#also thinking abt it i hope no one felt offended by the og post it wasnt aimed at anyone specific 😭

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Nah you're good I understand

I do think my og post didn't give how i properly felt (I'm not good at the ol extensive talk abt a specific topic thing :/) cause I do feel like there was /someone/ in high power shown through the murals n stuff, maybe some ascended star child that was treated like a second coming.

My gripe more comes from how the common interpretation of the "king" character is based upon stuff that is years removed from current lore (in the sence of game development not in-universe), and yet still puppeteer around like they were intended all this time.

It's not something that just Sky as a game has gone through, there are many cases of series being overshadowed cause the Fandom found one beta character to push everything onto.

Ppl can have they're interpretations, that's why I prefaced it with my opinion, but how I've felt (at least in the time that I've been seeing Sky lore discussions), I haven't seen one that's yk, put energy into breaking that mold of "we GOTTA justify this character who's never seen exists".

The ones I've read all feel like they bottleneck into "all this stuff happens... which leads to the king-" and with a story as open as Sky I feel like having a different outlook and seeing how aspects connect with eachother in different ways leads to more interesting discussion. Cause what's the point of a lore discussion if it all leads to the same thing yk?

Least from the way I've seen it, it all started with ppl finding out abt the whole "Resh" thing though consept art, trying to find a way to push that character in a game they no longer existed in, an now 4 years later they've been in a perpetual loop of Fandom telephone where they became this scape goat blorbo that everything revolves around, and personally I ain't abt that life.

Massssive yapping tl;dr: it's less abt the character I'm bothered by, it the perception that "character" has clouding up and different discussions/interpretations :)

Hot take???? But I'm not a real fan of the whole "resh, alef, eden elder" whatever you call it thing.

I feel like reducing the lore and story of the elders / fall of the sky kingdom to "my sad blorbo did a fucky wucky" feels very regressive to sky's themes of community and balance if that makes sence.

(Cont my lil rant??? Idk if it would be called a rant)

Plus it also just.... absolves all the very upfront flaws the elders have just saying they were under the rule of a bigger bad, like nah let them play with fire and learn they messed up.

Forest elder literally ruined the ecosystem of their kingdom for the sake of urbanization (plus kept a stockload of entrapped wild creatures to be made into energy)

The Valley elders set up an entire (very imbalanced) class system

Wasteland elder is a war leader

The other 3 idk commit tax fraud

Writting off their flaws as just responding to some big bad just, idk, rubs me the wrong way.

Plus, it feels a bit at odds with the whole light v dark balance thing, they're forces , non-tangible things of nature. So having it put into this conventional "us vs thr big bad >:(" also just diminishes that aspect too.

The fall of the kingdom stemmed from a lack of balance between light and darkness, one cause by the elders basically trying to play god to keep their kingdom alive. Having it all just be "this one overwhelmed guy tapped into the EVIL power and became EVIL" just makes the story that Sky feel more generic

Not saying there wasn't something or someone at the epicenter of the eden explosion there is an argument to be made there, but I Do Not Think it would be some crowned ruler. A thing of power yes but some big bad at the center of it all? Nah, too cliché, too obvious.

If you do belive in the whole eden elder thing I'm not saying it's wrong, ofc it's just opinion on it all. I just feel like confining the lore of a story just to proving that a single person exists feels regressive to a story that talks about group connections.

Also:

Stuff left on the cutting room floor is not indicative of the final product

Tl;dr - the kingdom of sky should be seen as the fallen oligarchy that it should be seen as.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings