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did you know crabs are tasty irl?
WITH NO SHOES???
yes
BRU
Time for crab slaughter

We don’t have feet only polygons
Why is it that every single time i go on a chat no matter what chat it is people are talking about krill
did you know crabs are tasty irl?
@worn citrus I thought that was a fact
it is
Time for crab slaughter
@worn citrus ||the skykids behind the crabs slaughter||
Why is it that every single time i go on a chat no matter what chat it is people are talking about krill
We love krill
SLICK—
Reminds me of sth funny I said
did you know crabs are tasty irl?
||listen here, crabs aren’t food they’re pure things which people take photos with ‘em||
Is this #general-sky-discussion or #lore-discussion-spoilers ??
/bacc to lore
yes pls
about capes shadow thing..isn't it just bc capes are made of light and light has no shadow?
p h y s I c s
Its possible lily
Very
So, if the elders are part of darkness as shown by that chart earlier, perhaps darkness does not equal bad intent
@hexed carbon well err too bad
they tasty
oh damn I didn't know it was up do debate

/everything is up to debate lily
OBJECTION
but like...physics
/also, i remember dark and darkness r 2 different things

do light creatures have shadows?
And they're wonky hahah
so I guess they do have physically bodies after all
Spirit manta goes BRRRRR
Like the 2 mantas in sanc have a small round shadow
I remember in old sky there was a ||krill manta!!||
Whaaaaa
Yup
What-
y’all heard me
looking through my screenshot folder time
THWRE WAS A WHAT
krill manta
no shadow
N o n e
old screenshot
Makes sense for projections
ok how about Spirits
ok how about Spirits
@wide night Due to them being spirits so no shadow I guess
Spirtits
Les work for the tgc 
What are we talking about shadows for? Sorry I missed some of chat
Yeah. Sadly there is always a fine line between game mechanics and lore 😔
yeah they're literal light sources anyways
I mean, so are Skids, though
Thats fair
Tgc : ok so how do we make a bomb game, but with this specific budget on adding shadows
Devs :
Devs : make everything light
TGC : you're a genius
/that is genius ngl
“The elders?, the elders are pretty sus!, did you get the lore chat doc ? THATS A MUST!”
the elders were ejected
a reference to a meme but sky mode
the elders were ejected
@hushed steeple The elders were the dark creatures

||lets get back to the lore I’m scared if a mod caught us||
They're always watching. Like skybean 
So like I had previously mentioned, is it reasonable to say that darkness does not equal ill intent/evil? Because after all, the elders exhibit some darkness.
Yessir
Yeah because they never told us what 'darkness' really meant so
So I suppose there should be darkness holders
That begs the question, what is the value of light and dark in this universe?
okok I have something to say but I feel like it might just be mechanics
you know how spirits have a center/orb thin g and it stays dark it you light it up, like giving it light and it starts ..and I use this word quite literally, projecting the spirit's memories?
oh no sent when there was a convo on going
Light seems to be very important in skyworld. Its basically the whole purpose of the world + for megan + to all
What if Skykids were made by Megan with the intent to be balanced but she’s biased and so they ended up more on the side of light idk man
Yes lily. Even when u relive their memory they're enveloped and have the dark dust on them (before u
)
SKid: *lights spirit*
Movie time
im a bit confused and want to hear your thoughts on this
teth(forest elder(did i get the name right)) stels the little flame and then proceeds to make the door open for us. Why was she mean when she is helping us?
im a bit confused and want to hear your thoughts on this
teth(forest elder(did i get the name right)) stels the little flame and then proceeds to make the door open for us. Why was she mean when she is helping us?
@hushed thorn It may have something to do with how she died in her past life. Perhaps she is restless.
ok, this is just a theory, but what if sky-kids are blind and we use echo-location to sense other players and our surroundings 
our eyes are made of light
may be wrong but I do get the vibe the elders are so tired of this, some are physically fatigued, some asleep others frustrated others depressed n the twins well...I guess they have eachothers' company
yesh, we are blinndd
Well indigo. Many are with teth is mean and some of us (cough me) think her action is justifiable. Her old scrapped concept teth used to be an elder who lures us and steals our flame in the end. This version is very mild and sad
so she is helping us she's just mad bc she bored?
yea shes weak also
Ok
like that maybe frustrates her
Deezers our original face (maskless) is with our eyes closed so
have fun theorizing
our eyes are made of light
ok how about this...we have light either our bodies and our eyes are just holes that the light is seen through
mhmhmhmh
Oh dam
Even with the mask our actual eyes are closed
forgot about thatone
thats y we see sound frm animals also
ok how about this...we have light either our bodies and our eyes are just holes that the light is seen through
But aren’t our actual eyes under the mask always closed?
we LITERALLY see sound
honk
echolocation bruv
From what i remember about the devs "sound is half the experience"
Oh. my
honk
All theories are welcome they dont have to be approved by us btw 
**hink
bruhhhh, what started as me repeatedly honking has opened another door to another theoryyy
Perhaps it gives light (pun not intended) to the concept of the five senses
yeshhh
And how allegedly they can enhance upon losing one
ohhhh yess
That’s not true to real life, but perhaps the myth is true to the game
Sound is more than 1/2 the experience
And when we honk our calling to the light gets stronger
ohhh, yea
lore chat stop blowing my mind challenge failed
lol
I
Beyond physical ^
In real life, it's not that the sense gets stronger, but that you spend more resources on that sense. So it kinda has the effect of being stronger because you are more used to focusing on it and. Spend more thought time
hmmmm m e t a
Also I too believe darkness isn't evil, just protective and pushed too far
Thinking back, I wonder why the elders need light after passing.
yes thats y my sky kid missed most glow bois, cuz they're blind, not cuz they're bad at flying,



