#lore-discussion

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real glen
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We are not doing this again.

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Not you, you're doing great Godseeker.

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I think that's outdated.

real glen
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It is

visual kiln
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meow

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We have an infestation.

split mortar
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Get the water

pliant ruin
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robust osprey
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mreow

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Get the hose.

cloud ibex
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lore discussion

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We gotta deal with the feline foes first.

visual kiln
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stomps u

wanton pendant
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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?

cloud ibex
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where is he called that

wanton pendant
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I'm sure he was somewhere, unless the wiki is gaslighting me.

random mulch
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might be thinking of when he said that he was "destined to become godking"

wanton pendant
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No, not that.

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But the wiki disambigation page for Yharim claims 'Tyrant King' is one of his titles.

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But they don't source it.

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'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.'

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Similarly, I'm not sure where they call him Golden Heretic (though it goes hard.)

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Godseeker is used quite a bit.

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Yeah I can't find where he's called that. Thanks wiki.

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Unless there's some other source of information that isn't the bestiary, the lore items, Amidias or Draedon.

cloud ibex
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old lore thing probably

wanton pendant
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Old lore was 'Jungle Tyrant', not 'Tyrant King'.

cloud ibex
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little bit of both i believe

wanton pendant
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I'd find it hard to believe he was democratically elected.

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No wait, Polterghast does have him say he was 'ruling' which is the closest I can find.

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And also him having a court.

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Which I would associate more with a monarchy.

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But no mention of him being called king specifically.

cloud ibex
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if he was a king he was decidedly Not democratically elected

wanton pendant
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Elective monarchies have existed. Wouldn't call them democratic, but elected.

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I mean, there is technically at least one still around.

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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.

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But it was almost certainly not a theocracy, for obvious reasons.

dusk laurel
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i think this is my favorite iteration of yharim's horns

random mulch
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comedically wide yharim fins

mighty zenith
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mithrix fins

cloud ibex
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imagining someone grabbing his fins and using them to slam his head into their knee

wanton pendant
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That would probably hurt a lot, 'cause of his bug zapper armour.

icy veldt
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So you think his bureaucrats sucked at their job, huh.

icy veldt
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I'm not sure if he had bureaucrats, at least not ones specific to him

wanton pendant
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He did.

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Draedon mentions being annoyed at them telling him the public didn't like him polluting.

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Because the public don't see the vision. (Dumping plutonium into the sea.)

icy veldt
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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

wanton pendant
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Oh, certainly, he probably just took what was there and converted it.

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Luckily, if he did have to make anything, there were always some (religious) buildings that could be torn down and the land used.

icy veldt
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Some places may have sworn fealty.

icy veldt
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And they were fools to do so

wanton pendant
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And he had a public to some degree, who cared about the climate, I guess.

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Ignore the war crimes.

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It did doom Azafure...

icy veldt
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I say they deserved it, if they were so eager to serve that tyrant

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Hey, the Yharim Propaganda machine was probably strong. Kill the gods they said, it will be fun they said!

light linden
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just had an idea

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do sea prisms create any amount of exotic resonance?

wanton pendant
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Didn't Draedon explain this?

light linden
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yes and no

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I'm reading through the draetalks again to refresh my memory and

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exo prisms are made from sea prisms but it isn't said if exotic resonance is unique to exo prisms

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so I'm wondering if it is unique to it or not

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I'd imagine if the sea prisms do create it

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The Sea Prisms are like, magic and stuff. Thanks gods.

light linden
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it's an incredibly small amount

wanton pendant
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They HATE thermodynamics.

light linden
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also one of the devs said they aren't related to gods

wanton pendant
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Then those other guys lied to me.

light linden
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actually no that's a lie on my part sorry

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the dev said they aren't a result of godly essence

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They're blessed.

light linden
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since I brought up that means draedon can literally grow god essence

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which was not what they wanted

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found the convo

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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.

split mortar
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Otonilou is the cause of their eternal electricity somehow

light linden
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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

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also I just realized something

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the way draedon's forge works is that it's connected to draedon's database of material data

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that mean we could crash draedon if we brought an unknown material to the forge?

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Draedon's forge is just a 3D printer.

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But like, super.

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So you can. Imagine. Schematics. I guess.

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Yeah let's go with that.

split mortar
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well he knew about the unstable version

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and we made the stable version with stuff he knows about

split mortar
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The guy knew of cores of calamity and ascended spirit essence?

wanton pendant
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Yeah, that's his middle name.

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Draedon Coresofcalamityascendedspiritessence Smith.

icy veldt
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The Draedopticon.

light linden
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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

wanton pendant
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Well, studied as much as he could. I don't know how eager of a subject Calamitas would have been.

light linden
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he studied enough to know that the magical signatures of her and the brimstone elemental were nearly the same

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Also, the clone wields magic unrelated to his efforts, Calamitas somehow did that. (We don't know if it was intentional or not.)

sinful adder
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You know, like what I was saying, making schematics from imagination! (Does this mean it can read our mind? That's a little concerning.)

icy veldt
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I think it's implied that we punch in the recipe (with a very simple graphical interface) in order to make stuff

wanton pendant
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And he just has the plans with stuff you invented ready to go?

icy veldt
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I'm saying it uses a graphical interface for input instead of reading your mind

wanton pendant
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So we're just... Iron Manning it up?

icy veldt
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...what?

