#athodans mistake

[afinickyguide]

episode 148: athodan’s mistake 🥥🍍🍋‍🟩

who’s gonna be watching downfall tomorrow? 👀

[12pt-times-new-roman]

I fully forgot that I pre-ordered Exquisite Exandria until it arrived this morning, so you know what that means!

time for lore!

The Dawnfather is also the god of time. (pg. 77)

During celebrations, the "vow of Vasselheim" is recited: "we remember and thank the gods who saved us. We honor their magic and practice no other. We remember the hubris that nearly destroyed us. We will never forget again." Vasselheim's culture and/or governance (but not the entirety of Issylra itself) believes that arcane magic was the cause of the Calamity, and refuses to make the mistakes of its ancestors. (pg. 77)

There's a particular sentence that could allude to Gruumsh, the Ruiner having been the one to bring down Aeor: "he drove his spear clean through [Cael Morrow] and into the ground below, detonating a third of the continent in one gigantic strike." Using "clean through" and "detonate" here is reminiscent of Matt's description of the smooth borehole and mile-wide crater in the Genesis Ward. (pg. 102)

The Dwendalian Empire has declared that "divine magic and most religious worship are trickery and deceit." This is why they found the Kryn Dynasty's theocracy so threatening. (pg. 152)

The Cerberus Assembly is referred to as "a pillar of corruption at the heart of a totalitarian government." (pg. 153)

Essek Thelyss is canonically a member of the Mighty Nein. (pg. 154)

After Yasha brought her book of flowers to Zuala's grave, she started her own flower garden with Beau, and the first seeds she planted there were from the Blooming Grove. (pg. 190)

Athodan tried to use gravity magic to reverse the over-ripening of fruit. It failed, but the resulting concoction was used to taunt and celebrate him for months. (pg. 206)