yay class just finished so i can fully pay attention to lore now
🙂
bahaha- im on my second last class 
online class?
mhm
Lore
noice 👌
Soon im going to go thru wasteland and take too many pictures of lore related things
and king statues
What exactly do the elders use our light for?
strengthening themselves, rite?
atleast tht wht i understood frm the cutscenes
they were missing light and were weak, and the light makes them strong
i say m a ybe keeping their culture alive?or like the mechanisms they know something along those lines?
KDJDKKSKS IM BACK
That seems too obvious and straightforward in my opinion ONLY BECAUSE light doesn’t necessarily give “power,” right? The elders have passed, so the light can’t necessarily transfer to them, can it?
mhm, mhm nods
That seems too obvious and straightforward in my opinion ONLY BECAUSE light doesn’t necessarily give “power,” right? The elders have passed, so the light can’t necessarily transfer to them, can it?
@sour goblet The fact they take the light from sky kids

yesh, why do they take the lightt
Elders: give me ur lunch money
you know what i just noticed today?
What is it Indi
tellustellus
Tornado?
ooo sand, i mean tower?
Why is there a banner on one
oooooooo
Also king symbol
things just got deep
maybe someone lost part of their cape lol
Very big cape
Or just a flag that got nae naed because of idk time ig
I wonder why it was put there
it is dark and windy there so they probably bonked somehow
and this piece of fabric has been chilling there since
Neat
maybe it was pit there as a warning
Also i thought of something not realted at all
what if the poop is the citadel bird
which bird?
my memory is genuinely failing me rn
I would go take a oicturee but i dont think i have time right noe
I need to eat food
(.) - (.)
i have nothing to offer but stuff I sent earlier 
u said food bruh
nah it ok mahn, we get it
um, somehow it changes color, wen it lands rite?
o wait, it changes to pink
idk wat tht blue butterfly is
(it looks cute doe)
Heya 
I'm just gonna drop my shield compilations and run away
No
Do you think music sheets have anything to do with lore
Someone thought about that too but we couldn’t rlly find anything
I jus concluded they were simple gameplay unlockables
I don't suppose you have a map of those shields do you? I have a vague idea half baked but checking their positions and which way they point would help
If not absolutely fine I'll just run around later
No i wasnt that bored but ill do that next time
I just saw them and realised it might help
<3
Thanks. Will try remember let you know if I do.
Lore chat seems slow
people are either asleep or in school :p
I suspect the vault temple shield might immediately break the idea but shhh
Naptime for lore chat
Ok
Vault temple shield? 
There's a shield against the vault elders shrine
Hang on I may actually have a screenshot with it in
do you mean wasteland 
I dont remember that in vault..
😂
Please excuse me
Dm dm
Words get misplaced and swapped and I don't realise ^^;
Do we have a readymade gw map to cross the shield locations or do i have to make my own??
me art be wonky
Also yes in form one that shield does wreck my idea BUT I'll poke the others and see if they fully contradict or not.
... there is one but I'm not sure if we may use it? Or how useful
i wish there were just empty templates of the general structure/landscape for maps so we can just fill in stuff we want
if only I had the time
Hage made one, i think it’s in #questions-and-help pins !
i believe they marked where shields were
Also bricky since ur here just wanted to say the spirits pose is very close to your mystery body. I remember someone mentioning that old beta had ancestor statues in eden so maybe its a beta reminant?? (Hopefully not but
)
the mystery body is sitting straight up, with hands on its lap
it’s sitting in our neutral position
Ginko, I'm alive if you need me
oml what mystery body
lemme grab a screenshot
I remember seeing 6 diamond shields in gw i could be wrong tho
In battlefield only. 6 sun 6 diamond
Look at it chilling there 
Nah its very much body hhahaha
I'm not exactly sure. I mean, that's what I counted, 5, but perhaps I missed one in between the krills and the panic 
looks too humanoid to be random debris
Bricky did spend 4 hours exploring stormlock for lore so yee
Ah yes there are. For some of it. One has shields marked, other doesn't.
rather, Ginko, we should go together to count shields 
i disconnect a lot i dont think it will be pleasant for u 
Haven't been on on here for a while, seems have died out.
I feel like the next season is going to make this channel go nyoom once again
Go n o o m ? 
We do associate diamonds with elders, right?
In a way, yeah
yes, diamonds are basically a symbol of technology
Cool cool
yes, go nyoom nyoom. I think last time i saw this chat active was when Enchantment was here haha.
@queen owl yes.
We've had some discussions, but nothing groundbreaking (or at least I don't think so)
I've been inactive here lately, since the lore chat is pretty dead these times
~~oh goodie I just noticed the Eden note on shields this is going to be fun >.<
but squinting at Eden ones should help...~~
I'm only here when it's dead I get scared when it moves fast
I remember that one time when it was active in enchantment, there were putting murals in chronological order, theories, and stuff
though i have no idea when it died out again
Sometimes it gets too heated 
The only really lore-y thing about Sanctuary was
but aside from that it was a literal beach episode
sadly
yeah
Sometimes we need a beach episode
maniacal laughter in Prophecy AP reciever-to-be
when i saw the big manta, I was screaming "I SAW THAT BEFORE" and my moth friends didin't understand and told me it's jsut out how i saw it before
I need to make it in to a meme for #sky-memes now haha
Sky Lore Communtiy: Hey! I have seen that before
Moths: What do you mean? It's brand new!
the moment i saw 6 bells and each time the bells called more manta i was like. oh boy last one gonna be elder manta..
From what I know, Proph is going to be a ride
At first i thought it would give something like a mini shop like Enchantment not gonna lie haha
I'm trying my best not to spoil myself with beta content, help 
i have a theory brewing for prophecy that i hope y’all like 
i cant, beta
i was with my friend yesterday in FA and we discovered some weird stuff. dont wanna discuss it yet i guess till they're in the server tho 
i might, when i’m done cleaning my paints
Yeah, I'm trying not so spoiler myself to discover it together with moths i adopted with force. But from the concepts, I can tell it's gonna be a huge bomb
I still miss the seasons where all spirits weren't in one place though. Would've treated rhythm better if i knew. . .
I’ve put a restraining order on myself regarding one of the cosmetics
anyway
(restraining order is ‘you can only see it on yourself x times before it’s in possession’)
After prophecy, there'll be more variety in the seasons' mechanics, or at least that's what I understood
I'm mad at some beta videos, they put REAL big spoilers on their thumbnails
I think so, heard something similar somewhere.
Ahhh, that's right. So annoying 
Me: trying my best not to get spoiled
Sky YT: hehe, spoilers go brrr

