#lore-discussion
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why not?
I don't think you can simply create them.
thats such a random assumption to make that he'd just learn how to Create Elementals
can you control them?
No.
no
what if you use Exotic Resonance though???
why?
"why"
what can you do with them?
it's freaking Exotic
That's.... infinite energy? Nothing to do with Elementals?
and Resonant
you cant Do Anything With Them they're just. a type of being that exists.
why can't you Control Lihzards guys
why can't you Do Anything with Lihzards
these are such odd questions im sorry 😭
You can like, hang out with them? Or at least Silva, since she's the only one that's chill.
they worship Golem they're a lost cause
why? because that means you have something that will always be there. so only elementalists have this kind of thing going on?
incomprehensible
Unless something REALLY bad happened.
what about the witch doctor
Old.
why did SiIva even ascend
Sorry.
We dunno yet
Oh, wait.
She seems pretty chill though
She's in pieces.
According to Gorthus anyways
At the bottom of the Marinara Trench!
i mean it feels like elementals are just more immortal than gods
I guess... Drill Containment Unit... I will Drill the world and leave nothing of it...
they absolutely are yeah
gods can still very much die as you can uh. see
Gods don't die of natural causes, other than murder.
elementals uhhh
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING they can i suppose.
you can't drill the background
Elementals only die if their concept is erased.
sadly...
Which, is impracticle.
i wonder
this is depressing
Unless, say, you burned the entire planet to ashes...
what elemental would be the easiest to actually kill
what if you blow up the underworld i feel like that would be pretty easy
I am starting to feel Yahrim...
PROVIDENCE SWEEP
like that genuinely seems like a really hard question to me
Earth.
brimmy
Brimstone is kinda heat incarnate, or fire, or something like that.
fire, water, air, earth, life
out of all of these id say definitely not water or air
so it leaves us with
fire, earth, life
Life... you'd die.
yeah life is just
Fire, you'd freeze.
gotta Kill Myself Real Quick
I could drink all the water if I get thirsty enough
Water... die.
I am done with this conversation... If I can't kill them inside the world, I will just delete the world, and thus they all will die with that world
Earth... maybe?
yet my character can visit other worlds
Not how it works.
Still not how it works.
is brimmy actually the fire elemental
considering that like
Probably.
the crust of the earth is lava
Use a really big drill
Maybe it's more heat?
probably earth ????
i thought she was the hell elemental
I'm not sure.
No, why would Hell be an element?
the elementals are just the 4 main elements + life
lava is molten earth
air, earth, water, fire
Chaos.
Same reason why a compound of hydrogen and oxygen is an element 
but what is "earth"?
all the other elementals are "lesser" versions of them basically
ice elementals - lesser water elementals
granite elementals - lesser earth elementals
I'm going to kill you... then I'm going to kill you again.
deleting earth, and deleting all solid matter with it
therefore siIva is the magnet elemental, solved it
basically elementals of a type that just change based on their surrounding
Elemental brainrot
Well, they're like, parts of the same elemental.
They can kinda split into pieces.
At least, Air does.
i feel like brimmy is lava elemental at least
Fart elementals - lesser air elementals
It's very much more fire.
Brim herself is Brimstone, as her name impleis, which is the shape she's currently taking
also why is earth elemental so weak
Brimstone is just, like, sulphur, and she's fire themed, and sulphur is fire associated.
Hellemental
is it because they are stupid
But she's a Fire Elemental overall
question, is there an Astrum Elemental in big star corruption places outside our world?
The same way the Granite Elementals are just a subtype of Earth
I mean, sand isn't that strong.
is it because we ran out of budget for elemental bosses
Probably not.
Earth Elemental (the miniboss guy) is not an actual elemental
Terraria made Sand Elemental.
It's a construct made by Azafurians
then if I star infect the entire world, every elemental will die
i feel like the earth should be the strongest elemental on the earth
finally...
The Sand Elementals are just, weaker than Anahita or Brimmy due to being less "concentrated", iirc
You would need a lot of rotten stars.
if you have enough time... I don't see why not
Brimstone doesn't dilute their power, I guess.
that could actually work let's do it
Also explains why there's multiple of em
ingame earth elemental is...
