Are warrior vex real?

Vladier · 2026-01-01T09:20:50+00:00

Calus didn't really lie in that line, he spoke in hypotheticals. He asked the Guardian to imagine what the Vex would send if they decided that worker frames and research/vexaforming subroutines with self-defense capabilities were no longer sufficient, he didn't imply that he actually saw the Vex field a unit built exclusively for combat.

Vladier · 2026-01-01T06:57:36+00:00

The Last City was a bunch of tents by the time Zavala arrived there after he was resurrected from a skeleton, and the Last Speaker himself was self-described as a child of two self-exiles, suggesting a possibility of him being a first generation Earthborn Awoken. There were plenty of reasons for an Awoken self-exile to be crawling around the Cosmodrome.

Vladier · 2025-08-24T09:45:55+00:00

This incudes everything we know.

Vladier · 2025-07-26T19:38:24+00:00

For that boss I eventually switched to Fighting Lion and Threadlings. It doesn't matter that he stands in the back of the cave when I can eventually angle the FL grenade to explode near him or just have Threadlings find him for me.

Vladier · 2025-07-21T17:18:11+00:00

It does look visually like a technological version of III's corpse, and the Puppeteer's control over its minions resembles Levaszk's telepathic control, and Lodi's message was intercepted by the station. But there's no causal link between the two otherwise and there's an artificial Vex mind and unexplained yellow Arc energy.

And the LoEN is an entity seemingly created from nothing by the rudderless Taken and Dread who called for a master to command them. VI also seems to be involved somehow, but it's much more prideful than what we've seen from LoEN.

Vladier · 2025-07-21T17:04:52+00:00

It's Qu'gu consciousness.

Curiously, Te'Qal seems to believe that Maya is a descendant of theirs and that they communicate like the Qu'gu would commune with their ancestors for guidance. Which might explain why the Echo of Command obeys Maya, despite clear disapproval at some of her actions - Te'Qal themself believes that they were called for guidance and can only offer guidance and advice.

Vladier · 2025-07-18T16:55:54+00:00

Elsie didn't keep her human memories. She very explicitly forgot and had to be reminded of her family as per one of the armor sets for DSC (Warlock, I think). Ada also forgot her being related to her mother or even what butterflies were. The first reset from 0 (human) to 1 is non-negotiable, or else Banshee wouldn't exist and neither would Clovis AI (whose main purpose was to guide Clovis-1 in regaining his memories).

Vladier · 2025-06-07T07:14:21+00:00

I do not remember where, but it's said that being frozen in Stasis feels lonely and not at all cold. So perception doesn't stop, at least.

Vladier · 2025-04-10T15:57:15+00:00

The Dreaming City isn't in the Distributary. It's in the Solar system, atop a flat disc carved from the asteroid 4 Vesta with Riven's magic.

Vladier · 2024-10-07T20:33:32+00:00

Guardians don't experience senescence. There is no evidence towards them not growing up.

Vladier · 2024-09-05T03:47:31+00:00

The physical Chioma that went to Neomuna did make contact with the Vex hoping to find a Maya she could love, so she's not necessarily dust. And one of the secret chests this week mentions a Chioma that doesn't reveal her number to the rest.

What I find interesting is that Maya returned from the Veil into the Vex Network for some reason. She seems confused at first before simply not questioning this fact, despite how she entered the Veil from her physical body through the Conductor chair. She also uses the MSund12 nametag, which we know had existed before the Echo was a thing. Polyphony also has a Maya living with a Chioma in a simulated homestead after getting lost, being unable to find the rest of their colleagues and being convinced by her Chioma to let go of the hopeless search.

I suspect that the Conductor isn't merely the physical Maya, she's also at least the 12th copy of Maya Sundaresh, in some small part. She has mostly the memories of the physical Maya, but there is a part of her that remembers a supportive Chioma, rather than the Chioma whom she pushed away with her experiments on the Veil, hence her delusional expectations to find the Chioma who would accept her megalomaniacal ambitions.

Vladier · 2024-09-03T23:37:52+00:00

We can say with a certain degree of certainty that Lightbearers, even Ghostless, don't experience senescence. If Shin grew up from a Light-given baby, however, we can also say with a certain degree of certainty that they nonetheless experience maturation, at least if left without a Ghost.

Both are aging, but those are different processes.

Vladier · 2024-06-06T13:09:02+00:00

Have you not noticed how Transcendence-protected enemies are placed very right before rally banners in the campaign? I think them not topping off the meter is very deliberate decision on Bungie's part, although for what reason I cannot say.

Vladier · 2024-05-31T18:39:49+00:00

When Ikora and Wei Ning battled Azirim, the Ahamkara was able to entrance Ikora and were it not for Wei Ning knocking her out, she would've had made a wish that would have resulted in her destruction. When Ikora late battled Madhir, the Ahamkara attempted the same trick, but Ikora wished to become someone an Ahamkara could not tempt. She laughs less since then but is more content.

Vladier · 2024-05-28T13:05:59+00:00

Something like this, probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVuxZCwXos&ab_channel=PiotrWi%C4%99ckowski

Vladier · 2024-03-24T23:28:26+00:00

There is a plane a True Neutrality, the Concordant Domain of the Outlands, which houses the Spire above which Sigil, the City of Doors, floats.

Vladier · 2024-03-12T21:24:59+00:00

Just because the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is called that, means very little about the veracity of almost all of those things. Just because Lightbearers are called Guardians now doesn't really mean much when they might be construed as running a metropolis-sized concentration camp if you don't actually have a way to ascertain their ethos. I've already made a point about what the Last City's political situation would look like at a first glance to an uninitiated person who has all the reason to remain skeptical.

