I opted to link to Wario64, because he already pulled out the stuff we’re interested in from a pretty dry report. The next Kingdom Come is expected to be titled “Salvation”, and based on the development timeline, I would expect it to reuse some characters and locations from KCD2 but probably not Henry of Skalitz.

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    I can’t believe you’d just put spoilers for real world history in a comment like that, but at least you put it in spoiler tags. /s

    Yeah, I didn’t mean to imply he’d be the main character, only that you can keep working with some of the actors they’ve already hired and get along with, keep using the locations and game systems they’ve already built, and start the player on fresh ground without having to hit his head to reset him back to a low level character sheet.

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      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

      :::

      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.