I'm mad at some beta videos, they put REAL big spoilers on their thumbnails
thats how i got all my spoilers, from youtube recommended 😦
I had to stop watching any sky content so it would stop getting reccomend
Back to sky lore please
Sure
this owo
I think it's interesting that they can straight up summon creatures of light
Bricky that was light speed
The symbols on the them are the closest to a language we get
Which language you mean?👀
No owo?
The symbols on the bells -- 🔔
Brb from shipwreck wanna share something
im back from my self assigned useless info uwu
inside the maze of archive [NOT COUNTING THE ONES IN AND AROUND FIRST CUBE AREA] there is a total of 633 lamps.
- the visible ones in and on the cube are 22
- the ones on the shelves ar first area are 138 [i didnt count them with the 633 cuz they look different]
- there are 15 floating ones
Hello? Is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes
The sound ..
yeah
its always there
and when u go near the pipes at end of shipwreck the music goes funky like its laughing at us
Once I saw 2 speed video I think it was mainly oob but the bg sound when sped up seems... familiar?
I'm not hoommmmeeee I wish I was home to see for myself
The king and elders were using the home space
iirc u see that same icon at eden too
old beta remanant
Also i notice that the spinning circle has cracks in it and the cracks shine blue
oh ok
It was for a light quest
U might see it in action if u search up sky light awaits on YouTube but u basically flew around collected lights around the citadel and the bird would give u a reward
Would’ve been cool if that bird had some other lore significance tho
Other than being a simple beta memory
does anyone think much of the background noise/distortion happening when you're in a silent place?
No one has any theories on king using/ building home space?
Really?
Come on that’s gold ! 😆
The implications that the king had the home space built are astronomical
Think about it....
The reason the home space has those closets was for the king’s wardrobe...
Prince / child of light
Those icons aren’t of us (per se) they are of the prince
He had access to visit any of the civilizations
He’s essentially a time traveler even
I'll hopefully read it in the morning cuz ur theories are cool
need to wake up early so gnight
He commissioned or had the gates built. Which is probably why his Eden entrance is gianormous
With a window into time he probably started seeing how things could be improved
and compared to us
Tiny
The prince inside the king is a skid size child. The king Mecha suit? No telling how big really
We can speculate it was large. Little smaller than The size of of a statue
Ok
Lemme find the concept art for jt
how big is the king compared to tsadi?
wb gw elder
Bigger than Tsadi by double maybe even triple
Yep
If you’re wondering if the king could ride a krill it depends on what you believe. This art shows that he essentially could ride a krill
But duuuuuudes....
he built the home space !!
i think home is our time out jail
But there’s imagery to suggest the king was in the home space
Lol, “time out jail” that sounds so messed up
the king in that concept is around 17’4 
He always won at basket ball
That’s why they made the games hockey based in Valley
So the 17’4 king wouldn’t have unfair advantage
iron freaking e, because we came back only to be small kiddies
and here’s the king compared to the other elders 
Oh hes big
He’s little more than double Tsadi’s size
I wish!!!
although remember that the elders changed a lot from these concepts to now, until we see an animated model of the king we don’t know how tall he might be 
What if the mech suit is just stilts under the long cape?
Mmmm......
i hope he does 
(Zips lips)
tbh a 3D model of the king would probably make some phones blow up
i mean dépends on how they plan to animate him
It would make my head blow up
dépends on his design
Well we have giant statues
but yes i would probably explode with excitement
True
same
There are certainly missed opportunities
Im already exploding for prophecy
tgc please give us animated king model


