Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Elden Guess 4: monster magnet

 Finally happened. Computer died. Blue screen and everything. Proud of myself.

I got this fucking herniated disc like right where my spine and hip meet and fucking everything is miserable now but especially sitting. Last few updates were via phone. Partner picked out a new computer. It has a green light I like green. Still using my phone because I'm lazy.

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The expansions gonna be about beasts and stars and mogh, bet. They dropped a nonsense ass beast person carrying nonsense ass star weapons, bloody ones, in a blood church, surrounded by beasts, along the secret way to Blood Town. Or else that guy's gonna be the key to understanding the moghwyn faction better and it'll be the last we hear of the creepy fucking weirdos ever. 

You know albanuirics, the skinny ones, legs don't just fail they turn into ghost legs, like the mpuntaintop wildlife, they got some of the poor guys strung up in a cave somewhere.

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Part, a big part, of what made Malenias aeonia so apocalyptic was the fact that she was fighting her half brother. In her eyes radahn, and who knows who else, betrayed her, forced her to stoop to a level she swore she never would. 

This is then repeated, ritualistically, by Gowrey and the kindred with millicent and her sisters, the future champions of Malenias age.

Farum azula was getting wrecked by meteors at some point before the second bloom. Radahn stopped it. Radahn saw himself as more of an heir to godwyns legacy than even mogh. 

But Radahn was born of the stargazer and the stars had their course and that course

Would have put caria on top. Radahn didn't side with any of the three known empyreans from what I can tell. He doesn't seem to have any real connection to rykard, who ties into the nobknives. Rykard was tasked with killing malekith if things went too far sideways, but radahn seems to be broadly aligned with gurrang. Or as least geographically aligned. So maybe radahns beef goes back to godwyns murder, since he doesn't have any clear ambitions beyond fucking up the plans of empyreans. 

1000 years of night with Caria leadung the way. Because the future of caria is written in the stars and stars, the silver ones, want that I guess. 

Why the fuck was malenia so pissed off at him

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There's some kind of god slumber empyreans have to go through to transcend to full godhood. Ranni does and talks about it. Melina and miquella do it - miq as Trina being the demigod of sleep. 

So does rennala. Rennala does it while keeping her body in some kind of sleepwalking/blackout state while she, Queen Caria, holds court with her outer God/s among the stars.

Ifanyone disturbs her slumber she just... deals with it. Yanks them to outer space and either lasers them to death or offers them the egg or, of they're a person like sellen, well.

Rennala, remember, is smart as fuck. Her Moon spell is is 60+int, rivaled only by ranni. Ranni, presumably, is who rennala is dreamwalking on behalf of.

The whole "sad about radagon" thing is a cover.

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Radahn learns gravity magic to save farum azula, let's say. Radahn worships the idea of godwyn, of a Lion worthy of serosh. 


It seems like the onyx/ivory lords were one of the few factions that scared the carians andaybe even the Order. 

I can't remember their names, azur and....fuckin the green one. Anyway, they were exposed to the primeval current and that crystallizes them.

So it's interesting that the space lords motha motha, being presumably immune to or born of this process by virtue of their stone skin never use glintstone.

I'm betting the lords were the equivalent of the miner mages of a previous age. My thinking is that the miners are crystallizes as well, theyre just experiencing the process at a slow incline via their work and are thereby usually more stable than orbhead and spiky, who seem to have taken a deep breath, zero precautions, and jammed their entire body into, like, a current of whatever happens to miners and dragons over decades. 

Alternately, it may be that gravity magic is a safer current than glinstone and the lords are just better at magic than caria.

Which leads to the next question. Did the lords destroy farum azula?