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[[File:Openingpage.png|thumb|346x346px|The opening foreword of ''The Best is Yet to Come'']]{{Quote|Something also of note, one of the lords in the far west of the island decided to break away from the Triumvirate. I've been told that he bought his way to freedom, but I haven't seen the money anywhere. Well, I trust that Lord Valtara has everything under control.|<i>The Best is Yet to Come</i>, Pg. 19|}}'''''Travels and Tales of Emilia Rivers''''' (commonly referred to as '''''Travels and Tales''''') is a series of journals by [[Emilia Rivers]], a Valtaran politician and diplomat. The journals detail Rivers' time as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [[Triumvirate of Ceyreto]]
So far each new entry has received general positive reviews
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== Background ==
According to Rivers herself, the initial inspiration for ''Travels and Tales'' began prior to the formation of Ceyreto. She originally had a desire to document contemporary life in Valtara, but was too caught up in other affairs to take on such a project. After her promotion to Foreign Minister of Ceyreto, her desire to write the journals was rekindled. Instead of being about contemporary life in Valtara, however, the journals would take the form of a self-written account of her travels and personal affairs throughout Blackthorn, Ceyreto and beyond.
== Characters and
The journals have a series of recurring figures, both friends and foes of Rivers. While all figures in the series are real people that were encountered on Rivers' travels, many of them are portrayed in certain ways based on her worldview.
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=== ''Volume VI: The Battle of Blackthorn'' ===
'''''The Battle of Blackthorn''''' is the sixth journal in the ''Travels and Tales'' series. It is to date the longest book in the ''Travels and Tales'' series. The journal entirely opens up by following the immediate build-up towards the siege of Blackthorn, detailing the hasty construction of the city's keep, as well as the defection of the Valtaran royal family to the side of the Tyrant King. The remainder of the book follows the events of the siege, followed by the eventual peace deal and the events that ensue from it, such as the burning down and abandoning of Blackthorn by Rivers and the Interim Council. ''The Battle of Blackthorn'' is notably the final volume in what fans call the "Zydel
=== ''Volume VII: The Lake and the Rivers'' ===
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=== '''''Volume VIII: Gathering Speed''''' ===
'''''Gathering Speed''''' is the eighth journal in the ''Travels and Tales'' series. It was confirmed to be in the works a little while after the release of ''The Lake and the Rivers'', but was delayed multiple times for personal reasons. The journal follows first half of Rivers' attempt to gather all of the lake towns together into one big Commonwealth, including the diplomatic schemes she has to partake in to attain such a goal. The journal also follows the relationship between Emilia and the Sewer Rat, who finds themselves caught up in an internal crisis that threatens to tear both the Adventurer's Guild and the Empire of Aether apart. The volume was originally intended to be called "A Rose of Five Petals" to cover up to the Commonwealth's formation, but became too long for that, and so a new name was chosen, and "A Rose of Five Petals" was reserved for the following volume.
== Trivia ==
* Due to the autobiographical nature of the journals, many of the events of the journals are ever so slightly skewed. In an interview, Rivers' has admitted that while all of the events in the journals are 100% factual, a few minor details about how she acts have been altered. In a later interview, she admitted that the most common change is the honourifics in which she refers to come characters. She admitted that she never in real life refers to the Emperor of Aether as "Lord Noxaros", but rather by his first name, Acero.
* In an interview following ''The Lake and the Rivers'', Rivers admitted that many of the chronology of the journals is rather hazy and times, and that many of the "weeks" were actually spans of days or months.
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