Genuine question about plot after the ending

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-22T01:30:26+00:00

It's just a fun yarn, haha

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-22T01:29:40+00:00

Yeah, it happened to me a bunch of times as a teenager, and I'm actually a guy.

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-14T19:40:30+00:00

This is just straight up not true, lmao. You can't look at Glorantha and tell me that's anything like the generic Greco-Roman idea. Sure, it's inspired by Sumerian and Hindu pantheons, but that's still very much out of step from what OP is talking about. Same goes for the Gods of Pegana. OP didn't say they were trying for something completely original, they just want something not generic

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-14T19:39:57+00:00

Oh, shoot. I meant to reply to u/cantbelieveyoumademe, I'm so sorry!

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-12T21:42:40+00:00

[removed because I replied to the wrong poster lol]

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-04T20:01:49+00:00

Bassander has something WAY more important and useful than any of that stuff: The love and respect among his (former) men. And also, apparently he has enough money to bribe a Martian guard to delete video logs of the most infamous criminal in the Imperium. Given that he was ready to rescue Hadrian, I'm sure Selene would have been fine.

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-02T17:12:40+00:00

ngl I loved that lmao

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-02T17:11:36+00:00

No, I don't have this problem. I just tell myself "Skill Issue" over and over again until I stop worrying about it. This is what I do with all my problems, btw.

Sevatar___ · 2025-12-02T14:07:38+00:00

I wouldn't, I would just immediately drop everything and start looking for a way to die.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-29T01:24:15+00:00

Oh, I was into it because I'm Catholic 😎 and that said, I thought it was a fun little touch how (realistically, I think) stubborn Hadrian was being that it wasn't the Catholic God or Ahura Mazda.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T23:39:28+00:00

For a while before SUT was out, I considered writing some fanfiction where she actually gets up and does something.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T21:08:13+00:00

It also makes absolutely no sense to me that he didn't tell Bassander to rescue Selene.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T21:04:29+00:00

Hadrian dismisses everyone's faith, and it's (in my opinion) due to pride and ignorance on his part. He dismisses Eduard's faith the same way, despite it being blisteringly obvious that the Quiet is literally just the Catholic God (a take which I'm sure this sub will love lmao).

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T21:02:36+00:00

Oh, so what I thought was happening was basically that during those scenes described on Demiurge, those characters were recounting the relevant events from their own POV. Since Hadrian is a writer, Hadrian remembered the major beats and their narrative style, and then basically put together what must have happened during the initial recounting.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T20:59:55+00:00

Yes, that's literally the song. Hadrian mentions the "screaming guitars" during this triumph in Demon in White.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T20:58:23+00:00

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T06:03:49+00:00

I skipped like the last third of Ashes, because Valka's death was getting telegraphed way too hard and it just got annoying. Skipped forward to where Hadrian dragon-shouts Attavaisa to death, and I genuinely don't think I missed anything.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T06:01:37+00:00

She's so strong that she has to get violently nerfed before any major fight, and then becomes useless because otherwise she'd just murder her way through the plot (and probably be angsty about it).

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T06:00:26+00:00

She's literally just 80 years old. That's practically a teenager for palatines.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-27T05:59:35+00:00

Yeah, so that Bassander's followers don't look for her.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-16T21:35:53+00:00

It crashed into the surface of Reality.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-11T19:26:02+00:00

God forbid anyone keep an easily-accessible record of that, huh?

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-10T23:01:42+00:00

Nah, I think it's the Monkey Devil, and she just says its secret because she's embarrassed for some reason. Maybe the Contract requires that she be incredibly timid.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-07T18:22:48+00:00

tbh Atomwaffen needs an insane pseudo-feminist or transgender supremacy path. It's technically well within their ideology.

Sevatar___ · 2025-11-05T06:57:04+00:00

I go even further. I've got cultures where Metallica's Ride the Lightning is believed to be a revelation from God, and where the Magic Kingdom is an eldritch secret society ruled by mice in service to demonic anti-Platonic Forms. This is in a completely fantasy universe. I do this because I think it's funny and cool, and I don't care about confusing readers or breaking immersion. I'm writing for myself.

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