)
I'm fine with some of this, but there are other, yet to be discovered, threats in Canada. Answers will come as the lore continues to progress, and while The White Legs can be one of the threats over there, I cannot approve this whole idea with the threats I mention in mind. I do not mind them existing in the world, though, I'd suggest them being active over in Detroit, effectively blocking that end of the border.

3. Hope's Legacy
Before I can approve or deny anything regarding this, I have to bring up a few things - namely the fact that none of this was mentioned in Anastasia's biography prior to the creation of Henry Patton. I understand wanting to have your character come up in other backstories as time goes on, it's an incredibly fun thing to do as the lore progresses and some legitimacy to the world. But, some people will sometimes perceive it as something else - an excuse to conduct revenge tactics on another character. I have confidence that's not what this is, but still, I do want you to understand that.

Past that, none of what you mention seems extreme. I don't mind you utilizing it, and Henry's scars are fine, too. I do ask this doesn't lead to Henry looking to seek revenge on Monroe for the death of Anastasia though. With this information, I will have it come up in the future if these refugees ever appear in an in-lore event and they discover that she was executed by the town.

Let me know you understand all of this and agree to the edits proposed (or give me some alternative ideas), and I'll sign off on the last one.
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1. The Mining Community.
If you mean writing down a faction part in Henry's bio - in the faction relationships part of course - I could do that but given the faction he belongs to, the relationship description would be only half-true. Something like 'My armored home which I love and remember each day.' but in fact he moved to Brighton with his family when they recruited him. The way you introduce them into the lore and if they ally or not with someone else, I leave it to you.

2. The White Legs.
So if I understand you right, they are active on Detroit brawling with the CPF there cause they go around or through Lake Huron, or maybe even potentially control the state of Michigan and expand north?

3. Hope's Legacy.
Ah yes, the Quebec warning and all of the Fall of Quebec happened in-game, starting with the "broken" ham radio of the market it evolved into Hope warning Quebec by radio - this scene was done in DMs with Holt -, then Holt hosted a vision-like event two days prior of Hope's suicide in which she and a few other characters defended the bridge of Quebec from the pirates, zombies and whatnot. I asked Holt before mention all this with Henry for the first time and he told me that Quebec's events were cannon and that I could had Henry knowing the name of Anastasia Hope through refugees telling him. But thats all he knows about Ana actually, other than she tried to murder Sepp and ended up poisoning the goats - he found this out ic asking about the poisoning of living stock -. So far he knows that Anastasia took her own life in the cell, that she tried to poison someone and failed miserably and that she is considered a hero by the refugees the same the consider heroes the Quebenians that stood behind on the bridge and fought to the end, but he has no feelings against or towards Anastasia. Regarding the refugees appearing in an event and finding out, perhaps this matter should be discussed with Holt.
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