#lore-discussion
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We are not doing this again.
Not you, you're doing great Godseeker.
I think that's outdated.
It is
meow
We have an infestation.
Get the water
mrrp
Get the hose.
lore discussion
We gotta deal with the feline foes first.
stomps u
I think the coast is clear. What do you think the government form of Yharim's empire was. He's referred to as a king, so it was likely a Monarchy, but what do you think past that?
where is he called that
I'm sure he was somewhere, unless the wiki is gaslighting me.
might be thinking of when he said that he was "destined to become godking"
No, not that.
But the wiki disambigation page for Yharim claims 'Tyrant King' is one of his titles.
But they don't source it.
'Yharim, known as the Godseeker, Golden Heretic or Tyrant King, is a prominent figure in the Calamity Mod's lore and is responsible for many of the events preceding the game.'
Similarly, I'm not sure where they call him Golden Heretic (though it goes hard.)
Godseeker is used quite a bit.
Yeah I can't find where he's called that. Thanks wiki.
Unless there's some other source of information that isn't the bestiary, the lore items, Amidias or Draedon.
old lore thing probably
Old lore was 'Jungle Tyrant', not 'Tyrant King'.
little bit of both i believe
I'd find it hard to believe he was democratically elected.
No wait, Polterghast does have him say he was 'ruling' which is the closest I can find.
And also him having a court.
Which I would associate more with a monarchy.
But no mention of him being called king specifically.
if he was a king he was decidedly Not democratically elected
Elective monarchies have existed. Wouldn't call them democratic, but elected.
I mean, there is technically at least one still around.
It's also not unreasonable that he was a king in all but name, he just assumed the position as the scope of the crusade expanded and he had to actually administrate controlled territory.
But it was almost certainly not a theocracy, for obvious reasons.
comedically wide yharim fins
mithrix fins
imagining someone grabbing his fins and using them to slam his head into their knee
That would probably hurt a lot, 'cause of his bug zapper armour.
I think it was just a bog-standard smash-everything-ist warlord territory. What little civilization still functioned in Yharim's land did so despite his rule, not because of it
So you think his bureaucrats sucked at their job, huh.
I'm not sure if he had bureaucrats, at least not ones specific to him
He did.
Draedon mentions being annoyed at them telling him the public didn't like him polluting.
Because the public don't see the vision. (Dumping plutonium into the sea.)
Seems to me like there were bureaucrats who did their jobs in his land, but they were more local in scale. Yharim destroyed, but he really did not seem like the kind of warlord who would create anything new
Oh, certainly, he probably just took what was there and converted it.
Luckily, if he did have to make anything, there were always some (religious) buildings that could be torn down and the land used.
Smashed it up, more like, and left the locals to salvage the pieces
Some places may have sworn fealty.
And they were fools to do so
And he had a public to some degree, who cared about the climate, I guess.
Ignore the war crimes.
It did doom Azafure...
I say they deserved it, if they were so eager to serve that tyrant
Hey, the Yharim Propaganda machine was probably strong. Kill the gods they said, it will be fun they said!
Didn't Draedon explain this?
yes and no
I'm reading through the draetalks again to refresh my memory and
exo prisms are made from sea prisms but it isn't said if exotic resonance is unique to exo prisms
so I'm wondering if it is unique to it or not
I'd imagine if the sea prisms do create it
The Sea Prisms are like, magic and stuff. Thanks gods.
it's an incredibly small amount
They HATE thermodynamics.
ik that
also one of the devs said they aren't related to gods
Then those other guys lied to me.
actually no that's a lie on my part sorry
the dev said they aren't a result of godly essence
They're blessed.
since I brought up that means draedon can literally grow god essence
which was not what they wanted
found the convo
Well, the others were saying it was blessed by Ubuntu or whats their name, and he's just able to make that blessed power stronger through science stuff.
Otonilou is the cause of their eternal electricity somehow
I'm not sure on what makes them have an infinite charge but he specifically etches circuitry like patterns into the prism and then jumpstarts them with a surge of energy
also I just realized something
the way draedon's forge works is that it's connected to draedon's database of material data
that mean we could crash draedon if we brought an unknown material to the forge?
Draedon's forge is just a 3D printer.
But like, super.
So you can. Imagine. Schematics. I guess.
Yeah let's go with that.
It works with miracle matter so prob not
well he knew about the unstable version
and we made the stable version with stuff he knows about
The guy knew of cores of calamity and ascended spirit essence?
Yeah, that's his middle name.
Draedon Coresofcalamityascendedspiritessence Smith.
