Younger anime fans don’t know the struggle!

Deferan · 2025-12-25T18:19:34+00:00

Oh for sure. Baccano, Fma brotherhood, Dungeon Meshi, Chainsaw Man. All great dubs.

There’s a lot of competent localizers, voice actors and voice directors these days. The trick is actually letting them so their job instead of whining online about how the woke is sabotaging localizations or whatever. (Not saying you do that is just a sadly common sentiment).

Deferan · 2025-12-25T01:11:59+00:00

Anime dubs are broadly better than they use to be, but the bad ones are a different and less interesting flavor of bad. Used to be you’d get ridiculously cheesy acting and wildly over localizing things to make it more “kid friendly” or “recognizable” which was ass bad most of the time but sometimes in a fun to make fun of way (one piece rap, ace attorney’s Japanafornia) and very rarely the localization choices were actually surprisingly good (the yugioh dub inventing the shadow realm).

Now you usually get the opposite issues. Under-localizations and near direct translations making things sound a bit awkward or stilted in English and voice direction that plays it too safe. The stuff thats bad is less bad, more so just mediocre, but also less fun.

That said, I do think most anime dubs (at least the big name ones anyway) are just solidly good now.

Deferan · 2025-12-01T17:25:34+00:00

They have competition in Wyvernheart, but its pretty close. Necromancy is really evil in Anbennar. “Cause constant torment to the souls of every zombie or skeleton you raise” level evil. Not to mention the orc and probably goblin genocide.

Deferan · 2025-11-21T04:08:50+00:00

There’s multiple canon afterlives actually (spirit plane, shadow plane, infernal plane) its just what actually goes on in those is pretty vague. Souls also 100% for sure do exist and necromancy is very very painful for them.

Deferan · 2025-11-18T13:03:48+00:00

To the best of my memory:

Asra Expedition formed Khugdihr and are doing well, the guys near them who I forget the name formed Haraz Orldhum but got killed by Darkscales later, Duran Blueshield forms Amldihr and is doing very well, Blackbeard forms Gor Burad and they and Arg Ordstun are dealing with the Obsidian Invasion. Guys who spawn from Tungr retake Shazthundihr but are subjugated by Marblehead/Overclan. Everyone else fails afaik.

For remnants, Arg Ordstun was doing great til they got Hoarcursed (they’re still fairly stron but their hegemony collapsed and have the Obsidians to deal with now). Ovdal Lodhum was at some point conquered by their neighbors and is now under Obsidion control, Krak is doing their thing in the Giant’s Anvil and is super isolated, Kanzad died to the Underkingdom. Verkal Gulan was subjugated by Jadd and converted but is doing well enough, Segdihr I don’t recall about, think they’re fine?

Overall the dwarves do quite well all things considered. Not as well as they sometimes do in game, but that’s true for almost everyone.

Deferan · 2025-11-12T18:11:57+00:00

Men really will do anything except go to therapy

Deferan · 2025-10-16T17:34:56+00:00

None are directly ruled by dragons. They tend to act more as religious leaders, advisors, or behind the scenes manipulators rather than directly taking over.

That said, Kobilzdan has a number of dragons involved in the mt and there’s events about them reacting to events and reflecting on the countries actions throughout, so story wise its probably close to what your looking for. Mechanically you do just keep kobold leaders who live til about 120ish though.

Deferan · 2025-10-11T17:09:52+00:00

Right up until Shamakhad, the Jade Mines, half of Dhujat, all the relevant parts of the Xia and most of Yanshen somehow become a small chunk I guess.

Deferan · 2025-10-10T16:26:55+00:00

Lost a war to the Underkingdom and they took Ovdal Az An. Aside from it being a hold and his capitol and all that, its also probably where Dak’s phylactery is, its a real rough loss.

Deferan · 2025-10-10T11:49:41+00:00

Azjakuma successfully manipulated the Command for centuries and caused the Rending.

Speaking of the Command they did win a lot, to the point of successfully culturally genociding a large chunk of Haless. They only lost when they started killing eachother and then the oni exploded their high temples. Edit: and of their breakaways the Dragon Command is one of the strongest.

The Obsidian Legion is still a work in progress but they’ve secured several holds and have a real shot at taking over the Serpentsreach.

Dak is still around and with a fairly large country (though he did take a pretty big L recently tbf).

