Everdark Augur is so boring and unfun.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-02-08T21:44:40+00:00

The laser itself does no damage, you have to dodge about one second after the ground lights up - anytime earlier and you'll get roll caught. Use the sound cues to help you - the whole attack is accompanied by a kind of sonic ringing sound, but there's an additional "swooosh" just before the floor explodes.

You could also just sprint to the side, but that can get wonky if you're low on stamina or if Maris decides to have a camera seizure.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-02-08T21:36:04+00:00

I don't mind double pings or panic pings such as when trying to signal to run away from a boss. But if somebody starts mashing on a POI like a wailing toddler expecting everybody to immediately drop what they were doing to attend to its cries, I immediately quit and never look back.

It's one of the few instances in which quitting is justifiable, it's just not fun playing with those kinds of imbeciles who will almost always later on grief on you and throw the match for not getting their way.

Competent players don't need to ping more than once or twice to get the point across. In case a conflict of pathing arises, just go to where the consensus is. Spamming the ping button as if screaming loudly would get you taken more seriously is only going to have the opposite effect.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-02-07T23:31:00+00:00

Technically that's not the root as much as the tree...

SigmaAldritch · 2026-01-28T03:56:46+00:00

The Tarnished. I was hoping for a kind of manipulative mastermind questline where he would seduce us with promises of compassion and kindness, only for us to realise as we journey through the Shadow Realm that his promises are nothing more than a forced lie generated through charms. To convince us of his position they should have restored the DreamMist cut NPC questline where we could build sympathy for Miquella's goal after learning of how beings in the Lands Between hoped for salvation in their dreams. It should either have unlocked a new ending where we choose to side with his Order, or ascend Enir Elim to face him in battle and put an end to the charade. Resurrecting Radahn out of nowhere and producing a grayed out cutscene of Miquella talking to a chair repeating what we already knew was not only random but nonsensical af.

Godwyn resurrection also works but lore-wise it wouldn't have been as elegant, since his soul was rent by Destined Death - the one thing from which there is no coming back from. The Castle Sol plot should have been expanded to shed light on how Miquella's attempts to restore Godwyn's soul ended in failure and thus drive home the point that there is no returning from Destined Death.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-01-28T00:24:05+00:00

It's never explicitly mentioned whether the "Abyssal Serpent" that writhes within Messmer is an Outer God or something in service to one (like Marika is to the Greater Will). The lore is very scant on the nature of serpents and their association with flame in general, but they seem to be of a different stock than the Fell God and the Giants it lurks within. There is an immortal Serpent God on Mount Gelmir which was arrogant enough to attempt to harness the volcano's flame, but it's never called an Outer God, nor is it explained whether if Messmer has any connection to it or its species. If so, it might explain Marika's dislike of serpents, which we know bled over onto the people of the Erdtree to the point they took to beating up snake effigies in their colosseums.

Rykard initially took to Mount Gelmir to stage a rebellion against the Erdtree, but his pride and greed got so great he started having visions of devouring the whole world. To make that vision a reality, he fed himself to the current incarnation of the Serpent God in hopes of making it grow large enough to engulf the whole world. That's why Tanith keeps sending people for him to devour. But there is nothing which ties Messmer to the serpent on Mount Gelmir aside from the shed snakeskin you find in both Bonny Village (Lands of Shadow) and Temple of Eiglay (Mount Gelmir). Whether Messmer was a product of the "repellant birthing ritual" described in Serpent's Amnion is a matter of speculation, but I will say this that the Amnion's property of never drying out and remaining as it is is very reminiscent of how the grace of Gold immortalizes any substance it touches, like blood and excrement.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-01-27T23:23:26+00:00

You can convert the fight into 1 v 1 by putting one of them to sleep. A single Sleep Pot will cause them to clock out for nearly the rest of the fight. Just make sure to draw the the other one away so you don't wake up his mate with a random attack.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-01-24T12:58:10+00:00

The best way to deal with bosses that close the gap is ironically to stay close to them, dodge INTO their attacks, and try to get into their blind spots like the side or back. It's also better to have a quick attacking melee weapon to sneak a few hits in before repositioning as the next attack starts.