Well
I will
the humble astral solution:
There's still life, earth, fire, air, and water in Astral Infection.
its just that the elementals we encounter ingame that represent earth are just, not as strong
what is "earth"?
earth is everything solid, is it not?
rock and stone
A miserable little pile of secrets?
ground and rock types from pokemonm
aren't we made out of earth elements too?
thats earth
Behold, Earth!
they're not actual elements guys
cryogen is earth elemental
and since calamitas used brimstone magic to make cryogen
if there is ice under you, is it not still the ground that you are standing on?
No.
brimstone elemental = earth elemental
She used Cryomancy.
She didn't use brimstone magic to make cryogen nah
Keep in mind she can't only use that one
This conversation is like im watching pokemon element chart 
She knows other magic.
i thought this said cryptocurrency for a second
hello earth elemental. are you immortal
like this
But her other magic isn't as powerful offensively.
(I think it'd be cool if used it as supplements to her main attacks though.)
also one moments... if you delete the stone and ground and rocks... you fall into the center of the world
GG
Yeah.
It would be cool seeing her use magic outside of combat
calamitas image
Perhaps in her npc form or in cutscenes or something
calcore
Would be cute imo
-# why do people commit sins, knowing they are wrong?
If you're too annoying she Snowgraves you.
Imagine if she changed color
Like her clothes
okay what if i replace the planet entirely with frozen helium
Calamitas casual fit is something id love to see tbh
Yea
Ditto.
Maybe if she has high enough happiness as a npc
Who the HELL draws it up like that!
I say the easiest to kill is the water elementalist by far, because there are many planets that have no water, + water is just H2O, with enough energy turn it all into gases, and if you want to make sure, bind these gases to other elements to turn them into rocks
NOT beating them
This is what she should wear.
What allegations
maybe after her fight she gives up brimstone magic so like she changes her fit and stuff
viola, water has ended
No water = you die.
you just described the clothes i wear most of the time
and if you are a robot like Deargon or whatever his name
Probably a bad idea.
you dont neet water
my mortality is not a factor
not beating the allegations
mhm
robots are inharently strong against water elementalists
You really do.
I suppose
Machines don't mix well with water.
i did in fact imagine u specifically in those clothes
if i need water where is the thirst meter
Look to the bottom right.
so draegon or whatever his name need water/
Dragon or Draedon?
Draedon
Draedon could use it for cooling.
does he need water?
tru
what if Draedon wanted to destroy all of the elementals though
And he may need it to grow Sea Prisms.
He's like, second best candidate.
he's definitely got a backup for if water isn't an option tho
It's Air.
Certainly.
what if i transmit my consciousness into a robot body and Then kill all the elementals
the counter to almost all elementals
He doesn't have a soul, probably. Which you would know if you read the chart.
that's my point, he can end all life and viola, elemental of life ended
remove all water and elemental of water ended
as for earth and air, tough
that would mess up a lot of his research i feel
why would he have a soul his name isn't WB-00: Draedon or anything
but he is the only one who can be argued to be able to end elementals
Warner Brothers?! Of course, that's why he's soulless!
The Xeroc in the corner:
Xeroc is alive
w for wulfrum, b for essence of babil
isn't he?
The Blue Providence in the corner:
xeroc is way too strong
light generates heat
is he alive or not tho
It's Primordial Light.
if you remove life, he will die, won't he?
Do gods count?
sunlight is the source of all heat on the planet
In real life, maybe.
if gods don't count all we need to do is yoink yharon's auric soul and then destroy the elementals
Of course, as dangerous as the Elementals are, destroying them is a bad idea.
I am saying Xeroc is alive, so he can't go against life. and he can't do without water since his body is that of a human (if it is not then maybe)
we're destroying them only because you keep saying we can't
Xeroc is also a god and doesn't need food or water.
the indomitable human spirit vs. the actual lore of the mod
Their body is likely no longer remotely human anymore.