Without telling you what prophecy is the name and the art already implies it’s about a time before the wasteland era
well, it’s confirmed to be an origin story
🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes...
Im just internally screaming right now
I can’t say more... 🥺
i hc the black part on the king in concept design is kinda a cape tbh
s t i l t s
It is a cape
p sur he moves smoothly
what if alef kind of used this mech suit so long that his consciousness just merged with it like he cant separate from it physically now
ive read a fic that assumes he flies
oh no giant flying king
King: “I’m Batman!!”
Wait how big is he compared to a krill
With or without a wing span?
Im going to go find some lore
Find more evidence of the king in home space
Well i have some questions about forest
How did these jars get here? There are no jars anywhere else in forest (i dont think) maybe they are there as a transition
King symbol
Im going to homt to find king stuff now
Also why is this diamond symbol everywhere
Bye
no matter how fast you run, you can't escape the diamonds
It’s a symbol of the ancestors
You guys like my new wig?
coicle
Maybe that's to mark it as very much NOT ancestor?
circles and related shapes (organic shapes) are ment to represent the light, separate from elders
Also thing to note: there is a hard stone dark shell on it's head where other mantas have a diamond
Sorry to interrupt but do you think this is a reference that spirits are children/a creation of megan?
those eggs are just easter eggs, their affect on lore is debatable
Could be a secret sign from the devs still
there is plenty of evidence that all life is made of Megan's children. Not a lot of evidence that megan is a good parent though
megan should have her mom card revoked
My theory I came up with 30 seconds ago is the wine jars were a present from prairie elder that forest elder promptly ignored
(Also? Aren't there a few in the underground cave? Tbf I close my eyes and beg people to take me through there still so I could be very wrong)
i wonder why when you haven't friended somebody you need to sit down to talk
Alright so I wanna poke shield locations to see if I can get more info, but I will forget why I wanted to and my laptop is throwing a hissy fit so I can't update a map with locations and directions regardless.
However, we have two shield icons. Diamond and sun. Sun has eight point, as does the child of light call, and in the dressing pods you do get a more circle form.
Also, the Eden elder is shown with an orb, not a diamond, in the vault depictions.
Ergo, I would like to postulate that the shields are of two separate armies - one of the elders, and one of the king.
That only sun ones were found in Eden is evidence for, alongside the symbols.
That the wasteland elder shrine and him in the curscene have a sun one is against the theory. Why would he not have an elder shield?
Really, when there are diamond and sun shields, why does he have a sun shield and nor a diamond one? Especially when he has a diamond weapon? I guess maybe shape preference?
Now two armies does not mean they were opposed to one another, and I mean he could have grabbed whatever was convenient, but is odd.
There's also the refugee not he wasteland seems to go towards him, not away from him. She isn't fleeing the wasteland. So. Presumably she came from elsewhere and was seeking sanctuary with an elder.
I have more thoughts but it's late and I just got distracted
As for sitting to talk... not sure if game design or lore reason. Possibly because you need to use light to recombine the shards of the king that exist within us all to be able to fully perceive one another? 
i guess they're EASTER EGGS in a literal sense too...
I do agree though, that the refugee spirit raises a lot questions!
theres a refugee spirit in wasteland @heavy eagle
Hhh i don't remember it, might check later