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You know, like in that movie. Spider-Man.

fierce pagoda
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You think there is a dragon of pain

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or a god of pain

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Maybe...

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Probably dead though.

fierce pagoda
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what would it have been like

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being in pain, inflicting pain in a crazy way

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sadistic? masochistic? maybe both at the same time? or maybe flip it and make it the kindest dragon ever

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cause it know true pain, and wouldn't wish it on anyone else

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Like, you could go the God of Sacrifices route, where it's self sacrifice.

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So they're just in pain.

icy veldt
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Slaanesh from 40K

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Dragon of ecstatic enjoyment of agonizing pain

wanton pendant
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I wonder why Yharim never mentions that guy...

eager bluff
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its part of slaanesh but slaanesh is literally just excess

distant smelt
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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?

long bloom
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unknown

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The anti-life equation, duh.

real silo
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Dragon suicide probably

alpine jetty
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bibi wait

distant smelt
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Not silva’s apparently

alpine jetty
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she is chopped up and at the bottom of the abyss

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and alive

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what a goat

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I think she's a ram.

robust osprey
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was that confirmed

robust osprey
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i imagine shes just like a plant now

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like she doesnt have thoughts or feelings

wanton pendant
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Eventually, Silva stopped thinking...

alpine jetty
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but shes technically alive because her body is like that

wanton pendant
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Eh, this is the second time, she's probably fine.

robust osprey
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she has a friend atleast

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Inside?

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nuh uh

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What if Draedon decides to make a robotic clone of Terrarian?

alpine jetty
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friend shaped worm

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jared

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jared aga

robust osprey
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but jared is everyone's friend

nimble mantle
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Terraria Calamity CD-

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Calamity Draedon.

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It all makes sense now.

alpine jetty
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He might.

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He did cloning before.

alpine jetty
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yea but then why didnt he clone yharim

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because yharim is just a really fucking strong guy

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cal clone was made to mimic calamitas' magic

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also it failed

robust osprey
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beacuse yharim has all his power from his aura

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robot yharim cannot farm aura

alpine jetty
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only reason it got magic is cause calamitas is a girlboss

alpine jetty
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Yharim is probably hard to get DNA from.

robust osprey
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And Draedon had no particular reason to copy Yharim biologically.

robust osprey
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gifted power....

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He did try mechanically.

alpine jetty
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That's the Exo-Mechs.

alpine jetty
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are you crazy

wanton pendant
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That might be plumage.

alpine jetty
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shit probably falls out like everywhere

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dont care

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thats his real hair

alpine jetty
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I believe in real hair

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But a robot copy...

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That can be controlled.

alpine jetty
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there is NO METAL SONIC

alpine jetty
robust osprey
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what if the terrarian is already a robot

nimble mantle
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wait true

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and what if its all a dream

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He kinda did make a Yharim copy, the Exo Mechs are meant to match Yharim.

alpine jetty
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ok well at that point

robust osprey
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sir thats not a yharim copy

nimble mantle
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Fuck it

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What if

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Yharon robot copy?

alpine jetty
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thats what dragonfolly used to be

robust osprey
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wouldnt work

alpine jetty
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except it wasnt a robot

robust osprey
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a robot cannot revive...

alpine jetty
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just restart smh

nimble mantle
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Oh wait nvm, bumblefuck is enough so

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Idc if it's an organic shi

robust osprey
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keyword used to be

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thats old lore

nimble mantle
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Hmmmm

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Providence copy?

robust osprey
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ari robot clone

nimble mantle
real silo
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Just copy the ai into a new body smh

robust osprey
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damn ur right

alpine jetty
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ira

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wait

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can i say that

robust osprey
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dont see why not..

real silo
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Ira sanguinos

long bloom
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ira sanguinos is canon

real silo
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Will the lore be reworked now? I haven’t seen much on it

cloud ibex
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at this point not much

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no major changes

split mortar
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Fair fair!

untold oracle
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Lea channel

mighty zenith
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your greed sickens me

nimble mantle
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What if we let Calamitas play Sudoku?

stoic gulch
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Actually, what if we let every boss play Sudoku?

untold oracle
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Its for common good

untold oracle
stoic gulch
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ITS LÉA

split mortar
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No its Léa

stoic gulch
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Yeah ok pea

untold oracle
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Lea channel pea channel

stoic gulch
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Only you tho

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I’m a fungi (fun guy) inside of it

nimble mantle
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Peashooter?

untold oracle
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NO

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Lea

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It’s Léa

stoic gulch
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Ok Pea

nimble mantle
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Leashooter?

split mortar
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friend inside me

split mortar
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Inverting your bones

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icy veldt
cloud ibex
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lore discussion

scenic olive
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chat does azafurans sweat since they live in crags

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Do they need water

robust osprey
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they probably got used to high temperatures

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and they are still humans so probably they do need water

wanton pendant
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I mean, probably.

