#The Story of Kullervo

[innumerable-stars]

The Story of Kullervo Promo Post

(written by @z-h-i-e)

Summary Do you like to write fanfiction? Yeah, I bet you do.

Know who else did?

Tolkien. Tolkien fanboyed on The Kalevala so hard when he read it in 1911, he wrote The Story of Kullervo.

This fanfic has everything you would expect from Tolkien. An evil magician, orphans, kidnapping, twins, a helpful dog with a terrible fate, revenge themes, lots of dead bodies, and of course, a talking sword.

Why should I check out this canon? If you want to go two degrees of Kalevala and write some darkfic, this is the story for you.

It's about 35 pages long minus the intro and notes by Verlyn Flieger, so even if you just read the story and don't actually write anything…

…at least it's not that long, and you'll leave thinking 'wow, maybe Turin didn't have it quite so bad'.

Where can I get this? At the bookstore or library of your choice. There is also a copy available to borrow on the Internet Archive.

What fanworks already exist? The only thing this fanfic doesn't have is many other fanfics about this fanfic. There's one on AO3. One. The ink on the fandom tag is still wet and it's sitting in Uncategorized Fandoms. Won't you consider writing some Kullervo fic so that this AO3 tag can find it's forever home on the category page?

[saurons-pr-department]

Reading The Story of Kullervo and all I can say is that I will never complain about names being confusing in the Silmarillion ever again

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

The editor of The story of Kullervo, Verlyn Flieger, calls Túrin "the loveable but wayward and wrong-headed Túrin Turambar". I'm in absolute stitches over this, I love it so much.

[rusted-pipe-of-wisdom]

kullervo lore makes me insane. drifter just invented a guy and then put him in jail.

[fangirl-erdariel]

Sometimes it fucks me up that Túrin was so loved, by so many people. And it didn't save him, and arguably it was Húrin's love for him that doomed him in the first place, given the phrasing of the curse. But he was loved. So many people did their best to ensure that he lived, that he was safe, that he could be happy. I just. aaaaaaaaaaaaa ;_;

I think in some ways it's especially interesting when contrasted with Kullervo, one of the direct inspirations of the character. Because it's maybe in my eyes the single most crucial difference between the characters. Like, both of them are tragic heroes, who are stubborn, and deeply hurt and angry, and make rash choices in the heat of the moment that often end up digging the hole deeper than it had to be. Both also have sisters they don't meet until they're adults, have sex with them, the sister finds out and kills herself by jumping into a river, and the hero asks his sword whether it would like to kill him, the sword is like "yeah sure i've killed innocents too so why wouldn't i kill you", and the hero uses the sword to kill himself near the site where the sister did.

But Kullervo is not loved or cared for, the way Túrin is. Kullervo is left as a baby in the hands of the people who'd attacked his father's lands, and made to work, and when he proves to be more trouble than they bargained for, he is sold as a slave, treated poorly by the lady of the house he's sold to, shit like that. It's... kinda a central point of the story, really. The version Lönnrot put in the Kalevala (which is not the only version of the story that would've existed in oral tradition, but I am really not at all familiar with any other versions of the story that one might still be able to find, and in any case, the version presented in Kalevala was the one Tolkien knew and was inspired by) quite explicitly says that Kullervo couldn't adjust to living a normal life because he was raised by people who didn't care about him, and that children raised without love/by people who are abusive towards them are gonna be messed up and struggle to live and act in society

So, yeah, I don't know, it's really interesting (and also heartbreaking) to me how Morwen and Thingol and Melian and others in Silmarillion seem to almost be specifically making every effort to ensure that Túrin avoids that fate. Obviously Kalevala and the tale of Kullervo doesn't exist in the setting, but you know what I mean. The way they try to make sure that he is not enslaved, that he is not abused, that he is loved and safe. And yet, it fails. Because of the curse (which, as far as it comes from anywhere but Tolkien's mind, comes from inspirations other than Kalevala) he ends up on a path to destruction anyway

and just. yeah. it's interesting, looking at the way Túrin's story is in some ways in conversation with Kullervo's story. and it's also so sad, how much the characters *try* to avoid that path, that fate, with ultimately no success

[agoddamn]

@cardinalgoldenbrow not quite. Something else fell into Duviri.

Not a whole person, but a piece so significant and meaningful that it kicked off the entire paradox meltdown sequence.