Alice: I use the polite telepath theory. Before you friend someone, you need to ask permission to enter eachother's heads. Because they can't talk to do this, the convention is that you sit at a candle. Good friends give eachother permission to talk freely
this one
OH HER
i agree. the game is a lot safer if you cannot dm someone unless they agree to it first
also, there's something influential about sitting down to talk with someone. if you look at them, the benches look inherently friendly. i know the sky devs care a lot about faciliating good social interaction while avoiding negative social interaction, and i think this may have been a good way to do so
the candle system is whats interesting, though
why do you need candles to talk? and why can you still use candles if someone else put them before, and did not use them?
it's almost like a parking meter
Megabird wishes to be paid for all the light she gave us
The solution?
PARKING METERS
i think the prince is a capable telepath but after he’s reincarnated we got badly nerfed
damn imagine the ruler of the kingdom being a telepath
imagine how much that power could be abused
The parking metres be Eden lmao
Lamed constantly trying to wrest her mind from his control
telepath ≠ mind control
it just means reading minds
judging by this mind reading skill is inflexible for us, like how we need to exert it only by candles,
how capable is the prince of doing it then? i mean mind reading at all times can drive you insane
then its ironic that in elder cutscenes i cant even interpret what each elder is thinking, like
if it were the prince he’s like I get it, Forest, you wanna be rude
I honestly don’t think teth would be rude the prince/king
nah i was thinking about forest cutscene
I think she does it to us because she’s angry at what he did and we are basically his weaker reincarnation
Just a theory
nERFED
What if we need candles BECAUSE the prince didn't? If Megan had mind control via being able to abuse the telepathy that sustained her being within the collective consciousness, then it is likely that at least some members of the population were telepathic. But telepathy can be quite the problem if you can't shut it off when you want. Our creator may have given us the candle system to spare us from having to hear everyone around us.
Additionally, you know what would make a good argument for someone being the leader? They can tell what it is people around them are thinking.
...how is that a good argument for someone to be leader ?
people usually keep their thoughts to themselves for a reason
at least u can hear their needs
Harder to manipulate, more able to accomodate people, less likely to overlook someone's needs
I don’t know anyone who would be okay with invasion of privacy of that calibre
Also suspiciously good at noticing when someone needs something
do you think masks were a part of the king/prince's agenda to attain unobstructed channel into the ancestors, or to weaken the mind control abilities of the megabird?
well yeah a tyrant wouldnt care
murphy's law intensifies
exactly
a telepathic leader would cause tonnes of problems, it would make tyranny even easier
A problem easily overlooked by a young society with few prior societies to learn from
the sky kingdom existed for thousands of years
and there were likely ancestor civilizations before that, as we see in the isle murals
and like we already can imitate (horribly). the prince can mirror what everyone does and add that with mind reading he can mirror imaginations probably
He may also not have started tyranical, but started out just trying to fix problems to reduce the number of unpleasent thoughts in his head cause it doesn't turn off
question once you save a spirit after going to the temple does that spirit go back into orbit?
It waits for you to finish Eden and then it slowly heads to orbit
ohh okie ty
hemlo
Question. Who is Megan?
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mentioned here
thanks bricky
Megan is big holy bird god
M E G A B I R B
I feel like all the realms are the places where the immortal and supernatural live
Except Wasteland
wasteland is more of a stretch between valley and vault, judging by the descriptions
So the season of prophecy icon, is the same as the “your light” icon. It’s mentioned whenever you are lost, and in your friend tree. Your friends can send you a “gift of light.” So maybe “your light” is more than just your life force. Any thoughts?
also i know this was talked about several hours ago, but i personally think that mind reading would make someone a better leader. and as for being tempted to abuse power, well you already have a lot of power to abuse if youre a leader. If anything, having such a strong connection with people and their thoughts will make you more empathetic (unless youre a complete psychopath). It's easy for people to imagine others as less human to exploit them and not feel bad about it, but if you are inside their minds you will realize that there are human and deserving of rights. If you hear the problems of the disadvantaged all around, you can't turn a blind eye. you cant ignore it. So i think it would make someone more inclined to be a better servant of the people (since personally, i think thats what leaders are supposed to be!) not to mention all the added career benefits. No assasination attempts for me, bucko, I could hear those bad intentions a mile away! Yeah dude, I know why you tried to make that trade deal. Not happening. Wow, I've got food stuck in my teeth? Better get it out. You like people who wear blue? I'm wearing blue tomorrow then.
That's interesting. @quaint veldt I think this may be comparable to when people say "sustenance" for humans. Sky kids are made out of light, and light is their sustenance. When we talk about sustenance for humans, we talk about "soul food" and "spiritual sustenance". Friendship is an emotional need as well. I guess light = what you need, whatever it may be?
Also: Oh your partner is embarased to speak? Well that's been compensated for. Have someone who's not good with words and tone? Well that can be countered as well. Making your coworkers angry? That's not going to go go unnoticed. Secretly cursing me out and insulting me? Well that's certainly getting noticed.
But, just to confirm, is the gift of light symbol the same as the other symbols mentioned?
would it be interesting if sky and hollow knight collab?
@short owl Yes absolutely! The benefits are endless!
Of course... there would be downsides, but how long would it take for them to get noticed by others?
How often would a smooth recovery at the right moment cover up the warning signs?
How long would it take for anyone to find out that the leader is about to blow?
Here's the thing though, you can just read someones mind to see if theyre suspecting you. And why they are suspecting you
i subscribe to the “absolute power corrupts absolutely” philosophy, i’m still made uneasy by the thought
it can also give one insights into someone’s trauma, their secrets, their fears, etc., which means whoever can see those things can use them to manipulate. and depending on the kind of telepathy, would the telepath be able to turn it on/off ? or would it be constant ? are they able to be fended against ? or is it practically unstoppable ?
i don’t know about you lot, but if i knew someone was a telepath i would get as far away from them as possible. especially if they were already in a position of power above me. “what can go wrong will go wrong”
And also, if the world JUST WON'T SHUSH, how long do you really think it would take for them to isolate themselves once that becomes an option
Oh we talkin about king's mind manipulation rn? 
current theory: Megan manipulates, Aleph just can't stop listening no matter how badly he wants to
The thing about mind reading is, its like a double edge sword
You can see someone's darkest secret and developing paranoia at the same time
But it depends of that mind reader tbh
Wait whih one is the mind reader here
Alef or megan
yes, this is very vague and underdeveloped
but to be frank, the details of these abilities are down to headcanon
its beneficial in so many tangible ways but can take a real big toll on your mental health
Imagine hearing whisper for 24/7 nonstop
Stuff like that can have a big impact on someone's mental health and sanity
Megan needs to be at least telepathic within those that make her up in order to be a successful collective conciousness
so I guess that makes Megan both?
Well, I think you would develop a way of blocking it out. Just like how we can block out information (except those with sensory processing disorder). Unless, of course, you gain the ability from an older age. Some people who regain the ability to hear and see after not having them for years get extremely overwhelmed, but the rest of us can deal with it. (I mean besides me and other people who have issues like sensory processing or misophonia)
Oh and here is a more thing: In the stars, there would be a decent amount of physical distance between everyone. If distance is a factor, that makes people relatively quiet, and may make it so others have to put in effort to fully reach Aleph.
On one tiny planet though...
What if you hear the thoughts of those you are closest to mentally at the time? Instead of physical distance, mental distance
since its a mental gift
Other than alef, do you think the elders can communicate telephatically with each other?
The effects would still play out. In the stars, you'd have quite a bit of time between talking to people, so they'd be relatively quiet. On a planet in one society you're probably going to be talking to people quite often which lets them get quite close mentally annd thus quite loud
Flos I had not considered that far
Maybe starrs hear the ones who have constilation lines directly connecting them
Huh, now thats a good one 
which makes it worse because it means that Aleph would have gone from a quite reasonable social group of 8 to a social group of one, only to wind up with a social group of way too many
Ooh

