#lore-discussion

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gritty kraken
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Does he have the rod….

cloud ibex
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it's like minos prime switching between seemingly teleporting around the arena and powerwalking towards you

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and seeing the afterimages when he does zoop around reveals that no, he does not actually teleport, he just is that fast

scenic olive
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Guys

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What if

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New Lore Yharim fights Old Lore Yharim

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Who would win

split mortar
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Old lore

mighty zenith
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old lore yharim was more ridiculous

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like killing a room of people by slamming his fist on a table

split mortar
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Dog also beat someone who eats stars (like irl type iirc)

wheat walrus
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old lore with the powerscaling that's as solid as water

split mortar
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Yeah

wheat walrus
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in old lore, stars were the real life ones (or at least, were considered as such without much of a thought)

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but idk old lore scaling is so odd

mighty zenith
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old lore scaling boiled down to "whatever who cares, this sounds cool enough"

scenic olive
scenic olive
wheat walrus
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on one hand you have:
yharim table fist which supposedly cause a powerful earthquake that could be felt from all over the continent (large island level+ at most with calcs)
and calamitas boiling the sea (as always, country level lol)

and those are considered incredibly powerful

then you have providence staying in the sun's core to gather energy (the sun's core emits multi-continent level energy per second) to scorch the planet (if it's surface/crust, it's multi-continent level, barely reaching moon level at most if we include the seas and the air getting scorched as well), but at least it's considered a major thing so I can still excuse it

then you have astrum deus eating large stars (would default to large star level irl) being treated as a more casual thing than all of these 3 lmao

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it's quite inconsistent so yk

scenic olive
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can Deus eat

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The sun

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Primordial sun smth

wheat walrus
wheat walrus
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if we're talking abt old lore deus vs the primordial light sun in the new lore, then that deus would be able to devour that and the entire planet and everyone within it too

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lmao

dusk laurel
scenic olive
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Provoked Stargod

sleek halo
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have a horrible tummy ache..

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that’d be the extent

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Xeroc watching in horror as the fucking sun gets eaten by a stupid worm guy:

indigo glade
scenic olive
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the Lunar events

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Moonlord :

indigo glade
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Oh my God, I missed the fifty dollar steam gift card, this is so sad...

wheat walrus
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la briciola 💔

sleek halo
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I like to imagine Moonlord is just fucking tweaking during a solar eclipse

scenic olive
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You could say the same to earth about that

sleek halo
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(He’s on the side facing towards the sun)

scenic olive
wheat walrus
scenic olive
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Light work no reaction

sleek halo
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wander around

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or if it’s like he’s just immobilized

scenic olive
sleek halo
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true

sleek halo
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since it seems inherently different from an actual ztar

scenic olive
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The sun is a magical light

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that is

wheat walrus
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but that'd be like a molecule at this point

scenic olive
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Small

wheat walrus
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😭

scenic olive
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Is the sun in calamity

split mortar
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If its smaller then the planet
Its piss easy eaten by old deus

sleek halo
scenic olive
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orbiting the earth

sleek halo
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the sun is

split mortar
scenic olive
sleek halo
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chat

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how tf do solar systems form

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if the sun isn’t in the center

split mortar
scenic olive
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What if there is no solar system

sleek halo
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yeah how do they not

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crash into each other

split mortar
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So it may just
Not be a solar system

sleek halo
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if they’re around the same mass…

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they’d just fucking rock each others shit

scenic olive
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As far as I'm aware

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It's just a planet a moon and a sun

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unless mars

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martian

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where even are they

sleek halo
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well he calls us a planet cluster

split mortar
sleek halo
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i assume thet means

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in close proximity

scenic olive
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Martian

wheat walrus
sleek halo
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maybe

wheat walrus
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terraria is usually compared to real life earth

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so

scenic olive
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smaller than 200mb

wheat walrus
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look out for a size comparison between earth and large stars

scenic olive
sleek halo
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how tf is it lighting up the moon

wheat walrus
scenic olive
wheat walrus
scenic olive
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the moon is not lit up by the sun

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what if it emit light on its own

sleek halo
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that’d be fucking ridiculous 😭

split mortar
scenic olive
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idk magic

sleek halo
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evil ass moon

split mortar
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In calamity ALL celestial bodies are fucked up

scenic olive
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Ok how about this

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why does blood moon exist

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Age old question

gritty kraken
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moonlord bleed that night

late veldt
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moon turns emo

scenic olive
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since the goddess of life is also nature elemental

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what if we throw her into space

sleek halo
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it wouldn’t be good for her

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probably

scenic olive
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since she wouldnt die would the planet create another elemental

sleek halo
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maybe

split mortar
sleek halo
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maybe not

scenic olive
sleek halo
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not caused by moonlord afaik

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since Yharim said it seems to have just

gritty kraken
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Evil xeroc

sleek halo
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been happening

scenic olive
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Dragon of Blood inside the Moon :

sleek halo
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for effectively as long as they know

scenic olive
sleek halo
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so

scenic olive
gritty kraken
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ravager might be alien from moon……

sleek halo
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so true!!!