The Lotus's hand.

The Lotus had enough conceptual weight to her to give the Drifter the power of the Void, a power the Lotus herself never even had. She is so strongly connected to the Tenno that she connects the Drifter to them by way of her own hand.

Why, then, wouldn't that be conceptually powerful enough to birth a denizen of Duviri?

Gender? Means nothing. Thrax is male and can be spawned from a female Drifter all the same.

Timeline? Duviri experiences time in a way that isn't linear to the Origin System. We already know this thanks to Teshin having been living in Duviri a long time by the time the Lotus's hand lands even though they fell at about the same time.

Let's look at the major beats here.

First, why is Ballas the Warden to Kullervo? "Because he's an Orokin, he's a ruler, the Drifter saw his portraits as a child!" Yeah, plausible, but by that logic Tuvul should be the Warden. Tuvul drove much of the Zariman project. His statues are all over it. The Commons are even named for him. If the Drifter were unconsciously reaching for any authority figure, it should have been Tuvul.

Speaking of authority figures, Executors don't rule Duviri. A king does. Kullervo's texts talk explicitly about Executors and other things about the Origin System in a way that doesn't match Duviri's canon. Why import Ballas as an authority figure and then demote him to Warden all while acknowledging that he ought to be an Executor?

Let's read Kullervo's story.

Hated Kullervo, did you truly believe he could love you? 

Oh, huh. Kullervo was in love with an Executor. One of the Seven. That's--rare. Who would love one of those assholes?

Kullervo's criminal trajectory is most strange. He was in love with an Executor, killed an Orokin to prove it, obeyed a direct Orokin order (why does an authority figure call this a crime?), killed someone like a mother to him--an Archimedean he was trying to rescue from Orokin custody, odd detail there--then attacked the Orokin again, then orchestrated the Night of the Naga Drums.

Man's got loyalties like a ping-pong ball, huh? Why?

The children's rhymes tell a rather different story.

An enslaved warrior torn from his mother. He was born to fight, eventually learned a truth of his birth, saw his home lost. He bursts into a rage, murders, and then kills himself.

This is much much much more straightforward. You'll notice that the children's rhymes don't mention Origin System concepts like Executors, either. Nothing about love.

Why all the complication?

Two distinct narratives, both tossing in details that beg for more elaboration. Why do this, as a writer? Why spend the voice actors' time like this?

I can only think it was done on purpose.

Two different stories, two different readings on the same person. One from Ballas, one from children.

(Huh. They say Kullervo is a friend to children, don't they?)

The Lotus lived very different lives from the perspectives of Ballas versus her Tenno.

Natah was born to war, a mimic spy with a purpose. She left her family--not by choice--and killed her fellow Sentients as the Lotus; a betrayer. She then orchestrated the Night of the Naga Drums; a betrayer twice over, the mother of a bloodbath.

Ballas sees her as a betrayer, someone who loved him and threw him away.

We see beats of Margulis's story here, too--an Archimedean that was like a mother, killed in a struggle that wouldn't have existed if not for the choice of resistance.

Kullervo isn't literally the Lotus, but I believe that he was conceptually born from her.

His stories contain the major beats of her life, only slightly twisted by perspective. Those details are so specific--in love with an Executor? Betrayed their own kind, and then their 'ruler'? A mother figure (so specific! Why not just have her as his mother?) who was an Archimedean, killed because of resisting the authority that ruled them both?

Kullervo is made up of her pieces, like a collage.

I believe that Ballas's presence and the sudden mention of Executors when that doesn't match the rest of Duviri are supposed to be clues to us that something from the Origin System has leaked in to birth Kullervo, that he is not simply an independent figure that existed in the past. When Teshin and Albrecht rolled into Duviri, they did simply that--they entered Duviri and adopted its ways while they lived there. They didn't come with an entire chapter of a story that isn't from the Duviri Tales.

Another point to Kullervo being born from Duviri is that he is treated like he exists in Duviri. Nobody says that he suddenly appeared like Albrecht or Teshin. Acrithis talks about him as if he's a part of the story. They all know his history. It's only the Warden who relates such a different history.

I think that the name Kullervo probably did exist as some minor character in the original Duviri Tales. The Drifter's subconscious applied this to the tangle of trauma that the Lotus conceptually exists as.

tl;dr Kullervotus

[silence-of-autumn42]

So some of the Zariman question tablets that were added to Duviri in the Seven Crimes of Kullervo update actually answer a lot of questions I, and a few others, has about the book that the realm was based on, Tales of Duviri.