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Like, what, do you think they pant?

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Like dogs?

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Don't answer that.

scenic olive
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maybe theyre immune to brimstone or on fire XD

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Built in obsidian skin

wanton pendant
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Sweat is also for more then just cooling down.

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Like keeping the skin moist. Apparently it also prevents infection.

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Because it's antimicrobial.

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And I'd say a funus infection from literal hell can't be pleasant.

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And also, as humans, the need water.

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What would they drink? Lava?

leaden locust
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they could just

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go up to the caves above a little

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and drink water

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The good stuff.

hoary cape
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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

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They obviously drink lava instead of water clueless

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Water just evaporates instantly how they gonna get water down there

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I think they're just humans that adapted to hell's climate.

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And I don't know, insulators exist.

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You can bring water buckets into hell and they don't evaporate in the inventory.

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Maybe Azafure had a ventilation system.

fleet wedge
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You know, if Providence's NPC would be a Catgirl, would that make Devourer's NPC a Doggirl? FollyThonk

wanton pendant
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Please not this again.

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Devourer would be a lizardman.

pliant ruin
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do not bring this topic back up

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i will smite you down with my heavenly blade

wanton pendant
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Good, we can't have the catgirl providence discussion for the fiftieth thime.

long bloom
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guys what would yharon taste lik

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Chicken.

pliant ruin
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He probably would unironically

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given even modern reptiles like Alligators tend to taste similar to chicken

wanton pendant
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Most stuff tastes like chicken.

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Like bugs.

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The issue with that is that chicken sucks.

pliant ruin
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can yharon ball

wanton pendant
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Better question, is Yharon a reptile.

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Because he's at least partially a bird.

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You know, with the whole Pheonix thing.

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Does this make him a dinosaur?

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They're kinda birds, eventually.

zenith geode
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he is a dragon

wanton pendant
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Are dragons dinosaurs?

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Or are dinosaurs dragons.

pliant ruin
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Yharon is definitely a reptile of some kind

wanton pendant
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True...

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A Dragon Bird Plush Toy...

pliant ruin
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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

wanton pendant
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Anytime nature tries to make 6 limbed frogs, they die. But Dragons are like, magic.

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Dragonfolly is very bird like, and it's descended from dragons.

pliant ruin
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A good few dragons we've seen have fur or feathers so yeah

light linden
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iirc more have been seen to not be bird like

wanton pendant
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We've seen more then Yharon?

light linden
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auric dragons no

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dragons in general yes

wanton pendant
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Yharon's the only dragon we've seen.

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There are no non-auric dragons.

pliant ruin
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Eidolon wyrms

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Dragonfolly

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Fishron

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etc

wanton pendant
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That's a wyrm, a folly, a fish...

light linden
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the eidolon wyrms, dragonfollies, wyverns, basilisks, and fishrons are dragons

wanton pendant
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Not true dragons.

pliant ruin
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They're draconic offshoots

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Which have been stated to be literally just non-auric dragons

wanton pendant
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Can't be claimed to be accurate to the main dragons, but are related.

light linden
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have you read the in game lore?

wanton pendant
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Yes?

light linden
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you sure?

pliant ruin
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They are literally dragons, just not auric ones

wanton pendant
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That's not how they are categorised though.

pliant ruin
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Developers have literally said this

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Dragon is not a term that applies exclusively to the auric ones

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they're called specifically Auric dragons for a reason

long bloom
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water give it up man

glacial rampart
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yeah no they're still just dragons

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just not auric

light linden
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@wanton pendant

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you clearly haven't

pliant ruin
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Anyways

zenith geode
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though dragon is usually used to refer to auric dragons and offshoots to refer to the others

wanton pendant
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I'm not infallible, come on.

glacial rampart
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cheese and i are the only readers in chat

light linden
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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

long bloom
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i think dragons are dragons

wanton pendant
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True...

pliant ruin
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again them having 6 limbs kind of messes that up but yk just ignore that

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i think that we'll never get a canonical explanation for what they are but its fun to speculate so ill speculate

wanton pendant
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Like, have we seen any designs of auric dragons other then Yharon?

light linden
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no

light linden
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stipulate is actively designing them

glacial rampart
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😭

wanton pendant
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What does that one look like?

glacial rampart
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show me

long bloom
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stip's old pfp

glacial rampart
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unless its patron content

pliant ruin
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stip posted some teasers of him

light linden
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forgot when or where

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but its public

long bloom
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@cosmic zenith hey is this true?

wanton pendant
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The one I found also has six limbs.

light linden
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nvm that was 3 weeks ago

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god my sense of time is fucked

pliant ruin
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happens to the best of us

wanton pendant
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I've lost track of how long I've been here.