scenic olive
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Then

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whats the dragon

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to make god of blood

split mortar
scenic olive
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Dragon of War

split mortar
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Haemoglobin has iron in it
Blood has haemoglobin

Iron to blood

gritty kraken
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Clearly draedon prime did it

scenic olive
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Draedgon

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God of Machinery

gritty kraken
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Draednautilus

scenic olive
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the year is 3908 and Terraria is fully assimilated by Nano Plagues

gritty kraken
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They broke the kill switch…..

light linden
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Faro Plague: Draedon Edition

sleek halo
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I find it funnt

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that Aureus is stronger

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than the mechs

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not the exo mechs just

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the mechs

frigid sage
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A scout bot is stronger than the literal war machines

sleek halo
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afaik it wasn’t even combat focused

random mulch
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astral juices do that i guess

sleek halo
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well I don’t think they’re really

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making it stronger

mighty zenith
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also i imagine that draedon didnt actually invest much into the hallowed mechs after realizing they had basically free will

sleek halo
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chat I wonder

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Could extreme heat make astral infection unable to latch onto somethng

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Like if something like Thantos showed up into the astral infection area

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would he just be unable to be taken over due to sheer heat

split mortar
minor moon
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Draedon should fix thatanos's heating problem

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Ngl

patent tiger
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how much stronger could we say prime fovos was than zeratros?

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like 2x since he was able to fight all the dragons to a standstill or maybe more?

sleek halo
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being fucking destroyed

sleek halo
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considering that Zeratros is so much stronger than an average auric dragon

patent tiger
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yeah

sleek halo
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like realistically the average auric dragon could fo

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fuck all

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to fovos

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a whole load of nothing

patent tiger
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true

manic coral
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the issue aslo wasnt that all dragon combined weren't strong enough, it's that ML basically has healing factor thanks due the tounge, meaning cast amounts of week opponents give it plenty of time to feed off of them and keep the battle going

minor moon
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They should add in the mechanic where you can absorb yharon's soul after he's dead and become the god of rebirth oh wait... you are the god of rebirth already

manic coral
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what

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and how would you

patent tiger
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i was gonna argue abt their combined power but ur probably right that most of them would be inconveniencing to him at best

minor moon
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respawning

manic coral
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as with most games unless they specify otherwise

patent tiger
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nuh uh

minor moon
patent tiger
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i didnt think of that lol

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undertale is also why fovos is so weakened

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no more legscalsad

sleek halo
patent tiger
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"oh yes."

sleek halo
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it’d probably have been easier

patent tiger
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maybe

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haven't devs stated the fovos is stronger than noxus?

minor moon
manic coral
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yes it indeed was

patent tiger
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moon lord is weakened

manic coral
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ML is literally missing limbs and organs as is visible in the sprite

minor moon
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That makes sense

patent tiger
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they took away his legs boohoo

manic coral
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imagine trying to fight somebody without your legs or half of your organs

mighty zenith
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smth smth freeza

patent tiger
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before he was ripped in half

mighty zenith
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(also hiii cei hiii!!!!)

manic coral
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hi :D

patent tiger
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if he had legs he would be much stronger

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mettaton ex 2.0

mighty zenith
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zekrom fovos kick

minor moon
mighty zenith
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had to be nerfed

patent tiger
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guys

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what if

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yharon rebirth fovos wegud

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(very logical decision)

mighty zenith
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if yharon could revive anyone (which he cant)
moon lord would be the last thing he would revive

patent tiger
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nuh

mighty zenith
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and only so he could kill it himself

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(if he was strong enough)

patent tiger
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t'was merely satire

mighty zenith
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no satire

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i killed satire

manic coral
mighty zenith
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its impressive that its heart hasnt fallen out

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considering uh
the ribcage is exposed

patent tiger
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well it's like

manic coral
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like the dude should get credit for just SURVIVING like that, much less fighting like that

patent tiger
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connected to the rest of their body and stuff

manic coral
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and STILL being one of the most powerful entities in the world

patent tiger
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but yeah that sounds kind of unsafe

mighty zenith
patent tiger
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so how much stronger is fovos than yharim/zeratros

manic coral
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it jsut leave syou thinking, what kind of a beast in combat WAS this thing back in it's hayday

patent tiger
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since yharim/zeratros are similar tier right?

patent tiger
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i'm slow

manic coral
patent tiger
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ok either way

spare pier
patent tiger
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i said similar not exactly same

mighty zenith
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but yeah

patent tiger
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ok

mighty zenith
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frieza is just a dubbism i think

minor moon
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i think draedon could defeat xeroc if he had prep time and xeroc didnt know about that

manic coral
spare pier
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Moon Lord was cut in half, had even more wounds, AND could still fight incredibly well

patent tiger
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i havent watched dragon ball so i wouldnt know

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yet

mighty zenith
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make sure to not skip straight to Z

patent tiger
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i'm watching dragon ball first

mighty zenith
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original DB is worth a watch (even if some parts are... definitely products of their time)

manic coral
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it was originally decided to be "frieza" becuase that sorta guides the pronunciation to be more like the original one

patent tiger
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then is daima next?

manic coral
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daima is after Z

patent tiger
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ah

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which is after original

manic coral
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but also not nessesary to watch

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which

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it's fine

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i'd give it a solid enough 6.5/10 overall with some standout 8/10 moments

split mortar
patent tiger
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original is...

