Golden Girl

They both want an end to Tyrant and the loyalist dictatorship

This is a comicbook game

Well, we've been suspcious of Tyrant and his thugs since Issue 1 - but we only got to open war in I19

Which was always a going to be a failure - the only negotioantions we have in the game are aggressive ones

But you'll pleased to know that you can help Belladonna and the Resistance rescue Marchand from the loyalists during the battle to drive the stiff armers out of Imeprial City

We weren't at war with Praetorian Earth until Tyrant and the loyalists invaded us - like almost all the probelms the loyalists have to deal with, it was self-created

There are only 2 sides in the dimensional war

But following the level ranges lets you see the story in the correct order - there's one huge story path from the Praetorian tutorial to the Magisterium Trial - it goes from that first act of defiance against the dictatorship in the tutorial where you say you're turning in your Powers Division badge, to the return home for final fight with Tyrant in the ruined heart of his evil empire.
Along the way, we wreck the schemes of various Praetors, and meet and help people like Tunnel Rat, Noble Savage, Katie Douglas, Vanessa DeVore, Belladonna Vetrano, Anna Palatine, strengthening the Resistance and laying the groundwork for the liberation of Praetoria.

The devs hav stuck with their story for over a year and a half now, and have avoided the easy option of the Coming Storm forcing both sides to form an open ended truce to deal with it - they've actually followed through right to the finish, and given us an epic storyline with a beginning, a middle and an end, from the darkness of the dictatorship at level 1, to the light of freedom in the Trials - it's the single biggest storyline in the game, and one of the best things they've ever created.

The Trials are all about protecting Praetoria from the loyalist menace - each one deals with the dismantling of an aspect of their dictatorship, and the liberation of different parts of Praetorian society.

The BAF Trial is about stopping Tyrant releasing mindwashed Resistance prisoners back into the Resistance movement as sleeper agents, who will then carry out attacks on the Praetorian population to try and discredit the Resistance and their Primal Earth allies - the loyalists are planning to cause civilain deaths "for the greater good", and must be stopped.

Lambda is about crippling Tyrant's millitary capacitiy to stop any new attempts at invading Primal Earth - the invasion of Primal Earth will result in the deaths of millions of people, according to the invasion plans that we get hold of in the 1-20 content - all superpowered people are to be wiped out, and then the Seers will mind scan the entire surviving population of Primal Earth, and only the people who show no signs of being potential "troublemakers" will be allowed to live in the newly expanded Praetorian empire - the loyalists are planning to carry out mass-murder/genocide on a global scale and must be stopped.

Keyes is about getting control of the power source used for the invasion portals, the warworks and the sonic fences, and stopping an insane Praetor from devastating a large part of the city in a nuclear catastrophe.
Tyrant and the loyalists wiped out almost the entire population of First Ward using the sonic fences there as a weapon, and the fences need to be removed from their control in case he tries to use them to hold the population of the city hostage - the loyalists are threatening the safety of the whole city and must be stopped.

The Underground is about discovering the lies behind the loyalist dictatorship - Tyrant has been basing his cult of personality on the lie that he defeated the Hamidon, and was chosen as emperor based on that lie - the loyalists are killing anyone who knows the truth to try and protect the lies of their master and must be stopped.

TPN is about getting the truth about Tyrant and the loyalists out to the people - all the oppression they've suffered has been based on a lie, and the war that Tyrant has started has woken up the monster that he's unable to defeat - the loyalist are trying to prevent their master being discredited in the eyes of the world and must be stopped.

MoM is about smashing the loyalist thought police and liberating the enslaved Seers - after we broadcast the truth about Tyrant and the loyalists to the people, Mother Mayhem mindwashes the entire world, except for a few mentally protect people - the loyalists have turned a whole planet into a world of mindlessly obedient slaves and must be stopped.

The Magisterium is about finally bringing Tyrant and the loyalist dictatorship down - we control Neutropolis and the power supply for the city, and have just helped Belladonna and Desdemona lead the Resistance forces and their newly liberated PPD allies to victory in Imperial City, trapping Tyrant and the last of the loyalists in Nova Praetoria - Tyrant has no more warworks to call on, and the Seers have all been set free - he's left with the last legion of his genetically enhanced stormtroopers, his secret police chief, and 3 allies who use the same forces of magic that he'd banned from his "utopia" - the loyalists are making a last stand iat the heart of their evil empire and must be finally brought to justice.

The thread for the I13 PvP changes was big

Would villains really wear that symbol with pride?

The existence of the DE is very useful for Tyrant and the loyalists

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Malaise is taken down along with Mother Mayehm during MoM - MoM is the finale for both of them, and NW gives a bit more backstory for Malaise before we get to MoM, just like FW gave Mother Mayhem more backstory leaidng into MoM, and NW also gives backstory for Pendragon, Shadow Hutner and Black Swan leading into the Tyrant Trial.
The Trials are the end of each AVs current storyline - that's why they always escape or avoid defeat in any of the lower level non-Trial content - even the Maria Jenkins arc mentions them being broken out of the Zig or being teleported to safety.
That's one of the roles Sorceress Serene plays in FW - she gives the players a sense of closure, even though Mother Mayhem and Diabolique are just as responsible for the evil there as she is.
And even when players are taking on gods in DA, Diabolqiue still manages to give them the slip, because the Praetorian storyline is set up so that the AVs can only be brought to justice during the Trials.

It's level based
The story of Night Ward follwos on directly from First Ward - the first NW arc even starts in FW, and quite a few of the characters and events from FW show up again in NW.

They both have a new zone with 5-6 story arcs, and a new Trial.

Actually, it does - NW takes place before DA.

At that size, it must weight a couple tons, and have the ability to leap several dozen yards in one go - it's speed, weight and momentum would kill a human without it ever needing to use its jaws - and one swipe of its paw would knock a head clean off.
The problem with giving it such a limited set of animations is that it just highlights how it's not using its natural lunging and pouncing moves.