I doubt that. Seems more like it would analyze the material and upload it to Draedon's database
The Draedopticon.
ascended spirit essence is non canon iirc and cores of calamity are made from things he's likely interacted with before
he used the different essences to make plates for his lab, he likely interacted with ectoplasm during his study of souls, and ashes of calamity are from a clone he made that is wielding magic that he studied in depth
Well, studied as much as he could. I don't know how eager of a subject Calamitas would have been.
he studied enough to know that the magical signatures of her and the brimstone elemental were nearly the same
Also, the clone wields magic unrelated to his efforts, Calamitas somehow did that. (We don't know if it was intentional or not.)
I am pretty sure the Terrarian comes up with the recipes and the forge is just a tool that makes it easier
You know, like what I was saying, making schematics from imagination! (Does this mean it can read our mind? That's a little concerning.)
I think it's implied that we punch in the recipe (with a very simple graphical interface) in order to make stuff
And he just has the plans with stuff you invented ready to go?
I'm saying it uses a graphical interface for input instead of reading your mind
So we're just... Iron Manning it up?
...what?
You know, like in that movie. Spider-Man.
what would it have been like
being in pain, inflicting pain in a crazy way
sadistic? masochistic? maybe both at the same time? or maybe flip it and make it the kindest dragon ever
cause it know true pain, and wouldn't wish it on anyone else
Like, you could go the God of Sacrifices route, where it's self sacrifice.
So they're just in pain.
I wonder why Yharim never mentions that guy...
thats not exactly slaanesh
its part of slaanesh but slaanesh is literally just excess
How the hell did silva manage to obtain the auric soul of life from the single other dragon who’s title implies they’d be relatively impossible to actually kill?
unknown
The anti-life equation, duh.
Dragon suicide probably
wait
all life comes to an end...
Not silva’s apparently
I think she's a ram.
It was given willingly
was that confirmed
thats the least alive being that is technically not dead
Eventually, Silva stopped thinking...
Eh, this is the second time, she's probably fine.
she has a friend atleast
Inside?
nuh uh
What if Draedon decides to make a robotic clone of Terrarian?
who
jared 
but jared is everyone's friend
i dont think he would do that
yea but then why didnt he clone yharim
because yharim is just a really fucking strong guy
cal clone was made to mimic calamitas' magic
also it failed
only reason it got magic is cause calamitas is a girlboss
true..
Yharim is probably hard to get DNA from.
I wouldnt say failed beacuse her magic wasnt even biological to begin with
And Draedon had no particular reason to copy Yharim biologically.
gifted power....
He did try mechanically.
have you seen his hair
That's the Exo-Mechs.
are you crazy
That might be plumage.
same with terrarian
I believe in real hair
there is NO METAL SONIC
that would be the same reasoning to make a yharim clone
what if the terrarian is already a robot
organic robot
He kinda did make a Yharim copy, the Exo Mechs are meant to match Yharim.
ok well at that point
sir thats not a yharim copy
thats what dragonfolly used to be
wouldnt work
except it wasnt a robot
a robot cannot revive...
just restart smh
ari robot clone
Like
Yes it can
Just copy the ai into a new body smh
damn ur right
dont see why not..
Ira sanguinos
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ira sanguinos is canon
Will the lore be reworked now? I haven’t seen much on it
Not much of the new lore will be reworked just expanded on
There are still old lore stuff ingame which will get changed like signus title or all boss dialogue
Fair fair!
Lea channel
your greed sickens me
What if we let Calamitas play Sudoku?
What about a pea channel
Actually, what if we let every boss play Sudoku?
Wrong
Im not pea
Literally says pea in your name
ITS LÉA
No its Léa
Yeah ok pea
Pea, you and me are peas in a pod
Only you tho
I’m a fungi (fun guy) inside of it
Peashooter?
Ok Pea
friend inside me
Inverting your bones
Pee
lore discussion
they probably got used to high temperatures
and they are still humans so probably they do need water
I mean, probably.
Like, what, do you think they pant?
Like dogs?
Don't answer that.
Sweat is also for more then just cooling down.
Like keeping the skin moist. Apparently it also prevents infection.
Because it's antimicrobial.
And I'd say a funus infection from literal hell can't be pleasant.
And also, as humans, the need water.
What would they drink? Lava?
The good stuff.
Some of them do appear to have some form of devil/demon heritage if you go off of Cal being what most of them look like at least, so maybe they do have fire resistance
They obviously drink lava instead of water 
Water just evaporates instantly how they gonna get water down there
I think they're just humans that adapted to hell's climate.