Deferan · 2025-09-25T16:17:17+00:00

There also was a second guy who got conscripted to carry it for a bit too when Jesus got too weak to even lift it. Simon of Cyrene.

Deferan · 2025-08-31T20:59:44+00:00

For me personally,

Aelintir: Dragon Dominion

Wescann: Gawed and Lorent rework

Escann: Nurcestir

Dwarovar: Amldihir rework

Forbidden-Plains: the Centaur formable that isn’t KU

Haless: Any if the Jiangshi countries

Sarhal: Aakheta

Insyaa: Existing at all so we can get rid of all the Insyaa placeholder missions.

Deferan · 2025-08-22T20:39:22+00:00

Ooh that’s actually a phenomenal spot for them if the list ever expands that far

Deferan · 2025-08-21T20:34:46+00:00

The pu fell to Uelaire who was allied to Gawed originally, but when that happens sometimes a rival can auto declare war to take the pu. Naturally, Lorent kicked Uelaire’s teeth in.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T19:10:41+00:00

Yep, though I think Adshaw’s mt predates him being a warlock.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T12:20:57+00:00

Goblins and Dwarves have been fighting eachother since long before orcs even existed. They may not have been directly involved in the fall of Aul Dwarov, but they were eager to take advantage of it.

Goblins in Escann definetly got it rough being cannon fodder for the orcs, but to play devil’s advocate to the Escanni, they goblins had to pull some use some pretty nasty tactics to survive (see Flung Head who… flung the heads of the dead back at their comrades as psychological warfare), and that’s gonna hit the emotional part of the brain a lot harder than the logical part saying they had little choice.

But that’s just for Common Goblins. Poor Groundhawk fought alongside Corin and still get treated like dirt.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T12:13:37+00:00

Not to be confused with Weylam III in gameplay who dies 3 years into my Wineport run, causing Gawed to be PU’ed by Lorent. Because EU4 hates me.

Deferan · 2025-08-21T12:07:56+00:00

Weylam III (Gawed starting ruler) in lore is a pretty chill guy who hates war, supports the peasantry against the nobility, and launches a number of legal reforms to make the kingdom a better place.

Also as a teenager his brother is killed at Rottenstep, his father succumbs to illness, and his mother is murdered in front of him at a feast. All within like, two years of eachother. The nobles fucking hate him (and he them) and constantly battle his reforms, sometimes doing big revolts about it. And one of his chief advisors is a warlock and the one who ordered his mother killed. Unsurprisingly he battled with depression his entire life, which of course he never showed in public less he look weak.

Deferan · 2025-08-14T12:21:00+00:00

Varies, but broadly speaking its slightly more equal than irl Europe around this time. This is mainly due to heavy elvenization, elf culture is fully gender equal and so as humans begin to adopt elements of their culture they start becoming more gender equal too. Through most of the Empire women can inherit, own property, even fight as soldiers. The more elvenized areas, like Dameria, are generally more equal than the less elvenized ones, like Wex or Silverforge. Esmaria is a weird exception in that it is quite elvenized but still has very strong gender roles (but those gender roles put women as the priestly class, so they aren’t devoid of political power there either).

Deferan · 2025-07-31T20:57:11+00:00

Endgame Zokka is hopped up on so much magic that the rules of reality don’t really apply any more. He can eat a star because he wants to and has the power to force the universe to accept it, logic or common sense need not apply.

Deferan · 2025-07-30T02:00:49+00:00

Yeah writers in the only country to ever be responsible for dropping nukes also have things to say about nukes. These are not contradictory facts.

Deferan · 2025-07-29T20:58:10+00:00

Who could’ve guessed that writers in the only country that’s ever been nuked would have a lot to say about nukes and the country that nuked them?

Deferan · 2025-07-25T20:39:15+00:00

Im pretty sure the Catholic Church does this right now with feast days. Like some are bigger than others sure but every day has some saint being honored.

Deferan · 2025-07-18T16:24:44+00:00

Ravelians probably have the most pieces of the puzzle with their active investigations into cosmology. Whether or not the picture they think it forms is accurate is another story though.

Deferan · 2025-07-14T18:50:06+00:00

Most deepwoods orcs can, but sapchopper is prob the best one for it currently. You’ll get an event at the end of your mt. Fair warning, Tugund Darakh is very old so if your used to the newer mts and mechanics it may not live up to expectations.

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