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A week? A month?

long bloom
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month

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joined jul 19

wanton pendant
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That was a suspiciously fast answer. Are you following me?

long bloom
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i clicked on your profile 😭

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it says right there

wanton pendant
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Alright pal, whatever you say.

pliant ruin
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game theory dragons dont actually have fur

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its just pycnofibers..

real glen
pliant ruin
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(very ver fur-like feathers that pterosaurs and some dinosaurs had)

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vetra's fur is actually just that

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mhm

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yup

wanton pendant
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Yeah that's the design I found.

long bloom
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redesign in progress but that one's still a pretty good idea of what he looks like

wanton pendant
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I have cousins who care deeply about dinosaur biology, they could probably tell you.

pliant ruin
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i'm a bio nerd i like the , animals

wanton pendant
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They should reveal the Dragon of Playing Dead.

pliant ruin
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specially when it comes to the dead animals and the water animals and the dead water animals

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(marine biology and paleontology

wanton pendant
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I know that's you Percy Jackson!

light linden
distant smelt
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light linden
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?

pliant ruin
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gotta get those jiggies man

cloud ibex
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game theory dragons don't have fur it's just hundreds of thousands of tiny long arms

pliant ruin
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fucked up dude

wanton pendant
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Dragons are covered in soft teeth.

pliant ruin
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even more fucked up i should kill you

wheat walrus
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the fur is just scales

wanton pendant
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Which resemble feathers.

light linden
# light linden ?

I think birds are cool as hell and bears are both fascinating and terrifying?

wanton pendant
pliant ruin
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my favorite bears spectacled bears

wheat walrus
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true

pliant ruin
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only south american bear

wanton pendant
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What are your two favourite instruments?

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The hell is wrong with that bear.

light linden
pliant ruin
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what do you mean hes just a guy

light linden
wanton pendant
pliant ruin
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Hes also like the last member of the group of bears that included the huge fucking prehistoric ones

light linden
pliant ruin
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except he's actually not really that big

light linden
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yeah no I've never played that

pliant ruin
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hes kinda small for bear standards

wanton pendant
pliant ruin
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hey i'm also short i'm not judging

wanton pendant
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I'm sure the bear is trying their best to eat their vegetables.

wanton pendant
pliant ruin
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Couldn't be me.

light linden
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how tall are you?

wanton pendant
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SIX AMERICAN FREEDOM LOVING FEET! Eagle Screeches in the distance.

light linden
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I'm 6'3

wanton pendant
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In what? Lame units? and not AMERICAN FREEDOM LOVING FEET! Eagle Screeches in the distance.

light linden
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I'm 6 feet and 3 inches tall

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are you ok?

wanton pendant
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Sorry, the American dream is taking over. Please help.

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Give me oil.

wheat walrus
wanton pendant
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I don't get the reference.

wheat walrus
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there is no reference

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i made that up

light linden
wanton pendant
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Then what even is the point. We're plagiarising here.

split mortar
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Aaaaaa

wanton pendant
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Good thing I'm not American.

light linden
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anyways

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why did I even come here

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oh right

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do we know anything about how people went from building to building in illmeris?

wanton pendant
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Swim.

wheat walrus
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duh

wanton pendant
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Then some crazy woman burned down all the buildings.

light linden
# wanton pendant Swim.

that's potentially a lot of water pressure and a lot of children drowning if the distance is too far

wanton pendant
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I'd assume the population was primarily fish people.

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A bit hard to drown them.

light linden
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we know there weren't just them there though

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e.g. statis and braelor went there once

wanton pendant
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No wait, gay people can breathe underwater, duh.

long bloom
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can confirm

hoary cape
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Statis and Braelore obviously just said no and didn't give permission for the water to drown them

wanton pendant
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Everyone just gets this handed to them when they cross the border.

deft vessel
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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

hoary cape
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CO2 my beloved

cosmic zenith
light linden
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oh ok

cosmic zenith
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The design is settled at this point, the art is just being made

light linden
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can't lie

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I feel like my ideas for what dragons looked like are a lot more abstract than what they really look like

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I've always imagined Vetrasyl having lightning instead of the patagium of his wings

untold oracle
long bloom
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pee channel when

wanton pendant
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How about we not implement that idea.

nimble mantle
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Draedon should've created a room that looks like a minesweeper maze room

hoary cape
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Really right in front of me

cosmic zenith
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Dragons are usually on the more mystical and abstract side

faint totem
wanton pendant
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Yharim approves.

light linden
cosmic zenith
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The Progenitor of Wyverns, yes

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Last I checked, he didn't have biological wings but could manifest lightning ones

spring plover
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Do calamity draedon and the terraria cyborg know each other

wanton pendant
jaunty wraith
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Do we have lore for cyborg?

wanton pendant
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Someone who wants to be better then Draedon made him.

