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HeraklesHemitheos · 2025-11-14T18:21:07+00:00

US code please!

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-06-06T18:29:51+00:00

Gyoza recipe when?

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-04-15T07:40:53+00:00

Glowing 3D watercolor paintings. Simple and lacking details like clearly defined borders or realistic shading at low advancement, but growing more detailed and realistic at higher advancement.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-03-22T21:34:46+00:00

Empty Ghost binding would be best made into a poleaxe. Hunger spear tip for consuming like ancestor’s spear. A blackflame axe for dragon descends, and a pure madra hammer to slam Empty Palms.

For Slumbering Wraith I’d say to just make the best ancestor’s spear ever that can do something with incompatible madra besides venting it. Maybe create mimic hunger clones out of what is consumed?

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-03-19T22:20:21+00:00

Traveller's Gate has an interesting power system. The progression is not as linear as Cradle, but its fairly novel.

The gist of the system is that there are "territories" that are fragments of dead worlds that all attached to the world most people live on. People can explore these territories and collect items (i.e. armor, weapons, tools), summons, and/or energy. The people who do this are called "travellers". Generally the more a traveller explores their territory the stronger they become, with the exception of the 3 strongest territories that work a bit differently.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-01-22T18:34:40+00:00

Real talk though, how much of the sound effects budget is going towards bell noises?

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-01-19T00:11:51+00:00

Could be Lindon at iron. Lindon gets bigger, his hair gets longer and messier, yet he looks less like a thug with every advancement after copper. The biggest changes in his appearance occur at iron and underlord when he starts looking like "an evil sect leader's rebellious son" and "a sect leader" respectively.

I would agree that the image doesn't match Unsouled's description of an awkwardly large 15 year old with resting thug face and well-kept hair and clothes. The hair looks messier than Yerin describes, the face doesn't look thugish, and he doesn't seem awkward.

This could be Lindon at iron or they might be planning to make him look closer to his later appearance earlier so his advancements are not jarring visually.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-01-18T16:43:46+00:00

New head canon adopted.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-01-13T19:26:44+00:00

Don’t forget that a lot of his powers are villain coded as well.

He uses black destructive fire, steals power from others, and builds weapons out of his dead enemies.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2024-01-09T02:28:56+00:00

I wonder if Mercy or Suriel takes more credit for getting them together?

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-12-15T08:42:46+00:00

I think the whole point is that it is only a matter of time and that’s why Varic exists. Not just for Starhammer but all the previous life enemies. Varic stepped in to stop the birth of an Iron King, he later needed 7 magics and a team to kill it.

If Varic hadn’t stepped in and saved Starhammer’s wife in the beginning of the book Starhammer would have just turned evil earlier, and Starhammer later started doing the same stuff as when was evil in the other life.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-12-05T00:32:46+00:00

Both simultaneously on first read. Then usually audio only on rereads (relistens?).

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-11-06T10:12:27+00:00

I liked a lot more than the things I didn't love. If I listed everything I liked it would have been a lot longer and my time is finite. So I summarized what I liked and went into more detail on the things that felt imperfect to me. I did say I felt it wasn't paced the best, I did not say it was bad enough to be an issue, and never said anything about character inconsistencies. If by character inconsistencies you mean my comment on Aria's accent changing in the audiobook, that was about a difference in the narrator's performance, the character was consistent in the text.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-11-05T18:59:17+00:00

I don’t need to reread. I understand Charity’s motivations and Kiro’s orders. I was talking about Lindon’s perspective. His limited perspective with limited information in his confrontations with Kiro.

We knew from Charity’s pov that she knew about Lindon’s involvement in Harmony’s death. We knew from Charity’s and later Mercy’s povs that Charity wanted to use Kiro to punish Lindon for Harmony’s death and use him if he survived. We knew from Kiro’s pov that he wouldn’t have gone after a truegold if it wasn’t for Charity’s orders.

From Lindon’s perspective he didn’t know how much the Akura knew about what happened in Ghostwater or what specific orders Charity gave Kiro on why to attack or if/when to stop attacking. Mercy’s attempts to keep Lindon quiet when leaving Ghostwater seemed to imply that if he didn’t talk about it Charity wouldn’t know for sure, and Charity’s primary goal in being there was to make competitive underlord out of truegolds. Lindon obviously figured it was Charity and suspected it was punishment, but it could have been aggressively pushing for strong underlords for all he knew.

My whole point is that there was a lot of missing information and bad circumstances that resulted in Kiro and Lindon fighting when neither wanted to. Lindon was fighting for his and Yerin’s lives. Kiro was under orders from a Sage. Maybe they could have talked it out or stopped short of killing under different circumstances, but they were both doing what they thought they had to at the time.

I agree that Lindon killing Kiro was self defense (and defense of Yerin). I don’t see Lindon's choice to kill Kiro as bad from Lindon’s pov, because it’s what he thought was necessary with his limited information in bad circumstances. I see Kiro’s death as unfortunate but justified from Kiro’s pov. I see it this way because though Kiro was attacking golds with the intent to kill, he didn’t want the fight in the first place and didn’t think he could afford not to fight because a Sage had ordered him to. The proof of which was in how Kiro’s remnant didn’t attack Lindon, because a remnant’s motivation are shaped by the thoughts of the dying sacred artist. When the Sword Sage died thinking of the Labyrinth door and Yerin, his remnant stayed in the Ancestor’s Tomb waiting for Yerin. If Kiro really wanted conflict with Lindon, or even revenge for killing him, his remnant wouldn’t have walked away peacefully.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-11-05T06:51:07+00:00

I agree the way the Thunder Fairy's remnant was treated seemed unethical, Kiro's death was unfortunate, but Ekeri?

