#Aeber

[octo-blobs]

wip. i REALLY want to finish this. therion my baby my love. he is so me

[blazlngblade]

The Divine Rings! They look great!

In order, that's:

Aelfric - Brand Sealticge - Bifelgan Dohter - Draefendi Aeber - Alephan

Do you have a favourite ring? I like Dohter's the most!

[aptericia]

The Flamebringer and the Prince of Thieves watch over the Lofty Flame

[hazelgatoya]

September 2024

[spitblaze]

Just did a read through of a few travel banters from octopath 1 and I gotta say, the Therion and Alfyn banters are really fun.

Therion chapter 2: they talk about going to a tavern. Therion says that Alfyn will be paying.

Alfyn chapter 3: they talk about going to a tavern again. Alfyn says he wants to avoid getting drunk around Therion.

Therion chapter 3: They talk about going to a tavern again. Therion insists on paying for drinks this time.

Outside of the Tavern Saga, their other travel banters are about Alfyn giving a woman a drug-induced nightmare, Alfyn saying he's got Therion's back, and Therion saying "would you trust this friend of yours forever? No matter what? Even if he betrayed you?" And Alfyn just saying "yep"

THEY'RE GOOD DOGS BRENT!!! They have a really good dynamic! And you can even see the through line with their relationship growth. Like you know me I'm incapable of looking at these two and seeing anything besides a slow burn romance but if i take off my fuckin Queer Goggles for a half second it's still a very clear progression of Therion being like 'ugh cheery goodie two shoes wants to be friends. thats his problem' to these two having a genuine bond. Therion talking about trust with him, something that's very personal to him that he has a lot of issues with and he keeps very close to his chest. Alfyn being clear about having his back no matter what. They're close enough to be able to know they have each others backs, even after all Therion's been through and how long he's presumably been trying to keep everyone else at arm's length. All my shit aside, they're good friends! Canonically! Their relationship is interesting and fun to explore because they're so drastically different but mesh so well! Im love these two please feel free to talk to me about Alfyn and Therion in any context any time

[chicken-molayme]

Been working oncharacters n stuff for my Art of Game Design class.

Meet Aeber's parents Cyril and Magus!! And ofc aeber!

I also have our lovely cleric Godfrey on the third image!!

Sadly I do not have an image of Daedrick, but when I do (and remember) I'll post him here <3

[da-millerrrrr]

Opinions on Thronè?

Oh, I adore her! She may not be the kindest person, but she tries her best, and that’s one of the things I love about her. She also never gives up. No matter what, she keeps trying, and that’s admirable. She’s strong, in more ways than one. Physically (which is hot as fuck), emotionally, and mentally. I can’t imagine having to deal with some of the things Thronè did, but she’s still fighting to this day, and it’s amazing.

She’s loyal, too. Once she gets to know you, she’ll protect you with her life. Like- scarily protective.

She’s also gorgeous. Her hair looks so soft... I want to mess with it. I wonder if she’d let me braid lavendar into her hair...

All in all, she’s amazing.

[selfdiagnosedeyemotif]

the utter whiplash i got from taking my first boss loss to Father’s fight in Throné Chapter 3 (because christ, that man is a monster) to absolutely leveling Veronica in Agnea Chapter 4 was just so funny

like, going from “i need to break this guy at all costs or he will murder my party, even if it means sacrificing damage during breaks” to “three of my party members each did over 7000 damage each and the only one not to dealt around 3600″ is just like. dolcinaea get yourself a better bodyguard 

[larnax]

ok so i know i wrote the other post about rewriting throné's story and i put a crossed paths between her and osvald in it but im gonna be real i literally wrote that in 5min and am no longer happy with it so heres a version of it that incorporates the cloudy mirror. if i was gonna do this i would also definitely have to rewrite tem/now partitio's crossed paths if i did this but thats another post

Throné and osvald come across a washed-up corpse on the shore of the brightlands clutching a strange locked box. Throné recovers the box but cant get the lock open, osvald finds it strangely familiar and they agree to work together on trying to find out what it contains. After scrutinizing some townspeople osvald discovers that a scholar recently disappeared who he identifies as an old friend of his who was obsessed with religious relics and remembers that the seal on it means it has something to do with vitalists, a religious sect who believe that vide and aelfric are actually twin gods and that the church of the sacred flame has tried to depose vide in whats essentially a biblical succession battle, but that the scholar would have been the only person who really had the resources or motivation to learn anything else and any information would be in their workshop in montwise. Throné says she honestly cannot tell if theyve gotten their hands on something very valuable or complete junk. Osvald says that’s most of what being a scholar is, and throné jokes that actually being a thief isn’t too different

they arrive in montwise and osvald finds the scholars hidden workshop has been ransacked. They deduce that this happened within a few hours and decide to try and find the culprit. Throné recognizes a blacksnake and is immediately like. Oh… This idiot. She reveals it’s scaracci, a blacksnake who is both lazy and incompetent but treasured by Mother for being so mindlessly loyal that he’ll do literally any job, although he might not… yknow… succeedat it. scaracci is pissed and reveals that he did successfully recover what mother asked him to steal even if he did kinda sorta mess up a little on the job in new delsta, osvald mugs him and recovers the key to the box, which turns out to contain a strange, cloudy mirror. Throné wonders why the hell a blacksnake was tasked with retrieving this and assassinating a weird religious scholar, leading osvald to ask if the blacksnakes have any religious investments she knows of. Throné says that Mothers orphanage is actually officially associated with the Sacred Flame and staffed by nuns(one assumes they’re Just registered as an orphanage and the “running a school for your indentured thief-child-gang” is unofficial), but thieves generally only worship the one god. Osvald is like hmm. You know, my scholar associate was always very interested by aeber, especially the theory that he was originally the god of kindness who was demoted for insisting on sympathizing with and helping criminals condemned by the church. Throné is like ah, like you and i. osvald pauses and then is like…. Yes. Like you and i.