The first big question was why the hell was Euleria Entrati writing what seems to be a children's book? Well, the answer is actually pretty interesting. Tales of Duviri was written as a tool for Void explorers to use to help regulate their emotions while their Void exposure wore off. It was simplistically written so that a mind that was unstable at best would be able to follow the story, and recognise how to avoid their own emotions going out of control.

The second big question was "Is Dominus Thrax king of Duviri in the book, or did we create him?". The answer to this seems to be both. The character of Dominus Thrax does appear as the king of Duviri in Tales of Duviri. His design appears to be based on our doll, but the character does appear in the book. That being said, it's possible, although not confirmed, that initially we filled the role of Thrax, before passing the throne to the character.

The third question is why Euleria was the one to write the book, and that's pretty simple to answer. She was one of, if not the, most prominent Archimedian in the Void Research field. She was in charge of most of the Void expeditions. As such, the explorers were her responsibility, and so she wrote the book to help them regain their sanity while they were in their Isolation Vaults.

There are some more things I want to discuss, based on the Zariman tablets, but I'll save those for another post.

[aduialel]

This has been quite a week and it's not even over yet. My herniated spinal disc decided to pay an excruciating visit. Oh joy of joys! I even passed out on Monday morning.

Fortunately my hubby was already holding me tight when I went limp. He checked if I was having an epileptic seizure, thankfully I just passed out.

I have been on sick leave since Monday and will be another week as well because the meds are not effective enough. I can't use Sirdalud or Panacod due to their interactions with my daily meds. Oh yippee!

At the moment there is only one position the pain let's me have a slight break, lying on my side. My parents brought me crutches so I don't always have to call for my hubby or son to help me up. Stairs is a different story altogether.

On the positive side, I get to relax and read. My hubby gave me my birthday present early, The Story of Kullervo by Tolkien.

Tolkien's Kullervo became known as Túrin Turambar e.g. in the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and The Book of Lost Tales. Kullervo is a truly tragic character in Finnish national epic Kalevala, talented magician raised badly who turns into an immoral and vengeful man.

[mask131]

Fantasy fragments (1): J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium

J.R.R. Tolkien is without a doubt the father of the modern fantasy genre, and his world, especially his The Lord of the Rings, stays to this day one of the most famous and influential fantasy worlds of the 20th century. He is most renowned for building the "epic fantasy" genre with his The Lord of the Rings romance-saga, and his mythological Silmarillion, but his earlier works (The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) rather reflect fairytale-fantasy and children-fantasy, while the recent publishing of his "Great Tales of the First Age" highlight more the "dark fantasy" aspect of Tolkien's unpublished work.

And even beyond his famous Legendarium, Tolkien wrote many more texts related to the fantasy genre - pseudo-medieval romances, children fairytales, poetic retellings of Beowulf, the Kalevala or the Arthurian legend...

Stories part of the Legendarium per se

The Hobbit (1937)

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)

The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

The Silmarillion (1977)

The Children of Hurin (2007)

Beren and Luthien (2017)

The Fall of Gondolin (2018)

The Fall of Numenor (2022)

Other collections of stories, fragments, drafts and studies around the Legendarium:

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth (1980)

The History of Middle-Earth (1983-1996)

The History of the Hobbit (2007)

The Nature of Middle-Earth (2021)

Non-Legendarium fantasy or fantasy-like texts of Tolkien:

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)

Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)

Tree and Leaf (1964, with augmented re-editions in 1988 and further)

The Tolkien Reader (1966, collects several of the earlier works)

Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

The Father Christmas Letters (1976)

Roverandom (1998)

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (2009)

The Fall of Arthur (2013)

The Story of Kullervo (2015)

[innumerable-stars]

Last call for promo post volunteers!

Folks, promo post time is nearly upon us. We're still hoping to find folks willing to spread the word about the following fandoms:

The Father Christmas Letters

Mr. Bliss

The Fall of Arthur

Hunt for Gollum

The Pearl

The Story of Kullervo

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Book of Lost Tales

If you adore any of these, now is your chance to share your enthusiasm and convince people to check it out! We're trying to have the promo posts up early enough this year that people have a chance to investigate new-to-them fandoms before nominations close - we think that will up the odds of fanworks for these fandoms.

