#avalon sso

[numberoneavalonfan]

guys what do we think. do you agree.

[askefrueee3]

II. The Magician- Avalon

[bugslaststraw]

Hello and welcome to the Hell dimension I accidentally trapped Avalon in while I was writing

[mllenugget]

You can tell him yourself

If it wasn't for Avalon's roomba ""walkcycle"" and Fripp's galaxycore sparkle fursona design, I would have found that one scene were the druids express their disappointment towards the Soulriders' actions ominous

Also :

[spicyhummusart]

My newest Avalon painting! Hope you like it 🙏

[vilda-ravenhill]

I also hope they never take off Avalon's mask without reason. It's such perfect characterization. He is literally hiding his face behind his faith, and trying to blend in with the rest of the druids. That lends his arguments more weight, even if sometimes it is literally just him and Rhiannon calling the shots now that Elizabeth is gone. Sometimes Avalon is Avalon, and sometimes he's a representative of The Keepers or just All The Druids as a whole. I love that. Keep his hood on.

[incorrectsso]

[at Evergray's funeral]

Avalon: *places his hand on the headstone and sobs*

Avalon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

[horseslur]

Things I have done in SSO:

Unlocked and completed Dino Valley

Unlocked Golden Hills Valley (after glitching into it on like. day 3)

Completed all archeaology sets

Got every single spider except for one (see other part)

Unlocked Mistfall

Unlocked Wildwoods

Completed the Nightdust questline (and met Darko through there)

Completed the Avalon questline where you sabotage that dark core base in Valedale

Got Herman caught and then rescued him again (seeing Darko again)

Completed the druid paths in Valedale

On the final chapter of toy postcards

Met Rob and Bob

Things I haven't done in SSO:

Rescued Justin

Even considered rescuing Anne and Lisa

Restored the Baroness's racetrack

Visited pandoria (let me iiiiiiiin)

Met the spymaster (he's holding my last fucking spider hostage)

Got Bob out of the fucking water (requires captain brus to be in his fucking place to talk to) (he's not bc he's in moorland) (bob has been hanging out in the waters outside cape west fishing village for like. three months now)

[crystal-tit]

awh, sure ,avalon, i can give you a hug :-)

[itsscarlettravenwood]

Avalon you ok Bro? Want a Hug?

[butterfly-headquarters]

my sso Roman Empire is the fact that at the very least Avalon had to know Justin was Catherine's son (he was the only witness to her and Thomas getting married, she took on the moorland name)

AND YET he let the keepers put the fact that Justin is Sand's grandson over the fact that he's Catherine's son (or didn't even mention it at all) in this essay I will-

[numberoneavalonfan]

avalon coded i think

[willowalmondstar]

After the sixth time you raced, your horse threw you into the dirt.

It was overdue, really, and you felt guilty, but that emotion was second to the throbbing in your head and the rock stabbing your back where you landed. Though it was a sunny, cloudless day, a gray, shadowed shape swam into view, and you wondered vaguely if you had a concussion.

“Thank you, Soul Steed. That will do,” the hooded figure murmured. Not a concussion. Worse. Your horse huffed, and hooved feet stomped away. “We’re not done,” you called weakly, and, of course, no answer came.

It was too bright, even at the edge of the Hollow Woods, and the fallen leaves slipped in the mud as you tried to sit up. Face in hands, you waited for the lecture, but Avalon was oddly quiet this time.

“I checked with Ydris before finding you here. Thank you for that.”

Sarcasm. He must really be irritated. “I got sick of him,” you muttered, lifting your head. 

“Well, the feeling is mutual.” His voice was flat. You always knew when Avalon was watching you, even though you had never seen his eyes. “Really, Soul Rider, how many times must we tell you not to ride angry?”

“Enough times that it’s really pissing me off,” you snapped. 

One of the nearby runes crackled with Pandoric lightning, and Avalon silenced it with a wave of his hand in a rune pattern. “Fripp doesn’t know what to make of you right now.” “So he sent you to track me down instead?” “No. That’s not how it works, and you know it.” You did. This was not a hierarchical organization, like Dark Core. This was Avalon finding you because he cared. “Pushing your horse like this is unacceptable, naturally, if it were unwelcome. I happen to know your particular steed does not mind a bit of hard exercise, and will stop you if necessary.” You both acknowledged your position in the dirt. “However, it’s unbecoming.”

Unbecoming. An interesting way to put it, but, then again, the Druids were always interesting, with interesting perspectives and interesting magic. It’s why you stayed. It was all so fucking interesting. Nothing more intellectually stimulating than an island of magic that was, by all intents and purposes, truly unknown to everyone but a few dozen people. You included.

“We can’t have a Soul Rider going off the deep end,” he said, and you could not tell if he was more sympathetic or amused. “Alex has similar . . . emotions, you know. Have you two spoken?”

“Oh, yeah. Us girls do nothing but gossip.”

Avalon’s robe rustled in the wind, and this familiar sound calmed you a bit. He did not know what to do with your newfound anger. Neither did you. Neither did the other Soul Riders. It would be so much easier if you were a Dark Rider, throwing Drakonium bombs and spitting insults and welcoming the acid rain of Garnok bringing about the End. 

