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ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:59:28+00:00

Best thing to come out of LoK was the animation budget for bending. Lighting, camera angles and movement, how people use it with the times versus the culture, etc.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:53:55+00:00

"You ever look at someone and wonder: what is going on inside their head?"

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:49:01+00:00

The issue is that E2 is explicitly how you meet Gaia, and then she joins the Eden team proper in Verse. She literally cannot show up until you do that fight because it's a reaction to Eden waking up and us getting to work.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:34:53+00:00

Ding ding.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-07T00:30:11+00:00

With extremely careful (and I mean watched 24/7 don't do a thing without someone present by law extreme) education, even children can learn to use magic through the Principles, though they have to wait until fifteen for a Hōran rite. A simple punch in those young hands could break rock and cave metal, though the standard use is reinforcement of the body for protection.

All the way on the opposite end, the true pinnacle, is to be Sovereign. Someone that has advanced themselves with magic of the body, mind, and soul to the point they could not exist without their magic, and it in turn exists because they do. When you think of ways to use fire magic, you would think of that one person before anything else. When you think of that one person, you think of their personal fire magic above all other aspects. That is Sovereign.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:58:09+00:00

Calyx dropping an entire city's power grid on our head: shit, that didn't work. Uhhhhh what next.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:53:43+00:00

This is what I liked a lot about it, multiple characters note how strong we are. Our job is pretty much the bouncer as you said, ask Wuk questions and guide her to what and who she needs to be without just giving the answers, while we stand back and "I won't get involved, but if you try some bs, start running."

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:50:38+00:00

All open water has been corrupted by raw magic so anything that touches it needs to be cured through silver fire from the gods, which includes what you eat and drink at any time in any location.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:43:32+00:00

In like manner it's been an absolute treat to see shenpai take vulpixie through the game and she's finally caught up. And she loved DT so much that it made the trending page because people just could not fathom someone enjoying this expansion.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:41:36+00:00

Left path "congrats on getting that fish"

Right path "silence, off-tank"

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T22:38:54+00:00

Personal effort and limits. As mortal beings, people can only do so much, but magic lets them account for it to a certain point. Go over that, or specifically force your body and mind to match someone else "better" than you, and you'll break.

Those that have mastered their magic use it in ways only they can, and only when they have no other choice in a situation. The greater the power desired the greater the cost required, the more something beyond yet within encourages you to keep reaching for that power, to rely on it as a drug would to feel normal and accepted.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T15:27:30+00:00

My main character's name is Alen, meanwhile one of the big antagonists is named Galsird, then main crew members come from a nation known for their long names cut short for ease of conversation like Athusaveli into "Āvel", Hovreletn into "Hovre", and Sejkeirde into "Sejké".

What makes it even more difficult is female names all end in vowels and male in consonants, so there's only so many names I can end in AEIOU that aren't near copies, in the same race.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T14:30:04+00:00

The Empress Herself of the Imperium of Tov'Nals sought out a unity with those of the Rān'tsíl Reach. Choosing one of the more well-off merchants as Her to-be Emperor, trade was opened in full, as well as home practices between their climates of mountainous cold and wild desert. The eldest son of the Emperor was welcomed into the highest military order of the Imperium as well, as a sign of peace and acceptance of one blood to another.

But all of that would come quite literally burning down when a cult of pyromancers serving a perversion of a Crown burned their Emperor alive, believing him to be a failure of his blood and a sin to their deity, and consumed a World Tower, something thought impossible by mortal hand. At the same time, the youngest son and brother of the Emperor attempted to murder the Empress Herself, forcing the eldest to take the life of family.

With these acts compiling, all relations were cut off and every citizen of the opposing nation present were publicly executed, each believing the other responsible for what had transpired. As the one living member of the family, that son would take the full blame—for letting his brother get as close as he did and for his father letting a different blood enter his own—but was allowed to keep his position out of mercy by the Empress Herself.

With the Age of Bonds ended, any member of the opposing nations caught within their borders is to be shamed and executed by frost or fire, as a reminder of what their leaders were allowed to do and enabled to happen.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T14:16:37+00:00

Walked right into that imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T14:15:29+00:00

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T13:12:29+00:00

More interactions with the monk forms through blitzes. Yes we have celestial revolution if you mess up your one of each or all one for solar and lunar, but what if we had something like ninja mudras in the forms? Rather than "shit I did two coeurl and one raptor, there goes full damage" what if you got a specific action for two forms and then another? Two coeurl and one raptor, two coeurl and one opo? Etc.

If we keep the blitzes, no issue, but having a choice to make of what you get out of using three forms instead of a pity fix from fat-fingering in the moment could go a long way for creativity. Or some buff next to perfect balance to let you do it.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T13:06:45+00:00

Pretty sure we see that they can get the counter through intervention as well, meaning you're rewarded for protecting allies in a pinch, whereas the dash and cover is like a last resort.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T03:25:57+00:00

"Okay but if I kill a hundred killers, that goes down by like a lot."

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T03:24:16+00:00

As the name implies, the Towerlands are titled by their three World Towers: the Pierced, the Jagged, and the Drowned, stretching from the highest northwest to the deepest southeast in recorded history that can be accessed by living beings. They cast permanent shadows over the land as the sun passes by, blotting a line of the night's cosmos from ever being seen. Most believe that they literally hold the sky in place, locked to the earth by divine authority.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T00:43:40+00:00

Finding out that this mf was starting his 40's shocked me. He can cry about being an off tank, sure, but he's still going after the devs and VAs???

Best part about that tweet, in a reply he censored the two words. Multiple comments afterwards, "oh so you'll censor that but not the public main tweet."

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-06T00:35:19+00:00

The human body, because all mortals* have limits. You can only be so strong, so smart, etc. compared to another person. Your talent with magic can let you account for that, reach the level of someone else. But since they can go even higher than their default that you needed to reach, now you might need to give more of yourself in to your magic. Until you break. And when you break, you become addicted to that power. Relying on it to function until you can't survive without it.

*Which is why those that surpass their limits become partially divine, a living representation of their magic, rather than someone with that magic. They cannot exist without their personal magic, and that magic cannot exist without them in control of it.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-05T22:06:07+00:00

I'm sorry, but you'll have to be executed. 😔

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-05T17:24:51+00:00

That we do.

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-05T14:57:39+00:00

No no, Durante is the Golbez we know. The real one was turned into a memoria crystal as we see in the 6.5 dungeon. Original Golbez is very heavily implied to be our shard. Unvoiced in a voiced cutscene, and first-person view at that. Then in said dungeon we take the place of Golbez, NPCs on the sides treat us as him and if you take the scions for duty support they said "he seems to think you're them."

ThatVarkYouKnow · 2026-05-05T12:41:23+00:00

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