We're not asking for a lot - just answers to the following in your own words:

Summary

Why Should I Check Out This Canon?

Where Can I Get This?

What Fanworks Already Exist?

You do not need to participate in the exchange to do a promo post. If you know you can't sign up for whatever reason, but still want to spread the word about your fandom, we are happy to have you.

[take-the-hidden-paths]

HIDDEN PATHS: A Celebration of the Smaller Tolkien Canons

Hello, and welcome to Hidden Paths, a fortnight-long event dedicated to the celebration of smaller Tolkien canons!

We all know and love the tales of Tolkien's Middle-earth, but the Professor's creative and academic endeavours didn't stop there.  However, fanworks for smaller Tolkien canons (such as Farmer Giles of Ham, Mr. Bliss, Leaf by Niggle and more) are much rarer than works inspired by their Middle-earth counterparts.  This event was created to be a low-pressure, low-commitment opportunity to explore those lesser known works, and create and share fanworks based on them.

Define “smaller Tolkien fandoms”. 

Basically, any Tolkien canon or text (including academic works and translations) that is not explicitly set in Middle-earth and is not based on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or The Silmarillion and closely related histories.  This includes, but is not limited to:

Beowulf/Sellic Spell

Farmer Giles of Ham

The Fall of Arthur

The Father Christmas Letters

Finn and Hengest

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

Leaf by Niggle

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Mr. Bliss

Mythopoeia

The Notion Club Papers

Pearl

Roverandom

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Orfeo

Songs for the Philologists

Smith of Wootton Major

The Story of Kullervo

Tolkien (2019 film)

Tolkien's essays, poems, letters and non-ME artwork

We also accept fanworks based on The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (because it collects a number of poems that were not originally intended as part of the Middle-earth canon) and The Book of Lost Tales (because it differs so significantly from later versions of the legendarium), and/or centring characters or concepts that only appear in extremely early drafts of The Lord of the Rings (e.g. Trotter).  

We know that this leaves a bit of a grey area, but ultimately, we will trust and accept the judgement of fanwork creators.  Act in good faith, and assume that others have done the same. 

How does it work? 

At the start of the event (14th February) the mod will post seven optional prompts to inspire you.  There will be a thematic prompt, a character-based prompt, a setting-based prompt, a text prompt, a visual prompt, an audio prompt, and a wildcard prompt.  A second batch of prompts will be posted on the 21st. 

If you like the prompts, then use any or all of them to create and share a fanwork based on one or more small Tolkien canons.  If they don't speak to you, then please feel free to do your own thing – the prompts are there to spark creativity, not impede it! 

What types of fanworks do you accept? 

Anything you like.  Fic, poetry, meta, art, edits, vids, podfic, craft, cosplay, rec lists, playlists, compositions, interviews with fellow fans...it's all good. 

Are there any minimum requirements? 

No, none.  Want to write a six-word story?  Be our guest. 

Are crossovers permitted? 

Yes!  We accept crossovers with the Middle-earth canons, and with non-Tolkien fandoms.  We only ask that one of the smaller Tolkien canons plays a significant role in your fanwork. 

What do you consider a significant role? 

We don't.  The event is intended to be low commitment and low stress for both participants and the moderator, and we trust that people will act in good faith.  We are not going to police fanworks or apply an arbitrary definition of “significant” - we leave that up to the creator to decide. 

Does actor RPF count? 

For the purposes of this event, no it doesn't, unless you are also drawing on elements from a smaller canon (e.g. Liv Tyler encountering the Shadow-Bride).

Where do I post my fanworks? 

We have an AO3 collection, but you may post your fanworks anywhere you like.  We'd appreciate a link back to our Dreamwidth or Tumblr page, though, to spread the word about the event! 

Are there any restrictions on rating or content? 

Nope.  Tag and warn appropriately, as you normally would, but make whatever your heart desires. 

Can I post fanworks that were inspired by or created for another event, or created prior to the event's inception? 

Yes!  The goal is to celebrate and increase content for the smaller Tolkien fandoms.  Please feel free to share your creations and add them to the collection, regardless of whether they were created specifically for this event. 

I want to take part but I don't know anything about the smaller canons.  Help!?