The radioactive decay in the earth’s core:
the indomitable human spirit always wins
ok then fine, that is earth, and water
what about life? and air?
but what will he turn it into?
that... isnt even what heats the planet outside of the sun
life probably doesn't extend to immortal things yeah
air is everywhere, funny enough, even in space there are gases
And Xeroc can get rid of the sun.
that is still not enough to remove air
If they can move the entire sun, they can probably get rid of a bit of air.
where would you put it though
you mean just in terraria world? or in every world, like the ones moon lord came from and so on and so forth?
what is the scope?
the scope is just terraria world i think
We don't know if Moon Lord's from a planet. They could be from a moon, or a space egg.
How do you know?
it wouldn't make much sense for the elementals to have power over other planets
you can check it
the fusion reaction ends at iron
it doesn't
not Xeroc's ours
So... how is that relevant?
I dont think earth includes all land in the universe
the ones that is energy efficient
not really
So why bring it up?
but how do you know that there is no air in space like in our world?
I never claimed as such?
true
iron stars are not inside of the sun, they happen when the star decays
theres no way xerocs star is fusing heavier than iron
this is why the cosmology being different is so weird it introduces so many little weirdnesses
Xeroc's sun is magic. And it isn't a star.
It's called peak.
Stars i.nCalamity are mana
i mean how do we know that
Because stars are big balls of mana.
what I am saying is, you don't know if air exist in space like in our world or not
The devs, ,, aughhhhhhhhhhhh
Draedon
And the sun is not that.
Well we'd assume space is at least the same
With more tentacle monsters.
mana stars work like normal stars anyways
I mean, not really?
Do they really though?
not really
they do
Normal stars don't fall out of the sky.
They're just smaller and do that
there is magic gravity attraction
the rot consumes
but they're just condensed space clouds
I say... if the terrarian became draedon
?
xeroc is weak
then could resist star infection
No.
Draedon can't resist it due to the robot body being vulnerable.
And also Draedon's a different person.
sad...
So we can't become him.
Infected earth is still earth
I guess we die together with the elementals
Infected life is still alive.
draedon should just make itself a body out of astral ore
no its a star
It's frankly that simple
the question is
do you think there is an astrum elemntal or not?
With rotten star infiltrating it.
what if we just reverse-engineered draedon's dead body and figured out how to make our own draedon
I doubt it.
already infected matter can't be reinfected
Ill advised.
The astral infection is not star it is a disease that primarily infects stars
Just use infected everything and make a robot body
so if we made the whole world star infection?
its a disease when the star gets too big
Everyone would have a bad time.
It also infected a comet which is how it got here
instead of colabsing under its own weight
No?
it gets star infected
Did
is silva the life elemental or nature elemental.
that'd be good but we still don't know where draedon's mind comes from so we'd be missing that key component
Comets and stars are different things.
ah yes sick deus
nature elemental, life goddess
Probably the dead guy.
I thought it was an infected meteor (not a comet but still)
so then why can't we kill her without exterminating all life
well but we don't know if it's a brain upload or complex ai
No, it's a star that Astrum Deus threw at Terraria, probably.
Because she's the Nature Elemental.
You'd have to kill all of nature.
nature is not life
Might be a mix of both even
it's a different thing
Then
Then what about the astral meteor that lands with it 100% of the time?
Please re-read that.
dawg
That is the star.
Because you're not powerful enough.
I wonder how Terrarian did not infected by astral
Even aureus infected
Grow in strength and return.
ok at least let's agree.. Draedon can kill life elemental
Because sapience.
anyways "nature isn't life" is ultra semantics on this one because like what else could "killing nature" possibly entail
the indomitable human spirit never loses!
You can't kill rocks
yea u can
synthesize an artificial species
that's life, it's not nature
Still nature.
how
its not natural
awesome! Not relevant because to our knowledge terraria has none
Because it's a living organism. Thus part of nature.
Even I can't control this star infection - draedon, probably
brain death
this is not the definition of nature
Are you saying Calamitas Clone doesn't count for killing Silva?
look at a dictionary and look up nature
You are so desperate for this insane argument to work.
You know it makes no sense, right?
my computer is a natural organism
no I say Draedon kills all life, and since he is not alive, the elemental of life dies but draedon is existing
he has no soul
Ok so i checked and explicitly it just says “astral matter” so idek atp
Do you think that the concept of nature will notice that Calamitas Clone was lab-grown and as such doesn't count her.