Possibly, but I think human beings are usually pretty good about developing ways to focus their attention and block out unneeded stuff. I have an issue with sound, for example. I have to wear noisecancelling headphones. From my perspective, there's so much sound in the world. So very much. There's more sounds than there are people around me, the hum of the computer, the air conditioner, the fan swirling, the neighbor mowing their lawn, the sink running in the kitchen. But no one else notices because they can filter senses.
Sensory overwhelming 
yes exactly its so overwhelming
jeez im having flashbacks to the time where i supervised noisy kids in the middle of an imax theatre
To filtering stuff from one senses is one form of adaptation
Ouch, that must be hard
I might worded that wrong, oof
yes its weird. i can close my eyes. but i cant. close. my. EARS. its so unfair why do i get to close my eyes but not my ears
why arent we built with ear plugs like were built with eye shutters
Maube because when everything works right, our ears are passive perefrials and eyes are our focuses. We don't always need to focus on something, but we do always need alerting if something happens
But that's outside of lore
i think the biggest source of sensory information is the eyes. so in order to sleep or rest, it makes most sense to shut off that. then you still need something so you arent completely shut off from the world. Is that what you're saying? (albeit more eloquently)
but yes that is outside of sky lore
this channel comes up with more lore than what the lord of the rings series has i swear 😂
Yeah but 3/4 of it doesn't have a chancej tto be true. At least 3/4 of stuff I come up with
Well, you never know. And it's still well thought out, even if it isnt cannon. That's the point of lore, to come up with explanations for things!
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I have to agree with bricky on this one, the problem isn't about what good thing can be achieved via telepathy, but rather why a telepath has to be good in the first place
I mean there might not be a real reason why a telepath has to be morally good, but it would still provide significant benefits over nontelepathic candidates
Thanks @hushed steeple , this helps a lot! I'm glad we have a google doc. Is it updated frequently based on the server discussion?
I don't think so
hey, doc creator here, i do update it when needed
I've been watching this channel for 2 days now and no updates
Alos your welcome

it's been a hot minute since i've been here
Because it doesn’t have to be updated daily
The moff doc? Uh well... probably not terribly often. There are other stuff in the works that can be updated more frequently, but the cost of entry doesn't increase nearly as often as content goes woosh
why would it provide significant benefits over nontelepathic candidates?
it’s an intro doc, it only explains basic information thus doesn’t need to be updated very frequently
Thanks @hushed steeple , this helps a lot! I'm glad we have a google doc. Is it updated frequently based on the server discussion?
@wanton hill Also you shouldnt ping in this server it could get really messy
o riri!! wb 
it really only covers the most important lore so to speak
hey hey hey
ohh new emotes
Ima go now peace!
Ooby, nice irony.

well, as iwas talking about earlier, only someone who could not consider the emotions of others (ie a clinical psychopath) could ever handle being a telepath and a bad person at the same time. And personally, I think being a leader always gives too much power for someone who can't be trusted with it, regardless if they are telepathically gifted or not
it's funny that the lore i'm most excited for is the implication of paper
you don’t have to be a psychopath to disregard peoples’ emotions
also psychopath is a clinically outdated term, use Antisocial Personality Disorder
It also assummes that they're handing being a telepath. If being a telepath in their environment is being too much to handle, you're kind of beyond the point where what they care about is a primary concerrn
this discussion can’t continue constructively unless we lay out the details of this telepathy
thats true, but if you read my previous rant about telepathic abilites, i explained why telepathy forces empathy unless you are simply incapable of feeling it. anyone can be a bad person, if they decide to say, view other people as subhuman or not within an in group. or if they ignore other peoples sufferings to serve themselves. but if you are a telepath, peoples minds and emotions are completely revealed to you.
is it on/off-able ? can it be focused to one individual, or is it always whoever’s in the area ? can it be fought against ? is there a limit of sorts ?
things like these define what can and can’t be done with this ability, but if we’re speaking telepathy in general then nothing can really come of this discussion past vague comments or assumptions
we did try to address that earlier but we did not come up with a conclusive answer, iirc
cause the problem is, it’s down to headcanon
If you can't turn off your telepathy and always hear those around you, you could easily overload, getting to the point where yu can'tcare about others. If others are lucky, you might be able to shut yourself in and limit who enters your range, but then you have the problem of you only ever hear those you let in, and miss information from just about everyone else
What’s this talk about telepathy?
I feel like getting reborn isn't actually being born again
It's just sacrificing your cape for ascended candles
oh, you know, making Aleph suffer from having a supernatural ability. That's all ^.^
yeah sensory overload, but for most telepaths if they were born as telepaths or at least had it for several years, would develop a form of filtering like sentient life forms typically have for all senses
Which elder is Aleph again?
The prince
Oh
True, but if you put someone who lived out in the country all their life in the middle of a city, they gonna be feeling the overload
ah probably
Yeah
so it wouldnt really be on/off, it would be adaptation
what is the range of the telepathy?
unless of course, the telepath has a sensory processing issue
i feel like you are overthinking it
Overthinking is the whole fun tho
So the upcoming TS is not TS with piano? 
lambda, i spoke about the range earlier. see, what range are we talking about? what variable is it spread across? for the typical senses the range is physical distance because they are physical senses meant to sense things based on distance. but would telepathy apply the same way? or would it be some hypothetical "mental" distance, since it's not really a physical "how far away is this in the real world let me map it out" kind of thing
I think the clue for this would be finding out how the telepathy actually works. Like how it's done. Is it brainwaves of nearby people or is there some great mind system that would allow for a new sense to tune into?
So the upcoming TS is not TS with piano?
@wary jackal That's the Chinese ver. of Sky, which is different from Live and also has a different TS Schedule. Also, this isn't the right chat to talk about TS-
also, its somewhat offtopic, but the names of the elders are so funny to me since i speak arabic and arabic is similar to hebrew.
its like hearing someone named A, B, C
@thin dirge oh sorry, i thought it's still part of spoiler. Where can I talk about TS in this server?
the hivemind
@wary jackal Seasonal chat
Just above this one
yeah so megabirb?
@thin dirge thanks! 
I dont think there is a way to find out how telepathy is accomplished unless we possess telepathy ourselves
well at least not fully
king's name is A cause he screaming
-A
AAAA
Wait wait
If we think about it
Arent our chat can be called as thelepaty
Like, we can only talk to person we already befriend
Which is close to us
Well, more like honk translation
...ah, yeah
If it was honk translation, then we could understand strangers
idk why but I am wondering on what if Sky becomes more of a fantasy rpg game
where you can fight corrupted creatures and have spells based on the elders
and you can also choose a type of class you are
that may resemble to the elders
that sounds fun but I believe TGC is going for a not-fighting game...the whole point of sky is that you don’t fight
^^
We fight to be the first who burn the darkness plant 
I need honest opinions😏
this isn’t the place for that, Prince
that sounds fun but I believe TGC is going for a not-fighting game...the whole point of sky is that you don’t fight
@lethal stump true
no ping 
No ping...
Sry no need to be so pressed👀
Jinx 
That is very... outstanding OfficialSkyPrince
Thx
i give up at this point i’m removing it from my username
at least I got two ping passes from bricky
Ah 
coughs lore ?