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That's it.

jaunty wraith
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Is that offical?

wanton pendant
#

Yeah.

jaunty wraith
#

I dont recall any of the vanilla npcs having lore

wanton pendant
#

Some have a little.

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Like Guide's from Azafure, allegedly. And Demolitionist and Tax Collector, assuming the others here aren't lying to me.

jaunty wraith
#

Guide has to have some relationship to the underworld

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Considering sacrificing him is how you summon the wof

wanton pendant
#

The question is if that's diegetic in Calamity.

#

Or if he's just some poor guy we sacrifice.

jaunty wraith
#

I recall somewhere that guide is planned to have a relation

split mortar
#

Found the quote surprisingly easy

jaunty wraith
#

He misses his wife tails

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He misses her alot

wanton pendant
#

He'll be back.

loud hull
#

вы чё нахуй

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хули не работает каламитьи

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кал или чё

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убью всех

#

3 минуты вам фиксануть мне

wanton pendant
#

I think this server is intended for English.

split mortar
#

Yea

loud hull
#

no

#

ladno sorry

wanton pendant
#

And not the place for issues.

#

I'm sorry you're having trouble.

jaunty wraith
#

Think we'll ever get a hallow lore entry?

wanton pendant
#

Halloween or Hallow?

#

Either way, no.

split mortar
wanton pendant
#

One isn't canon, the other, well, you got that answer already.

#

Halloween should be canon.

#

I'm not biased.

jaunty wraith
#

I think its not because adding religious references would complicate this world of gods

wanton pendant
#

And the why is because it makes him look bad.

wanton pendant
#

Where does Jesus Christ fit into the lore.

jaunty wraith
#

I dont think debuff symbols are canon

wanton pendant
#

Hallow is literally named 'Hallow'.

jaunty wraith
#

Hallow means somthing that is holy or pure. Has heavy associations with Christianity but isn't linked to it

wanton pendant
#

So why would 'All Hallows Eve' be banned?

#

If the word Hallow exists.

#

Or just rename it to Oíche Shamhna. Nobody will ever know.

prime mauve
#

Huh

#

Hallow is not explicitly a Christian word

#

Anyway wait until you see exorcism

nimble mantle
#

Idk why there are people who often consider it canon when such word exists

prime mauve
#

no I mean

#

Exorcism the item

nimble mantle
plucky juniper
#

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

prime mauve
#

Despite the date this was not a joke

#

This does actually happen

split mortar
nimble mantle
#

I wonder what every ore smells like

plucky juniper
somber wren
# nimble mantle I wonder what every ore smells like

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

plucky juniper
#

Astral Ore probably smells like whatever the hell a neutron star smells like.

wanton pendant
#

Like, it's actually real.

somber wren
#

Oh, I didn't know that

somber wren
wanton pendant
#

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.

hoary cape
#

Orichalcum is pink in terraria for some reason

wanton pendant
#

Pink gold.

#

With copper.

#

To make pink gold copper alloy, or as it may have been called, Orichalcum. Or the spriters were drunk.

hoary cape
#

Adamantium is red 🔥

#

But afaik that isn't a real thing anyway

wanton pendant
#

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.

plucky juniper
#

orichalcum in more modernish fiction tends to be used as a mythical substance that does plot device stuff

leaden locust
plucky juniper
#

it went from a funny alloy that people forgot what it was to a phlebotinum

plucky juniper
#

plot device stuff

wanton pendant
#

Like plutonium. That does DoT.

plucky juniper
#

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

wanton pendant
#

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.

plucky juniper
#

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

wanton pendant
#

They turned an old word for diamonds into super magic poison metal.

#

That can fight the Hulk.

#

Wait till you hear about Kryptonite.

plucky juniper
wanton pendant
#

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.

plucky juniper
hasty wolf
wanton pendant
#

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?

hasty wolf
#

We just set it on the mantle and it melts

wanton pendant
#

How does that give workable bars? Wouldn't it be water?

hasty wolf
#

Magic ✨✨✨

wanton pendant
#

Does everyone in the Calamity Universe just hate thermodynamics?

plucky juniper
#

so maybe?

wanton pendant
#

Then how are we smelting crystals!?

#

Like, if they're carbon based they'd eventually evaporate, like diamond.

hasty wolf
#

I don’t see anything in the description actually stating they’re icy.

wanton pendant
#

Are we really going to try and argue CRYOnic bars have nothing to do with ice.

distant smelt
#

Given every circumstance that they’re found under its a safe assumption

wanton pendant
#

Made by Permafrost.

hasty wolf
wanton pendant
#

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.

hasty wolf
#

Something involving ice magic doesn’t need to be constantly cold. It could just be normal metal from a nonmagic perspective

distant smelt
#

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?

wanton pendant
#

'Cryonic Ore, as the Archmage simply calls it, is a material seemingly akin to iced over glass.'