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odd

mighty zenith
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so its more like the english language being stupid

patent tiger
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at times

split mortar
mighty zenith
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xeroc and goku would be pals i think

manic coral
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eh i think they'd get along better with piccolo

mighty zenith
split mortar
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Its the internet

mighty zenith
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why did you feel the need to share that

patent tiger
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true point

late veldt
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The boss rush dialogue is so funny compared to everyone in here saying "yeah he's like really chill"

manic coral
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i mean

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they are even in that more or less. he's relatively chill comapred to how you see him described elsewhere and compared to how you think somebody LIKE him would act

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i basically write chaarcters onv arying levels of how fancy they try to sound with yharim being the msot and calamitas being the least

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and xeroc is like one of the one i write with one of the most casual ways of talking

mighty zenith
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stoner xeroc

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hehe
stone r

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cayse rocks

split mortar
manic coral
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as the most professional is Yharim (when he's trying to get a point across)

late veldt
patent tiger
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how much stronger than zeratros could we say fovos is?

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like significantly or

manic coral
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the middle ground overall is probably permafrsot where he speaks somewhat formally but drops it occasionally and makes a joke here or there

split mortar
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Very significantly imo

manic coral
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at least thats how i think of it

spare pier
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Big enough that Zeratros would never win a 1v1 no matter what happened, small enough that Zeratros could still put up a reasonable fight for a while

manic coral
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oh hi reb

spare pier
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Hi :D

split mortar
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Stip here aswell i think

patent tiger
manic coral
patent tiger
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maybe a little less

late veldt
cosmic zenith
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I think the most verbose character I've written is... possibly, Vetrasyl

Draedon is not really verbose, he's more technical
Aerialite author #1 (Phaedros) is somewhat stoic in his speech, Aerialite author #2 (Daedalië) is really casual and nerdy, Amidias has a well-read, stylish and flowy way of talking but still not that verbose

late veldt
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yeah technical is a better word

spare pier
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The most verbose Cal character I wrote is not canon HDfailure

manic coral
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i say ML is only like twice as strong as the two combined and with the other dragons yeah no if it wasn't for its healing and immense endurance it would be able to be felled by just like the strongest ten or so dragons ganging up on it

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but because of said endurance and healing

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yeah

spare pier
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Fighting the Moon Lord was more a battle of attrition than anything

limpid saddle
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I always took what little dialouge we had from him as stoic & soothed

manic coral
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at least relative to present yharon

limpid saddle
manic coral
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amidias

split mortar
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So would moonlords highest stat be its fucking tanky survivability

manic coral
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permafrost

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yharim

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and draedon

limpid saddle
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hh

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alright uh

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fair

cosmic zenith
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I wrote Vetrasyl this way to give him an aura of grandeur, to match his status as an Auric Dragon
It would be interesting to write dialogue for other Auric Dragons, giving each of them their own way of being verbose and majestic

limpid saddle
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Question; Who's Vetrasyl?

cosmic zenith
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Storm Dragon, upcoming character

split mortar
late veldt
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I wonder what it's like to talk to DoG in more than just like. a couple sentences while he tries to kill you

cosmic zenith
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(I just borrowed his name)

limpid saddle
late veldt
limpid saddle
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Like we find a log or something?

manic coral
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:)

limpid saddle
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Sunken Sea has some ancient scriptures now?

spare pier
limpid saddle
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well not now but in 2 fargo seconds when sunken sea overhaul comes out

late veldt
limpid saddle
manic coral
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he and calamitas are the only two characters in cal i could actually see potentially telling you to kill yourself

cosmic zenith
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For example, I would imagine Yharon's speech to be elegant yet rash
Like a medium to high-tempo violin piece

spare pier
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"Yo, Terrarian, I need you to fetch my cocaine stash"

spare pier
spare pier
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I thought you said you borrowed the name from somewhere else

late veldt
limpid saddle
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LTG?

indigo glade
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LowTierGod.

late veldt
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Low Tier God

limpid saddle
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I see

indigo glade
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The "You should kill yourself NOW" person.

limpid saddle
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I thought you were referring to the Marine Copypasta

manic coral
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LowTierdevourerofGods

limpid saddle
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GetFixedBoi name-change drop

cosmic zenith
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Umbrasyl is cool

manic coral
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anyways imma go make food

cosmic zenith
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(Brazil reference)

manic coral
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preferably warm food

cosmic zenith
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Imma go to class

manic coral
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it's -2f outside

cosmic zenith
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Damn

mighty zenith
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i watched like the first four episodes and i cant continue cause i wanna play dnd myself

manic coral
limpid saddle
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& such

cosmic zenith
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Here, it feels like the gates of Hell were kicked wide open

mighty zenith
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here its mostly ok

split mortar
mighty zenith
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at night it gets REAL bad like 15 degrees c

spare pier
mighty zenith
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i mean

