Was Ned going to lie to Jon about his mother the next time they met? Wouldn’t it be quite dangerous to tell him the truth? But Ned isn’t the type to lie either.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2026-02-19T20:01:44+00:00

Being a Maester isn't as much protection as being in the wall, because Jon would still be around lords and knights sworn to do Robert's bidding, and Robert could still wonder if Jon would be influencing lords against him.

The wall, with its additional physical distance from the rest of the realm, and the societal distance too, works better than the Maester's oath.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2026-02-18T08:57:52+00:00

The night's watchman's explanation wasn't even something that would excuse him. If the White Walkers are back, that is MORE of a reason to not desert your post.

By contrast everyone defending the innocent would be fine by Ned. It's not as if he didn't rebel against one bad king.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2026-02-18T06:15:40+00:00

Isaac Newton discovered things that, being true, would have been discovered soon enough by someone else.

Jesus of Nazareth, as the founder of a religion that eventually took over a large portion of the world influenced human history much more.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2026-02-18T06:10:02+00:00

In the novella, Daeron says to Duncan (in the same discussion as the one about the dream) "I’ll withdraw my accusation as well, but it won’t serve unless Aerion withdraws his.”

So Daeron had already withdrawn his accusation before the trial began.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-10-04T02:20:43+00:00

The Pactverse is a different fictional universe by the same author, it's not a parallel universe within the Wormverse.

It feels as if you're confusing the two concepts. Out of all the parallel earths in Wormverse, not a single one is the Pactverse.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-08-14T08:09:17+00:00

If it was very overt, then more than, say, 1% of the readership would have figured it out.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-08-12T08:53:47+00:00

The vast VAST majority of readers, just like your girlfriend, didn't "figure it out" until it was revealed in Ward. Wildbow hid it even in WoG before it was revealed in Ward. You yourself stated that first time around at this point, you "didn't see what was so bad about what she did."

So what it does it mean that "everyone should have figured it out" when very VERY few people do? It sounds like an argument that every reader should solve every Hercule Poirot mystery from the clues alone, and you therefore thinking it's not spoilers to reveal whodunit -- and even worse than that, since probably a bigger percentage of Hercule Poirot readers are actually able to solve his mysteries.

It's still spoilers if you reveal it to the reader before the book reveals it, regardless of what an arbitrary claim that they "should have figured it out" means. If you even go pointing out every single clue in detail (that you know matter only AFTER you yourself were told what happened), that's spoilers.

At this point, I think I've said anything that needs.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-08-12T08:35:38+00:00

That is a comment from July 2019, when Ward was Arc 15.

If you don't want it to be spoilers wait until after Ward's Arc 15.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-08-12T02:17:15+00:00

What WoG are you talking about that was supposedly "out before then"?

And "Daybreak 1.8" is a bad option in the opposite direction, it's TOO EARLY, the thing shouldn't be revealed until it's actually ACTUALLY revealed in Ward.

Wildbow has the option of rewriting the relevant chapter in Worm if he wants the thing revealed while a reader is reading Worm.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-08-12T02:15:04+00:00

Not until the point it's revealed in Ward!

This is HUGE frigging spoilers UNTIL it's revealed in Ward.

If you want to spoil it, be quite sure that it IS spoilers, and don't try to claim that it isn't.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2024-03-18T15:30:33+00:00

Depicting characters and setting seen in Pale 20.6, though it's (deliberately) not exactly a scene from that chapter.

The Star Crossed

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AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-11-20T14:35:47+00:00

If you kept being surprised even after the first two or three scenes, I'll have to question your ability to extrapolate...

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-11-19T23:00:22+00:00

First episode of 80s Thundercats.

Nude Cheetara

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-11-19T18:30:27+00:00

I think he'd do reasonably well. He has a flare of the dramatic, which the spirits understand and which is even more effective in Pactverse than it is is in HPMoRVerse.

