Those goods can be collected and used to complete various trading assignments with far-off nations, unlocking new armors, cosmetics, and a bunch of other nice-to-have goods. Each one produces a unique resource that is automatically transported to Dublin while I'm off doing other things. Scattered across Ireland are new trading posts that can be captured and upgraded using trading supplies pillaged from monasteries. One of a dozen new characters is Azar, a gender-fluid Persian trader who is helping Barid turn Dublin into a global merchant power. One of the biggest new features in this expansion is its trade missions, which lightly repurpose the building and village management system from Valhalla's story campaign. The story whisked me off to the far corners of the four new regions available in Ireland, but I was repeatedly traveling back to Dublin. And like any good RPG, I'm starting to dread having to choose sides.
Though I haven't fully completed the story, I can already predict what tough decisions possibly lay ahead. That attitude doesn't mesh well with Flann's thirst to rule all of Ireland at any cost. Instead of ruling Dublin with an iron fist, he's gentle, forgiving, and much too interested in expanding his influence through trade and diplomacy rather than war. Her kingly cousin, Barid, isn't much of a Viking, for example. It's an exciting backdrop to roleplay a Viking like Eivor.
It plays out like a standard quest arc from the base game-a self-contained story with its own twists and turns that sees High King Flann Sinna trying to reunite all of Ireland under his name. The story starts with Eivor discovering that her cousin is now the Viking king of Dublin and is desperate to earn the favor of the new High King of Ireland in order to cement his legacy. The more I trade, the more Dublin grows, expanding and changing just like my village did during the main campaign. If you liked the Glowecestrescire story arc in Valhalla, which explores England's pagan past, Wrath of the Druids is basically a lot more of that. It's subtle, but Ubisoft has done a brilliant job recreating Ireland's velvety green dales and craggy mountains, and I'm having a fun time scouring pagan ruins and ramshackle villages built around enormous wicker men effigies. But Ireland is absolutely a destination worth seeing. Valhalla's main story is great, so I wouldn't urge anyone to drop that in favor of exploring Ireland straight away.
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