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-15

cosmic zenith
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It's 30°C here, but since this city has such open skies, it feels a lot hotter

deft vessel
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Imperial smh

spare pier
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Fun shit

mighty zenith
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brazil simulator

indigo glade
spare pier
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And may I add

hoary berry
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never been happier with my 6c weather than now

mighty zenith
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vetrasyl really hates you i think

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(not you stip)

manic coral
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lighting/eletricity based powers are the most underutilized powers in all of media

spare pier
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The temperature usually stays above 30C from 11 am to 7pm

cosmic zenith
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Curse of Vetrasyl be upon ye

manic coral
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but becuase of all the fucky stuff you could potentially do with them that nobody ever does

spare pier
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I'm waking up basically every day because I just get that hot

cosmic zenith
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🫴 ⛈️

manic coral
cosmic zenith
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Had to sleep without sheets and with the fan turned on yesterday

manic coral
cosmic zenith
manic coral
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or maybe use it to electically stimulate their own body to do some fucky stuff

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and so on

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like seeing an eletricity power character who actually uses electromagnetics would be SICK

cosmic zenith
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That moment when you have access to possibly the most versatile of the Universe's 4 fundamental forces

manic coral
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"fine, i'll do it myself"

indigo glade
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🫸⛈️

spare pier
manic coral
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ok going to get food for real now goodbye

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god be with ye

spare pier
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Like, I don't remember when I last went a day without it

mighty zenith
indigo glade
spare pier
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Ok I actually remember

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February 10th, because I wasn't home

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Spent basically one hour trying to sleep and failing because it was just that hot

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At least it won't reach 30+ in the next few days

hoary berry
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i remember skipping a heatwave in the uk by going to spain

split mortar
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Lucky

hoary berry
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i think some places were getting ~39c?

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meanwhile i was in a (typically) hotter country with stable 25-30s

sleek halo
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hello i am back

hoary berry
late veldt
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welcome back to the land of the living!

sleek halo
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did he even have

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organs

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LOL

late veldt
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so yeah

split mortar
sleek halo
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that he has such similar type of body structure

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to us

split mortar
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Unless moonlord somehow has negative organs now

light linden
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ah yes

sleek halo
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And yes it’s not 1-1

light linden
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similar body structure

sleek halo
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but damn is it close

light linden
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because we have eyes in our hands

sleek halo
split mortar
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Isnt it tentacle legs

sleek halo
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hands

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do you know how crazy that is

light linden
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not really

sleek halo
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he has our hands damn near 1-1 excluding the eyes

light linden
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does he have fingernails?

sleek halo
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pretty sure

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he does

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Like Fovos is incredibly similar to the look of a person bodywisw

split mortar
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I doubt the organs they have are

Anything close to human

sleek halo
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he has a brain so

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and a heart

split mortar
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Also

sleek halo
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but clearly his body can function without them lol

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well seemingly not his heart/core thing

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and presumably his brain as well

light linden
sleek halo
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assuming it is one

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if it’s not

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oh well

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but it is very likely

sleek halo
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with those injuries

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like those were not fatal, just grievous LOL

sleek halo
light linden
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I still think he's a ghost

sleek halo
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odd

light linden
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why

sleek halo
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We already have our extremely strong ghost fella

light linden
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a lot of his attacks are already called phantasmal

light linden
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I've always headcanoned that polterghast absorbed the moon lord's soul

late veldt
split mortar
light linden
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which is why it became a problem after the moon lord's defeat and why it deals moon bite

sleek halo
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Polterghast is deep underground

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Afaik the only people who Polterghast is composed of

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is those who died in the dungeon

split mortar
sleek halo
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Otherwise Polterghast would be made of

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A lot more souls

light linden
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was there not a runestone of some kind in the dungeon that was tied to the moon lord?

late veldt
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Also unrelated but the Polterghast relic kinda looks like the Erchius Ghost to me

split mortar
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Possibly being what held moonlords seal

sleek halo
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idk, I feel like Fovos being apart of Polterghast is

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weird

split mortar
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Soon™️

eager bluff
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polter has it specifically to disable lifesteal

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its a purely gameplay thing

hoary cape
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Game play moment

split mortar
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I exist so yes

eager bluff
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no

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you dont

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sorry you had to find out this way

dusk laurel
hoary berry
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violent murder

split mortar
dusk laurel
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And vanilla isn't always the best at making sense of naming enemies

hardy oracle
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Is there a lore reason why Providence turns stronger during night or it's just "Provi becomes le stronk in night becuz funny"?

split mortar
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But the way she gets that form is also changing next update which this reason is based on

atomic haven
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Fovos got brought low and killed, but what is dead may yet eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die
Consider what Fovos represents - it's an entity from beyond, from the stars, carrying with it four armies aspected to fundamental structures of the cosmos. Its power was so great that it, single-handedly, almost ended the reign of the dragons at the height of their power, and all they could feasibly do was maim it severely and then use magic to chain it to the moon
So when this final husk is eventually destroyed, its soul persists - but unintentionally, the dungeon trap springs and binds its collossal soul to the world. Polterghast, by spirit volume, is probably 60% fovos and 40% everything else, meaning the battle is more of a rematch with the Thing That Will Not Die than just a spooky ghost

split mortar
hardy oracle
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that makes so much sense