🙄
lmao
what if the only way we can interpret other children of light is by sharing a connection, someone we both know and have roots to, hence we exchange candles, otherwise known as light tributes
something/someone*
But are cosmetics apart of the lore?
arguably, yes or no
I mean I think the diamond is a signal which connects all the creatures with the same shape
It does contain light
All the creatures with diamonds beep like us
Were very close with each other
Ello?
Yeah
Not all, but I know some meanings
I think we have the ability to mimic things we encounter with each new area
All theories are welcome 
They are
They connect to the spirits
Who they are, what they were doing, etc
And that connects to lore
The emotes are like teachings from the spirit
Oh gosh, I suddenly have a thought about the Prince being in Sanctuary
If the Prince/King was in Sanctuary, I realized not many people would recognize them?
Hey, remember the armadillos from valley? They have some sort of base thing below them, and that same base is behind Tsadi's statue 
The question is, why would they have an armadillo there?
Perhaps it was used during the time of prosperity, before the diamond factory in gw was destroyed
It's cuz WL was a part of Valley at the time
It was named
"Golden Valley"
Why are they called armadillos-
One thing i want to share the wasteland temple was like vault social place back in beta
And that thing behind tsadi was there that time too
makes sense, after all they're connected
look at noom's pic above, the spiny plate thing is the same one in beta but without the whale tale thing???
words, I don't know them
It's not the same as the one in valley
Look at the patterns of the one in valley then the one in vault, they're different tight?
right?
or am I tripping lol
Looks same,and that's a bird statue
those look a bit similar to the ones in sanctuary to me
oh bird? I always thought they were whale tails but considering we don't have animals in sky with such tails then birds make sense
The one behind tsadi has a circle but also has those >> <<< triangles around it
4 triangles like the ones in valley
It's cuz WL was a part of Valley at the time
Wasteland and valley have always been separate levels
Lemme slither in here I've never been here before I don't think so
Probably same just to reduce game size.....
sometimes I think I'm just blind at this point I didn't see the patterns
Wasteland and valley have always been separate levels
I think they meant they were part of the capital at some point
Industrial work behind the capital... Not bad
I have poor reading comprehension 😔
Same lily. I only noticed when i was gonna post the pic xD
It's very likely that wasteland once looked more like valley.
man it's sad those turrets werent added in-game
Just 5 on the top of temple
i was thinking valley-gw-eden had similar architecture/design for the buildings
huh
I have some questions i need answered
who is the other person the game is talking about?
what led to the storm?
where the krill inside/came with the storm?
Where did the sky kids originate from?
I have some ideas too
not just questions
first, the little texts happen when you light spirits or ‘abandon’ them, leave eden when in the middle of dying, lead you to the direction of where your supposed to go and etc
sure some might say, “well that’s just the game telling you what to do if your new”
but what if they were actually a part of something?
Hey hey, I just went to ||office|| and ||the spirit there today|| was normal at first, following them but near the end they said ||"We are doomed" (while looking at a poster of Journey I think? In the crab room) and "it will disappoint" (while sitting on the couch)||
Any idea what it means?
it says “Together we will replenish the stars”
That's not lore related
Work burnout
The spirits represent the devs
I still wanna know what it means
I think that one's related to how Journey was created
Seems interesting
The company went bankrupt (or almost did) while creating Journey
And when they planned to make usernames anonymous in Journey, Sony at first refused cause they thougnt it wont sell if they did that
Its not really Sky related or lore related
Idk...
Corpses?
Idk
Not corpses
Stones
Probably temporary graves
Its not really Sky related or lore related
@thin dirge well I'm sorry I'm new and didn't know, it seemed interesting like there was a story behind it so I thought I'd share
@ember zodiac kindly delete the pic.
Its alright
@ember zodiac kindly delete the pic.
@hushed steeple why🧐
The hat
And the cape
Oohha sjwjzjkskwkzks
Someone wash my eyes
I didn't even notice-
Only that hat.. cape is in live 
It's sad if you think abt it, the team for Journey was burnt out and starting to lose hope at some point and some ppl from it also worked in sky, I'm just glad that they found a way to project their feelings, it can help a lot
Everybody say thank you devs