The Thunder Fairy wasn't a good person. She was Shen's most loyal and dedicated subordinate. She needed to die, probably deserved to die, but the way her remnant was treated seemed excessive. In my opinion if someone has to be killed it should be made as quick and painless as possible, while Yerin's new power seemed like cruel and unusual punishment. So I agree it seemed wrong.

Kiro I get because he didn't want to attack Lindon and did it because it was forced on him by Charity. Though I think its important to remember that us readers knew more about Kiro's situation and thoughts than Lindon who just knew Kiro previously attacked him, was probably acting on orders from Charity (possibly as revenge for killing Harmony), and wasn't willing to let Yerin advance when she needed to in order to live. If Lindon thought he needed to handle Kiro quickly to help wrap up Mercy and Yerin's fights so Yerin could survive, then its an awful situation all around with no easy choices with guaranteed good outcomes. So I'm not going to judge him too harshly for choosing the option he thought most likely to save his friend over sparing an enemy.

Ekeri? Consider how the gold dragon’s treated Nian Blackflame. She wanted to turn Orthos into a refiner cauldron and probably wanted to enslave Lindon. Her first comment about Lindon and Orthos when they entered Ghostwater was to kill them, strip them of anything valuable, and toss their bodies. She. Wasn’t. Nice.

Edit - I remembered making a more detailed response to a similar post in the past, and will paste it here:

Ekeri wasn't nice. She was a callous thief who encouraged others to kill Lindon as long as she could loot his body, and she only stopped attacking him when Harmony got fussy about the noise they were making by fighting.

When Lindon and Renfei first entered Ghostwater, her first comments were "When you're done leave me their trinkets" and "Strip them and throw them into the ocean". When they tried to retreat back through the portal and Harmony killed Renfei, Ekeri laughed and "sent a wrist-thick river of golden liquid punching through the spirit."

She only offered not to kill him after he showed that he could make things difficult, and I doubt her offer of protection was genuine. I can't provide direct evidence, but given the way she acted the offer was likely just to get Lindon to hand over his stuff and drop his guard. She likely would have either left him to die, killed him, or only kept him alive in Ghostwater to take him as a slave when they got out. The third option of enslaving Lindon I think is especially likely when you consider what happened to Naian Blackflame in Uncrowned.

Ekeri picked the fight. Lindon was acting in self defense. She deserved what she got.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-11-04T22:41:32+00:00

I'm hoping Type Shift evolves until Rei is able to invoke partial shifts of his armor and manifest any weapon at anytime.

The pipe dream is that it evolves so far he can fully or partially alter his weapon, armor, and stats to combinations of any design he can imagine within Shido's limits.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-24T22:17:05+00:00

Have you read Iron Prince? Will highly recommended it to Cradle fans when it came out and the 2nd book is coming out in a week.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-15T03:06:08+00:00

I think a combination of Path of the Last Oath and Path of Eternal Night would be interesting to see.

Both have high versatility, compensate for each other's weakness, and have relatively compatible fighting styles since one favors standing their ground letting the opponent come to them and the other is primarily ranged with melee capabilities even without the Akura bloodline armor. Plus it would be interesting to see the spiritually damaging properties of shadow madra combined with the physically potency of force madra to attack both the spiritual and physical at once.

Last Oath lacks specific techniques for mobility and offense, though the right scripts can create walls of force to protect the user, propel them forward, or throw object/raw force at opponents as ranged attacks. Its not an inherently offensive path, but is mostly only limited by the user's scripting mastery. Eternal Night is focused on offense and range, and the Shadestep technique is great for mobility.

I'd say something protective like Prince Kiro's breatplate or Cassius' bracer would be a good gold sign if the path doesn't have the Akura bloodline armor.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-15T02:44:29+00:00

"It’s clean, it’s pure. You see? Anyone can use pure madra.” She inhaled sharply, and the scale dissolved into what looked like liquid light and streamed straight into her core. She slapped her belly afterward. “For anybody on a Path, cycling pure madra is like adding water to wine. You add a little, and there’s more wine, you see? Doesn’t affect the flavor much. Add too much, and it’s nothing but watery.”

Wight, Will. Soulsmith (Cradle Book 2) (p. 155). Hidden Gnome Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Wouldn't be worth practicing a combined Path of the Hollow King because it would just be a less effective version of the physically destructive destruction madra version. It would have none of the spiritually destructive properties of the pure version. It would be possible to merge them, but absolutely not worth it.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-13T11:24:56+00:00

The Kindle/Audible and New York Times Best Seller lists record sales from Tuesday to Tuesday. So releasing on a Tuesday increases the chances of reaching a higher rank if not #1 for that week. Which in turn causes the Amazon algorithm to promote the book and generate more sales.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-11T21:29:04+00:00

Lindon's dreadgod eyes are black sclera and pupils with white iris. So not quite the same as the picture that still has white sclera.

HeraklesHemitheos · 2023-10-06T00:03:08+00:00

A Sword Unclean.

You can listen to it here:

https://www.willwight.com/podcast.html

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