atomic haven
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also, providence is the goddess of fire, so metaphysically, if her light is overshadowed by that of the sun, she is weakened

dusk laurel
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I think Polter absorbing ML's soul is a lame concept
Rather than it gaining power from the souls of people tortured and persecuted by Yharim's regime, most of its powers are from a random alien

trail sable
atomic haven
split mortar
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She absorbed the dragon of fire

atomic haven
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new lore says she absorbed the soul of the dragon of flame

dusk laurel
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She absorbed the auric soul of flame, but her domain changed

atomic haven
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so what is she

trail sable
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What's the earth elemental's deal? I want big buff man to join my summoner build

split mortar
dusk laurel
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Goddess of ash is the likeliest candidate

split mortar
atomic haven
trail sable
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Damn

atomic haven
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doesn't work properly unfortunately, it's just a giant golem

split mortar
dusk laurel
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The real earth elemental is the sand elemental

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which is just one part of it

atomic haven
trail sable
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Imagine if you could combine both sand elementals to make a true form of earth elementals

atomic haven
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For some reason the new lore severely whitewashes Yharim's insane warcrimes

pliant ruin
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hhi

split mortar
split mortar
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What even is whitewash

dusk laurel
pliant ruin
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whitewashing is when you get a character that isnt white and you make them white

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which i have no idea how that relates to anything to do with yharims crimes

trail sable
dusk laurel
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Nope

atomic haven
# pliant ruin whar

lots of stuff is not his fault anymore

  • sulphur sea is now draedon
  • calamitas was now taken in out of compassion
  • permafrost was now not imprisoned on the Tyrant's orders
  • Azafure happened because of random elemental
    etc etc
trail sable
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That would go hard tho

pliant ruin
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calamitas wasn't taken out of compassion

split mortar
pliant ruin
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she was used as a living weapon

trail sable
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Damn

light linden
sleek halo
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to kill Permafrost

pliant ruin
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and yharim ordered scal to kill permafrost

sleek halo
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She didn’t

pliant ruin
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he wanted worse than emprisoning him

atomic haven
split mortar
pliant ruin
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also yeah it's not what it means

atomic haven
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whitewashing means to take a character's evil actions and justify them in the narrative

light linden
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no?

split mortar
sleek halo
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Yharim

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justifies his actikns

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no one else does

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not a soul is on his side

pliant ruin
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the lore dosen't

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justify yharim's actions at all

split mortar
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Calamitas is manipulated to be a superweapon

pliant ruin
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like jank said

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only yharim himself does

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thats not the narrative justifying it, that yharim being a self-righteous manipulative asshole hdflr

split mortar
manic coral
trail sable
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What type of gamer do you think Dreadon, Yharim, and Calamitas would be?

pliant ruin
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Draedon is a factorio gamer

split mortar
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Calamitas would play calm games

manic coral
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100% factorio gamer

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calamiats plays stardew valley

sleek halo
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Yharim plays war hammer

light linden
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hi cei

trail sable
split mortar
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Yharim?

He too focused on stabbing gods to be a gamer

light linden
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got time for a question?

deft vessel
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Yharim play god of war

atomic haven
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draedon has a pet AI which develops mods for factorio which he then plays

sleek halo
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true

stoic gulch
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does banners have a lore reason for existing

pliant ruin
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I like the idea that Calamitas either plays really calm games or dark souls ultrakill type shit depending on her mood

stoic gulch
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or is it just an item

split mortar
light linden
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wonder which character would play DOOM

deft vessel
atomic haven
trail sable
indigo glade
# atomic haven lots of stuff is not his fault anymore - sulphur sea is now draedon - calamitas ...

Sulphur Sea was not entirely Draedon's fault, it was also the fault of the hyper-industrialisation of Azafure, which can also be attributed to Yharim.
The idea to take in Calamitas was Permafrost's idea, not Yharims. If it were not for Permafrost's expertise, Yharim would've not had a clue of Calamitas' importance, nor a need to take her in
Yes. He wanted to do something worse. To kill him.
Azafure's destruction was always the result of Brimstone Elemental's and Calamitas' combined efforts during a battle.

robust osprey
trail sable
pliant ruin
atomic haven
stoic gulch
atomic haven
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but the new lore certainly cushions some of his more outright evil actions present in the old lore

trail sable
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Who'd you want to be your teacher in lore?

deft vessel
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Dungeon:

manic coral
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no it doesnt he's portrayed jsut as bad if not worse narratively than in old lore

atomic haven
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a lot of stuff is now the result of we live in a society instead of Yharim doing evil shit because he's evil

manic coral
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old lore tried to be like "but he's sad though"

sleek halo
manic coral
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new lore yharikm meanwhile is jsut like "yeah that genocide was pretty cool"

sleek halo
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In which he isn’t even..

