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they would have this energy

i have the urge to make another hero oc who fully embraces godhood for the sole purpose of using 'it the will of a god' excuse to try to get away with things. also to hand out bullshit prophecies to mess with people who arent wise to their shit

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i have the urge to make another hero oc who fully embraces godhood for the sole purpose of using 'it the will of a god' excuse to try to get away with things. also to hand out bullshit prophecies to mess with people who arent wise to their shit

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Update on Cerise’s campaign because apparently it’s still going on and my sibling just haven’t given me any updates

Cerise and the absolute train wreck of a live interest she has speedran a vegas wedding because he didn’t understand the implications of the spell ceremony and just took the word of the demonic wolf spirit/parasite/whatever possessing him half the time to do it. It was meant as a prank btw

The two have knew each other for less than 3 months and were actually a couple I think for a few weeks. He did the whole ‘meet the family’ 12 hours prior

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aqw doodles and wips

Dahlia wip i have been trying to paint this for weeks

Gravelyn doodle

my attempt on trying to come up with a prologue design for esther which i needed for some of the herofest comics

attempt at a comic

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non aqw doodles :P

my sibling's sorcerer, Cerise, for their dnd campaign

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out of the trenches and done basically binging oblivion, skyrim (modded to high hell), and deltarune somewhat

im going to try to start posting more regularly again

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OH! This actually answers some of my other theories and questions about what counts as a god or not, and added fuel for more! Thank you so much for this!!!

KATHOOL DIDNT GET A DIVINE EYE WHEN THEY GOT ASCENDED

meaning theres a difference between the hero ascending someone to godhood and someone obtaining godhood on their own.

the hero didnt say the line when them and Dage were becoming the Endless at the end, and the Endless counted as their own being that would have replaced the two completely -- hence obtaining godhood. im guessing why Neso and Iona got divine eyes was because of their power up (Neso taking from Kathool, Iona using Tanaris and Haoes) and probably counted as an Elemental god by default

im still going subscript to the idea that the hero ascending people to godhood the way they did with Kathool is essentially breaking off a piece of their power and handing it off or giving up that domain entirely

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KATHOOL DIDNT GET A DIVINE EYE WHEN THEY GOT ASCENDED

meaning theres a difference between the hero ascending someone to godhood and someone obtaining godhood on their own.

the hero didnt say the line when them and Dage were becoming the Endless at the end, and the Endless counted as their own being that would have replaced the two completely -- hence obtaining godhood. im guessing why Neso and Iona got divine eyes was because of their power up (Neso taking from Kathool, Iona using Tanaris and Haoes) and probably counted as an Elemental god by default

im still going subscript to the idea that the hero ascending people to godhood the way they did with Kathool is essentially breaking off a piece of their power and handing it off or giving up that domain entirely

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esther thoughts on the dage event

Esther would have absolutely level Atlas if Miseru and the other had just ask, there was enough there for her do that. Maybe not enough to justify to start throwing around ‘The Eternal’ title and divine retribution (though to be fair, she could think of nothing short of the world actively ending for her to be willing to use those), but enough to meticulously plot to have it’s pristine image torn apart and replace with their sins in the history books, and then have it wiped off the face of Lore completely. 

Her preferred method would have be gathering as much info as she needed to convince those with standing armies that destroying Atlas was a necessary thing. Something that wouldn’t put her reputation as a Hero at risk — it wasn’t a virtue thing, it was more of wanting to keep up appearances.

An outright slaughter also would have felt a bad taste in her mouth and reminded her too much of her time as the 13th Lord of Chaos and razing half of Greenguard to the ground. Which it did and she wasn’t happy about essentially getting puppeted with a hazy recollection of what happened again. Even if it was justified

Immediately hated everyone who was from Atlas except Coelho Jr. Too pushy, too self-centered, too creepy, and that was before everything came to light.

Honestly, if wasn’t for the body jump and him wearing his son’s body, would have killed Coelho herself again in the most tortuous way possible. Gods only know what she would have done if she learned about the body jumping before killing Coelho the first time. 

First impression of Zedek was ‘oh yay, she had to put up with another self-righteous, disillusional ‘do-gooder’ before she gets to kill him’. 

If she didn’t have Dage stitched to her soul affecting her so much and wasn’t bond to a ritual sacrifice to destroy Atlas as soon as possible, Esther would have taken immense pleasure in being insufferable and pissing him off to provoke him into snapping. 

Doesn’t really know how to feel about Dage having access to most of her thoughts and memories. Not in a ‘not trusting him and thinking he would use any info against her later’ way, but more of a not used to that level of vulnerability.

Did like hearing his commentary on random things

Doesn’t like he now has all the tells for her lying now (Esther in AoR lies a lot) this bit purely for fanfic purposes

Did not care for whatever it was when she and Dage became the Endless, it reminds her too much of what happened when the previous EDoT merged their souls together during the Chaos Finale 

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Rewatching old Chaos Saga cutscenes bc I can finally comprehend the enemies-to-lovers gay arc Drakath and Hero were having OH MY GOD???

THE SIZE DIFFERENCE IS SO FUNNY??

Bantering like an old couple ❤️

^^^^ context for this flips around when these bitches are on their lover arc I GUARANTEE it

AND HERO GOING FOR THE SNEAKY HEADWACK GOD THEYRE SO STUPID.

