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‘Raphael’s Final Act’ is the Mysterious Stranger’s disney villain song

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Me, trying to talk myself out of finishing my green tea before I take nyquil and go to bed: take the L, take the L, take the L

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The new martial art class is giving me war flashbacks from when I was trying to learn ffxiv monk from how the design notes describes it

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whats esther's favorite spell

This took soooo long to come up with an answer for this sorry!!!

Combat wise, i would say any with ice because of how versatile it can be, which works well with her fight style of faking out her opponents. Sending a burgage of ice spikes to distract them, causing the ground under them to froze over so they slip, doing the same thing but for her to slide out of the way of an attack - that sort of thing. Its also the closest thing to how magic was use in Atheoria.

Non Combat wise, it would be enchantments since she loved deconstructing how magical artifacts work and seeing how they would work with others. Her mother was prettied skilled with weaving enchantments into Esther's and her siblings clothes when embroidering them - things to keep them warm and safe - and Esther does the same thing, if only to have sort of connection to home.

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Hero OC question.

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hello??

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Manifesting it becomes the birthday event

DRAKATH QUESTLINE????? DRAKATH QUESTLINE THIS YEAR PLEASEEEEEE?????

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The basement is haunted

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Esther's main character flaw - her desire for knowledge about any and all of magic - was inspired by the Icarus myth. Being gifted with the one thing she wanted the most, indulging too much in it, crashing and burning when she crosses the line, and dealing with the fallout of going to far. Over and over again in one way or the other.

It was innocent at first, her just wanting to find a way to cast magic - to finally join in the practice that her homeland cherished so - until all of a sudden she could. Before, Esther couldn't have lite a single candle with bring harm upon herself, now she was able to call forth infernos with ease. There was a bit of a learning curve since she was putting the same amount of force behind her spells she was before when she couldn't cast magic - leading to several incidents of property damage - but thankfully Warlic was there to teach her the fundamentals.

Then she started tempering with Chaos magic. On the surface, it was to gain a better understand of how to fight it, but deep down it was her curiosity driving her. There was plenty of safer ways to study Chaos corruption - going to the Sisters of the Dishpan or study the numerous monsters she had to fight - but she wanted a first hand experience with it. Not being corrupted per say - not at first - but to test what can be corrupted and what cant, what was the range of variation of mutations, was there a way to harness Chaos magic safely.

The only incident of Esther flying too close to the sun with her fascination with Chaos magic was the time she stole pure Chaos water from the Sisters of the Dishpan. Originally she was going to test it on things or see if she can make something to wield Chaos magic safely, but then got the idea to drink it. The only reason she didn't was because Drakath showed up suddenly and caused her to spill the water after getting jump scared - which she lamented the lose of (going to make a comic of this later).

And when she finally got to cast Chaos magic, it was in the Chaos Finale and it was something she didn't want anymore and fight against - willing to commit suicide before being corrupted to break the prophecy to open the gate. Watching Alteon slowly succumbing to his corruption and dealing with the fallout when he did - mercy kill him, burying a friend, watching the grief that encompassed the city - and the thought of being in the same position and the unthinkable aftermath of being a Chaos Lord terrified her.

This trauma influenced her approach or reluctance towards the EDoT magic following the Chaos Finale. Finding out she had somehow became a god after razing a place she came to call home, she was petrified of what she could do if she lose control. It didn't help that she was still corrupted and that bleed into her other magic and making them react in unpredictable ways most of the time. Esther would have stopped using magic all together if she wasnt trying to stop the QoM (still haven't played most of that bit, idk what happens).

This lead to her immediately jumping at the chance of learning Order magic in hopes to cure her corruption, and probably would have gone to extremes to do so if Mirror!Drakath wasn't the one who attempt it and who came to the conclusion that Order magic wouldn't cure Chaos magic.

Learning the truth about Malgor and how he was born of her despair and her magic didnt help with her lack of desire to weild the EDoT magic. To her, it was the Chaos Finale all over again - just someone else is causing the destruction. Esther was more relieved than anger when OWO opposed a ban on her use of the EDoT magic and access to the Timestream.

Learning Doom magic echoes a lot of what happens when she wanted to learn Chaos magic. Wanting to learn more to better combat it and find a way to heal Gravelyn (her motivation to even touch doom magic), keeping her meeting and lessons with the Mysterious Stranger a secret from those around her despite the dangers, and the possibility of the ruinous fallout if she looses the tiny bit of control over it. She's still scared of going to far again - from her own experience with tempting with forces she shouldn't and using the tale of Sepluchure as a warning call - but she still has the desire to understand Doom magic in it's entirety.

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quickly becoming my otp

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Prologue to 3rd chaos lord : Warrior/no class (had no prior knowledge of how to fight and was handled a sword)

4th Chaos Lord to Chaos finale : Mage (after figuring she can cast magic now)

Chaos finale to Shadow of War I : Chaos slayer mage (due to corruption)

Shadow of War I to Shadow of Chaos : Lord of order (learning a way to balance out her corruption

Shadow of Chaos to SF finale : Chaos Avenger (learning how to actually wield Chaos magic

AoR to current : Archmage (learning how to tap into the ley lines)

If im allowed to add flavor text, then Esther doesn’t have one particular class but has a main weapon (short sword, rapier, polearm) and summons aethereal weapons or casts bursts of elemental magic to launch at the enemy. Like how with chaos avenger and paladin chronomancer, the auto attack has a great sword/hammer appearing out of nowhere to attack. It whatever works best for the moment and isnt consistent

Hero Question!

Who is your Hero's favourite Npc? Romantic Platonic It doesn't matter who are they hanging out with and getting soft tacos with later.

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mysterious stranger sketches

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BLACK MYTH WUKONG IS OUT :D

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I found this post on the aqw reddit and it has enamored me. Where are you/esther sitting?

Oh this is fun

Esther would either be in 9 and talking to Gravelyn, Victoria, Artix, and Brentan or in 7 and taking advantage of the fact Drakath is in a window seat in the back and she gets a captive audience for all her questions about chaos magic.

Personally in 13 talking to Valarian and Darkon while making the entire hell for Drago and Iona. 11 is also fun for bullying Iona

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I should not be trusted to make smart financial decisions in a place that has art books

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*puts a rubber duck in esther's mailbox*

It now receives her mail