#

Nothing about that screams smeltable.

wanton pendant
#

"The ice caves are crackling with frigid energy."

hasty wolf
wanton pendant
#

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.

wanton pendant
#

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.

long bloom
#

guess what yharon's domain is

wanton pendant
#

Yharim dragon, you mean?

long bloom
#

yes

distant smelt
wanton pendant
#

Or perhaps, Yharon, Dragon of Rebirth.

wanton pendant
distant smelt
#

Lucky guess

wanton pendant
#

Or even Yharon, Resplendent Phoenix.

distant smelt
#

The bird that’s most well known for coming back to life?

#

Probably does taxes or something

#

Idk

wanton pendant
#

I think he has power over poultry.

long bloom
#

you could say he calls upon the eggs

wanton pendant
#

I wonder what Calamitas does, with her brothers Catastrophe and Cataclysm.

#

Permafrost... What's his deal?

distant smelt
#

Geomancy obviously

wanton pendant
#

Slime God... What does he do all day?

long bloom
#

what species is crabulon

distant smelt
#

Lobster

wanton pendant
#

Duck?

long bloom
#

beaver

#

clearly

wanton pendant
#

Brimstone Elemental... I bet it has some kind of lightning based power.

distant smelt
#

Who’s the calamitas clone again?

#

I cant quite recall

long bloom
#

what does mauler do

wanton pendant
#

How old is Old Duke, so you think? I bet he's actually the younger one.

true bone
#

I heart Yharon

somber wren
# wanton pendant Nothing about that screams smeltable.

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

distant smelt
#

Cooking

somber wren
leaden locust
#

was it really our intention to ascend the enemy beyond our control?

pliant ruin
#

yes

#

unless it wasnt

leaden locust
#

wow

#

they really did manage to demolish whatever we made 😔

pliant ruin
#

my fault

leaden locust
#

no

#

thank you for enlightening me

pliant ruin
#

youre welcome im cheese

leaden locust
#

I guess that really was a… calamity

#

one could even say, a supreme calamity, it was.

nimble mantle
somber wren
#

While they're blinded by their depression

long bloom
#

it even got to the point where we're just too afraid

cloud ibex
#

Disagree

robust osprey
#

I disagree with YOUR disagree

stoic gulch
#

I agree with Maxie

robust osprey
#

wtf

#

no one can disagree with me.....

stoic gulch
#

Exactly

#

Cuz you’re

#

Not smart

#

Actually

#

But ummm

robust osprey
#

I am smart

cloud ibex
#

lore discussion

robust osprey
#

I am lore relevant

#

beacuse I am yharim actually

stoic gulch
#

Truth

real silo
#

yhimaxing

robust osprey
#

I will seek your gods

untold oracle
#

I am actually very lore relevant

#

Lea is canon terrarian

stoic gulch
robust osprey
#

that means I am lea too

untold oracle
leaden locust
#

Lèa (evil Léa) is also canon

untold oracle
#

Who the FUCK is Lèa

leaden locust
#

Wing Gaster

untold oracle
leaden locust
#

the accent mark is a light switch

untold oracle
#

😭

#

Accent WHAT

leaden locust
#

the little dash above the e

leaden locust
#

how do you not know this while having one

fleet wedge
dusk laurel
#

holy shit

#

this is just pea but de-gonerfied

leaden locust
#

léa has to change their name to lea now

#

tsk tsk

real silo
leaden locust
#

acute accent mark

#

how cute

robust osprey
#

the accent is mark

#

mark (')

mighty zenith
untold oracle
#

ACCENT MARK

#

MARK

#

MARK LIKE

untold oracle
wanton pendant
#

Oh hi Mark.

real silo
#

It's him

#

Markles

stoic gulch
robust osprey
#

aèp

stoic gulch
spring helm
#

what the fuck is Mark doing here

#

get this man out of my lore

wanton pendant
#

Mark is integral to the lore. He witnesses the bite.

split mortar
#

Mark (E) is canon to calamity

balmy glacier
#

changelogs tomorrow

robust osprey
#

mark will appear in yharim bossfight

split mortar
#

Yharim takes 1% damage from the terrarian over the long fight and mark beats yharims head in with a rock and leaves

random mulch
#

701 - Added live Markiplier reaction in the corner during every boss fight.

wanton pendant
#

Add Markiplier difficulty.

balmy glacier
#

u die of bite of 87 when it’s active

random mulch
#

"So the first boss is never usually that bad in any of the mods"

long bloom
#

"so i'll play through- AH FUCK"

wanton pendant
#

'I am the KING... OF THE DRAGON'S AERIE!'

spring helm
#

real check the lore doc

wanton pendant
#

Lies, deception.

