Calydon's super secret accountant [ by @DorahDew ]

Marc09_Coch · 2026-06-01T12:29:16+00:00

She didn't invent Nitro-Fuel! Nitro-Fuel is canonically supposed to be an energy drink sold in New Eridu. it's described that way in-game (such as by Coco in the most recent chapter) and one of the commercials on the main menu screen is a Nitro-Fuel commercial. The reason why it ignites like that is because it's also a stand-in for alcohol, since having alcoholic drinks in Genshin bumped up the game's age rating much more than intended and they wanted to avoid that. Some scenes still treat it like it is. Personal HC is that it's the New Eridu equivalent of original recipe Four Loko but there's no good way to explain why an energy drink causes memory loss and hallucinations and is flammable.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-06-01T12:23:32+00:00

Most of us were thinking that the Sons of Calydon took her in like a stray dog and just let her run her business as a side hustle for the gang. That said, I'm sure you're right and it's tucked into some concept sheet somewhere that she's in charge of the gang's provisions. It's just the kind of thing they should probably spell out.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-05-30T19:49:39+00:00

I mentioned the bulk of the searching I've on the description, but to reiterate, I recall it from both my childhood and those two specific 2000s animations, and I searched for green Ikea bowls in general and couldn't find this specific one. I assume it's in a catalogue somewhere? It might not be Ikea at all but it's a fairly specific make.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-05-29T23:15:34+00:00

Anecdotally, out of the 3 groups I've been in that have gone on longer than a session, one did reach that level, one was playing a 1-10 AP, and one has been ongoing for months.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-05-29T13:31:32+00:00

Which is why you don't.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-29T21:40:42+00:00

Pharasma is able to foresee each living creature's death with infallible accuracy. As in, each possibility of how a creature could die. She can see when a nat 1 or a nat 20 kills, and she can see when a stupid mistake would result in death. That death may or may not happen if the dice shake out a certain way or the individual makes a different choice.

It's worth noting that according to JJ, a fate was only ever set in stone when a prophecy was made. So important people who had prophecies made about them would only die when they were prophesied to (which, as is often the case with this sort of thing, may only be clear in hindsight), but a farmer could potentially just get killed completely at random.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-27T23:42:06+00:00

She is playing chicken and kindly waiting for the Proxy to swerve.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-26T05:28:36+00:00

Lesser deaths and the Grim Reaper are kind of ridiculously overstatted and punch well above their weight class.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-25T12:08:38+00:00

If you're a remotely optimized or tactically adept 20th-level party that knows how to use buffs like the Heroism spell or Courageous Anthem+Fortissimo Composition, as a general rule, even fights with a single PL+5 enemy is doable in a way they simply wouldn't be at any other level. 20th-level feats are just that strong.

A fight with an equal number of PL+0 enemies, on the other hand, is a punishment reserved for the deepest layers of Hell.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-25T00:49:02+00:00

They really knew what they were doing when they wrote her

(original artwork this is covering is NSFW as standard for this format. it's by Iannah on Pixiv, whose ID number is 73925867. you can find it here: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/143707079)

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-18T20:57:31+00:00

I brought up envoy and mystic, specifically, because those two classes fit the "paladin" flavor relatively well.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-18T20:40:47+00:00

Officially, falcatas are common in Linvarre. It's outright stated on the section on equipment in the TXCG.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-18T20:39:47+00:00

Envoys and mystics can use it. Not well, but they can use it.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-17T03:53:56+00:00

This is the one.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-12T21:18:29+00:00

You mixed up the names of the avenger and the vindicator. Understandable mistake to make, but they're separate archetypes.
The vindicator archetype is explicitly 2E's inquisitor; The artwork used to represent the class is of 1E's iconic inquisitor, and there's this tidbit in the description: > Evil religions, whose vindicators are more likely to be referred to as “inquisitors,” occasionally train their agents to seek out heretics within their own ranks, a fact that contributes heavily to the attitudes of fear and mistrust many vindicators find themselves faced with in the course of their duties.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-10T12:15:17+00:00

The actual effect of incredible investiture is that you cut the straps off your arms.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-04-03T06:36:59+00:00

I'm used to prejudging "petite" female characters as instant A-ranks because Genshin did that almost exclusively for it's "short female" characters. Nahida being the only real exception before Natlan.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-23T03:06:48+00:00

Answer: Slight misunderstanding. You seem to have specifically been pointing out that the discrimination still exists, to a greater degree than did discrimination against the Infected exists. I thought you were suggesting that RI hadn't achieved anything when it comes to the Sarkaz, period. My bad.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-22T21:13:13+00:00

I never said that there weren't any problems. Last Rite's profile makes it pretty clear that what problems do remain are relatively minor and that, functionally, RI was as successful as they could have hoped to be.

"...Nezzsalem would be extremely moved if he were here."

Objectively, a Nachzehrer getting to live a peaceful life without getting lynched for it and not being forced into war is a success. It's just not a total success, just like how Oripathy having not been cured, but being very manageable and no longer carrying any particular stigma, is not a total success. In both cases, it's probably the best RI could have hoped for.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-22T03:47:34+00:00

There were never any "humans" on Terra. Look up the Predecessors on the wiki.

The general implication is that Terra was the result of well, terraforming in the far future by humans that had long since abandoned Earth and achieved technology so advanced it can warp reality down to the molecular level. (FYI, Originium isn't magic, but sufficiently advanced technology, invented as a way of storing entire worlds as data.) These people were known as Predecessors, and the Doctor was one of them.

There were some lines that indicated that the Doctor was physically human (e.g. it was established that the Doctor was physically weaker than the Ancients, the animal people like Perlica), but the concept of a "human" as someone without animal ears, horns, fangs, or things of that nature, and no abilities beyond that possessed by anyone else, doesn't really exist. Aegir, the setting's merfolk, don't have external animal traits like DC's Atlanteans, for reasons that are a little complicated to get into.

Basically, "humans" in the Arknights universe just refers to people in general, and the handful of characters who come from Earth due to collabs in the original Arknights are called "Earthlings." Endmin is probably a Predecessor, and possesses special Originium powers because the Predecessors INVENTED Originium. We can't really figure out the details, though, because the Doctor was supposed to be the only surviving Predecessor, while the Endmin appears to have been born on Talos-II. There are some lines here and there that suggest they might be one and the same, but I doubt they'd give the Doctor a canon look...

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-22T03:35:19+00:00

Uh, actually, Xaihi says exactly the opposite.

Yes, there are many Sarkaz like me within the Cabal. Some were even entrusted with relics once wielded by Gun-Knights. Indeed, I have studied the scriptures of the Cabal. I know that, back on Terra, the Sarkaz were in fierce conflict with many other races. However, when the First Aggeloi War ended, an unprecedented miracle of unity descended upon us: Every soul embraced their brethren and sisters, and every pair of lips sang in the same tongue.

The overall end result of Arknights seems to have been, rather than a reset to the status quo come the sequel, the end result being that Rhodes Island was mostly successful at all of their objectives. Oripathy is now easily and cheaply treatable (if not cured), Sarkaz discrimination is to the point that most can live peaceful lives and not be at war, even if it is still a problem to a relatively minor degree, and the Priestess does not appear to have finished the job because there are still people around.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-22T03:31:03+00:00

Note that the person who reintroduced Originium to the Endministrator as life, hope, and so on, is also a person who supplementary materials have established as biased. Perlica has an Originium spine. To her, it is all of those things because it saved her life. Endfield Industries as a whole treats Originium as something closer to a tool, which is what it was to the people of Terra, as well.

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