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Me gushing about dark birthday events (mainly pt 3)

man, I love when stories start off with something out of left field and then refuse to elaborate of it until later, and by then I’m invested. Start off with the hero wanting Atlas wiped off the face of the earth and you slowly start going ‘yea this place should be burned to the ground’, french kiss

Also love stories that take inspirations from myths, because ya know it going to be satisfying to watch the downfall

the temp items description have been fun to use as writing prompts for Esther and Dage’s interactions :D

Love the fact that Dage and Slaine test the hero’s resolve in Atlas’s slaughter and them immediately doubling down on it

Also accurate ES!Esther depiction and a bit of AoR Esther when she drops the hero act

Yara and Slaine’s interactions

Firstly, love that older Npcs are getting brought back and having character development

Narrative foils that contrasty talk shit together 

Imagine this, the hero’s mind space. They’re the one at the wheel, trying not to fall asleep. The Beast is just there, watching the destruction while eating popcorn. And Dage is rummaging through the hero’s memories while giving his two cents to keep them awake

And the Endless is like a sleep paralysis demon thats is slowly manifesting in the corner

Side note, the amount of trust in the hero to just be ok with the idea them looking at his memories without asking is sweet

the hero, forcibly shoving anything related to Malgor and their other kids in to a lockbox, shallowing the key, and throwing the box into the ocean: what family? I definitely don’t have a family, nope

Now the question is it because they’re actively avoiding think about Malgor, taking Drakath threat of killing anyone who learns truth seriously, or a mix of both. Who knows

Maleagant being the one to give Zedek shit for how he used his kids was great

new dragon form 

Edot is an eevee (no you cant change my mind)

Also the design is fucking sick

It kinda gives an explanation to why EDoT was purple in the timeline where they killed the QoM, if they somehow aligned their being with Chaos

the absolute trust between Dage and the hero 

The hero’s trust in dage to decline divinity 

Dage’s trust in the hero to lead the legion 

Also dage’s genuine concern for the hero 

the ritual sacrifices bit

I really hope this doest come back as a thing that the Jus Divinum uses to literally use the hero as a weapon against Evil or whatever their end goal is

I really hope this doesn’t come back at all, but its gonna and I hate it

Side note, love that the hero points out that Miseru and the others could have literally asked for their kids back or their souls healed and it would have been granted, but instead they used the chance to have a kingdom wiped off the face of Lore (which was understandable given everything, but damn does that has to cut deep)

I know the hero got a pass from OWO to destroy Atlas mostly due to Tranquility demanding it, but I wonder if it's also in part due to the ritual sacrifice. Like, would they have held the hero responsible for their actions knowing they were bond to razing it to the ground? Would it be an instant that they would have tasked the hero with hunting down people with the knowledge of the ritual after the fact? Or would they have just voted to Silence them to avoid anyone else binding a god to do their bidding?

the gap in memory the hero has from the ritual

Looking back on the dialogue from the hero, it sounded like it was a completely different being from Dage and the Hero (at least after the first cutscene). They had even refer to the Eternal like they weren’t the same person in part 3

And the ■■■■■ dialogue kinda confirms it

My take is that ■■■■■ was the Endless, but the Endless from the future where Dage accepted divinity and was at the end of eternity where they ended up alone, and he was just hearing the future. 

the bit about Sparagmos

Im reading it as the hero knew actually what they could have become with the Endless and wanted to cripple themselves in case they continued as the Endless and needed to be Silenced while they were still themselves

The divinity eye thing 

I have thoughts, but theres not enough to put into words atm other than ‘hey, that’s kinda concerning that its the same eye motif that the avatars get when stepping foot on Lore and might be the thing that distracted OWO at the end of RoCT’ and ‘the eye from the title card that’s sudden sus now’

Maya

Say it ain't so 

I thought the spy would be Richard since he’s insists on intercepting Hans’s letters to Victoria and the armor he’s wearing I think is Jus Divinum theme

I really hope its not Maya, she was my favorite npc from the earlier game

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HAPPY HEROES HEART DAY

IM SO SORRY THIS IS A MONTH LATE!!!!!!

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oh youre missed sooooo much

so in a sort of spoiler friendly way (idk you care about that) but without giving too much

kathool has a cult now and lives rent free in our head

the order (or OWO as i like to disrespectfully refer to them as) are our parole officers who are giving us a pass this once

the mask (or the martyrs i think) and the mirror are unique to this questline

Hey fellow aqworld players out there, did I miss something???

I haven't played in months, decided to hop on tonight, and speedran Dage's birthday thing

What is happening??? The mirrors?? kathool?? (actually haven't finished that storyline because I've been stuck at one boss I can't defeat ;-;) the order??? those masks??

wh- I'm genuinely confused

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heres a fun idea

atlas had a EDoT cult at some point, either originally or inviting them in in the past and they died horribly in whatever fucked up ritual atlas is using for their eugenic

this is mostly fueled by the fact that the martyrs are the first people to call for help in a way that makes the hero listen and compelled to the request (if the quest flavor text and temp item descriptions are anything to go by)

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I’m pretty sure I have a good idea why the hero would want atlas completely razed to ground, but wtf did zedek do to make tranquility of all people to be out for blood????

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the prophecy from /legionlibrary is just adding fuel to this post

heres more bits to support this theory

the bit about an iris could allude to what Azalith said about a singlur eye being the symbol of divinity

and the part about make a universe and destroy it could reference what Rand mention about Dage's offer in termia temple

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i havent gotten the chance to do anything for herofest for like 2 months, but i can assure you the chaos saga is going to be fucked up and esther is coming out of it cover it blood and crying