Alternatively if you want to have her already have realized the blacksnakes are connected to vide since it could be completed after her chapter 5, you could have her say that and simply speculate about how the blacksnakes meant to use the mirror, I just think it’s lame to have throné be connected to a completely different god than her patron and not do Anything with that, so he at least gets a mention and also this allows that thing where osvald and throné are both criminals against their will to also be at least said once

how they meant to use the mirror is that ori hired them. Her investigations led her to figuring out that the mirror can be used to change flames of vide to flames of aelfric and vice versa so she wanted it out of the picture completely lest some travelers hypothetically use it to undo a century’s worth of work in about an hour. Hypothetically.

She found this out from harvey which preserves their working relationship and allows the structure of the leadup to their torch to be mostly the same.

[beantothemax]

*a letter arrives for therion*

Mine friend,

How goeth thy time in Clearbrook? The Darkwood hath been at peace of late, and Master be ever the man he wase, for goode and for ill. It gladdeneth mine heart to have him back. Linde and I aren well, though I believe she misseth thine attentions. Perhaps we maye maken a visit to thee and Alfyn soone.

How faren thy lessons in reading? Thou mayest not believen thineself to ben a man of learning, but I and all thine friends knowen that thou art an intelligent man and quicke to learnen. Thy quicknesse to masteren the variouse skills taught thee by thine companions didst impressen us all.

How fareth Alfyn? He maye very well be the one to readen thee this letter, as I knowen that mine dialect be difficult to understanden and to readen at times for those who haile frome outside the Darkwood. I prayen that the people of Clearbrook be all in good health, as I well trusten them to be under his care and that of friend Zeph. Alfyn, on thine next expedition, praye maken a visit to us in the Darkwood on thy way. We would all much enjoyen to seen thee and Therion, should he choosen to come with thee againe.

I muste concludeth this letter, as I am nowe needed in the village. Fare thee well until we meeten again.

H'aanit

🐾

…heh. man, it’s been a while since I’ve heard from h’aanit. or from… any of them, honestly. might have to write back soon.

that’s a… big paw print. guess that proves its linde.

(also you did a good job with h’aanit’s style of speech!)

[loregoddess]

the "gods have statues" is a nice worldbuilding detail but uh...I wasn't expecting Aeber to look like...that....

[octo-blobs]

throné, the thief

[aptericia]

I forgot to mention that I got Aeber's Reckoning for Throné recently, and since then I have been going wild with it. I got 2 Aeber's Reckonings off on Throné's Ch 3 boss and like 5 or 6 on Temenos's lmao. She was the one to defeat both of them and yes it was absolutely worth all the plums I had to feed her to make it possible.

[da-millerrrrr]

Gods, knowing me when I’m drunk, I’d probably do it!

I also get super touchy when I’m drunk...

hey how would you react if i got super drunk

I'd kiss your lips then challenge you to set La'mani's theatre on fire

[spitblaze]

idk what it is about octopath's thief+apothecary pairings that just sucks me in but its good. its Real Good

[fulgurbugs]

anyways here’s me being a gameplay nerd instead of being deranged about the characters for once but i gotta say. running sorc therion has been really funny because the whole run i had speced tressa into scholar, and was basically feeding her any magic boosting items etc, so in the end she has like over 300 elemental atk on him. which works very well for elemental pursuit damage + balogars blade (which now outpaces hired help damage)

but for therion like, honestly before going around and just doing the other bosses i had sorc on him more as a meme, because like the real reason people say go for sorc therion is because you can stack fire damage up weapons on him the way you can stack wind damage up weapons on tressa, but i didn’t actually. get any of those weapons for him which meant his elemental damage is honestly still. bad.

Buttttt having access to every magic as a triple hit is so tremendously useful for breaking literally everything in the game it’s still worth it, especially since he also has access to steal sp, so even tho he’s sp hungry he can usually just fix it himself. and THEN i kind of ignored getting elemental break until the end (because id have rather have him have access to every magic type) and then realized that like. holy shit that actually has insane synergy with balogars blade, because tressa’s Eatk is really really good, she usually hits abt 5k ish x 6 hits with it with no modifiers, then with the elemental break debuff she hit cap on a few hits (i think the lightning and ice ones bc i have battle tested axe on her) and i was like this could be actually. really fucking good if i get her the wind up weapons and slap surpassing power on her.

therion’s damage basically comes entirely from aeber’s spam (i basically but every single +speed resource into him), atp that hits usually 20-30k depending on if he gets an armor corrosive off, and like elemental break balogar could just blow that out of the water. might see if it’s an effective strategy against one of the other hidden side bosses or something