And I don't know, insulators exist.
You can bring water buckets into hell and they don't evaporate in the inventory.
Maybe Azafure had a ventilation system.
You know, if Providence's NPC would be a Catgirl, would that make Devourer's NPC a Doggirl? 
Good, we can't have the catgirl providence discussion for the fiftieth thime.
guys what would yharon taste lik
Chicken.
He probably would unironically
given even modern reptiles like Alligators tend to taste similar to chicken
Most stuff tastes like chicken.
Like bugs.
The issue with that is that chicken sucks.
can yharon ball
Better question, is Yharon a reptile.
Because he's at least partially a bird.
You know, with the whole Pheonix thing.
Does this make him a dinosaur?
They're kinda birds, eventually.
he is a dragon
Yharon is definitely a reptile of some kind
Now biologically speaking there is the dilemma that Dragons have 6 limbs which is not something reptiles are exactly known for but if you just like Ignore that its fair to assume Dragons in the calverse are probably archosaurs or something
Anytime nature tries to make 6 limbed frogs, they die. But Dragons are like, magic.
Dragonfolly is very bird like, and it's descended from dragons.
A good few dragons we've seen have fur or feathers so yeah
all dragons are not the same
iirc more have been seen to not be bird like
We've seen more then Yharon?
That's a wyrm, a folly, a fish...
the eidolon wyrms, dragonfollies, wyverns, basilisks, and fishrons are dragons
Not true dragons.
They're draconic offshoots
Which have been stated to be literally just non-auric dragons
Can't be claimed to be accurate to the main dragons, but are related.
have you read the in game lore?
Yes?
you sure?
They are literally dragons, just not auric ones
That's not how they are categorised though.
Developers have literally said this
Dragon is not a term that applies exclusively to the auric ones
they're called specifically Auric dragons for a reason
water give it up man
Anyways
though dragon is usually used to refer to auric dragons and offshoots to refer to the others
I'm not infallible, come on.
cheese and i are the only readers in chat
That's what I was saying!
also
I think it's fair to assume Dragons are archosaurs on the basis that they have been shown to have fur/feathers in some instances, which in reptiles has only been found in Archosaurs (Dinosaurs, Birds, Pterosaurs) and also they just don't really have the same squatted limb bodyplan things like lizards have
i think dragons are dragons
True...
again them having 6 limbs kind of messes that up but yk just ignore that
i think that we'll never get a canonical explanation for what they are but its fun to speculate so ill speculate
Like, have we seen any designs of auric dragons other then Yharon?
no
its magic oo
vetrasyl
vetrasyl
stipulate is actively designing them
What does that one look like?
show me
stip's old pfp
unless its patron content
stip posted some teasers of him
I thought he was still designing them?
yeah but some is still public
@cosmic zenith hey is this true?
The one I found also has six limbs.
hell I was talking to him about zeratros's design a week ago
nvm that was 3 weeks ago
god my sense of time is fucked
happens to the best of us
That was a suspiciously fast answer. Are you following me?
Alright pal, whatever you say.
(very ver fur-like feathers that pterosaurs and some dinosaurs had)
vetra's fur is actually just that
mhm
yup
Yeah that's the design I found.
redesign in progress but that one's still a pretty good idea of what he looks like
I have cousins who care deeply about dinosaur biology, they could probably tell you.
i'm a bio nerd i like the , animals
They should reveal the Dragon of Playing Dead.
specially when it comes to the dead animals and the water animals and the dead water animals
(marine biology and paleontology
I know that's you Percy Jackson!
personally I'm more into birds and bears
*Peter Johnson
Guh huh?
?
gotta get those jiggies man
game theory dragons don't have fur it's just hundreds of thousands of tiny long arms
fucked up dude
Dragons are covered in soft teeth.
even more fucked up i should kill you
the fur is just scales
Which resemble feathers.
I think birds are cool as hell and bears are both fascinating and terrifying?
Do you also like rhyming?
my favorite bears spectacled bears
true
only south american bear
I've never really thought about it?
what do you mean hes just a guy
electric guitar and whatever HPU used for the reverb part of astrageldon's theme
And not the Kazoo, or the Banjo?
Hes also like the last member of the group of bears that included the huge fucking prehistoric ones
OH YOU'RE REFERENCING THAT
except he's actually not really that big
yeah no I've never played that
hes kinda small for bear standards
Judgemental today, are we.
hey i'm also short i'm not judging
I'm sure the bear is trying their best to eat their vegetables.
Haha short.

Couldn't be me.
how tall are you?