i just backread and oh no i'm sad shejdn
yeah, i'm very thankful journey was a great success it and for tgc for pushing through and bringing out sky for us. i haven't seen that spirit in office but it's a nice tribute to really see how far tgc has come 
this really became tgc-lore-discussion-spoilers huh? aye sorry let's go back to lore
the krills must have moved in and krilled all the spirits, that’s why golden wasteland is in ruin 
and the golden part of the name must have a meaning, since it leads to vault
Sand is golden 
A lot of gold probably ¯(◉‿◉)/¯
oh right that reminds me
at the ship in golden wasteland
not the one at forgotten ark though
the one with the spirit gate
👀
there’s loads of bells and graves(?)
maybe the bells count as ‘golden’
lel
so
sky kids were like farming to the spirits
we always dropped from the sky
then when The Storm came almost everything went to ruin, at least the most important places in sky
golden waste land was the place where you can go to vault, Vault was abandoned but was still functional, then eden was most likely to be the main area of sky
there was orbit in eden, loads of krills, and winged light to collect
now that i’m talking about eden, i’m wondering what was the castle in the sky when we enter orbit
now about the other realms
isle is not as ruined as wasteland
it has the flame technology ( the two player door)
someone talking about lore
y e s
i have found my place
cool
in the circle of life
it's okay go on
ok cool

i used to think that isle is like a place of creation or smth
i have been trying to understand the wall paintings but 
there is a picture in the chat
The ones at shipwreck are actually used for power diamond making. You can see the golden molds in the forest temple and first area where manta gets krilled uwu
poor manta
where and how did the manta even get there anyways???
was it like the manta in forest where it follows you?
it might have followed a sky kid to wasteland, and lost the sky kid
so it stayed there, waiting for the player it was following to come back(?)
it’s like that dog that waited for its owner
Couldn't find the mold at forest but its on the sides. Top is GW mold. Bottom u can see the mold being inserted when u meditate in forest temple (before meditation the mold isn't there)
so in order to atone for it losing the kid, the manta keeps being reborn to show other sky kids the danger of the krills....
visible pain
Manta probably was stray i dont think it followed 
smol mantas follow smol sky kids tho
but then how did it go through the race
let's just hope that it was truly a stray
but i still feel bad
it keeps being resurrected only to be eaten by the krill

My theory of manta light draining grinder factory was that it was the sole survivor of the factory but eitherway got krilled in the end. Because in forest we see the mantas being released from their prison after medidation
its just my theory tho
oh.....
Other reason why we see manta get krilled is to show krill's power and for us to fear them i guess. Since dark dragons will try to take our light
that's also sadddd
i enjoy angst 
i couldn't find the painting walls pictures and theories here
i tried scrolling up and up
there so manyyy
There is this one but its just reliving the spirit memories https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pyhkgOnhiODM45Ys0ivMStANwtU8z64x?usp=sharing
Im pretty sure i remember people posting isle murals together in a pic. I can't remember who
I found one by noom..😂
dunno?
What do u understand with these murals?
second mural is us falling from the sky
the one under that is them taking us on boats
then the two under that mural is them sending us to a elder meditation place
humans or ? idk
The ancestors (who are the spirits) yes
We don't know tbh they're probs 'humans'
h m
We do see them eat and hunt and sleep so
huh......
I say humans for easier understanding
i mean like they are humanized light
They were alive before y'know 
which the sky community calls them spirits
We do see them eat and hunt and sleep so
@tender dune this....makes sense
Four prophets... Four people in the mural... 
wait and is that an elder summoning mantas ...?
second mural is us falling from the sky
You sure its us falling down?
butterfly got a point tho
You sure its us falling down?
@tender dune probably the king's messengers or smth (?)
making the "humans" well...spirits (?)
Yeah the isle elder but he's not summoning a manta but yeeting that orb upwards (his job is shepherding).
manta shepherd
All light sheperd
:
The last mural reminds me of the concept of Isle Elder once being the ferryman or shepherd. He was the person who shepherd souls to Megan
i mean there’s 2 types of stars in the mural, 1 is the ones in the sky with the lines indicating that were falling chosen(?) from the spirits, second is the ones on the ground with the circle around it
I think its a concept of Isle Elder that's still in canon
Megan? is that a typo?
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Megan is megabird. It happened from a typo bricky made before
It was auto correct I think
wait what megabird....? sorry i'm new to this lore discussion
my friends never discuss lore or anything :(
the lore moff doc will explain 
they just kidnap orphans and fly around
Well, lots of people do that
@sangti why you here ???
Not everyone chooses to dig into lore of Sky
sky lore is interesting
one of my friends is lurking 👀
Some say the stars that fell in isle mural were the elders. Some say its the light which they used to power the boats. My own persobal theory is that they're megan embers that happened to fall and still had power in them [since megan rebirths in mt. eden]
ooh
oooohh
valley is interesting though
I better check the doc first
Read the doc
OH THAT BIRD
bruh
i once told my friend about how the ending galaxies look like a giant bird but he said nah

it looks like a phoenix tho
if the sky children's souls and lights came from it, then it kinda explains how sky children can be reborn over and over again
also i noticed that one of the elders' name is Ayin
it is very clear that it was taken from Ayin Sof, or Ein Sof, one of the 10 Sefirot in Jewish Kabbalah
it means "unending"
They have names but they're no longer canon but fanon
they're hebrew. Pretty sure the hebrew meaning of them is in lore doc
Bricky made them lemme find it
oooh okayy
edit: BY BRICKY IM TOO DUMB TO MAKE A GOOD COMPILATION

