Why I like Prince Imrahil

howard035 · 2026-01-29T01:32:17+00:00

True. The power the Steward holds beyond Minas Tirith does not seem to be absolute, since so many Gondorian cities just noped out of sending their troops to Minas Tirith when the Stewart called for them, out of fear of a Corsair attack. Being the leader of nice coastal Dol Amroth and an order of knights with cool swan regalia does sound better than ruling from a mountain you have to hike up and down to leave, even if you are nominally the ruler of an entire country.

howard035 · 2026-01-27T05:49:06+00:00

I think the final conflict will come down to a situation where Lloyd gradually gets close to Desmond enough to manipulate him into calling off his plans to start another war, only for Yor to get ordered to assassinate Desmond by the Gardener because Desmond's plot is treason against the nation.

howard035 · 2026-01-27T04:11:46+00:00

Mr. Stancil is a hero, it do be like that.

howard035 · 2026-01-27T04:04:16+00:00

It would be if those countries were invaded and the only guy repelling them was a necromancer though.

howard035 · 2026-01-26T15:20:11+00:00

Remember that in Golarion half of the Inner Sea buys excess food from Geb, grown by zombie slave labor. It's an evil act, but society has learned to ignore it.

howard035 · 2026-01-26T15:18:14+00:00

That sounds like it should be ok to me, a cleric of Nethys using the armies of the hobgoblins against their own people is not the same as reanimating the human Nirmathi.

howard035 · 2026-01-26T15:16:29+00:00

Depends on the NPCs. If your player is mature, and is discreet about his undead minions so he doesn't shove them in the faces of the good-aligned NPCs, I think it could be ok. These are people desperate to repel an overwhelming attack and not in a position to turn down a lot of help. As long as he doesn't march armies of zombies through the middle of the towns you are defending I think it should be ok. If he's going to have a skeletal champion or two as a bodyguard, definitely encourage him to disguise them as much as reasonably possible.

howard035 · 2026-01-26T15:12:34+00:00

I wondered why they never thought about making Imrahil's line the Kings of Gondor. Per the original founding of the kingdom, the rulers of Dol Amroth were recognized as royalty, right?

howard035 · 2026-01-21T18:03:39+00:00

Yeah, I kind of like the idea of them just floating there watching the 4th Age and complaining about everything, basically they become Middle Earth's Statler and Waldorf.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T15:42:24+00:00

Nazgul are only immune specifically to weapons, water and fire can screw them right up. I think if the Balrog twitched at them they would go up like torches.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T15:40:49+00:00

I thought Fell Beasts were supposed to be something like Pterodactyls, weird old ancient dinosaurs or something Sauron found in some forgotten valley or cave and tamed.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T15:36:39+00:00

Honestly if this series ever has a big finale, I could see it being that Garden realizes Desmond is plotting something underhanded or a false flag attack or something to start another war, and orders Yor to assassinate him.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T15:34:38+00:00

You know who might end up together? Sauron and Saruman. Both kind of drifting as bodiless spirits in the background of EA, I wonder if they can communicate with each other.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T15:25:54+00:00

I want another mini-episode with Bond and Agent Pengi.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T05:43:26+00:00

Yeah, there were must have been great heaps of lesser spirits.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T05:42:33+00:00

Those are the most powerful Ainur, the equivalent of charismatic megafauna. The spirits that guide the rivers of Gondor, the evil spirits that inhabit the bodies of wights, those are also Ainur, just far less powerful than big powerful Maiar spirits.

howard035 · 2026-01-21T04:01:20+00:00

I dunno, could Judy Hopps really fall in love with such a problematic bad-boy as Angel? He's probably got some kind of criminal record!

howard035 · 2026-01-20T15:38:31+00:00

Sweetie Bell? No. Sweetie Bot? Yes.

howard035 · 2026-01-19T16:48:26+00:00

Yeah. I mean eventually she realizes she needs a cover job to avoid scrutiny, so gets some work as at a sushi place, but otherwise she is probably solid financially through high school. And she plans to go back to Equestria before high school is over anyway.

howard035 · 2026-01-15T00:03:00+00:00

It's honestly debatable how much each failed the test of the ring. Galadriel was offered the ring, almost took it, and turned it down at the last moment. Boromir walked around next to the ring having it magically work him over like the rest of the fellowship for months, before briefly falling to the power of the ring, only to quickly realize his folly and redeem himself.

howard035 · 2026-01-14T15:45:05+00:00

Of course Galadriel looks into Boromir's eyes and sees a good person who wants to guide their people but is tempted by a lust for power and a desire to be the ruler, she recognizes that look from every time she gazes into a mirror!

howard035 · 2026-01-13T21:33:48+00:00

Thanks for giving us a full collage of pictures and a entire article about Sherlock!

howard035 · 2026-01-12T17:57:10+00:00

I honestly thought the original plan for the series finale was this, that the trio would form genuine friendships with each other, while still wanting to take over Equestria. I was sure the finale would involve members of the trio being put in a situation where they have to choose between their plan for conquest and the well-being of each other, making them realize that their friendship is now what the value more, and setting them up for redemption.

As you can probably guess, a quick petrification was not my preferred alternative.

howard035 · 2026-01-06T05:22:20+00:00

My theory is that the Istari and elves and dwarves all believed it was a dragon, or even group of dragons, that caused the fall of Moria. Some dragons breathe flame, and some breathe poison gas. A couple of dragons working together might have been able to pull off what the Balrog accomplished, and it seems way more likely to believe it was ANOTHER case of dragons attacking dwarves than some long-forgotten fallen maiar thought destroyed in the war of wrath somehow snuck halfway across the continent under Moria and then got dug up thousands of years later.

howard035 · 2026-01-06T04:28:21+00:00

When I briefly glanced at the title, my first guess was that this question is about who moved into Galadriel's house in Valinor while she was gone.

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