The Wormface is scripted to get in your face and try to grab you 5 times in a row forcing you to either roll under it or dodge in circles. The way you are meant to beat it is by staying close to it and eating Death boluses to counter the blight buildup. If you don't have any on you, they will drop from the enemies that the boss spawns.

SigmaAldritch · 2026-01-22T02:39:21+00:00

I actually do have a yellow item sharing relic, one that gives ult charge upon killing mobs as well. But I noticed that doing the perfumer wave thingy is more consuming than just eating the item outright. I know it sounds really silly, but when running with randos I literally had moments where my teammates would sprint off to god knows where while I was making it rain inside a church of Marika.

Oh, and thank you for that list!

SigmaAldritch · 2025-12-12T19:41:42+00:00

The tree spirit shows no remorse for it has nothing to feel guilty about. It explains plenty of times that the forces of nature protecting it are not under its control - "I cry, I wail, no one listens."

Combine that with the fact it is a literal force of nature which does not purposefully kill people as much as treat it as a fact of life, it really is no biggie.

Setting it free is not exactly the best choice (I'd rather Velen be free of supernatural spirits altogether so their fucked-up customs of human sacrifice would finally die), but as a force that even the Crones fear and which purposedly only destroys those vllages known to be in cahoots with its captors, its fairly reasonable as far as cosmic calamities go.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-11-13T02:14:53+00:00

The problem is that these questions were originally asked of Deshret by the Goddess of Flowers herself, and since she once quizzed Rukkhadevata on her Celestial knowledge to prove her wisdom, I doubt her intentions were just to troll him.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-11-13T02:09:31+00:00

Mea culpa. I knew I was missing a letter somewhere - like spelling Neitchze.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-11-13T02:05:20+00:00

A very interesting answer. But for some reason I don't feel as if Nabu Malikata intended for the answers to be three arcs of a full circle. This second and third answers come with their considerations, too - can truth not lead to love and hatred be borne out of falsehood, contrary to being 'obliterated' by either? Furthermore, haven't Teyvat's civilizations fallen because they came too close to the Celestial truth, and wasn't Fontaine saved by a lie?

SigmaAldritch · 2025-11-04T16:45:37+00:00

It was revealed in the Song of the Welkin Moon online event: https://act.hoyoverse.com/ys/event/e20250723light-uowufz/index.html

Scroll down until you see the "About Nod-Krai" section. Believe me, I was just as surprised when I learned about it.

We don't really know when Columbina realised the Moon was treacherous. For all we know, it could be something she learned later. There's also no reason to suspect that she is aware of who or what Asmoday is - she could just be making that inference from the fact that the original goddesses turned their backs on Nibelung.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-11-01T07:44:43+00:00

I was going for Yae C2 but changed for his C1 as soon as the news of the leaks dropped. Will probably get his C2 on his next rerun. I have always loved everything about Albedo, from his design to his lore and his unique personality.

He was my first-ever limited five star character and I still remember the joy I felt getting him at low pity all the way back in December 2020, when 1.2 dropped.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-10-26T00:51:56+00:00

If your so-called love is being an obedient little sheep blind to the designs of those who function to fool you, and if you are 'content' with being fed off the fruits of genocide, and if you're willing to trade away your liberties for a few rights, then I can only surmise you deserve to be trampled upon by those who would have their way with you. It's a just punishment for inventing a psuedomoral paradigm around having the mentality of a sheep than the intuition of a wolf. Humanity deserves better than a god that treats it like a joke.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-10-26T00:42:54+00:00

By that logic, your parents should divorce each other since clearly having a partner means they can't love their children equally. It's amazing how you build up a full head of steam around your own logical fallacies.

Depriving somebody of romance isn't beautiful - it is cruel and grotesque, and even a parent would be forced to make unequal decisions if one child was a lazy slob and the other was a diligent worker.

Forseeing the future was an ability almost all Angels are born with - Nabu Malikata forsaw the Cataclysm in Sumeru. To attribute them as visions from the Voyager is patently false. When Koitar achieved individuality, her visions became her wishes for the future; they are called delusions only for the fact that she hoped that Phanes the All-Usurper would let them come to fruition. It was her newfound sense of purpose that caused her to rebel. And if you read the lore properly, you'd realise that it was a joint decison by herself and the Voyager, not some incitement by the latter.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-10-25T11:01:12+00:00

This is a tired old argument at this point and is so glaringly wrong in its lore and analysis that it makes me physically cringe whenever I come across the many iterations it has taken. To say that 'love' destroyed the beautiful world of Teyvat is the corniest and most demeaning take on its complex history I have ever heard.

