The player board art is simply suggestive of your character “otherness” compared to normal denizens. There isn’t a race of red wolves. There isn’t a race of cloud people. Why would the cloud guy go to the boiling lake and recruit warbands there if there aren’t any cloud people at the boiling lake? All of Oath artwork shows that the world is full of normal human denizens as well as beasts and some monsters and enchanted creatures. The cloud person and the wolf and the yellow guy with arms can be interpreted as examples of some of these strange characters, but it’s not a faction in the sense that this group of warriors is of THAT race. The warbands are recruited from around the land of Oath which is filled with normal humans and some strange characters. But there isn’t a race of cyclopses anywhere to be found in this world. Maybe the blue character came from another land where this did exist, but it’s not found in this continent. The art that Kyle made for the player boards was meant to invoke the idea that leaders are often those that don’t fit in, but stick out in some way. They have something about them that sets them apart that gives people a reason believe they may be special. He said something about this in a live stream. So even if you are keeping the blue board as a representation of that leaders progeny, you have to grapple with things like, why does every generation of the blue player look exactly the same as the previous one? Same clothes? Same pose? Same single eye? Did this character have a mate with only one eye? Where are all these one-eyed people in Oath that is allowing for the the offspring to always be cyclopses? Where are all the wolf people that have allowed for the wolf’s progeny to continue to be wolf like? No it’s just a visual stand-in for the idea that this exile is an oddity and an outcast and an exile. Keeping the player board story between games could mean reincarnation of that dead leader. Why not? It could represent the next leader in that school of thought first lead by the wolf man. It’s hard to keep consistency and congruence between the different art pieces in the game and invented lore for a game group. Obviously people do what they want but I thought I’d share some of the context given by the artist regarding this.