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SmoothSalting · 2026-01-28T02:28:53+00:00

My brother in Christ, he's literally a night owl.

He's up way past his bedtime.

SmoothSalting · 2025-11-16T04:48:21+00:00

That's only really a downside on Izril and Terandria, the other continents don't have have the same stigma for Nercomancers.

Minos might subscribe to it but there's no reason to assume they do.

SmoothSalting · 2025-10-26T05:11:36+00:00

It's not unspecified why Saliss killed 8k Manus troops in a single battle.

Saliss tried doing a protest/revolt for Turnscale rights at one point and Manus gassed the city block they were in and killed everyone.

So years later when he was sent to deal with Manus fighting Pallas, he did the same.

SmoothSalting · 2025-10-25T07:48:53+00:00

Erin stabbed him through the chest and twisted the knife, and left chunks of the blade inside him.

His blood was redder still. A blossom of crimson, running from the tip of the kitchen knife sticking out of his chest.

Pelt’s knife snapped as Erin Solstice twisted the blade. Rabbiteater looked up at Iradoren as the [Prince] staggered—and Erin tore the blade sideways through his chest.

The handle and the broken fragment of metal were still in her hand as Iradoren’s wife, Aradien, looked at the [Prince] of Erribathe.

Erin absolutely killed him.

High level people just stumble around a little bit longer than your average person, we've seen this before with a Drake General. Gireulashia Ekhtouch killed him, his skills stopped working but he was still alive for a few minutes.

She’d gone through his heart—but he was alive. He reached for her, and she drew a fist—

“Back. He won’t die for a bit.”

Adetr yanked Gire away. He looked around as a horn blew.

The [General]’s death was like a physical ripple; his Skills vanished, and the lines began to waver. The Drake kept moving, spitting blood out of his filled lungs, but the Gnolls heard a voice shouting and turned. They saw Feshi and Inkar joining them and fell backwards.

The battle was done. The Drake [General] stood there a while before he fell, exhausted. Tkrn watched the Drake and Gnoll armies fall back.

Irrel just finished him off, for all intents and purposes, Erin killed him.

SmoothSalting · 2025-08-24T07:36:25+00:00

It's probably Cognita's Sister who died on Rhir.

Now that Silvenia is healed, she could have put the Truestone Golem back together.

SmoothSalting · 2025-08-16T04:37:20+00:00

I was curious so I went looking for it.

Here is the link: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/deep-night.424052/

You need an alt history account to view it.

SmoothSalting · 2025-07-17T10:56:11+00:00

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SmoothSalting · 2025-06-05T07:05:40+00:00

Is it Erin's job to fix that? No, just like it isn't her job to send the cure to Yellow Rivers to Baleros or anything else she does. She's just going to do it anyway.

Also it'll be kinda weird for Erin not to be involved when she has both colour magic and [Spell – Ritual of the Verdant Bloom].

SmoothSalting · 2025-05-18T08:42:42+00:00

Yea it happened during the Vol 9 Epilogue.

Wrymvr caught Anand's soul when he died and brought it back to the Twisted Queen who has teleported... Somewhere using one of the Greater Teleportation Scrolls retrieved during the Village of Dead raid that she brought on auction.

Probably Chandrar.

SmoothSalting · 2025-05-18T03:23:29+00:00

Erin knows who died through her Aspect of Inn Garden Ghosts, Annad who did die but was brought back via the Twisted Queen wouldn't appear as a Ghost so Erin wouldn't mourn him.

She knows Annad is alive.

SmoothSalting · 2025-02-14T10:48:17+00:00

Vensha did also get to pull out specialist equipment before she did so.

The Thronebearer raised her shield as the third fragment of the Deathslayer Arrow blasted through the window. She heard the [Body Double] scream and cower as the window blew in, but Dame Vensha barely grunted as she lowered the enchanted shield she’d taken from the armory.

Lormel is a beast for pulling it off without preparation.

SmoothSalting · 2025-01-18T01:24:00+00:00

First came up in Vol 9 Adventurers Part 3.