limpid saddle
#

how are we lore chat

long bloom
#

bad

fleet wedge
errant lintel
#

are these goofy books relevant to the lore whatsoever

crimson junco
#

that's not base Cal

split mortar
#

I dont think thats base calamity

errant lintel
#

oh well that's just another change im finding out about that ISN'T from calamity

zenith geode
#

thats wotg

crimson junco
#

maybe you shouldn't play 500 mods at once in your first playthrough

errant lintel
#

pmo how much they updated the mod, getting me confused and all

split mortar
#

If its not in calamity then its not calamitys fault for its existence

errant lintel
crimson junco
#

that also applies the same too

#

anyways you can put the item in Recipe Browser to know what mod is it from

young socket
crimson junco
#

or download a dedicated mod for it ^

errant lintel
#

that's a thing?

split mortar
#

Yes there is at least 1 mod dedicated to that

zenith geode
#

quality of terraria has it

#

along with a bunch of other stuff

leaden locust
#

knowledge revoked

light linden
#

some books in it are canon to wotg lore though

grizzled pivot
#

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

split mortar
split mortar
#

Yes

#

Cheese is calamitas

grizzled pivot
#

i now know the most elite ball calamitas knowledge known to man

robust osprey
#

old cal and new cal

#

peam

icy veldt
#

Now kith

plucky juniper
wheat walrus
#

How can such an L rizzler contain so much dihlusion?

wanton pendant
#

Finally, a lore question.

split mortar
#

On about yharim i think????????

wanton pendant
#

Allow me to attempt a translation; How could such a charismatic yet flawed man be so beset by delusions of glory?

wheat walrus
#

you ruined it

wanton pendant
#

Wow, ok, sorry for localizing. Not everyone speaks Tiktok.

wheat walrus
#

it's so funny calling this a localization moment when you did the opposite

split mortar
wheat walrus
#

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

wanton pendant
#

When are we getting Louie's notes for the bestiary?

wheat walrus
nimble mantle
#

Hmmmm

#

I wonder if we let DoG enter other universes

magic epoch
#

How

eager bluff
#

how would we

wanton pendant
#

What do you mean?

long bloom
#

add dog to smash ultimate

wanton pendant
#

Lore accurate in size. Half a Ridley.

split mortar
wanton pendant
#

The Old Ones Army.

split mortar
#

Oh

#

The crossover thing thats not canon

wanton pendant
#

Someone's not an Old Ones Army truther.

nimble mantle
#

But almost everyone doesn't gives a fuck about that

jaunty wraith
#

I only do it cause I like seeing questbook completly filled

#

I dont even think its canon yo terraria, let alone calamity

wanton pendant
#

Nope.

#

What questbook?

jaunty wraith
#

I meant bosslog

#

Boss checklist?

wanton pendant
#

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.

jaunty wraith
#

Where would that leave the tavern keep?

#

Is he not canon either?

wanton pendant
#

Tavern Keep is just, like, a guy, who sells alcohol, I guess.

jaunty wraith
#

Not every npc needs to have a deep backstory

wanton pendant
#

Backstory: Has a j*b.

long bloom
#

jon

wanton pendant
#

Shut up the keys on my keyboard are fading.

#

And it's dark.

jaunty wraith
wanton pendant
#

There, happy now?

jaunty wraith
#

Thank you, now i wont cry to sleep at the thought of it

humble basin
#

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.

wanton pendant
#

Well, technically it wouldn't be what is considered a god in Calamity's terms.

#

But I get what you're saying.

humble basin
#

Yeah true, not the 'god' but an original deity of sorts

jaunty wraith
#

The term god could be loose

wanton pendant
#

No, it has an actual definition.

#

Someone who ate an auric soul.

long bloom
#

it's very firm

jaunty wraith
#

Like according to the lore entry, astrum deus is seen as a god despite not being auric

wanton pendant
#

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.

long bloom
#

it's not actually a god

jaunty wraith
#

Its not one, by the definition of calamity

wanton pendant
#

Again, being strong or worshipped doesn't make you a god.

#

Since there is an in-universe definition for the term.

humble basin
#

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.

jaunty wraith
#

The only person who calls DoG a god is himself

wanton pendant
#

Something being mistaken as a god doesn't make it a god.

wanton pendant
jaunty wraith
#

Yeah, he isn't even the highest order of the distortion

wanton pendant
#

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.

humble basin
#

That's true! But that bit of history is usually from a second hand account.

wanton pendant
#

And from a biased one.

#

Well, the bestiary isn't biased.

humble basin
#

Of course the dragons wouldn't say "Oh yeah we killed jesus to become immortal divine beings"

wanton pendant
#

Canonically it's an omniscient and unbiased source.

jaunty wraith
#

Yharim certainly wont mention the dragons willingly giving thier soul thays for sure

wanton pendant
#

(I guess technically the bestiary entries only exist for the player, not the Terrarian.)

jaunty wraith
#

It conflicts with his narritive

wanton pendant
#

'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.

humble basin
#

Hmmmmmm

icy veldt
# humble basin I hate to use the term "one true god", but it's been VERY vague about what the W...

