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2020-12-04, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
SpoilerAll Villains too. Below is using Cat and her Age of Order to clean up the mess left by previous big stars (Nemeshah, the Drow's Bargain, and one could say trying to reign in Praes as well). I wonder if the ratlings (who given the fact that the Drakoi were killed "among some mountains, along with some descriptions of Horned Lords, I assume that they are descendants of the rats that ate the Drakoi corpse(s)) are just going to be sufficently bottled up by the Drow raiding for Night against them.
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2020-12-04, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
SpoilerThe Drow society was basically the same as how the Ratlings are depicted, so them being containment units for each other just makes sense. I assume that there will be a hybrid vigor effect though, where the groups of Drow+Ratlings cover each others' weaknesses and absorb the mono-racial groups.
I also glossed over that theShonen characterDrow are losing the war now. Considering that the Mighty are as strong as the strongest Named and they outnumber the Named by a lot this bodes ill for the mortal armies.
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2020-12-04, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
SpoilerWhile they can compete in raw power, at least for the highest tiers of Mighty, and have access to possibly a comparable variety of tricks with the different Secrets of Night, they have a shared weak point.. in that they're all using Night. It's like if you had a society of priests all learning different ways to apply Light and then somebody figured out a way to disrupt the basic means of gathering and forming Light - it doesn't matter how impressive your trick is when you can't use it in the first place. Named have an advantage here in that every Name and its Aspects are at least partially unique snowflake powers.
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2020-12-05, 01:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
I do wonder if the drow being exposed to more cultures now will start to pick up sorcery again, or if they will just be Night focused with perhaps more variety of tricks, but working with the same, if versatile, powerset.
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2020-12-08, 03:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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New chapter and
Spoileryeah, if there was any doubt that this battle was important, its gone now. And with the dead king dropping essentially gates, its looking bleak.
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2020-12-08, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
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On the bright side, Tempest hitting the field means we switch back to Cat next update.
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2020-12-11, 01:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 02:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
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2020-12-11, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Woeful"In the sky above Hainaut there were great rumbling sounds as power gathered, thousands of mages in the plains below unleashing their rituals at least. One after the other, three great gates above the city.
And water began pouring out of them."
.. really, DK? You're gonna try lake-dropping on CATHERINE. A person whose legend is built in part on using gates for various purposes, including very notably this exact trick. Who keeps musing about how everything would be so much easier if she could just drop lakes on things to solve her problems. The woman who inexplicably keeps managing to die her way into greater heights of power, who has a Name just waiting for a suitably dramatic moment to reveal itself, and who just got 'killed'. DK's army is about to run face first into Catherine's Triumphant Reveal of her Name.
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2020-12-11, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: AkuaI'm guessing she copies the design of the Archmage and becomes a gestalt-ghost-mage as a solution to her lack of magic.
Spoiler: CatAlmost certainly gets her Name, which lets her control Revenants through the ability to give orders to Named. That is the anti-Keter power they needed to make winning possible.
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2020-12-11, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Interlude: WoefulMy guess is that the rest of the book is all of Cat's successors stepping up, which leaves Cat no longer juggling multiple hats for the final book.
Vivienne: Queen of Callow, Supreme Commander of Callowan forces (The Queen is dead! Long live the Queen!). I assume that she takes on dealing with Arthur as she will be his commander. My hope is that Vivienne becomes the Sun Queen.
Losara: I assume Ivah, since it seems to be the elected leader of the sigils in Cat's third of the alliance forces
First Under Night: I guess now we see if Losara (and I assume the name will change every time there is a new leader) is attached to First Under Night, or if First Under Night and the Losara priesthood are different things. I hope that this isn't also going to be that the Crows themselves are harmed. I'm not a particular fan of just having gods bleed out like that, and the loss of the Crows basically says that all of Cat's and others work with the drow is for naught, since the First General would not be good for the drow (even if it represents the pinnacle of the Tenants of Night)
I suspect Ishaq will become the representative of the Villains for the time being, which puts him in the position of supreme command. Though the presence of the other Woe may complicate that fact.
The Epilogue may be Cat's return to her final incarnation.
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2020-12-11, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
OK, there was something bothering me, so I just re-read the chapter, and as it turns out, there are two details that I can't quite figure out:
Spoiler: Question 1What did the Pale Knight say here? What was the consequence of this? Or this this thread just get completely dropped?
The Pale Knight suddenly went stiff, turning towards, Catherine and in a strange voice spoke a single word to her in a language that Archer did not recognize.
Spoiler: Question 2
“You got a goblin’s speed right,” Adjutant clinically assessed, “but not the weight. Sloppy.”
Do forgive me if I am being dense of have missed something obvious.
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2020-12-11, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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1. No idea.
2.SpoilerI believe he could tell by how they sounded coming up the stairs. The revenant didn't weigh the right amount so the steps were too heavy. You know when you can tell who is coming up by how they walk? Humans and Orcs would cause boards and tiles to creek and rattle differently then a tiny goblin.
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2020-12-11, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerQuestion 1 - no, this appears to have been completely irrelevant - there's no description of the Pale Knight following up with an attack here, and the next time it cuts back to the Pale Knight/Tumult fight Catherine is battling normally. I would guess Dead King possessed the Pale Knight here and said something to Catherine - if the next chapter is indeed back to Cat's PoV we may see what happened from her perspective. I kind of thought maybe he tried to Speak at her, or possibly cast something similar to a Power Word? If so she seems to have mostly shrugged it off..