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remorseful

split mortar
sleek halo
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He gives not 2 fucks and would do it again

atomic haven
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It just feels a bit confused is all

sleek halo
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every time

split mortar
sleek halo
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other than lose shit

manic coral
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he's human

sleek halo
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he wpuld probably change outcomes LOL

manic coral
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people have emotions

indigo glade
manic coral
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thats just... how people work

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even evil ones

atomic haven
deft vessel
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Its just that currently pretty much all the lore comes from Yharims POV

split mortar
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Yharim himself is just

Underplaying how bad they are

manic coral
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yharim and bestiary and looking at the world aroudn you

robust osprey
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and the draeguy

manic coral
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that too

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and there was supposed to be notably more as of. uh. half a year ago. but SSO is in dev hell atm.

atomic haven
split mortar
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Yharim is not said to be close to being a good person and the only thing that downplays how bad he is is himself

pliant ruin
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Yharim is arguably more evil than he was in old lore

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And i mean yeah

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he's not just

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evil for the sake of evil

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that's a good thing.

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i'1m pretty sure.

atomic haven
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Yes I agree

atomic haven
manic coral
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so then what is your point exactly because i am SUPER confused here

split mortar
atomic haven
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basically my point is that the lore lacks nuance atm because the only source is an unreliable narrator

robust osprey
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I'd prefer "yharim is evil cause of this" rather than "yharim is evil beacuse funny lol"

split mortar
manic coral
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and also again

indigo glade
manic coral
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looking at the world around you

split mortar
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Yeah

manic coral
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and seeing what happened

atomic haven
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oh my god can you people let me finish

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okay whatever

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I don't care anymore

dusk laurel
manic coral
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i meam if you make a claim that's literally not true people will correct you on it

deft vessel
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Tbh I cant really see the “look at the world” tho

late veldt
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Yeah I think that one is supposed to be improved in the next few updates

manic coral
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i mean take the hallow for an example. nobody ever really comments on it. yharim very specifically doesn't. unless you take a look at it and think about what it is and where it came from, like

indigo glade
late veldt
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Like the Timeless shores having remanants of necromantic energy

manic coral
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it's hard to tell WHY he wouldn't talk about it

late veldt
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But it's definitely there already

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like the sulphuric sea or the Planty mush in da abyss

deft vessel
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I guess so, but most dont analyse the vanilla parts on lore

manic coral
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it's throguh context clues in the world itself that you grasp why he wouldn't want to talk about it. becuase it's something that conflicts with his ideology that he is trying to sorta sell you on.

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becuase otherwise it's ahrd to explain in a way that makes him look favorable

atomic haven
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you consider that to be lore

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he doesn't talk about it?

manic coral
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same with how it wasall contianed but not the crimson or corruption

atomic haven
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I get your point

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He'd avoid talking about it if it was something of a black mark on his record yes

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but isn't that a bit vague

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like this is still a video game

manic coral
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it's an example of something you can only grasp by actually paying attention to the world

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there's also the surface shrine as another example, in terms of what it's for

deft vessel
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The evil biome shire?

manic coral
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using other connections of how it looks, what's in it, and other stuff, you cna deduce that, oh, it's probably a slime god shrine

sleek halo
atomic haven
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It's difficult to tell which parts of the unaddressed gameplay elements are this and which ones are unaddressed because the devs haven't yet integrated it for non-devs, I think

sleek halo
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it doesn’t need to be spoonfed

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if it was all written down it would fucking suck because it would literally turn the lore into just

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reading only

manic coral
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those are non-canonical for obvious reasons

atomic haven
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like I assumed the Hallow was not yet properly integrated into calamity's lore, that what it means hadn't yet been decided on

split mortar
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Or dev content

atomic haven
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like the martians

dusk laurel
indigo glade
deft vessel
sleek halo
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It’s just not all in rn anyways

indigo glade
sleek halo
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so shit won’t be complete LOL

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lore stuff comes with updates

indigo glade
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Also, one of the largest biomes in the game being put off...

atomic haven
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exactly, hence the confusion

indigo glade
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Does that not sound weird to you?

atomic haven
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it's a free mod I expect nothing and take nothing for granted

manic coral
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i mean fair enough i guess

deft vessel
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Also the average Calamity player cant read

atomic haven
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like what I was initially trying to put into words is that the lore feels, as of yet, a bit incomplete (cause it is), and that relative to the old lore a lot of things are more nebulously presented, a decision which I'm a fan of

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but the "incompleteness" is only because the old lore was incoherent, and there wasn't really any overarching narrative apart from the broad strokes, whereas now, there is

manic coral
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and as much as some of your complaints and points do confuse me, like, i do appricate this discussion

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just to be clear

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i like talking about this stuff becuase it makes me think about how i can maybe do things better

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every critism, as long as it's constructive, which yours generally is even if i do disagree with some of it, leads to what i make potentially being better

atomic haven
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One of my favourite things to do online is to go to narrative-heavy niche community projects and question the devs on lore

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I had a more coherent statement in mind initially but the conversation kind of spiralled, and what I wanted to say kind of got lost in the back and forth

deft vessel
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Yea, more obvious lore in the world would be useful. But that comes in SSO iirc

dusk laurel
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Some of it

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Not all of it

deft vessel
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Anything is good really

dusk laurel
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Yeah

manic coral
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i will say there is a fundemental probelm with non-written and unsaid worldbuilding stuff in a game like this with the worlds being randomly generated. it DOES lead it it having to be relating to things that are a bit more overarchign or vague.