SIX AMERICAN FREEDOM LOVING FEET! Eagle Screeches in the distance.
I'm 6'3
In what? Lame units? and not AMERICAN FREEDOM LOVING FEET! Eagle Screeches in the distance.
Uncontrollable, madness-stricken judgement of the utmost atrocious and unknowable kind, my beloved
I don't get the reference.
I'm american too
Then what even is the point. We're plagiarising here.
Aaaaaa
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Good thing I'm not American.
weak
anyways
why did I even come here
oh right
do we know anything about how people went from building to building in illmeris?
Swim.
duh
Then some crazy woman burned down all the buildings.
that's potentially a lot of water pressure and a lot of children drowning if the distance is too far
we know there weren't just them there though
e.g. statis and braelor went there once
can confirm
Statis and Braelore obviously just said no and didn't give permission for the water to drown them
Everyone just gets this handed to them when they cross the border.
They clearly used the technique of when you blow out an air bubble, you quickly move in to breath in the air bubble so you get air underwater
CO2 my beloved
Yeah, some of the design images of Vetrasyl are public, just not an official concept art
oh ok
The design is settled at this point, the art is just being made
can't lie
I feel like my ideas for what dragons looked like are a lot more abstract than what they really look like
I've always imagined Vetrasyl having lightning instead of the patagium of his wings
NO
pee channel when
How about we not implement that idea.
Draedon should've created a room that looks like a minesweeper maze room
Really right in front of me
He doesn't have those :p
Dragons are usually on the more mystical and abstract side
Bee
Yharim approves.
oh right he's a wyvern ain't he?
The Progenitor of Wyverns, yes
Last I checked, he didn't have biological wings but could manifest lightning ones
Do calamity draedon and the terraria cyborg know each other
The guy who made the cyborg wants to be better, and told the cyborg about Draedon, but they likely never met.
Do we have lore for cyborg?
Is that offical?
Yeah.
I dont recall any of the vanilla npcs having lore
Some have a little.
Like Guide's from Azafure, allegedly. And Demolitionist and Tax Collector, assuming the others here aren't lying to me.
Guide has to have some relationship to the underworld
Considering sacrificing him is how you summon the wof
The question is if that's diegetic in Calamity.
Or if he's just some poor guy we sacrifice.
I recall somewhere that guide is planned to have a relation
Found the quote surprisingly easy
He'll be back.
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I think this server is intended for English.
Yea
Think we'll ever get a hallow lore entry?
Yharim avoids talking about the hallowed
One isn't canon, the other, well, you got that answer already.
Halloween should be canon.
I'm not biased.
I think its not because adding religious references would complicate this world of gods
And the why is because it makes him look bad.
One of the debuffs is literally a cross.
Where does Jesus Christ fit into the lore.
I dont think debuff symbols are canon
Hallow is literally named 'Hallow'.
Hallow means somthing that is holy or pure. Has heavy associations with Christianity but isn't linked to it
So why would 'All Hallows Eve' be banned?
If the word Hallow exists.
Or just rename it to Oíche Shamhna. Nobody will ever know.
Idk why there are people who often consider it canon when such word exists
Oh yeah
for some reason when i was starting getting into terraria when i first learned that a third infectious biome separate from the evil biomes at the beginning game existed and was called "the Hallow", i thought it was going to be a halloween-themed evil biome
not
yknow
literal rainbows and sunshine

._.
Peak
I wonder what every ore smells like
does it act like this
A lot of ores are real metals so we don't need to guess.
Orichalcum probably spells like bubble gum
Adamantite I imagine smells a little like an electrical fire. It's a very distinct smell so I don't know anything else to compare with it
Hallowed Ore probably spells like rosemary
Astral Ore probably smells like whatever the hell a neutron star smells like.
Orichalcum is brass.
Like, it's actually real.
Oh, I didn't know that
Nah, it smells like Raspberry rum
It's a very old term for it, and it's generally used to refer to a very early impure version, like that's what the Romans called it.
Well, it might be not exactly be what we call brass, it's mostly close enough.
Adamantite smells like Wolverine. Or maybe the other way round.
Orichalcum is pink in terraria for some reason
Pink gold.
With copper.
To make pink gold copper alloy, or as it may have been called, Orichalcum. Or the spriters were drunk.
It's red because red is cool.
Technically, adamant was an old word for diamond, I think it's Latin.