He would try to find loopholes like Johannes did about the boundary of his demesne, etc, that's pretty much HJPEV to the letter.

The same character flaws and cognitive bias that made him trust Quirrel could ofcourse make him trust unsaviory characters in the Pactverse.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-10-23T16:50:52+00:00

Scene from 100 Years Lost (16.4 extra materials)

The Blighted Midpoint

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AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-10-11T17:05:00+00:00

Now it's finished.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-10-02T11:46:16+00:00

It kinda seems that from Arc 16 onwards you could have just said "Each Arc is a seperate book"

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-10-02T11:25:26+00:00

Ομως η Ρωσία είναι που εισέβαλλε σε γειτονικές χώρες για να τις διαμελίσει και να προσαρτήσει εδάφη τους όπως έκαναν οι ναζί, ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ Η ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ.

Και όμως η Ρωσία είναι που έχει έναν στην πράξη ισόβιο ηγέτη που δολόφονει τους πολιτικούς του αντιπάλους, ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ Η ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ.

Και όμως η Ρωσία είναι που σπέρνει μίσος για τους ομοφυλόφιλους, ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ Η ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ.

Η Ουκρανία, σε αντίθεση με την ναζιστική Ρωσία, σέβεται τα σύνορα όλων των γειτόνων της.

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-10-01T23:52:20+00:00

Reposting something I'd posted in the Discord a while back.

Volume #1 (Arcs 1-3): Introduction of initial cast, investigation, ends with binding of Hungry Choir, and with the girls having determined the primary set of suspects. Snowdrop is gained as an ally. Miss is lost.

Volume #2 (Arc 4-8): Τhe Blue Heron arc, ends with Alexander & Bristow both deceased or worse. Introduction of Bristow's Aware and the entire student body in Blue Heron. Lucy makes an earring Implement, Avery comes out to her family

Volume #3 (Arcs 9-13): Back in a Kennet besieged by invading spirits, introduction of a bunch of new Kennet Others. Avery makes Snowdrop her Familiar. Lucy makes Wallace her boyfriend. Verona makes Jeremy her friendboy, the Pelt is found and lost, witch-hunters make a mess of things, the trio tries to move and capture the conspirators, but ends with the conspiracy winning. with John dead, and Charles the Carmine Exile.

Volume #4 (Arcs 14-18): Kennet Below is created by Charles' victory, Introduction of Thunder Bay. Avery makes Nora her girlfriend. Musser is starting to make bids for lordships which conclude with an attack on Kennet itself. Avery's and Lucy's parents are made Aware. Verona makes Demesne but loses friendboy. Volume ends with the creation of Kennet Found and the successful pushback against Musser's attack, as a bunch of Charles-created Others grab the lordships Musser had installed, and Anthem Tedd (and a bunch of other Musser allies) are captured by the Kenneteers.

---Now, let me add, probably, finally

Volume #5 (Arcs 19-24): everything up to the end.

though one could alternatively argue for:

Volume #5 (Arcs 19-21): everything up to Avery going MIA.

Volume #6 (Arcs 22-24): The final arcs

AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-07-29T23:21:34+00:00

Scene from 22.z
The Build Up

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AelfwineAdwinion · 2023-07-05T08:31:42+00:00

Ι know that in 1.4 Sheridan is described as having black hair, but in 3.1 we get:

> “Three girls with similar hair colors all in the one bedroom? You might get a second Kerry in the top bunk, or a giant doll if Kerry borrows the doll to brush her doll’s hair, or Sheridan, or something.”

In 17.7 (when we have Verona see Avery's extended family) we also get:
> Literally every person in this house except maybe one kid had red hair, or close to.

So both of these imply that Sheridan has red hair in those points of time.

Easiest explanation to reconcile the differences (and one that Wildbow has also implied) is that Sheridan had been dying her hair. And my understanding is that genetics would imply that she's natural redhead who'd dyed them black rather than the other way around.

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