I started the run with only harpies in my caravan,

used embarkation points for extra villagers, stones incase I need to open caches, packs of provisions and roots.

so I was praying for bats and foxes -  bats cus i can use memorial court to get rid of harpies that would leave me anyway, when starting with 150 hostility, and foxes cus the hostility wont affect them - also both species are easy to lvl' up cus of low resolve threshold.

instead got frogs and humans. not bad either cus with frogs i can get people quickly which is always nice + i can find ruins immediately which is really important due to having very few building selections & no orders available.

Humans are nice too cus its very hard for them to leave from low resolve, but also really hard to lvl up, just like frogs, so I wasn't thrilled about this combo.  Still could have gotten beavers which would have been dreadful XD  so I'm happy that wasn't the case

I started with 0 food production buildings which made me anxious. I only had the field kitchen which I hate using in general but had no choice. had to make paste.

luckily I found dye from cache and managed to make some from cobbler I picked up, so that + eggs i got from the starting kit meant I got paste for some time atleast, but it didn't last long.

I was really hoping for 3 star jerky recipe or something similiar but sadly didn't get anything.

My first cornerstone was bloodprince contract cus I figured people were gonna leave eventually.  Later I found 2 of decay from dangerous glades and picked up cannibalism.

You can see where this going \^\^

cannibalism was crucial cus i had no source of protein for the paste and by the end of the game, cannibalism got me 360 meat

The converted altars granted me -400 hostility.

To lose villagers I let blightrot consume them. easy enough.  didn't even need to build forsaken altar at all.

  
I was super worried this map was gonna be the end of my QHT run but somehow instead managed to get year 5 win. happiness



I guess I was too worried :) Y5 win QHT with roaming swarm & Desecrator debuffs