So technically... We're mining diamonds for armour and tools.
orichalcum in more modernish fiction tends to be used as a mythical substance that does plot device stuff
is this gonna be xeroc
it went from a funny alloy that people forgot what it was to a phlebotinum
Many things do stuff.
plot device stuff
Like plutonium. That does DoT.
i know that garbage second aquaman movie has orichalcum as an evil mutative substance thats also a super fossil fuel
yes you're hearing me correctly
The greatest power in DC is the chaos emeralds an equation that lets you control minds, that isn't remotely that crazy in comic books.
i know but like
its orichalcum
this was originally basically brass
and somehow years of people not knowing that it was brass led to it becoming a super-evil fossil fuel
They turned an old word for diamonds into super magic poison metal.
That can fight the Hulk.
Wait till you hear about Kryptonite.
well um ackshually the element is called krypton so you should be instead saying the planet is named after the element

If I remember right, ite means it's combined with oxygen.
(they cant, they're noble gases or something.)
So it's just, Krypton and Oxygen.
For some reason it's radioactive.
And photosynthesizers hate it.

Pretty sure it’s called kryptonite purely because it sounds cooler.
Yeah, that's the real reason.
But the idea that it's a nonsensical combination that for some reason is also radioactive is funny.
Wait, how the hell do we smelt Cryonic ore?
We just set it on the mantle and it melts
How does that give workable bars? Wouldn't it be water?
Magic ✨✨✨
Does everyone in the Calamity Universe just hate thermodynamics?
ive heard its more crystal than ice
so maybe?
Then how are we smelting crystals!?
Like, if they're carbon based they'd eventually evaporate, like diamond.
I don’t see anything in the description actually stating they’re icy.
Are we really going to try and argue CRYOnic bars have nothing to do with ice.
Given every circumstance that they’re found under its a safe assumption
Made by Permafrost.
Ice magic and ice are not the same.
Because if I have to argue that something's name being relevant to it's nature again...
Ice magic and ice. Are both involving ice somewhere.
Something involving ice magic doesn’t need to be constantly cold. It could just be normal metal from a nonmagic perspective
You find them in the ice biome after beating the ice boss and freeing the ice wizard who makes them with ice magic and are named after the greek root word for ice
And you wish to argue that they are not even ice-like?
'Cryonic Ore, as the Archmage simply calls it, is a material seemingly akin to iced over glass.'
Nothing about that screams smeltable.
"The ice caves are crackling with frigid energy."
I’m just saying it’s fully possible the name refers to it’s powerful magical properties, rather than it’s physical ones.
It's physical properties is that it looks like icy glass and is strong.
And is made by an ice wizard in an ice biome unlocked by beating the ice boss and it's named after ice.
It just seems unlikely
This mod has very to the point names. Guess what the Devourer of Gods does.
If it's named after something, it's probably related.
guess what yharon's domain is
Yharim dragon, you mean?
yes
Does he use brimstone flames to scorch his enemies?
Or perhaps, Yharon, Dragon of Rebirth.
How did you know?
Lucky guess
Or even Yharon, Resplendent Phoenix.
The bird that’s most well known for coming back to life?
Probably does taxes or something
Idk
I think he has power over poultry.
you could say he calls upon the eggs
I wonder what Calamitas does, with her brothers Catastrophe and Cataclysm.
Permafrost... What's his deal?
Geomancy obviously
Slime God... What does he do all day?
what species is crabulon
Lobster
Duck?
Brimstone Elemental... I bet it has some kind of lightning based power.
what does mauler do
How old is Old Duke, so you think? I bet he's actually the younger one.
I heart Yharon
Maybe it has such potent cold properties that you need an incredibly hot fire to overcome the cold magic in order to bring the metal to its melting point?
And then once the metal is shaped and cooled again, the cold magic refreezes it, causing it to take on an appearance similar to icy glass
Cooking
That's a Trick question.
Crabulon is a cordyceps fungus
was it really our intention to ascend the enemy beyond our control?
my fault
youre welcome im cheese
I guess that really was a… calamity
one could even say, a supreme calamity, it was.
If we could, we would easily butcher them whole

While they're blinded by their depression
it even got to the point where we're just too afraid
Disagree
I disagree with YOUR disagree
I agree with Maxie
I am smart
lore discussion
Truth
yhimaxing
I will seek your gods
No you’re pea
the terrarian is you...but the terrarian is lea..
that means I am lea too
Ok mea
True!
Lèa (evil Léa) is also canon
Who the FUCK is Lèa
Wing Gaster
Lèa
the accent mark is a light switch
the little dash above the e
No
how do you not know this while having one
So basically a more modern version of mythril?

