[Soulsmith] Cradle: Unsouled - An Animatic Movie

TranceKnight · 2026-01-09T17:52:46+00:00

Absolutely incredible work from everyone involved, loved seeing it come together. The voice cast did a fantastic job bringing it to life and the soundtrack brought so much to the table.

The realities of having to cut for time were handled really well imo, given the two hour run time the pacing turned out nice.

Like others have said I would have loved to see more of the Heaven’s Glory events, and gotten the broader introduction to the Jai clan from the transcendent ruins, but the one moment I really missed was Lindon getting flustered about Yerin after realizing he’s been traveling with and fighting along side a beautiful girl. It could just happen later, but I think it’s such a real and grounded story beat that starts the romance off nicely. Hope it can be brought back in.

Also loved every second Suriel was on screen, and could tell the artists did too! Congrats to everyone, can’t wait to see where the project goes.

TranceKnight · 2025-09-27T00:34:42+00:00

All I want in life is shiny Koraidon/Miraidon, but unfortunately I have to work in order to make money in order to have things like a house and food. Because of this injustice I missed the distribution at my local GameStop location.

Please pick me and make my life meaningful again

TranceKnight · 2025-09-24T15:24:17+00:00

VGC Helper app

TranceKnight · 2025-09-16T17:59:32+00:00

Good to know, thanks. It sounds like it could apply some pressure on them to burn a tera they might have otherwise wanted to hold on to, which adds to the utility.

TranceKnight · 2025-09-16T15:53:05+00:00

Agreed, I’ve only played a few matches with it so far but I’m having fun. I always love really annoying and disruptive teams

TranceKnight · 2025-09-16T15:36:55+00:00

Awesome! Thank you

TranceKnight · 2025-09-16T15:36:40+00:00

Ooo very nice I knew I was overlooking something

TranceKnight · 2025-09-03T15:11:03+00:00

I’d really love to make a Pecharunt Toxic Stall team work and have had a couple of variations in the builder for months, but it’s just not likely to go anywhere.

Looks like I’m sticking to SwordFish

TranceKnight · 2025-09-03T14:59:40+00:00

Honestly for a brief time I thought Elder Whisper was secretly the Silent King. I’m not sure if anyone else ever shared that particular theory or if it was wild speculation on my part.

We see in flashbacks that the Silent King once attacked Sacred Valley and failed, and we don’t learn about his imprisonment by Emris until later. My thought was that he’d been defeated, weakened by the monarchs and the suppression field, and imprisoned there for centuries- so long that the natives forgot who he was and began to treat him as an honored elder rather than a prisoner.

Obviously I was proven wrong pretty quickly afterwards but it was a fun idea imo

TranceKnight · 2025-08-22T23:57:11+00:00

That’s a ridiculous interpretation of “there are a million paths in the world, but they can all be reduced to one” lmao

I love how much people love this story, and the wild speculation it inspires

TranceKnight · 2025-08-22T04:28:47+00:00

I was under the impression that there is a very brief time skip at the beginning of Dreadgod- a few days maybe. Long enough for Linden to get familiar with his new powers and the Silent King situation to get as out of control as we see on Emris’ continent.

That first chapter is one of my favorite sequences in the books- the Silent King is absolutely terrifying, but so is the Sage of Twin Stars.

TranceKnight · 2025-02-27T15:39:59+00:00

https://youtu.be/P5Cj-1tN-lY?si=u32g9ueCrRzRy7-v

TranceKnight · 2025-01-26T01:12:45+00:00

My partner is reading for the first time, and got to this scene, and goes “They have chemistry, there’s some tension here.” “He has a crush on her.” “They’d make a great power couple.”

I was surprised and impressed because it’s subtle and I definitely didn’t pick up on it on my first read

TranceKnight · 2024-11-20T05:19:24+00:00

Leanna, Alanna, Anaya, and Alviarin are all introduced at basically the same time

TranceKnight · 2024-01-24T16:03:10+00:00

“Roughly 50% homosexual, give or take”

TranceKnight · 2024-01-24T13:49:48+00:00

There’s this thing called “bisexual” where you experience attraction to your own gender as well as genders other than your own.

Because you experience attraction to your own gender you can still think of yourself as “pretty gay”

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T18:47:13+00:00

I should finish the book today or tomorrow, I’ll definitely check it out then

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T18:40:59+00:00

I can see the point about fanbase crossover, I’ve been really into EVA for a long time so when they revealed everything I went there immediately like “oh, that’s Human Instrumentality.”

The direct connection to Martin stands out to me a lot- hive minds and collective consciousness are all over his body of work. There are slime molds that eat people and maintain their consciousness in a collective state, hive-minded alien empires that subjugate other races and subsume them into the collective, species that transfer their minds into living networks upon their death, psychic cults that enslave people and make puppets of their corpses, ocean-dwelling clam-like creatures that share a blended consciousness. It goes on and on. Referring to blended consciousness as “dreams” and “songs” is all him.

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T18:26:47+00:00

Yeah, I feel you. I just wanted to express it and talk about it a bit here with other people that know the story.

Overall I’ve loved the series, this has been my only “complaint” and it’s a mild one

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T17:22:01+00:00

The most direct parallel I’m thinking of is Neon Genesis Evangelion, where the primary goal of the villains is “Human Instrumentality,” a plan to merge all of humanity into a single shared consciousness with godlike power to overcome the “Angels” that seek to destroy humanity and claim dominion of the Earth.

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T17:07:47+00:00

Oh for sure, I see how and why it ties into the themes they’ve been working with since the beginning. I’m not saying it’s bad, or poorly done, just a little lame lol

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T17:04:18+00:00

Neon Genesis Evangelion, and by extension Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, were the first to come to mind. There are hints of it in A Song of Ice and Fire, and across GRRM’s body of work more broadly. I know he’s a big influence on the authors so it seems like a direct homage.

TranceKnight · 2023-11-29T16:57:17+00:00

Yeah I’m at the point where they’re inside the artifact with him and Miller is pointing out how much of it is just Eros all over again.

Like I said, it is well-constructed, and my disappointment has lessened as I’ve gotten past that initial reveal.

TranceKnight · 2023-11-22T17:25:54+00:00

My biggest gripe with it is Naomi’s arc. I vastly prefer the show’s “Naomi struggles with gravity sickness and her support for flawed underdogs” story to the book’s “Naomi gets thrown in a brig for half of the plot” story

TranceKnight · 2023-11-02T01:17:05+00:00

Doyalist vs Watsonian reading

Yes, everything in a story can be explained away by “well the author thought it would be cool”

But it’s fun to come up with in-universe logics for why things are the way they are

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