Tolkien Gateway has helpfully collated a list of Tolkien's writings, and some of the articles reproduce or link to the actual text.  This is a great place to start browsing, and to find out more about a text before you invest in your own copy.

Have a look at fanworks for some of the smaller canons and see what appeals.  Innumerable Stars and TRSB both have several works for the smaller canons in their collections, and many of them can be understood with no prior knowledge of the source material.

Lists of characters appearing in the various texts and canons can also be a useful jumping off point - like this one for The Book of Lost Tales.

Many of the smaller canons are just that - small!  If you can get hold of a copy from your local library, book store or from a fellow fan, they are generally quick to read and digest.

If anyone has any other ideas and resources for folks wanting to dip a toe into the smaller canons, please get in touch so they can be added to this list. 

When does the event run? 

Officially, February 14th-28th.  Unofficially, as long as you like; the prompts will stay up and the AO3 collection won't close.

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

Tolkien's Kullervo and Túrin are both gifted knives as children, but while Túrin immediately gives his away, Kullervo swears to use to get revenge on those who have wronged him.

[saurons-pr-department]

not PR related, please excuse me, I just wanted to thank you for saying that you don't need to be a modern scholar to read the silmarillion. one of the things that genuinely stopped me from even trying to read it was a friend who kept saying that you need to have extensive knowledge of philosophy and religion to read it. I now feel more confident that I can read it ( and if I shall become confused or if I don't understand something, I can simply put it down and nothing will happen)

thank you <3

I'm glad one of my posts could give you more confidence to try read the Silmarillion! It really is such a good read and you're right, just like any other book you can just put it down if you don't like it.

In all honesty, I would disagree with anyone who says you need to be knowledgable in the various fields that gave inspiration to Tolkien in his world building or story/poetry writing in order to enjoy what he wrote. It can be enjoyable from a pure study standpoint to have knowledge of where different elements of a work come from and how they've all been brought together to give us the Silmarillion, but is it required? I would say no.

Let's just look at Túrin Turambar. His evolution in Tolkien's writing can be traced back to Tolkien's 'The Story of Kullervo', this being Tolkien's own telling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala, a Finnish epic. This is interesting information and I enjoyed my read of The Story of Kullervo and looking at the connections between that and the story of Túrin. But I don't think my initial reading of either the Silmarillion or The Children of Húrin were hampered by my never having heard of Kullervo going into them. They are their own stories and I'm fully capable of reading the words on the page in front of me, and comprehending them and enjoying them as their own stories. It's not like there's secret extra information in The Story of Kullervo that you need for the events of Túrin's story to make sense. Everything you need for it to make sense is given to you in the Silm. The same goes for the rest.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the Silmarillion on its own terms and I hope you have loads of fun reading it! Who knows, maybe it'll inspire you to read into the sources of inspiration and then you will be knowledgeable of them too!

And I'll just leave this quote here....

In Dasent's words I would say: “We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.” [...] By “the soup” I mean the story as it is served up by its author or teller, and by “the bones” its sources or material—even when (by rare luck) those can be with certainty discovered. - Tolkien, On Fairy Stories

You can just read the book like

[arda-marred]