(Could have just been 'Mistake'. Callbacks and cycles and whatnot, you know.)
Question 2 - not specified in text, but like TVTyrant said I would guess Hakram was paying attention to the way the ladder sounded as the Revenant came up it and comparing it to the previous reports he'd gotten from Lieutenant Tweaker. Especially when he's on high alert and aware assassinations are probable it wouldn't take very much to set off a 'nope that's wrong' response; Name senses are quite good at identifying that kind of thing when the Named knows they need to be watching for it.
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2020-12-11, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-11, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI hope not. I think that would break the flow a bit to much to cut completely away from the fall out. of this and then back. Cutting to the bridge crew as after the Grand Alliance responds to the Fall of the Black Queen could work well. What I am hoping to come out of the bridge crew is for Hanno's discussion with Raefella and Apostle to discuss why Cat's so furious with the two of them (I'm of the opinion that no one's actually explained it to them) an have that sort reflect on Cat's impact on the Heroic side of the Truce and Terms and then the Epilogue is Cat's Return.
Which I hope is one more soul searching quest. We haven't had one of those in a while.
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2020-12-13, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Take this with a grain of salt, of courseaccording to the comments section, the exchange with the Pale Knight was the Dead King popping in and saying "Mistake". Which, now that I think about it, would be something he would do, considering what follows. But does anyone notice that the Archer refers to Cat when she's in war mode as the Black Queen? Like, with the capitals too.Last edited by HolyDraconus; 2020-12-13 at 10:52 AM.
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2020-12-14, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI figure that was the formation of the Name of Black Queen being killed for a second time.
Thoughts on Black Queen is that it would become a Callowan equivalent of the Helikean Tyrant in terms of a Name for royalty that would go all out for Callowan interests ("If the Gods damned m homeland, they will burn as well" is very much a Callowan sentiment, not just Cat.)
However in both cases, the Name has been killed before it fully formed. I wonder in this case because it was just about to be born, if it will be additional spark legitimency for Vivienne. Before, Callow was turning to Vivienne because Cat was losing support. This pivot might change Cat's legacy within Callow as being the darker side of the Callowan cultural zeitgeist rising to fight to the bitter end. Not saying that some of the previous Good Monarchs did not have similar legacy's but there is a reason that Cat is compared more to Yolanda, not Eleanor.
I don't know when the groove is that closely carved if it will be possible for Black Queen to arise again, but I have a personal hunch that with Vivienne being so close to Cat in terms of "No Named rulers" that she may make the Liesse Accords much more entwined within Callow's law to make a more constitutional monarch.
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2020-12-15, 12:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Did....did Masego just destroy the Night, to stop Neshamah from usurping it?
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2020-12-15, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-15, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerThe drow are now without Night, and mortal.
They also seem to only have their abilities through Night.
I suspect that the response to this may be the rise of Named amongst the drow, but considering how badly they were doing even with the Night, I question how EE justifies the Northern front existing if it is truly the end of any form of the drow bargain with Below.
I guess I could see Cat pulling a last minute fighting retreat, but this is kind of brutal.
Granted I may be over reading into " Ruining a living godhead connected to it's people", but we'll see.
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2020-12-15, 03:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerAssuming EE intends the coalition to win. This might be another sharp left like when Cat lost to the Sisters, and KotD's actual goal only comes in once Cat gets captured and the army smashed. That would give a good side reason for having Hanno leave.
This is very out of left field IMO. So out of left field I'm more "huh" then anything. From a military standpoint they lost the strongest faction of their army and a whole flank, so short of a side quest to get the Elves involved their victory has moved sharply from traditional military victory to banking on super weapons again. Like an angel corpse maybe.
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2020-12-15, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI agree that ther could be really good pay-off from this. It's more that I find the breaking of godhood when it's an actual cultural icon like Sve Noc a really unsettling concept. If this was a completed work, ig wouldn't bother me, as I could continue with reading. It's the wait that makes it harder to read.
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2020-12-15, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI think the actual target was probably the ritual Neshamah was using to entrap Sve Noc, but as Sve Noc herself/the Night was the common link it was not possible to do that in a way that would leave Night undamaged - in this case the dialogue implies that what is going to be damaged is whatever Night uses, metaphysically speaking, to connect to people that aren't Sve Noc. But intent matters in the actions of Named and the ways Aspects manifest - if Masego was actually targeting Night/Sve Noc directly with this I would bet Sve Noc would not still be gods.
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2020-12-15, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoilerin a way, its similar to what happened to Masego. He may have lost his magic from being separated from the Dead King but he still has what makes him,him; a Named. From how it was framed though it looks like the sisters could end up being a single sibling.
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2020-12-15, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault
SpoilerI don't think it'll be that severe. I have always read this as a joint partnership to the point that there may not be able to be one without the other. Yes Youngest Night was with Rumena, but I think they are closer to dual personalities of the same godhead, rather than actually seperate individuals at this point. I don't know if they would still be functional in the same way that a mortal losing a sibling would be.
Granted, this might be me being in denial because that's just ****ing heart breaking to me.Last edited by Mith; 2020-12-15 at 01:45 PM.