you use accent in your oc's name and dont know what that is?
the accent is mark
mark (')
mental illinois
I KNOW WHAT IT IS
ACCENT MARK
MARK
MARK LIKE
^^^^^
Oh hi Mark.
aep
aèp
❌
Mark is integral to the lore. He witnesses the bite.
Mark (E) is canon to calamity
changelogs tomorrow
mark will appear in yharim bossfight
Yharim takes 1% damage from the terrarian over the long fight and mark beats yharims head in with a rock and leaves
701 - Added live Markiplier reaction in the corner during every boss fight.
Add Markiplier difficulty.
u die of bite of 87 when it’s active
"So the first boss is never usually that bad in any of the mods"
"so i'll play through- AH FUCK"
'I am the KING... OF THE DRAGON'S AERIE!'
real check the lore doc
Lies, deception.
how are we lore chat
bad
Lies of P||opcorn||, you could say 
are these goofy books relevant to the lore whatsoever
that's not base Cal
I dont think thats base calamity
oh well that's just another change im finding out about that ISN'T from calamity
thats wotg
maybe you shouldn't play 500 mods at once in your first playthrough
pmo how much they updated the mod, getting me confused and all
If its not in calamity then its not calamitys fault for its existence
it isn't my first, I just haven't played in a good while so the mods I had didn't have these features
that also applies the same too
anyways you can put the item in Recipe Browser to know what mod is it from
please get the "what mod is this from" mod
or download a dedicated mod for it ^
that's a thing?
Yes there is at least 1 mod dedicated to that
no it's wotg
some books in it are canon to wotg lore though
i like how under my calamitas family in wplace there's a little brazilian flag
can we make her canonically brazilian now
i think that'd be funny
A Brazilian person is a inspiration for the personality of calamitas
for real?
i now know the most elite ball calamitas knowledge known to man
two of them
Now kith
How can such an L rizzler contain so much dihlusion?
Finally, a lore question.
On about yharim i think????????
Allow me to attempt a translation; How could such a charismatic yet flawed man be so beset by delusions of glory?
you ruined it
Wow, ok, sorry for localizing. Not everyone speaks Tiktok.
localization moment 😔 twisting and removing the meaning from things
it's so funny calling this a localization moment when you did the opposite
The monster hunters know it too well
most monster hunter players dont give a shit
i do though
how is it possible that the only time they mention the term forbidden monster in localized material, they straight up remove it from the localization
When are we getting Louie's notes for the bestiary?
of all games, it's wilds too, the one that otherwise has lwk the best localizations for dialogue
How
how would we
What do you mean?
add dog to smash ultimate
Lore accurate in size. Half a Ridley.
Theres no confirmation other universes exists (distortion is attached to our universe in some way i forgor)
And DoG is better suited to reaching into other universes itself then whats available to us in game
So
???????????
The Old Ones Army.
Someone's not an Old Ones Army truther.
Ah yes
But almost everyone doesn't gives a fuck about that
I only do it cause I like seeing questbook completly filled
I dont even think its canon yo terraria, let alone calamity
Oh, well, in that case.
It is canon to Terraria, it's literally shown in the games ending.
But not Calamity, but still, in our hearts.
Tavern Keep is just, like, a guy, who sells alcohol, I guess.
Not every npc needs to have a deep backstory
Backstory: Has a j*b.
jon
Please refrain from using the j word, if you have to use it at least censor it
There, happy now?
Thank you, now i wont cry to sleep at the thought of it
Random Speculation
I think, it's possible that The World Soul, was a god before the dragons ascended. That their 'breaking of the world soul' was them slaying the original deity of the world, who held power over every domain, and resulted in them taking the shards of its soul into their own making the Auric Souls (much like was done to them later when it was discovered that man could consume auric souls to become gods).
Maybe it wasn't really a living and conscious thing, but so far souls have bodies and we've seen that if a god is slain and their soul isn't 'stored' then it kind of seeps into things and causes stuff like the corruption/crimson. Considering the world itself wasn't destroyed I don't think the original 'vessel' of the World Soul was the world itself but rather the world's first god.
Well, technically it wouldn't be what is considered a god in Calamity's terms.
But I get what you're saying.
Yeah true, not the 'god' but an original deity of sorts
The term god could be loose
it's very firm
Like according to the lore entry, astrum deus is seen as a god despite not being auric
Just being called a god or being strong does not a god make.
So neither Astrum Deus or Devourer of Gods are gods.
Since neither ate an auric soul.
it's worshipped as a god
it's not actually a god
Its not one, by the definition of calamity
Again, being strong or worshipped doesn't make you a god.