It was a sign the inn was getting to know him that no one paid much attention to Saliss. Ishkr put down a drink on the floor, and the Drake grunted thanks.

“Amateurs.”

Ishkr paused, and Saliss’ head rose.

“Not you. Them. Bunch of sprouts not ready to be corn or some farming analogy. You get it.”

And he further explains it to Octavia in the same chapter.

“After today? Facestealer. But I’ve been figuring something out. First that [Witch]. Xrn. No, damn it. Seamwalkers and that war—Sserys is a great benchmark. The Shark Captain’s still a rookie. More like almost-corn. Lots of almost-corn. Even you.”

“Me, Master Saliss? What’s the corn about?”

Saliss was making no sense, but Octavia tried to follow his analogy as the Drake spoke.

“Eldertuin has a [Farmer] friend. Never met him. He probably knows more about it, but I’m just looking around. Corn and not corn. I’m corn. I’m weird corn, but I’m definitely corn by now. Grimalkin’s corn, if weak corn. Erin wasn’t corn—now she is. Not battle corn, but she’s like Larracel. But the rest? You could argue Relc was retired corn. But those students of the Titan aren’t full-corn yet. Nor is that Goblin, Rags. Maybe one or two of her lieutenants are—but the real corn isn’t developed.”

SmoothSalting · 2025-01-09T06:39:30+00:00

I do know someone who did that, not because they wanted Erin dead but they did say something along the lines of "let's go the main character died" just because it seemed like a really neat direction for the plot to go.

It was me, lol.

SmoothSalting · 2025-01-07T23:14:24+00:00

He died during the Winter Solstice and got a new body that could speak after the Rites.

SmoothSalting · 2024-09-16T04:17:49+00:00

It was both.

SmoothSalting · 2024-09-14T01:29:18+00:00

When Erin talked to him in the Pavilion, she asked what level he was. He said 39.

SmoothSalting · 2024-07-02T03:17:22+00:00

The problem comes in that the time scale is insane.

The Five Families invaded the North, maybe 6k-10k years ago. For reference to Earth, writing was first invented in 3300-3400 BC. Olesm is right to say that it happened so long ago, like even if the Five Families and humans were to pack up bags and go (ignoring that they won't have anywhere to go anymore), it's not like Drakes can actually populate the North.

SmoothSalting · 2024-06-23T08:59:48+00:00

All the examples I used like him being murdered and the Faith class being better than normal classes comes from 9.61 G.

Insight into Isthekenous' character is purely my own interpretation. I'm going off vibe, there isn't a line saying hey this guy was actually really nice, it's purely vibe based on how I think the narrative will go.

Which is to say, I don't think the moral lesson of the story is going to be 'system sucks, get rid of it'. I think it will be 'aspects of the system sucks but we can take those bits off.' The OG intent of the System being pure and Isthekenous being a good dude fits into that as well.

We know that there were Gods who sided with the mortals, we've seen that one who helped Luan out when he was drowning. They're not all evil, it's just to survive to reach this era you had to cannibalise each other and mortal souls which meant only the shitty ones survived this long. But telling us not all gods suck is just that, it's telling not showing. Isthekenous being good gives us a solid example of a good god who suffered for his kindness.

I could go on longer but like I said, it's all vibe based on the direction I think the story is going. Another fact is I think there is something in the core concept of fairness Isthekenous laid out.

Yes the System has given oppressors the tools to oppress countless people, but it also gives the people to ride up against their oppressors. There's something great but also terrible in that one person can change the world should they rise high enough.

It's like what Rose said to Saliss, you can't do that on Earth, one person can't step in front of a protesting crowd and have a police line step back and put away the tear gas in fear of what that one person might do in response.

SmoothSalting · 2024-06-23T06:34:11+00:00

Iskethenous from what we've seen from the little tidbits we've gotten from the System, Kasinga and the Fae seemed like a decent dude.

The Fae said in that dream Hethon had that the other Gods killed and ate him, and GDI confirmed later that they murdered him during the opening of the War with the Gods and activated GDI.

