The usual disclaimer everyone puts in their fanfics: Mabinogi and its contents are all intellectual property of Nexon/devCat, aside from the original characters I made for this story.
Now that we have that out of the way, what is this, really?
I originally posted this story as a long-running series of in-game MabiNovels on the NA Mari server over a span of 70 weeks, starting back in September of 2016, with the final chapter posted in January of 2018. That format limits each chapter to 40 lines of 200 characters, but lets you include character portraits and in-game music to accompany your story. Of course, here I have no such luxury of audio/visual bells and whistles, but I can have all the text I want. A fair trade.
The original work was written in first person, but for this 'remastering' of sorts, I'm converting the story to a limited third-person subjective narrative, though you as the reader will only experience what the main character experiences, and will be privy to their thoughts, as it is ultimately their story.
As it stands, this story is a near-complete retelling of the plot-line of the Generations quests, which goes off the rails of canon before smashing them completely. I tried to stay faithful to the characteristics of locations in the game, and the personalities of NPCs, but the events do not unfold the way you knew them. At the time I wrote the ending, Generation 21 wasn't out even on the KR server, and what I had made up certainly didn't match with what the new content brought us; the last couple of chapters are going to need a significant rework.
Since this is basically a second draft of a complete story, updates should come quickly as long as life's little snags don't take up all my time with disaster mitigation: I want to get this done before life gets in the way again and something really bad happens that makes it impossible to continue.
With that said, let's begin.