Since there is an in-universe definition for the term.
I hate to use the term "one true god", but it's been VERY vague about what the World Soul was.
I think it'd be VERY classic story telling, if the World Soul was a deity that the dragons killed and took fragments of its soul to ascend. Thus what goes around comes around.
The only person who calls DoG a god is himself
Something being mistaken as a god doesn't make it a god.
He's a narcissist.
would be cool
Yeah, he isn't even the highest order of the distortion
Very little on 'The World Soul' is really, there, right now, and some lanugage does phrase as if the dragons were given their souls.
So it's possible it was some, thing, that sacrificed itself.
Same as how it's implied at least some dragons sacrificed themselves to create gods.
Or at least may have.
That's true! But that bit of history is usually from a second hand account.
Of course the dragons wouldn't say "Oh yeah we killed jesus to become immortal divine beings"
Canonically it's an omniscient and unbiased source.
Yharim certainly wont mention the dragons willingly giving thier soul thays for sure
(I guess technically the bestiary entries only exist for the player, not the Terrarian.)
It conflicts with his narritive
'Dragons who were born after all the auric souls had been gifted to their kind were forced to make do without, forever outside of the cycle of rebirth.'
Bestiary entry.
Hmmmmmm
I was honestly thinking the same thing and had been doing some work on a submod that's currently indefinitely backburnered: in the submod, Terraria had a single mother goddess called Aurōra Māter (where the descriptor Auric came from), before the dragons came from elsewhere to tear her divine world-soul to shreds that they then devoured, so they could rule over Terraria as oppressive bandit-kings
Dragons were gifted their souls, objectively. But from who or how?
Someone had trouble with the Yharon fight.
None of this is canon to Calamity, of course, but that should go without saying (keyword: should)
And gifted could be interpreted in multiple ways
Like, for instance, other dragons.
Giving up souls they stole.
Or again, some greater being or force sacrificed itself.
I like the idea that the old dragon told Xeroc about the whole 'we got our auric souls from an external source' and that gave Xeroc the idea of taking an Auric soul into himself in the first place.
It was me the World Soul fell from my hands and shattered in the ground
I gifted the shards to the Dragons to hide the evidence make some cool ass mythical beasts
Thanks for the lore drop.
;)
"Oh shit- Uhhhh- The lizards did it!"
"Look they're chewing on the fragments now."
insert that audio clip of chewing on rocks
It will take me a second to find but I will provide
Do I want that?
My bad, it's used in memes about eating rocks but it's a cat asmr of eating ice it seems
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dTvVKRXAahw?feature=share
I'll pass on watching that.
Me with the bricks from the starting bag
Tbh I thought of that idea back when I had misinterpreted the devs' intentions as trying to make Yharim more sympathetic. I joined this server to learn more about the lore, so I could flesh out and correct my submod as necessary, and found out that the devs were portraying Yharim as trying to make himself look sympathetic
I crave the nourishment from earthly constructs
I bulk on chunks of uranium
From the earth I have come and from the earth will I sustain
How did you conclude that the dragons were evil, Anakin?
I'm here because I like discussing writing and I want to accurately portray the characters when I imagine them living their cruel world.
I figured that, since Yharim's knowledge of the Draconic Era came solely from a dragon, he could very well have been lied to, so I took that implication and ran with it
Yeah that isn't unreasonable.
Yharon likely wasn't the most unbiased source.
Like, his race got genocided, no matter how bad they may have been he had a good reason to be furious.
And if he had to nudge the narrative a little to get vengeance?
Yeah, I can see it.
Then Yharim killed everyone, but who's counting.
People tend to see new lore Yharim as more sympathetic and heroic because the notion that a villain can be both relatable and deliberately evil doesn't really cross their minds
Which is fair, because that's counterintuitive to some extent
Is vengeance against all the millions/billions of ordinary people who are trying to live their lives, really what a "benevolent protector" would want?
But that's what Yharim is
And I think it's a pretty neat exploration of the human nature
I mean it's implied that he was at least in with the gods before everything, too. Afterall they were going to elevate him to godhood with the last known auric soul.
He very much fluctuates from being apologetic to being zealous. It really comes off as that in the lore items.
yharim is extremely cool yes
I don't find Yharim relatable. He cares too much about empty platitudes like "freedom" and "justice", but at least he's a good example of why those slogans exist: to justify acts like his own
People can be all kinds of grey
Like, they either end with him doubling down on what he did, or expressing regret, he's rarely ambivalent.
It's like he sees everything... as black and white...
say those again..
