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'''''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]] and her participation in the Ceyreto-Zydel War.
So far each new entry has received general positive reviews, and the series is now one of the best-
As of writing, six entries in the series have been published. A seventh has been confirmed to be in the works, but is currently finished and without a set release date. It's unknown how many entries the series will have, with Rivers herself stating that "Travels and Tales will continue so long as my life isn't boring".
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=== ''Volume VII: The Lake and the Rivers'' ===
'''''The Lake and the Rivers''''' is the seventh journal in the ''Travels and Tales'' series. After the climax of ''The Battle of Blackthorn'', it was unknown whether or not the journals would continue in their current form, but Rivers' confirmed a few months after the release of the journal that they would, and that a seventh journal was in the works. The journal follows the building of New Blackthorn, or "Zethortal" as it comes to be known, as well as Rivers dealing with her own insecurities and inability to fully handle her struggles, and ends with Rivers' glassing the king of Kalikhan with a bottle and blacking out. The journal took several times longer to come out than its predecessors, which Rivers has since blamed on the "lack of substance" in her life compared to during the Ceyreto-Zydel conflict.
=== '''''Volume VIII: A Rose of Five Petals''''' ===
'''''A Rose of Five Petals''''' is the upcoming 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. It's believed to be about the unification of the Commonwealth of Blackthorn into its modern state.
== 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.
* The first five books in the series share a coincidentally similar chronology to the events of ''The Acts'', a series of concept albums by American rock band The Dear Hunter. Both feature their main protagonist:
** Leaving their home to explore the world (''Act I'' and ''The Best is Yet to Come'')
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