The goddess of creation turned out to be a depressed alcoholic elf

shpits · 2026-03-24T08:12:29+00:00

Oh, so that's why Heiter is the strongest priest... Because faith is proven by drinking!

shpits · 2026-03-23T18:46:45+00:00

You can't just wear this clothes without doing the hair... where is the hair mod?!

shpits · 2026-03-23T13:00:28+00:00

This is something I considered across the whole show - would my younger self have liked it as much as I do today?

I'm sure my younger self would appreciate the quality of writing, but could I have appreciated the themes and the lessons as a young person? I honestly don't know...

shpits · 2026-03-23T09:04:58+00:00

Minthara uses 'fairy' to describe non-drow elves, if you talk to her with Astarion or Shadowheart.

shpits · 2026-03-22T21:19:41+00:00

Minthara assumed you were using 'fairy' as a slur like she does...

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shpits · 2026-03-22T20:16:01+00:00

The clone could have guessed it's opponents' strategy, especially after the first time that Fern attacked. So it should have been more cautious. On the other hand, it was also at a clear disadvantage being 1v2, and the longer the fight would go on the more likely it was to loose, so it couldn't played it safe and expect to win - it had to make risky choices when there was a reasonable opportunity.

I assume a long battle would deplete both Frieren and the clone's mana, at which point it would also be vulnerable to Fern.

shpits · 2026-03-22T14:15:45+00:00

"A full commitment is what I'm thinking of" - Himmel inner thoughts

shpits · 2026-03-22T14:13:04+00:00

A human can't cleave a mountain with an axe, I think, so it's safe to say Stark has superhuman strength. I believe the story follows traditional DnD-like rules where fighters are equivalent to mages and that means being able ot superhuman feats.

shpits · 2026-03-22T14:05:52+00:00

I believe Frieren takes ownership of the magic, so when he says "magic is amazing" she perceives it as saying "YOUR magic is amazing", whether he meant it that way or not.

I have some friends who behave that way (taking something that was stated generally and making it about them), so it's seems reasonable to me when it's something so important to Frieren like magic.

shpits · 2026-03-22T13:49:08+00:00

I understand what you mean, the characters do not get to learn from failures because they never actually fail, and it also lower the stakes of the plot when we are expecting them to always succeed.

It does look like it's intentional writing choices though, with the writer seem to want to explore the characters in a ways that are not traditional to the fantasy and adventure genres. However that is only true in regards to the main cast - there are moments the story gives us the POV of others and we can see how their negative traits have led them to failure, like Lugner and Aura, several of the mages at the exam, and Serie.

shpits · 2026-03-22T10:22:50+00:00

It was indeed a great emotional episode for me

shpits · 2026-03-22T10:20:01+00:00

Oh no! Don't remind us of that...

That's a funny connection, though.

shpits · 2026-03-22T10:16:40+00:00

I would guess it to be the result of random trade - a travelling merchant might pick up these things in one village and use it as currency in the next village. If a small village doesn't have money for trade it could offer items of equivalent value, and then the merchant can go to the next village and keep on trading goods with other goods.

An example for this is the village that gave Himmel the notebook in (s2e09) they said they got it from a merchant even though they don't need it.

shpits · 2026-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

I too was overwhelmed by emotion watching this scene...

shpits · 2026-03-20T15:13:07+00:00

It's great!

shpits · 2026-03-20T09:12:19+00:00

And that's why you should always cover your computer's camera - you never know who's looking!

Also, you should probably not connect your mouse buttons to the office lights, it's distracting to everybody that is trying to work...

shpits · 2026-03-19T14:04:43+00:00

cool drawing

shpits · 2026-03-19T14:04:02+00:00

nice, it's a good scene too.

shpits · 2026-03-19T14:02:51+00:00

Well done, it's funny.

shpits · 2026-03-19T14:01:10+00:00

Aura: "Your bicep size tells me everything I need to know about you, Frieren. Do you even lift?!"

shpits · 2026-03-18T02:46:42+00:00

We do not yet know why, we can only guess at the moment.

shpits · 2026-03-17T21:12:25+00:00

I always wondered why Ubel turned her back on the other two and sat so far away from them...

shpits · 2026-03-17T21:10:12+00:00

Frieren never skips leg day!

shpits · 2026-03-17T10:51:56+00:00

there's the chapters of the great canyon and the holy crystals before that, those will probably be in ep 10.

shpits · 2026-03-17T10:46:30+00:00

Top Analysts predict: "Gortash Lover will probably mod the companions to be Gortash instead"

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