"nature" as a whole isn't a thing you can kill so it's pretty obvious Silva's life is tied to just Terraria's natural life since again, killing "nature" is just indeed killing life because the other natural things that aren't alive aren't alive and thus cant be killed like please you guys are smart you know what words mean and how we use them you don't have to be ultra semantics warrior about stuff so simple
Do you think that that's something that could be considered.
no she counts
robot doesnt
she's a clone of a natural organism
We'd say whether or not she counts is irrelevant tbh
Yeah robot doesn't.
i need to hear your definition of nature
i'm so confused
you can't kill things that aren't alive this isn't complex
Robots aren't natural, obviously?
Like you don't need to pull out definitions
I really shouldn't need to explain this.
i don't know who was arguing this
silva just needs no natural life to exist to die
but an artificial species is
i love arguing semantics with people predisposed to not agree with your arguments 
Calclones existence is unnatural but this does not mean calclone is not a part of nature
Yeah, since... they're alive, and were created.
so robots
think it like, they have living flesh part
technically everything is natural
Otherwise they'd resist Astral Infection.
you can end things that are not alive by turning them into something else and that something else needs to be more stable than the current thing
you can synthesise a species without living flesh
so your definition of nature is something that is alive and was created, you could have just said that.
Concerning statement.
this is why this argument is so stupid
Read a dictionary.
It's your argument.
but life is nature or isn't, I want to proof something... long before life in earth... before even one cell organism emerged... was earth the planet nature? nature could exist without life?
No, according to Calamity.
And Calamitas Clone, an artificial life form, is an animal.
but its an artificial species
Thus, nature.
its SEMANTICS why are we ARGUING IT when we already know we DONT AGREE and WON'T AGREE
No it’s a robot
its alive
Can nature exist without life?
and it was created
that's not killing
i'll stop
No.
Not according to calamity
thats killing the elemental that represents that element
It's pretty arbitrary
according to WaterWraithGaming it does
we are not arguing about killing that nature itself
I said the opposite.
but killing the elemental that represents it or transform it into another form
Natural is just everything that's ever existed sans everything Humans have made
Do i look like them?
Humans made other humans, which are natural.
before any life emerged in this world, was it not nature?
Despite the fact there's no real distinction between our creations and a spider web but degrees of complexity
Mmm are clones artificial species
Well complex question..
Are you high?
clones are not an artificial species
you said nature can't exist without life
its an artificial creation
So... what does that have to do with anything?
of a pre existing species
I agree with this specific point actually
like literally the only things that aren't natural r human creations
everything is nature because nothing can be made from non-nature
GUYS WAIT WAIT, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MANY THINGS AND CONFUSING THINGS
LETS AGREE WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT FIRST
The patron is making intentionally nonesensical arguments.
But since it'd be stupid for Silva's death condition to be 'universe has to stop existing' it's pretty clear it just means "life in terraria"
i asked if the androids from thing are natural
what would draedon think of hallucigenia
you said no
That's why you're confused.
I got here late so that would be nice
even though that goes against your criteria
No it doesn't?
you said alive and created
why not
definitely not intentional
They aren't regarded as alive.
why not
but some robots could be
Well, not in Calamity.
Not in calamity
at what point does soemthing stop being a robot
if it has a soul, is it alive?
Dreadon ain't.
we are arguing meaningless semantics ive seen where these discussions start and how they end in the same exact way with no common consensus being reached and everybody being angry
It'd program robot replicas to experience them if it doesn't just outright find a way to revive them entirely
is skeletron prime alive? it;s a robot with a soul
Maybe?
nice
is SHPC alive due to having souls?
anyways semantics argument over silva dies when all life on terraria is dead
megashark is alive
Well about that lets question that to lore writers
i'm scared if i leave people will defame me
Im going to have a migraine
Yay?
hooray
RECAP
The main agenda is: Killing the elementals in Calamity lore.
I argued that since Draedon is a robot AI and has no soul, then he is not alive, thus if we remove all life in the world, the elemental of life will die and Draedon will survive.