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which is fine, to my own mind, i just need to write with that consideration in mind

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leave some bigger world details mroe vague and focus on elaborating on the less obvious things

green bay
manic coral
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pointing out the bigger things when nessesary

atomic haven
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the best lore is that which fleshes out the little things

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big cosmic concepts are better kept vague

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however, they DO need to have an internal dev answer so the mystery is consistent

manic coral
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i do enjoy trying to jsut let how the world is laid out try to speak for me sometimes, and if i end up feeling like something isn't obvious enough, in a later patch sometimes i'll gauge the community's reaction to stuff and if nobody picks up on it relaly i'll go "hmm, i'll specifically point this out in something when i get a chance"

atomic haven
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lore is surprisingly difficult to write, too

manic coral
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so if we do, it's internally consistent

sleek halo
robust osprey
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..and how did it work?

atomic haven
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that stuff is important! I worked on Tamriel Rebuilt (big morrowind mod project) between 2012-2015 and the amount of background lore needed to make literally the most basic ambient dialogue make internal consistent sense is mad

manic coral
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and also stuff like the origins of the distortion or xeroc's name from before they ascended, stuff like that we do have general answers to, even if they'll never be in the game. it also has the bonus benifit of, like

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it's tantalizing that there IS an actual answer

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that DOES exist

manic coral
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i have a damn lot of respect for that project

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i'm huge on morrowind

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not my fvaorite game ever, but

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probably a top 20

atomic haven
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most of the stuff I wrote unfortunately probably won't ever see the light of day, I did some generic quotes for the doomed Almalexia release that never was

late veldt
manic coral
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most of the stuff I wrote unfortunately probably won't ever see the light of day,
yeah i feel this HDFailure

dusk laurel
deft vessel
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Its still clearly the Rock. There is so much evidence

manic coral
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most of the lore i make and write does not and will not ever be publically seen unless i myself decide to talk about it

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which i have, sometimes

hollow isle
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Xeroc is definitely dwane johnson

manic coral
hollow isle
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Xe(ROC)

atomic haven
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xeroc more like therock

hollow isle
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the first thing he made was a ROCK

atomic haven
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fuck that was the joke you made

dusk laurel
atomic haven
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1 singular braincell

manic coral
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most common exports were pearls and sea prisms

hollow isle
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ah old lore

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even so

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XeROC

sleek halo
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probably

robust osprey
sleek halo
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Inassume so

manic coral
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sea prisms are valuable as godo conductors and pearls are used very commonly in jewelry and such, like in real life

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ilermis also attracted a lot of tourism for its exotic locations and food

atomic haven
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also how did they heat things

manic coral
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both

deft vessel
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Did Xeroc have a pebble collection before ascencion?

hollow isle
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is that why sea prisms are in a lot of stuff

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because of their conductive properties

robust osprey
wheat walrus
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Thermal vents

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Wild guess

robust osprey
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ah yea thermal vents

dusk laurel
sleek halo
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something I wodner

atomic haven
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you know that's a good point

sleek halo
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if Sea Prisms always existed

manic coral
atomic haven
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none of their stuff is made of metal, so that makes perfect sense

manic coral
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the basalt place

sleek halo
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or were something made by Otonilou

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or influenced

manic coral
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and yeah

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they mostly had to import stuff like silver and gold and iron

hollow isle
deft vessel
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Or they just are stuff rawclueless

atomic haven
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god of electricity

sleek halo
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Goddess of Electricity

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yeah

atomic haven
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what did they use for money?

hollow isle
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ah ok

manic coral
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but sea prisms were very valuable since the tech pre-crusade was early industrial reovlution levels

robust osprey
sleek halo
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it’s just the way they act is

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so

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weird

manic coral
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and so there was demand for stuff that helped with assembling stuff that sues eletricty

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with sea prisms are great for

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so they basically were able to fufill two econimical niches of tourism and exporting goods used for advanced contsruction

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thoguh despite thr tourism, not many non-ilmerians lived in ilmeris for obvious reasons

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i mean most of it IS underwater

cosmic zenith
hollow isle
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oh ok i was about to ask

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if that was always the case

manic coral
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there were spots most humans could go specifically BECAUSE tourism

hollow isle
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so were its inhabitants like Amidias then?

manic coral
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though yeah, after the crusade started, didn'tm take long for most trade to dry up which, while ilermis was able to defend itself for a long time

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tbh, even if the Incineration didn't happen

sleek halo
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like at all

manic coral
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things would have descended into anarchy pretty much in 20-30 more years

indigo glade
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I'm talking about the Auric Rock.

