Malin Ryden's (Fallen Hero Author) Public Update: The cause behind slower progress and what's happening in his life right now

This was a post published on his Patreon but set to public

For people that know me, you might have noticed that I have been online a lot less than I used to be, and a lot less social on discord and the like. The progress of the game has also been slower than I would have liked. The thing is, bad stuff has been going on in real life so I have really not been in a headspace for either people or writing. For the last year or so, my mother's health has deteriorated. Many things have been found and dealt with, but in September things took a turn for the worst and she ended up in the emergency ward. She got better and came home, but was in pain. Something was wrong, but nobody could really figure out what it was, despite repeated examinations. Eventually she got scheduled for one of those super advanced scanning machines they only got at the big hospitals, and last week they managed to find that something was hiding behind the liver. She got operated today, the operation went well, but it was indeed cancer, and it has spread. There's going to be a doctor consultation tomorrow, after which I will know more and exactly how bad it is.

So. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'll probably be late with the updates this month. My sincerest apologies. I know there's already enough shit going on in the world 2025 that I feel bad to add to it, but I felt that you deserved to know now when I will be late, and it's easier to talk about it once on here, than a dozen times in person.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support, it means the world to me, and I hate to let you down. This isn't a secret, feel free to let people not on Patreon know what's up. It's a public post so everyone can read it.

/Malin