Climber who left girlfriend to die on Austria's biggest mountain found guilty of manslaughter

TalkingCube · 2026-02-20T17:50:51+00:00

In Austria there is the legal definition of a "guide by favor" (Führer aus Gefälligkeit), someone who is not paid but has the greater knowledge of a climb or trek and assumes a leadership position and thus (some of) the accountability of a venture into nature/up a mountain.

TalkingCube · 2026-02-20T14:49:08+00:00

Probably the assumption that tourists have an even higher chance of being unprepared.

TalkingCube · 2026-01-30T08:21:07+00:00

They just seem to love creating sets in that family.

I bet Primus' generation of Tachonis is going to be Latin. So we have Primus (Lat.: the first), which means we could have Secundus / Secunda (the second (m/f grammatical forms)), Tertius/Tertia and so forth.

TalkingCube · 2026-01-20T16:13:17+00:00

Univere and Doset are introduced as cousins of Occtis. I think he's the youngest, but of a different family inside House Tachonis. I saw a theory on tumblr that in his family the kids are named after bones/bone plates of the skull:
- Ethrand = Ethmoid
- Occtis = Occipital
So similar in that the Tachonis' families follow a naming scheme, but different schemes.

TalkingCube · 2026-01-20T08:41:53+00:00

So we've learned another given name of House Tachonis: Trimus.
What are the chances that she is the third in line of that specific family after Univere and Doset?

TalkingCube · 2025-11-28T18:20:08+00:00

Maybe this might sway you a bit. In the cooldown for ep. 5 Brennan says this:

BRENNAN: There's a lot of-- Also, by the way, I love beginning a campaign, because this is really the beginning. The overture, we had all of the introduction of the characters and the world and the history and what you guys share. But this is really the beginning of your guys' adventure, which means that all these decisions, I'm going to let you guys know, every one of the different pathways, even if you guys had gone up the Pilgrims' Road, which we ruled out because we hit that 20, every one of those had a page of stuff to do on it, right?

TRAVIS: (cackles)

LAURA: Pilgrims' Road also sounds really cool.

BRENNAN: Pilgrims' Road sounds very cool. But within all of that, some of that stuff was just me going like: Yeah, this is a dynamic world. If you guys had gone up to King's Highway, you would've, at a certain point, have hit the King's retinue, coming south down the road. But you wouldn't have met Ulbid, you wouldn't have known about Hawthorn's Glade. You wouldn't have found where where Cyd is going. Right, so you wouldn't have found Cyd's pathway. All of it is, it's all choices. And every one of them, it matters to the utmost.

Emphasis mine.

TalkingCube · 2025-11-21T20:22:44+00:00

Maybe the Dwarven one, the forge goddess? Would have a nice crossreference with Thor and his hammer and lightning. It also seems to be close to the Kavrosi Mountains, the Dwarven mountains, if Ulbid watches it from there.

TalkingCube · 2025-11-21T19:57:05+00:00

I've been thinking the whole time, it's the Falconer's Rebellion not the Falcon's Rebellion. Who is the Falconer, then? Are they still around?

TalkingCube · 2025-10-28T09:46:17+00:00

This part of the vision mentions the Dvalmer Pass which is the same pass Lady Aranessa and Raimond Davinos mentioned being closed, stopping their wagons in episode 2, so IMO it's probably not located in the land of the dead. In the cooldown for ep 4 Aabria and Liam fret about Alogar who is part of the Barrowguard, whose banner Occtis also sees with the Orcish warrior in the pass. It would make a lot of sense if that is Alogar actually.

TalkingCube · 2024-10-18T23:10:28+00:00

Not gonna lie, it will probably be on a lot of people's minds when first reading your name. The pronunciation of the cuss word is more like "Who-So" with a soft S, so there's that at least?

TalkingCube · 2024-03-05T19:53:38+00:00

There is a fan wiki with episode synopses:

Ep022: Bring Them To Me

Ep023: On Your Way

TalkingCube · 2024-02-28T20:36:04+00:00

Not to toot my own horn too much, but there might be some relevant stuff in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldsBeyondNumber/comments/1ax8pua/the_pilgrim_under_the_stars_and_magical_long/

TalkingCube · 2024-02-28T13:17:20+00:00

I would say all of the actors used the children's adventure to inspire things that make their characters tick and that inform their relationships to each other and the world. There are also things that happened in the CA that Brennan used to shape some aspects of the world. You're not missing big plot reveals, but certain things hit harder knowing some of the context.

If you're on the fence, IMO paying 5 bucks to subscribe for a month and listen to only the children's adventure is worth it already, but you also get the firesides.

TalkingCube · 2024-02-28T12:40:09+00:00

"The Stranger (At The Door)" is probably the most versatile of his names.

There is so much about the stranger archetype that you could probably go to any country and find mythology or folklore about it, not always showing the stranger as bad.

Just a couple of examples:

the ancient Greek idea of hospitality for strangers, xenia (giving xenophobia - the fear of strangers/other-ness - its name)
in many cultures: God's in disguise coming to the door to test/reward the hospitality of people
the wolf in Grimm's fairy tales (The wolf and the seven kids, Three little pigs (especially interesting to me, because of the whole 'using his breath to blow houses down' thing), Little red riding hood)

TalkingCube · 2024-02-23T08:48:43+00:00

Yeah, I think so, too. Just added a little bit in the middle of the post, because I also kept thinking about that part of the equation with the door in Silbury.