Now: A new argument appeared which asks: "Is Life Nature? or is it not?"
Well obviously it is
Of course.
Everything is natural except things humanity makes
not all life is nature
Name one thing.
clones r technically human made but we don't give a shit frankly
Why
On Terraria that is alive and not nature.
because you can make artifical life
Me and @north root argue it is not because
Can nature exist without life?
if not, then what was the nature of our world before life began to exist
And what artificial life is counted?
none of it
on Terraria only really like calclone is objectively made by something that counts as humankind
if something is artifical it is definitionally not nature
exactly
So it's pretty meaningless whether she counts or not
And technically, humans are natural, even if they are made by other humans.
are there ligers
meanwhile @wanton pendant@leaden bridge argued that it is, because everything within nature is nature, such is life, thus even artificial life is life
Wdk it's a pretty arbitrary definition
these are very helpful recaps
Useful but arbitrary
or donkeys
ligers
are GMOs natural
If I make a garden, it's artificial nature.
Again there's not much difference between a spider web and a house
Kinda!
@north root and I argue that nature and life are seperate, because nature can do without life, but life can not
Yeah it's like, breeding. But plants.
its semantics its inherently arbitrary
life is dependant on nature, but not visa verca
not always
You're true
if we killed everything besides GMOs would silva still be alive? we don't know. i don't care anymore
I didn't do Agricultrual Science, sue me.
Obviously she would.
ok
anyhow I agree with @north root
i hate silva now we should never add her ever
that Silva will die
ultimately everything artificial is also natural because humans are part of nature and natural things are a result of nature
#deep
just fucking kill everything that could in any way be considered alive then silva dies congrats we solved the issue
Yay?
we learned today that nature has a very loose definition
no one arguing against that
No, just that you refuse to read.
Just blow up the planet
Good idea.
please stop
yea thats fucking stupid
I agree that artificial life is life, and that life is part of nature
We're not sure if being alive is much consolation for silva if she's an incorporeal spirit
In case anyone cares i’m dipping until this argument evolves into anything that isn’t edge cases and stupidity
Can nature exist without a life?
why can it not?
That's insane.
why can't it ?
No because nature is an arbitrary concept defined by humans, which are life
please stop
By the literal definition of the words.

but life can exist without nature
so the world didn't exist before humans?
THAT'S NOT ULTIMATESMUG
before creatures?
Look, I'm going to sleep, you can scream into the void.
you should go to sleep
how/
like genuinely please stop
THAT'S NOT HOW THAT'S CALLED
so before every living organism, the world didn't exist?
nature didn't exist?
not the word, but what we consider as nature
what we define as nature
Circling back to draedon and weird animals we think draedon would really like weird animals and do its best to study them
this is going nowhere, it will end nowhere that we aren't already at, and the only thing to be gained is wasted time and needless anger
i think we're done
I think so too 🤷♂️ lol
this is so fun
Nature > Life
I agree
me > nature
i don't know why they disagreed with this
as draedon says itself it's gonna be a while until it's done studying Terraria they probably have an individual server dedicated to each and every animal on the planet
doesnt xeroc canonically stalks 60% of your playthrough
well, our argument is about life, not nature tho
which is funny
hey you know what's fun and related how do you think non animal taxonomy works in Terraria's world
I tried... he tried to dox me in game...
green slime
too bad i doxxed him preimtively lol
this is how every discussion about semantics ends if there is not a previously established consensus, if there is a previously established consensus the same thing happens but without the anger parts
Are zombies and skeletons and slimes all part of a "monster" kingdom
no one is angry tho
what?
depends on if skeletons and zombies come from dead humans or not
elementals are technically magical constructs but they're still like a Type of being where the fuck would you put them
There's too many differences between magical constructs to say they're like a single global thing at any level surely?