According to letters and previously unpublished manuscripts, J.R.R. Tolkien began writing stories about Middle-earth as far back as 1917 when he was deployed in the First World War. During this time of time of senseless destruction and tragedy, Tolkien created a hero that embodied these fears; Turin Turambar, the self-proclaimed “Master of Doom.”  There is no shortage of heroes in Middle-earth; the diverse cast of characters is a primary reason readers are attracted to Tolkien’s books. From the highest order of Elves and Gods to the smallest Hobbit in the Shire, anyone can be a hero. Manwe, Gandalf, Beren and Luthien, Eowyn, Frodo, Sam, and so on. These heroes of Middle-earth are generally positive figures, they show compassion for others, take council in wisdom, and put the needs of the helpless ahead of themselves; standard qualities for an archetypal fantasy protagonist by today’s standards.  Turin is different. He is disturbed, melancholic, and vainglorious, though he is capable of compassion and accomplishes much in the name of good; of Turin’s many exploits, the most remarkable is single-handedly slaying Glaurung the dragon, a scene reminiscent of Sigurd and Fafnir from the “Volsunga Saga.” Despite all of Turin’s achievements though, despair follows. His sister Lalaith dies from plague as a child and Turin never recovers emotionally; Turin’s father Hurin is captured in battle, believed to be dead, tortured for decades, and cursed to watch his family suffer from afar through dark magic; Turin’s homeland is overtaken by bandits and subjected to thralldom; Turin is forced to abandon his pregnant mother at the age of nine and the two never meet again; he is exiled from his foster home after murdering an advisor to the king, refusing to return on the one condition that he ask for forgiveness; he kills his best friend Beleg after mistaking him for an orc in the dark; most disturbing of all, he discovers that his pregnant wife, is actually his long lost sister Nienor. Upon realizing their act of incest, Nienor casts herself into the ocean and Turin falls upon his sword, thus ending his miserable life.  Turin, a complicated anti-hero that isn’t quite sympathetic, but pitiable, is a jarring departure from the other heroes of Middle-earth. There is never a triumph for Turin; the weight of the world just keeps packing on. While Tolkien was certainly in the headspace to create such a character during the turmoil of World War One, the genesis of Turin and his family is derived from “The Kalevala,” a collection of ancient songs, poems, and folk stories from Finland. Turin’s life was inspired by the rune songs of Kullervo, a deeply troubled youth who experiences many hardships and goes through life inflicting disaster upon himself and his people; sometimes by accident, other times in a fit of rage. Kullervo is a national icon in Finland, not just for his appearance in “The Kalevala,” but as the subject for Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ first major symphony, “Kullervo. Op. 7.” Through this creation, Sibelius raised the international awareness of this tragic character, as well as the literary and cultural merit of “The Kalevala.”   Read more

[microraptorreactor]

HIHI uhh unstable-and-gay is one of my friends and my OTHER friend got me into WF, I heard from said friend that like. in order to truly get what the hell is happening in WF you Really gotta have a Guy Who Already Knows. I’ve only been playing truly maybe 1-3 weeks now (I tried before last year but it didn’t work for me at the time) lmao. my fav quest I’ve done so far is the Duviri Paradox, and I’m striving to become one of the maximum of 2 sevagoth mains lmao. I’ve been having a ton of fun with it so far and uhh. hi do you have any general tips for new players or like, any favourites you wanna rant about : )

HIHIHI! I will gladly rant to anyone and everyone about Warframe. All my tips are outdated because I know they changed progression but here goes:

Upgrade from the mrk-1 weapons if you haven't already. The regular versions can be bought for credits in the store.

Learn to mod! Modding works of percentages so you have to figure out what each piece of equipment is good at. Or just hit the automatic mod button and call it a day, that should get you through most of the game's story.

Whatever people say about meta basically only applies to endgame missions. Almost every warframe is viable for regular play if you know how to use them. THe one weapon I've found to be genuinly unplayable is the Stug, so tread a little more carefully around weapons.

Primes are nice to have, but not required. I am used to a time where Primes were far harder to get ahold of though, so picking one to work towards isn't a bad idea! Also, the one exception to this is Ash Prime. I don't care he's vaulted, he is genuinely easier to get then base Ash.

best way to get mastery is to rank up every weapon and warframe avalible to you. But also, the highest mastery you ever really need is 16, they stop gateing weapons after that.

Digital Extremes has the funiest fucking way of retconing lore. I don't know where you are in the game rn, so that's all I will say.

My favorite characters are the sentients lol. I cannot rant about most of them without spoiling the end of the game though. But uh, here's a list of my blorbos if you'd like more about any of these characters! Please include what quest ur on though, so I don't spoil you RIP. I also know everything about everyone else up until the most recent update.

Kaeli

Era

Natah

Cephalon Suda

Kullervo

Drusus Levarian (specifically his pre-Dante Unbound version)

but yeah my user is Spireofspring if you'd like to add me! It'll be awhile until I get online again, I've been on hiatus thanks to Destiny but Jade Shadows will make me reappear.

[eve-be-sleep-deprived]

Kullervo decided to take a day trip to Cetus...!

It was early in the morning to the fog was still heavy and the air brisk, perfect for a quick run on the beach.

He stopped and chatted with a local harvester.

He stared at a bird, wondering if he could make the chunks smaller so it could eat easier.

He saw the sights!

He fell over!

Had to make sure nothing was broken. Just a bit dirty.

And he wrapped up the afternoon listening to stories from a very verbose, yet somehow incredibly wise, child.

He has no desire ever to return, the ground is much too unpredictable.