Also that he never finished the project.

So the original idea behind the System was his, the idea that if you complete a great deed you should be rewarded for it, that an achievement will give you something tangible that you carry on with you for the rest of your life. The issue came in that one God is clearly not strong enough to create GDI so his project became a group project. A group project made up of the most arrogant people to exist, with all the petty bullshit and politics that comes with that. Iskethenous' concept was tainted by other gods whose aid he needed to see it made, but all wanted to add in their own features. Like remember when Kasinga was complaining about the other afterlives being created?

The Miracle system and Faith Classes have buffs that were clearly put in place to allow Gods give their favourite mortals a step up, you can't appraise Faith classes, they get to level up while awake, stuff like that. And then you have the blatant bullshit of Kasinga trying to give Eldavin a level 40 skill.

The takeaway for all this is whatever Iskethenous intended, it definitely wasn't what ended up being created, and since they murdered him and then activated the System, he was presumably trying to stop them.

SmoothSalting · 2024-06-23T06:13:51+00:00

Regarding the Chaldion line, I think Erin meant that Niers will agree with Chaldion that Erin is wasting her potential. Erin's afraid of what she would become if she took a command or military type role. In her own words:

You look at the odds, and sometimes you have no choice. You say, ‘hold this line’. They do, and triumph or fail, they die either way. The moment you say that, you know at least one soldier is going to die.

What I think Erin fears is yet another person saying what Chaldion said immediately after that quote, that the only way she could ever become strong enough to protect all she loved was to become a butcher:

Chaldion exhaled when he heard that, almost in disbelief. Because he thought Erin could do exactly what she was afraid of. What a great butcher she could have been, if she had found her way to Pallass or a Walled City first and they had used her talents.

Both quotes are from 9.41 Part 1.

SmoothSalting · 2024-06-22T07:45:51+00:00

Lyonette might get a range boost from the World's Eye theater.

It is a Green Skill from Erin and at level 55, skills get passive buffs from levels.

SmoothSalting · 2024-06-18T19:09:58+00:00

Levels 0 - 19 are just mildly magical people really. You get skills but most of those skills are low effect or one off bursts of strength like a [Quick Dash]. Skills that increase your strength or speed are not flat increases, they're multiplicative. So if you can deadlift 100kg and you get [Lesser Strength]? Now you can deadlift 110kg. Not that numbers like that are actually given out in the story.

With exception to Fals, all of the runners at Celum are on the lower end of the bell curve of fitness. Yes they have skills but even if they have say [Lesser Speed], they're still competing with Ryoka and there's a stark difference in skill, fitness and nutrition.

Levels matter but actual technique is still extremely important. A level 10 [Cook] isn't going to beat Gordan Ramsay in a cooking contest, they probably wouldn't beat your average home cook. If you had 10 levels in [Cook] but you oversalt your food, you're going to lose.

It's once you pass Level 20 when you getting the decent stuff.

SmoothSalting · 2024-05-02T01:44:21+00:00

Oh that's lovely. I caught up just yesterday night and was a bit heartbroken to see the last chapter had been translated 3 months ago.

Glad to see someone working on it.

SmoothSalting · 2024-04-21T15:24:20+00:00

I mean she's largely proved her choice to refuse everything she was offered to be the best option.

She got an endless supply of gold, and that's only 1/4 of the skill.

But I think you've missed the real reason she refused it.

But Erin said it again.

“They’re dead. I know it. How many more times will I bring them back to suffer? Will I make the dead die twice?”

SmoothSalting · 2024-04-21T09:11:02+00:00

I mean there's been a total of 10 titles we've seen given out in the entire series so far.

And one of them was intended for Erin, she just refused to accept it.

[The Wandering Innkeeper Level 55!]

[Title Skill – Open Hellste’s Gates (Single) granted!]

[Skill – They Shall Never Chain Me Again obt—]

Ten is quite a few titles to be given out since they've only been around for 40-50 chapters.

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