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

wanton pendant
#

Dragons were gifted their souls, objectively. But from who or how?

wanton pendant
icy veldt
humble basin
#

And gifted could be interpreted in multiple ways

wanton pendant
#

Like, for instance, other dragons.

#

Giving up souls they stole.

#

Or again, some greater being or force sacrificed itself.

humble basin
#

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.

cosmic zenith
wanton pendant
#

Thanks for the lore drop.

cosmic zenith
#

;)

humble basin
#

"Oh shit- Uhhhh- The lizards did it!"

#

"Look they're chewing on the fragments now."

#

insert that audio clip of chewing on rocks

wanton pendant
#

What do you mean audio clip of chewing on rocks.

#

Why would that even exist?

wanton pendant
#

The endless cycle of death and rebirth?

#

Yharon... why does that name haunt me?

humble basin
wanton pendant
#

Do I want that?

humble basin
cosmic zenith
wanton pendant
#

I'll pass on watching that.

humble basin
icy veldt
# wanton pendant Someone had trouble with the Yharon fight.

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

cosmic zenith
#

I crave the nourishment from earthly constructs

icy veldt
#

I bulk on chunks of uranium

humble basin
#

From the earth I have come and from the earth will I sustain

wanton pendant
#

I'm here because I like discussing writing and I want to accurately portray the characters when I imagine them living their cruel world.

icy veldt
wanton pendant
#

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.

cosmic zenith
#

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

icy veldt
cosmic zenith
#

But that's what Yharim is

#

And I think it's a pretty neat exploration of the human nature

humble basin
#

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.

wanton pendant
#

He very much fluctuates from being apologetic to being zealous. It really comes off as that in the lore items.

long bloom
icy veldt
#

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

humble basin
#

People can be all kinds of grey

wanton pendant
#

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...

icy veldt
#

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.

cosmic zenith
#

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?

icy veldt
cosmic zenith
#

Like, his trauma isn't a performance, but it provides a foundation for his evil impulses

humble basin
#

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.

cosmic zenith
#

If Yharim "did his job properly" (ascended with Yharon's soul), there would be a sect of dictators ruling Terraria

icy veldt
#

As opposed to Yharim not doing it properly, where there's no one ruling Terraria and almost no one left to rule

cosmic zenith
#

Things aren't bad to that extent

#

There are still people, and ruling Terraria is a terrible idea either way

icy veldt
#

Hence the "almost no one"

wanton pendant
#

I once imagined that a Yharim who became god-king would end up leading a crusade anyway.

cosmic zenith
#

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.

wanton pendant
#

He decided to kill anyone vaguely associated with the thing he had an issue with.

icy veldt
long bloom
#

true

cosmic zenith
#

That'd be a pretty neutral ending

humble basin
#

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.

cosmic zenith
#

It's not unlikely that those Gods would retry the Yharim plot

wanton pendant
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And also anyone who worships a god is guilty by proxy, since they endorse genocide.

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Ilmeris

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Ilmeris was more so 'we need to get these two gods, let's nuke Italy to get 'em.'

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And in the process, the pious died too, win-win.

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I wouldn't mind a neutral ending. People with both the ambition and the power necessary to "improve" the world are rarely good

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I could totally do it. What could possibly go wrong?

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You got me

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Tale of a standard world.

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The mod's ending is technically neutral

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Tale of a Run-of-the-mill world.

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Yeah, I could take it.

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It'd be easy.

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Much is in ruins, but there's hope that the world can be rebuilt

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And I think that's a pretty important component of Calamity's lore

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Yeah I take the actual events in-game as "civilization can rebuild and new community can flourish even in the worst of places"

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Honestly fairly upbeat for the overall tone of the past lore

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It's like, post-apocalyptic in a way.

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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

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That's why we need to fist fight the sun.

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post-apocalyptic hopepunk

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Pretty much
Though I wouldn't call it a proper apocalypse

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I mean, Calamitas has the worst life imaginable, but then tries to prevent stuff from getting worse by fighting you.

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She could just hide in a cave forever.

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Yeah I think it was more a- Post-war feeling.

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post-calamity XD

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One hell of a war.

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It's more of a.... "what if WW1 covered a lot more ground and had superpowered people?"

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That's what the history books hide from you.

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(Percy Jackson actually had a minor detail that WW2 actually was fought by superpowered people.)

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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"

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Big government doesn't want you to know about how we fused the souls of our soldiers into a giant spiked skull robot

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I'm too busy hopemaxxing to read something so despairful.

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It's a reasonable approach, though yeah - there's always someone out there who still has hope
And genocidal warlords are not the default

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Hopemaxxing, really dream pilled

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Except in grimdark

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"And that someone was Yharim, once"

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Grimdark is, by definition, hopeless

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I mean, if you hopeless too much into the abyss, it all becomes pointless.

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Who would win:
The crushing despair of a post war society
Vs
A dude with a copper shortsword

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So, uh, who the hell is the Princess then?

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