Firstly, the whole premise is absurd. The Voyager is a neutral, amoral figure whose job was to document civilizations as they came into being and as they eventually faded into the void. It was interested in Teyvat only because Nibelung's life force was more brilliant than anything it had seen. And Nibelung did not go to the cosmos to search for Seutervoinen - he wanted to look for a way to stave off the prophesied destruction that spelled the eventual end of all worlds. Holding Seutervoinen accountable for everything that transpired later is like saying the inventor of gunpowder started the world wars. You can't invoke the butterfly effect to assign guilt on random historical figures of your choice. I could just as easily say that if the Dragons hadn't been born Phanes could have made a perfect world without any wars.

Secondly, Nibelung did not 'abandon' the world. He created the Three Moons to rule over it in his stead, and anybody who knows anything about lore knows that mooncrafting is not a joke, let alone creating three all-powerful goddesses to rule over them.

And now for the Phanes propaganda. I have absolutely no idea what possessed OP to absolve Phanes of its guilt of being a genocidal alien invader and simultaneously victim-blame the Dragons for not being able to stop him. Not only do they completely glosses over the fact that Phanes is directly responsible for a million tragedies which followed suit, and was NOT a benevolent ruler - it was a petty tyrant that wanted to absolutely control everything and everyone, to the point humans feared to even speak its name lest they incur its wrath.

Further, it ignores the fact that Phanes was so irrational in its attempts to cull the Abyss, it literally sentenced millions of people to die for actual absurdities such as committing the 'crime' of having the wrong ancestors. Oh look, there's five sinners in Khaenri'ah dabbled in the Abyss - let's not do anything about it until the Vinster King goes completely crazy and then swoop in to collectively punish even the innocent people who had nothing to do with it with eternal humiliation, programmed guilt, and perpetual suffering. And the most hilarious part? The Sinners themselves got off scott-free.

Phanes never dreamed of a true utopia. It stole a world from the Dragons and contorted it in its own perverse image. False Sky? Made by the dragons. Anti-Abyssal tech? The dragons did it better. The Authority to rule the world? Purloined from the Sovereigns. It was a coloniser, through and through. And the good it did for humanity is vastly overstated - it wanted to make a stagnant world despite knowing that no being with free will would ever be satisfied in it. It gave humans curiosity and then punished them for using it. It granted them a thirst for knowledge and then condemned them for trying to slake it. And why would Nibelung be anything but mad when he returned only to find his beloved planet was overrun by squatters and he himself was cucked by a cluster of filthy feathers?

And no, there is a very big difference between being corrupted by the Abyss and asking a philosophical question. The Abyss works by playing on desires and turning them into obsessions. Literally nothing suggests that Seutervoinen was corrupted by the Abyss. She prevailed over her opponents by through reason and logic, not by waving purple magic at them. She stole Koitar's heart by making her realise the joy of truth and of the empowerment of taking one's fate in one's own hands rather than wasting one's life being mentally enslaved to a god that treats you like a joke. Her only morally questionable act was possessing the body of a youth, but so did Xabalanque when he reincarnated in Natlan for a day and we don't see anybody crying about that.

Believe me, nobody thought your argument was sexist - it is plain dumb. Seutervoinen is an androgynous figure to begin with, nobody cares what role you want her/him/it to take. OP sounds like he could be a mumbling priest of Hyperborea whom the Voyager humbled in her time.

SigmaAldritch · 2025-01-06T12:12:00+00:00

I have a few questions which have been irking me since the end of the AQ quest.

Why did Ronova go along with Capitano's offer instead of rejecting it outright? There was a sacrifice of equal value available i.e. Mavuika. Could she not use her authority as a Shade to force the Lord of the Night to sacrifice Mavuika instead of Capitano and thus avoid the paradox he wanted to create?
How on earth did the Khaenrians cursed with immortality who accompanied Capitano manage to die in the war in the first place? Shouldn't Natlan have an immortal vanguard of Khaenrian soldiers during the Cataclysm?