His regret is entirely performative
Freedom, hope, justice: they are no more than delusions and lies! We use them to justify the death and destruction left in our wake! I cannot tolerate it any longer! I have seen the rot that runs through our crusade's "justice", and it justifies nothing. My memories are full of the screams of those I have killed. Where others see life, I see only death. We all know how this will end. We always have known.
It ends in blood.
I wouldn't call Yharim relatable to myself because I haven't been through the experiences he did, but his traumas definitely aren't just a convenient excuse to commit acts of evil
They genuinely scarred him
That said, he does think his actions are justifiable
Does that make sense?
Also literally scarred him
Yharim wouldn't have been cast down into lava if he just did his job properly
Like, his trauma isn't a performance, but it provides a foundation for his evil impulses
Also also, it definitely looks like it was a build towards the true atrocities. Slips here and there down a slope that lead to further allowances and slips in the future.
If Yharim "did his job properly" (ascended with Yharon's soul), there would be a sect of dictators ruling Terraria
As opposed to Yharim not doing it properly, where there's no one ruling Terraria and almost no one left to rule
Things aren't bad to that extent
There are still people, and ruling Terraria is a terrible idea either way
Hence the "almost no one"
I once imagined that a Yharim who became god-king would end up leading a crusade anyway.
A more accurate "Yharim if he did things properly" would be if he got thrown in lava yet only sought revenge against those who posed a genuine threat against the world; someone in his position could've done that!
But it's Yharim. He's not a good person like that.
He decided to kill anyone vaguely associated with the thing he had an issue with.
A better version would be if he got thrown in lava and just died there
true
That'd be a pretty neutral ending
He kind of took the whole "Every god can only exist from the slaughter of a dragon- So all of them have committed an inexcusable sin and are irredeemable, even those that have made a name as truly benevolent and are loved by their people." really really too far.
It's not unlikely that those Gods would retry the Yharim plot
And also anyone who worships a god is guilty by proxy, since they endorse genocide.
Ilmeris
Ilmeris was more so 'we need to get these two gods, let's nuke Italy to get 'em.'
And in the process, the pious died too, win-win.
I wouldn't mind a neutral ending. People with both the ambition and the power necessary to "improve" the world are rarely good
I could totally do it. What could possibly go wrong?
Certainly wouldn't have made for a very fun mod
You got me
Tale of a standard world.
The mod's ending is technically neutral
Surely I wouldn't be absolutely corrupted by absolute power.
Much is in ruins, but there's hope that the world can be rebuilt
And I think that's a pretty important component of Calamity's lore
Yeah I take the actual events in-game as "civilization can rebuild and new community can flourish even in the worst of places"
Honestly fairly upbeat for the overall tone of the past lore
It's like, post-apocalyptic in a way.
Things may get terrible, but they don't end there, and there's always a chance for a brighter future for the people that seek it
That's why we need to fist fight the sun.
post-apocalyptic hopepunk
Pretty much
Though I wouldn't call it a proper apocalypse
I mean, Calamitas has the worst life imaginable, but then tries to prevent stuff from getting worse by fighting you.
She could just hide in a cave forever.
Yeah I think it was more a- Post-war feeling.
post-calamity 
One hell of a war.
Say that again?
That got a real chuckle
It's more of a.... "what if WW1 covered a lot more ground and had superpowered people?"
That's what the history books hide from you.
(Percy Jackson actually had a minor detail that WW2 actually was fought by superpowered people.)
Honestly, my Terrarian would be too broken down by the world to want to rebuild it. He'd be a bit like Sergeant Avitus (my namesake) in Dawn of War II: "War is all we are. Killing is all we are good for! The rest is delusion." and "This is all that remains: blood and fury!" and "Faith is a lie! Truth is a lie!"
Except in Terraria, he'd do it out of a fear of hope. Hope is what Yharim promised, after all. "Yharim tried to fight for a better world, and look how that ended up. I'm not going to make the same mistake"
Big government doesn't want you to know about how we fused the souls of our soldiers into a giant spiked skull robot
I'm too busy hopemaxxing to read something so despairful.
It's a reasonable approach, though yeah - there's always someone out there who still has hope
And genocidal warlords are not the default
Hopemaxxing, really dream pilled
Except in grimdark
"And that someone was Yharim, once"
Grimdark is, by definition, hopeless
I mean, if you hopeless too much into the abyss, it all becomes pointless.
Who would win:
The crushing despair of a post war society
Vs
A dude with a copper shortsword
So, uh, who the hell is the Princess then?
Not necessarily
THATS A GREAT QUESTION