i feel like we have this already with the bestiary
it groups by biome
which i think could work somewhat
anyway skeletons are weird because i'm not sure if they're dead humans
they are weak in game eitherways
according to the story, yes
the ones in the dungeons
they are prisoners
We can also divide all entities on earth by whether or not they live in tundras but that doesn't mean that's sensical if you want proper classifications
that Yahrim took and threw into the dungeon
A penguin is just a penguin but like
taxonomy by rarity stars
Ice Golems aren't ice elementals and unless they're made by perma or some bullshit like that they're both just different types of magical constructs
Like granite elemental
we group by elemental then
We're ignoring chaos we always ignore chaos nobody likes that guy
since boss rush exists and its canon, dude was just watching a random person fighting big monsters
which elemental are they in the jurisdiction of
not much else to do when you live in the sun and all you have is a rock
we actually were asking the wrong question
i'm too poor to play silksong so i have to argue on discord instead
we should have asked, what is life?
anyways the problem with like the division of life is that like Terraria's many species r sooo diverse
its $8
We're unsure a big all encompassing Monster group would ever make sense
it's $20 isn't it
$8 for me
also like does a zombie count as a separate
plants mushrooms animals and the others we don't care about much r all pretty strictly divided thanks to genetics now
send me $8
and I will gift it to you
or maybe I can't gift it cuz different region?
dont know steam wanky system
Do zombies and skeletons even have like dna they're monsters
what
assuming they aren't just actual revived people
Well then let's move to other types of monsters
i feel like that definition is much more obvious
Slimes r just slimes so obviously they have some basic genetic data
basically we can argue that nature has both organic and non-organic matter. Thus if organic matter/life was removed, nature will still exist
because non-organic matter exists
magical constructs like golems or elementals or possessed armor r, well, magical
and before organic matter ever existed, non-organic matter always existed
Then there's ghosts and spirits, obviously no dna there that's just paranormals
i think they should be grouped by what type of magic is animating them
i was really just asking waterwraith what he meant by nature because i genuinely didn't understand
Most other monsters we can think of rn r just basically animals
where does a vampire go
the demons and imps we guess are not necessarily? But, they prob work like that
Vampires r basically people
for me that was my argument for nature existing without life but life can't without nature
Depending on what you wanna believe about them they can change a lot but they're basically just "humans with a curse" like werewolves
most eclipse enemies r weird on that regard
we'd throw them in the same group as zombies and skeletons though
fucked up "people"
demon serpents are legit animals that just like? Die? And their bones just keep going or some shit since 1.4 we know that when they were alive they were obsidian serpents
so like they're just revived animal
Fairies are fairies
Magical being
Does magic count as nature? Because as far as it’s reasonable to assume mana is totally natural
i think the best definition for nature in terraria is everything that an earth human would think is natural
and then everything else is magic
and besides that is artificial things
Yes
this is really only a definition for silva's domain of nature however
what is actual nature is subjective
anyways in conclusion slimes go with animals Somewhere and throw basically all else into a new category that's just Magical Beings
either zombies and skeletons and the weird eclipse enemies r fucked up people so there's no distinction or they're new, different magical beings and thus go in magical beings
Martians obviously go in animal
Machines don't get taxonomical anything because they're machines
We don't fucking care about the holiday moons but everything in them already fits either
Is the truffle a mushroom or an animal
he's a mushroom but it's a fun question to ask
He’s a fungus
Btw categorically i font think mushrooms have souls but they can attain them
I wonder if he'd be able to create a more realistic phylogenetic/taxonomical system
truffle has a soul
Irl ofc
You're a hater
Idk about calamity mushroom sould
truffle doesn't have a soul but all other mushroom people do
How the fuck does a real life mushroom attain a soul
he just sucks
That's scary
What determines what creatures get and don't get souls
Great toil
slay a dragon
well obviously
And penance
The problem really only comes with the things that don't have genetic material
which is basically all just magical beings that don't reproduce but instead just kind of exist
Bearded and komodos dont count so i guess the mushrooms will never know love
I don't mean like in general
I mean a system that doesn't suffer as much from the inherent human need for "box" classification
Basically
As an example, we divide vertebrates into fishes, amphibians, reptiles, avians and mammals