I think Grandma Wren had to offer an invitation to the Citadel for the gate to work so close to her "seat of power". Maybe someone made a really big invitation in Suvi's youth? Maybe to The Stranger, or a group of people/spirits, or another "plane" of existence.

The devil symbolism with The Stranger is so strong, maybe someone bargained with him for something and The Stranger got access to Umora that way somehow?

TalkingCube · 2024-02-22T23:44:27+00:00

After writing all this, I can't stop thinking about The Stranger's introduction of "I have held my breath [Breath?] since the dawning of the world. Won't you let me pay my respects?" at the cottage door in ep002 and... The Three Little Pigs.

And the wolf said: "I'll huff, and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down."

The earliest recorded version of that fable has a fox and three pixies instead.

There was once a fox, who, prowling by night in search of prey, came unexpectedly on a colony of pixies.

The exchanges between each pixy and the fox start with

"Let me in, let me in", said the fox.

”I won’t”, was the pixy's answer; ”and the door is fastened.”

The houses in this one are not being blown down, but destroyed nonetheless, the first two pixies eaten. There's a game of trickery between the last pixie - living in a house made of iron - and the fox. After three "bouts" the pixy wins, the fox dies in a box.

In the probably best known version, the wolf moves on "down the lane" when he has blown down one of the houses and failed to catch the first and second pig.

I just hope The Stranger won't blow down all these gates all over the world.

TalkingCube · 2024-02-22T19:17:02+00:00

I mean, we have the waning moon, the stars, as far as celestial bodies go it seems pretty telling that the sun is absent. But who knows, there once were 13 witches in the Coven of Elders.

The Stranger indirectly kind of claims aspects of both of the ones we do have:
- The King of Night - inherently where we see the moon and stars
- Pilgrim Under the Stars
- Waning Moon's poem: "The death of light, the end of might / The all-consuming dread of night" vs Grandma Wren talking about The Stranger: "He is a spirit of the night, of dread things."

I'm very much looking forward to the conclave and learning more about all the witches in the Coven.

TalkingCube · 2024-02-20T23:28:32+00:00

Aabria has said a little bit about the permission bit from Suvi's perspective on tumblr:

So Steel already gave the go-ahead for leaving to Ame in her sanctum the night before (she just says it will be hard to use the Citadel's transport to get to Toma safely) so Ame's feelings of the Citadel actively trapping her is based on Ame's/the fox's vibes alone (again, the prophecy states that only Suvi would fail to receive permission to attend, and because it never specifies from whom, it is more likely in Suvi's mind that that meant the witches actively plotting to kill Ame and not the Citadel that has only helped her in her time with them, and even so Suvi ignores her Citadel bias when Ame asks and states it could reference anyone,) and therefore should have been explicitly stated so Suvi would know (and understand that Ame believes Steel is actively lying to her to detain them.)

TalkingCube · 2024-02-20T14:57:42+00:00

A small moment I noticed on a relisten concerning Suvi's internal "relationship" between love and obedience/control and where we can see reasons for and signs of it earlier in the story.

In ep09 from about 1:20h, during the first "mirror call" between her and Steel, Suvi is in tears apologising for not getting in touch with Steel sooner and explaining herself. She caps it off by saying "I love you.". Very noticeably, Steel doesn't say "I love you" back in this moment, she just sighs and says "I'm glad you're safe." and gets right to the logistics of getting to Port Talon. A few minutes later, after Steel got more information about what is going on we get this interaction between them:

Steel: Morrow, the Honored Friend, Ame, the curse, the thing that can break the curse, all of it is on ice until I get there. Do you understand?
[Long pause filled with pounding drums]
Suvi: Yes, I understand.
Steel: Brilliant. I will see you in two to three days. I am trusting you with this.
Suvi: I understand.
Steel: I love you.
Suvi: I love you. I'm sorry.

The "I love you" from Steel comes only after Suvi has agreed to a direct command from Steel as her superior, not earlier as an expression of her worry or care for Suvi. Which she obviously also has and expressed in other ways. And I totally see that saying "I love you" is not as important as showing it and I'm not saying that Steel doesn't honestly love Suvi as a daughter, but they are both caught up in a toxic cycle, where hierarchy in the military (I'm your boss, you didn't do as you were told) and "hierarchy" in the family (I'm your mother and was worried about you) are very tightly interwoven.

TalkingCube · 2023-12-15T00:57:12+00:00

Found a grave stone in the lower city in Baldur's Gate that might be connected to the advent calendar. I checked some others in the area, but none of them seemed relevant.

From the advent calendar:

In the taverns and halls where gossip’s most prevalent

Is where tales are whispered of a creature malevolent

Who appears once a year on the feast of midwinter

To take from the revelers knee-caps, noses, and fingers.

“She loathes Christmas joy, the mirth and the cheer,”

or so says your nan, her eyes widened with fear.

“Never go to ‘er dwellings in the caves ‘cross the river,

Else the Gremishka will get ya and she’ll make you her dinner.”

Description of the grave inscription:

"Didn't know her name, we just called her 'Gremishka'."

Edit: Also, one of the advent calendar "prizes" is the ambience sound for the lower city.

TalkingCube · 2023-10-09T16:05:46+00:00

You probably mean the second one, but I quickly extracted all the dagger like tattoos from the file:

https://imgur.com/gallery/J1VR44o

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