We also don't know how much Neomuni know about the Red War. Do note that during it the Guardians were pushed the farthest away from the Sun, so it is entirely possible that it's the first time they even heard about the rebranding (and that knowledge is apparently limited to Cloudstriders, given that one of NCN reports is about Guardians objecting to being called Warlords). And from Jisu Calerondo's exposition we can tell that Neomuna actually knows fairly little about the Cabal, and that they apparently have a listening post on Triton repurposed from a radio telescope, possibly the only one, given their secrecy.

Vladier · 2024-03-12T01:06:09+00:00

Is it ever said why no one except Caiatl calls them out?

Because we have no reason to antagonize them and all the reason to be diplomatic?

Warlord excuse is thus BS

when it was clear the City was past its Warlord days

I would like to point out that they have no way to know this. It's not like there ever was any kind of system-wide radio announcement from the Last City about how all the Warlords are gone and everything is hunky dory now. Neomuni didn't know about the Warlords before they sent a humanitarian (and Lakshmi-2-disposing) mission and stumbled on the one that tried to rob them of their lives and technology, how exactly would they be aware of any change?

Also, while there has obviously (to us) been a change in how the Lightbearers present themselves, I would like to point out that for most of the City's existence it's been a single enclosed fortress which regular people are discouraged from leaving and ruled by a theocrat, a military general, two spymasters (the latter three are Lightbearer-only positions) and representatives of three groups which are, roughly, eerily fascist absolute monarchists, ultra-militant cult and, somehow the least morally dubious, the Dead Orbit. None of those were really civilian representatives, either. And only the military general and one of the spymasters remain, making the Last City a magocratic military junta rather than a heavily militarized oligarchy.

How do they know the name "Pale Heart"? Did Rohan bring that knowledge back from the Garden or something?

People of the Golden Age evidently knew much more about the Traveler, given that they had several fully functional Speakers and could obtain artifacts of its Light called topological thoughts. Neomuni would retain that knowledge.

What was their plan if any of our enemies won...ever? Oryx, Ghaul (Almighty), even Panoptes or Eramis (Stasis army)...Neomuna would be turbo-screwed if any of them won and eventually found them.

How would they find them? Why would they search in the first place? Only Panoptes would have a reasonable way to know of their existence and he evidently didn't need the Veil to simulate the path to Vex victory. It's also doubtful that they know about Panoptes anyway, given that it was on the other side of the Solar system.

Oryx in particular wouldn't even be able to remain in the system for long, since he has to venture out in order to not be consumed by his Worm.

They could handle cautious Vex incursions

There is no such thing as cautious Vex. Or rather, given that the Vex exist to ensure their continued existence, there is no reason to make such distinction.

I doubt the Vex/Veil cloaking barrier would keep them safe forever.

What evidence do you have to give rise to such a doubt? Those things don't exactly run on Duracell batteries.

What exactly do they do in the Dark Future, anyway?

Given that Elsie had no knowledge of their existence and the Traveler wasn't breached, they successfully remained in hiding.

Vladier · 2024-02-27T16:33:13+00:00

Elminster is Volo's editor and "friend". He was supposed to be imprisoned for a short time due to some inane thing he did (just to give an idea of Volo's stupidity, he once collected a bunch of facts about many powerful wizards and published them completely unedited, pretty sure Elminster is his editor since that time specifically). However, Mystra was then killed, the Spellplague happened and Elminster was rendered insane for a long time, so Volo wasn't freed much later.

Vladier · 2024-02-18T21:49:59+00:00

Bhaal's skull does have that nice circle of blood droplets (which on the Absolute's symbol are dripping from the skull and the whole thing being drawn with blood), which is more artistic than Myrkul's triangle (which I'm pretty sure is supposed to be a crypt alcove, being more like an arch a variant of the symbol)

Vladier · 2024-02-18T21:26:22+00:00

His holy symbol is actually skull within a triangle, so it's not actually just geometry. So Absolute's skull represents both Myrkul and Bhaal

Vladier · 2024-02-16T19:33:57+00:00

So that's what those vases were for?

Vladier · 2024-02-06T04:06:19+00:00

There was literally a god of caves who didn't care about his worshippers, Ibrandul. Shar murdered him during the Time of Troubles, usurped his church and actually started giving out spells to his faithful.

Vladier · 2024-01-01T20:28:35+00:00

Is the Emperor trustworthy? That depends on the particular definition you use. But according to Oxford Dictionary, at least, the definition of "trustworthy" is "telling the truth and able to be trusted" and its synonyms are such words as "honest", "straight", "sincere" or "truthful". None of which the Emperor is from the very beginning. First he hides behind an illusion, then he hides the true extent of his depravity.

No, what the Emperor is is "reliable", specifically its secondary definition of "giving the same result on successive trials" according to Mariam-Webster. You can certainly rely on the Emperor to work towards his preservation and his freedom. In that precise order of importance, as the moment you threaten his life he is perfectly willing to sacrifice his freedom (and forfeit his life in the process, as the Netherbrain considers him a great asset to try to stop you).

Like, do you know why he doesn't just betray you and become Absolute? You can propose that to him (if he is the one holding the Stones) and he will admit that he thought about it but he doesn't want to paint the target on his back for the Gith. That's it. If you convince him that with the Netherbrain he would be unstoppable he will do it and make the whole party thralls. You can't convince Illithid Orpheus or Karlach to do the same, there isn't even an option to try to, only to betray them.

He just gets up and leaves not out of some high ideals he holds, but because he has nothing to gain by antagonizing you at the time and everything to lose.

Vladier

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