But the march of evolution isn't like skipping stones, there were intermediary species that could fit in more than one category, or none, or represent evolution towards a new type of being
Like how dinosaurs represent the branching of reptiles into avians
I wonder if Draedon would come up with a more blurred system that took into consideration such things
We mean we guess so since they're meant to be really awesome smart and logical and efficient
Yeah, agreed
It's fun to think about this aspect of Draedon
I wish people thought more about it rather than wondering what his next big glopshittobuster mech will be
stip
im gonna be so real with you
this exists
its called philogeny
😭
Phylogeny still has its issues with this
It shows us how things connect, but doesn't really make the nomenclature less rigid
maybe if its ingame characterization leaned more into it still mad about the names thing
the idea of separating reptiles from birds because birds have feathers and reptiles don't per example
He'll make the thrash machine next trust (is lying)
that is a concept that is just
superficial
It's sthe stuff that's fine for a casual talk
You know, I did want the Sunken Sea to have these Draedon data bots at some point that researched the local fauna and flora
The trash machine is actually very important because as a parallel to the vessel
But when you actually get down to the scientific discourse about it
yeah birds are just reptiles
And breaking them gave you a boost in the Bestiary
in philogeny there's no "boxes" that things are separated from eachother in, it's just, branching really
How do you classify a feathered dinosaur
reptile because philogeny isn't determined on superficial traits like that but evolutionary descendancy :p
It's an animal

aves being a clade within maniraptora, which is a clade within theropoda, which is within dinosaurs bla bla bla
There's no real issue with present-day species because evolutionary branching is a very slow process and for the most part, it'd be hard to recognize a transitional species through a punctual imprint alone
birds are dinosaurs
all tetrapods are fish also
you're a fish
technically also means that
someone whos saying "arent whales fish"
is actually right.
crazy.
So essentially you're saying that a creature needs to have all the defining traits of a given classification (like "Aves"), otherwise it is classified as the previous classification in the branching
That not only can cause some wacky classification for intermediaries but also needs to account for potential exceptions to the rules of the classification
what if draedon isn't a brain upload nor an ai but there's like a hamster inside and it's not found out yet
No, not all
Maybe it's a bunch of underpaid third worlders from outside the heartlands
Just whatever are the defining evolutionary traits of the clade aves
Stip respectfully this is like. universaly agreed on by scholars and is the system that's been used for like hundreds of years now and there's a uncountable amount of studies done surrounding it
I think you're biting of more than you can chew by questioning it 😭
But if it doesn't take all defining traits, which ones, or how many, are needed to establish something as avian?
You should know that scientific progress is made exactly because people bothered to question the existing systems :p
Yeah but
people who are qualified
and. stip. completely respectfully here.
you're not 😭
i'm not either, being eal
neither of us are
Well, yeah, none of us are
And I'm not speaking with authority here, I'm sharing my opinion in regards to a speculation
because it's pretty clear to me that you don't understand the exact intrigues of how it works given, again, not trying to be mean here, but just, respectfully
i think i know more about it than you do and even i wouldn't able to do anything close to actually contesting it
Which is why I'm asking you more questions than you are asking me
fair enough
I'm testing the model
Do you see how, despite the fact that it can organize things very neatly, it does take some liberties?
The only liberties it really takes come down to categorizing where a clade starts, what specific evolutionary trait defines, "this is when a new clade starts", which yes, is a inherently human aspect, but the entire concept of classifying organisms into different species is inherently human
Naturally it wouldn't have many problems, it has been polished over centuries
And in recent decades, the pace of scientific studying has become dizzyingly fast
And i really need to specify, evolutionary trait, not a trait visible on the organism
We may not have gills or Swim but we're still fish on a phylogenetic basis
That's exactly my point!
I was wondering specifically whether Draedon would be able to avoid having to take those liberties, through whatever means
Honestly i doubt it
same
Because again, the entire idea of categorizing organisms
is inherently something made up by humans
there's no way of really doing it more objectively i don't think
To be fair, it is undeniably useful
it makes sense to categorize things and develop abstract models of things in place of the actual thing
Draedon could probably figure out what the fuck tullimonstrum was .