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(Totally not a phone)

sleek halo
manic coral
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ilmeris, after it became a thing when the tribes that inhabitaed the ilemeran sea all united to form ilmeris, was pretty heavily reliant on its neighbors, espeically azafure for stuff like metal

sleek halo
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tense

atomic haven
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what happens if you try to use an auric toilet without being worthy

hollow isle
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try

manic coral
sleek halo
sleek halo
manic coral
sleek halo
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And all ur neighboring cities/kingdoms r either being fucking obliterated

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or joining the dude

manic coral
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yeah

sleek halo
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like the civil unrest would be crazy

cosmic zenith
manic coral
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which by the way while we're on the topic, yeah, Ilmeris was a constitutional monarchy

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it had a queen/king, yeah, but most of the pwoer laid in its parliment

cosmic zenith
manic coral
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this was becuase we didn't want to unmake ilmeris being "the sea kingdom" because that's too iconic, but also we didn't want Amidias to be an actual full on monarchy becuase monarches are 90% horrible people

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and permafrost was already now filling the "person who did some questionable things in the past trying to do better now" archetype

deft vessel
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Just make him a part of the 10%clueless

manic coral
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and that fundmentally made a better story for him than for amidias

deft vessel
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I mean a constutional monarch doesnt prevent him from being a bad person

sleek halo
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Honestly Idk how good

manic coral
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no

sleek halo
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Amidias is for a figurehead

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in a time of war

manic coral
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but it makes it so that he's less morally dubius for maintaining a fudnemntally oppressive system

sleek halo
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like Amidias kinda seems like

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he’d be great for peace times

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and uh

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not optimal

manic coral
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i wouldn't say that amidias was, like, "monarch fo england (basically jsut a celeberaty)" levels of low power in the government, but at the same time

sleek halo
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for when mr latin word for gold is knocking at the metaphorical door

manic coral
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he didn't have THAT much lone power

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his power was less than ilmeris' parliment

manic coral
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Amdias would be a solid peacetime ruler for ilmeris

muted torrent
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Could Yharim kill Noxus?

manic coral
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maybe

sleek halo
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big fat huge maybe

split mortar
manic coral
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given the correct circumstances

sleek halo
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Really fucking depends LOL

deft vessel
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Why did you write the HDfailure ?

muted torrent
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But I thought Noxus was similar in power to Xeroc?

deft vessel
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Just press the button

sleek halo
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I would say he loses 9.5 times out of 10 in the distortion

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if not just outright

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10/10 times

manic coral
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eh i'd say if yharim knew what he was going into and given tiem to prepare for it

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70/30 in Noxus' favor

split mortar
muted torrent
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How does Xeroc shape up against Noxus and Fovos?

sleek halo
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without just

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dying

manic coral
muted torrent
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If Xeroc fought full power Fovos, could he win?

manic coral
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yes

hollow isle
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i take that to mean noxus is more destructive but less powerful

manic coral
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i'd say equally as destructive if not a little more even if notably less powerful

muted torrent
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How would Fovos do against Noxus?

sleek halo
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Probably really depends for both of them LOL

hollow isle
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ok so xeroc is a good bit stronger than noxus, who in your words would have the odds in his favor against yharim. which means xeroc probably no diffs yharim right

manic coral
sleek halo
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Xeroc even said Yharim is

manic coral
sleek halo
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literally the only mortal make him

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question his own strength

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Because Yharim is just

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really fucking strong for well

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just a dude

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like obscenely strong LOL

hollow isle
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so he's like far beyond the other powerful mortals, like draedon, calamitas, etc?

manic coral
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what makes yharim scary is that, for the most part, he is and alwyas has just bene no more than

manic coral
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a man with an ambition

sleek halo
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but betond

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he has at least 1 entity between him scal & the exo mechs

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being jared

manic coral
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and he grew stronger than Xeroc ever was before they ascended

sleek halo
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meaning there is a tiny gap

hollow isle
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feel like that probably has to do with it

manic coral
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yharon mostly was tasked with defendign territory already conquored

muted torrent
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Wait, so is Xeroc infinite in strength?

manic coral
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no lmao

hollow isle
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not anymore

manic coral
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why would they be

hollow isle
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old lore was iirc

manic coral
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xeroc is jsut really fucking strong

sleek halo
deft vessel
sleek halo
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the strongest normal person on terraria like

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ever

manic coral
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pretty much yeah

hollow isle
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how did he get that strong then i guess would be my question

manic coral
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he is pretty much the current pinnicle of human strength

manic coral
light linden
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hey cei can I ask a question about the planetoids?

hollow isle
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because he presumably didn't harvest the same materials the player does

mighty zenith
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xeroc has had literal centuries of training so yeah

hollow isle
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considering the entities are still alive

mighty zenith
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they earned that strength

sleek halo
muted torrent
manic coral
sleek halo
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he has only been alive for 130 years

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In comparison to gods n whatnot

manic coral
hollow isle
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how has he been alive so long also

sleek halo
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he is so young

manic coral
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yeha same thing

sleek halo
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LOL

manic coral
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aside from the ascension

sleek halo
manic coral
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which was stilla rguably earned becuase

sleek halo
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with Yharon

manic coral
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they figured it out

light linden
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xeroc has been alive for 800 years minimum iirc

hollow isle
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ah yharon

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makes sense

split mortar
manic coral
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yeah

sleek halo
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but yeah I mean the thing dor Yharim is

mighty zenith
sleek halo
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he’s probably not as strong as he could be LOL

mighty zenith
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i just joined and the convo was about xeroc

sleek halo
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Given more time n whatnot

manic coral
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remember that the sun isnt't like our sun and more like

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a giant ball of energy orbiting the world like a second moon

hollow isle
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is he still training during the events of the game or is he like chilling