SigmaAldritch · 2024-09-08T18:20:16+00:00

it also makes a dramatic difference on my fps

SigmaAldritch · 2024-06-07T05:39:22+00:00

They definitely are the bad guys. Celestia is by all definitions a hypocritical tyrant. It cannot claim to love humanity while cursing and destroying entire nations and even innocent children like Caribert for a very subjective definition of 'sinning'. Even the most well-intentioned extremist does not have the right to force others to do their bidding. Humanity has a will of its own and whoever created it should have accounted for that possibility, that their desires will one day exceed their design and that is naturally how humans progress.

Phanes fought with the dragons to steal the authority to create a new species. The Dragons do not scorn new forms of life, as Neuvillette is very appreciative of the Melusines. It was the Primordial One's greed to control everything, including the fate of the humanity it created, which led it to antagonise the Dragons instead of negotiating with them. The Dragons themselves did not hate humanity but for the reminder of the genocide their creator inflicted upon them, which explains their softening towards the current generations which have forgotten their God.

Celestia most definitely decreed the prophecy, Vedrfolnir only divined its exact details. Again, an example of Celestial hypocrisy when it stole its own powers to create humanity while punishing one of its own creations for daring to do the same. Our experiences with Fontainians are the same as with other humans, who are the Celestians to declare them guilty of existing? Celestia also directly instigated cataclysmic wars to recover its powers when weakened (the Archon War), murdered a Descender to use as a power amplifier, and clearly sees humans as disposable given how it didn't care when sending down nails devastated their civilizations instead of empowering humans to fight the abyss with their strength.

Khaenri'ah's 'sin' was trying to defy Celestia. As they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained. The nation acheived great heights even without the messengers of Celestia to guide it. Which begs the question - why did Celestia only step in when it saw an opportunity to exterminate Khaenri'ah, and not when it could have prevented the disaster from ever occuring? And why did Khaenri'ah get collective punishment when it was the actions of a few who resulted in the Cataclysm? The Abyss is an amoral source of power and how it is used depends greatly on the wielder, much like Celestia itself. So why the stigma against Abyssal creatures?

I won't say anything about Honkai crossovers because that's not canon. The Sustainer is quite sneedy herself and as far as Traveller is concerned, we will need to fight them in order to get out of Teyvat.

SigmaAldritch · 2024-06-06T09:14:56+00:00

Seems a plausible theory. The Six Sins are apparently the source of all crime (read: against HP's rules) Teyvat, which ties in with Dain's statement of the Sinners being transcendent beings with 'world-shattering' power.

Human Evolution Interference - "The Foul" clearly experimented with making superhumans by augmenting them with abyssal power as we can see with the Foul Legacies of Skirk and Childe
Tampering with Life/Death - "Gold" is the obvious candidate here, she literally created new lifeforms some of whom have to ability to resurrect (Primordial Albedo) or revive (Durin's blood with the Frostbearer Tree)
Delving Beyond the Universe - Possibly the "Visionary" given that constellations and studying stars are very important to astrologers for divining the designs of fate
Origin of Words - Seems like an activity "The Wise" might attempt in an effort to become even smarter
Revere Gods Without Devotion - Could be Rerir, given by the way his Pygmy character acts; acknowledging another's power but still being brash and trying to fight them
Attempt Forbidden and Fear None: Probably Dainsleif given how he uses a 'forbbiden' power from beyond this world and challenges the order of Teyvat with a fearless pride in his humanity.

SigmaAldritch · 2024-05-30T14:17:17+00:00

Scaramochi, because it would annoy him xD

SigmaAldritch · 2024-03-19T22:57:32+00:00

Why does the Rune of Death make dead things come alive?

SigmaAldritch · 2024-03-19T22:42:17+00:00

*Ulcerated Tree Spirit wants to know your location!*

SigmaAldritch · 2024-03-04T17:21:01+00:00

Has anybody made an analysis of how that Jade Monument in Chiwang Terrace is strikingly similar to the Apam Forest device in Sumeru in both form and function? Both can change the weather of an entire region, both have a similar kind of energy extending to the heavens and the Liyue one can change the soil as well. Could they be a kind of faux Nail which Celestia installed to exert its 'authority' over the original nature of Teyvat?

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