because the actual things are extremely complicated and would require an insane amount of data storage to fully represent
he'd know
its not a limitation of our brain
Draedon categorizes all life by unrolling its genetic material and then using a sorting algorithm
its a strength of pattern recognition
How that works is an exercise for the viewer
an optimization
You may ask which algorithm - whichever you think is funnier
It is, unfortunately, not that easy
Because firstly, there's a lot of shared genes between species
And secondly, there's epigenetics, which also play a significant role in phenotype
This is precisely how it works, the more shared the closer they are
They're sorted by percentage shared
That's bound to have pretty funny results
That sounds really shady, yeah
finally settled on a prologue i like
humans are classified under fruits due to being 60% banana
no it's true i was there
Chrysadia
pretty developed
coolio
it was founded only ~300 years after azafure
but it got completely fucking obliterated by fovos
in 1037
cuz mc lives in those ruins (hence why they're somewhat intelligent, they picked up off the ruins)
wayyy out of the loop byea
tryna figure out if that makes sense or not
could definitely work
the sky islands we see in game are the outer rim (chrysadia islands formed a circle) and were mostly small settlements or pilgrimage temples
It was like greece
Do we know what their civilizations was centered around? Trade, mythology, etc (I ran out of examples) or should I just make stuff up
Have you ever seen yharim and Freddy fazbear in the same room
I mean, Chrysadia had like, one of the dragons on their side so they may have been quite religious. Also they did do trade with Azafure.
Is this true
not anymore
Can’t believe Yharim didn’t tell Draedon about Xeroc. Absolute troll move from the Godseeker.
Yharim, it has been some time since we’ve last met. I am constructing a set of machines meant to surpass al the gods. As such, I will be using your current combat data and specs as reference, as you are more powerful than any god.
And then Yharim’s just standing there like:
“Bro doesn’t know about Xeroc
”
Yharim would never admit it
"Does he know?" ahh moment
Yharim's a jerk.
trade mostly
iirc
Why didn't xerox just use his ultra super duper omega ultron sun laser beam to smite yharim before he slimed out xerox's godly fellows
Xeroc's busy with... I don't know... god taxes?
xeroc tax
Grok is this true
Liver failure in 23 minutes.
my theory is that xeroc only wants to observe the world
he knows that if he did something it could affect literally everyone
so draedon but with morals
im at minute 22 im so exc
@grok is this factual
does this include gorthus
He's too busy aura farming in the fourth dimension leave him alone
While we don't know his personal motivations this is kinda right
He's the guardian of the world, but of cosmic threats, unless something on the planet grows so great & terrible it threatens it's absolute destruction, he will turn a blind eye to it
Zeratos watching as Xeroc proceeds to do nothing with his godly omnipotent powers
But if it does happen, he's pulling up (like in the Embers story written by Cei, except that time y'know, too late & then took the L)
I am making so many typos today holy shit
No, that document is only in-game lore.
Why didn't Xeroc kill Moon Lord? Is he stupid? Or.... is Moon's Haunted Theory correct!
Is the sun a lot closer to the planet in calamity verse or xeroc can teleport to around 150 million kilometers away from earth instantly
Does ts (this) mean it'll include gorthus when sso releases in 500 years
Yes, and that's not what that means.
Why doesn't draedon make a miracle nuclear bomb and throw it at the sun
It is tho
Why not make another sun instead?
Exo sun
if it will be in-game it will be in the document
Xeroc is stronger than a nuke.
And the sun isn't Xeroc, probably.
sun 2
Why doesn't Yharim just kill Xeroc? Is he stupid?

Yharim is too old and his body aches
too old to run after Xeroc
If Xeroc had no knees, they couldn't run away.
yes
Who needs knees when you can teleport
Knees are for the weak
Yharim Teleport Power:
is it cooler
bees
hi garbo!
no but this is
New development: Plague Bringer Goliath can use Primordial Light, for some reason.
Is that Goku?
no he's cooler
joke predicted
damn...
but he is cooler
(hi space
while freeza is freezer
Plaguebringer being Xeroc in disguise
freezer was cooler and cooler was freezer
yes
lower the graphics settings smh
If Xeroc turned into a bee, how confused would that make Yharim?
More important question:
Would he kill the bee because it's Xeroc or not because it's a bee?
Hatred for gods goes beyond bee appreciation.
Goddess of Bees found that out the hard way.
ello govna
British.