It was exhausting being so goddamn nice and helpful all the time.

The pain in your tailbone reduced to a simpler ache. Avalon held out his hand to help you up, and you took it. “Guess we’re walking back,” you said. After a few minutes, you added, “I’ve never seen you ride.”

“That is not required for my position as Keeper,” he replied. 

The answer dug into your brain, settling into irritation. “Another fascinatingly vague answer. Do you guys even know what you’re doing, or am I getting blisters carving runes all day for nothing?” 

“I am just one piece of Aideen’s puzzle. I do not have all the answers, but she has laid a path for us.”

You were lucky Avalon was patient. A certain blue squirrel would have bitten you by now.

The truth was, you were exhausted. It seemed that every day you lost both the battles and the war. “Avalon,” you said, and he turned to you. “I can’t let go of this anger. I’ve got nowhere to put it and nothing to fill where it is. I can’t keep drawing magic from wherever I’ve been getting it all this time.” The magic of friendship, you suppose. Buttercups and hand-holding and rainbows. You missed it. 

Like you had seen him do many times before, like when he finally understood a spell or approved of a plan, he nodded. “We can work with that, Soul Rider. You are not the first-“

“-and I am not the last,” you finished, knowing the phrase from the frequency it left his mouth. It may have been a comfort to him, but it scared you shitless. An eternal war with a goddess you’d never seen and a kraken that haunted you in and out of dreams. 

Avalon shook his hand out of its sleeve and held it out to you. You took it. “Let us go, Soul Rider. Our work awaits.” And with his confident help, it felt possible, and your anger melted. Just a little. 

[willow-springpaw592]

My thoughts on the newest main story quests, some positive and some...slightly on the fence:

First of all, I like that Linda is shown to actually have a backbone and will snap back at people if they insult her. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but for a while it seemed like she was just the token intelligent one of the group who never got into conflicts. So I really liked seeing her stand up for herself this time against the dark riders!

I like how the druids can send messages via runestones to each other in times of crisis. It's something I never would've thought of, and although the way the runestones just grow out of the ground could seem silly and nonsensical in a way for some, I personally really like it!

Also, the magnetising void! It was so cool! I wonder what past Soul Rider performed it with Concorde? I would say Elizabeth, but that just seems too obvious. I love that we got to see a more dangerous side to the magic of the Sun Circle, and I really hope that this is something they will continue with for the rest of the Circles. Maybe for the Moon Circle, Linda could be able to cast dangerous illusions to confuse the dark riders? Or send visions that can drive people mad? It's probably too 'evil' for the Soul Rider circles, but I think it would be cool to see the dark side of the Keepers' magical abilities.

Now, onto the bombing of Dark Core Headquarters. I find it really difficult to believe that DC was never actually drilling any oil. They couldn't have partnered with GED forever, could they've? How could they have made money otherwise? At some point in history they must have drilled for oil, and then stopped for some reason. Maybe to put all their money into the equipment to build the Hadal gate (which btw confirms that Garnoks prison is indeed super deep under the sea, and not in some untouched corner of Pandoria) Anyways, I really hope this is not SSEs attempt at portraying DC as somewhat redeemable with 'oh no they actually weren't polluting the island at all, they were doing nothing wrong!', nevermind the fact that they are working towards releasing Garnok, who has made it very clear by now in regards to his plans for the island.

Well whatever, moving on from that, Erissa! Finally! I was hoping she'd have some lines of dialogue, but I did love her cartwheel/flip coming out of the portal. It's nice to see that Mr Sands is back in action again after not being present in the story for damn, what 5, 6 years now?! I though he and the Dark Riders would've been a bit more annoyed about the oil rig's destruction, so I guess the Soul Riders have got their war crime charges dropped for now at least.

Now for the obligatory Darko mention. With every new release of the main story, I get increasingly more worried about what SSE is planning on doing with him now. He should've been in the ending of this quest, yet he wasn't, and there's been absolutely zero mentions of him ever since the saving Anne quests from other characters, even though he was probably a massive source of trauma for Anne if he was the one who guarded her prison cell, and she seemed to have a very deep hatred of him going off of her mentions of him at past seasonal events. I can't find my screenshot of her one at Midsummer but she said something along the lines of, "What do you think happened to Darko? He had better still be alive. I won't let him take away my chance for revenge." Yes I know, I remembered one line of dialogue at an event years ago, can you tell I'm obsessed yet? I want to say that they're planning something big with him and the Nightmare Institute, but I've got this horrible feeling that they'll either reveal he's dead( even though the soul riding missions are proof that he isn't) or they'll just totally write him out of the story from now on because they've got the new Dark Rider models now, so they can do more with them. I know most people hate him, but I think he has the potential to be a really interesting irredeemable mad scientist type character, so I really hope they haven't given up on him yet. I'm probably being really over dramatic right now XD, but he's been my no.1 character hyperfixation since 2018 so that's my excuse lol.

I really didn't think this would be so long but to summarise: Anne and Linda are badass, I want Avalon to deck someone across the face, and I want Darko to make his dramatic appearance again someday :''(

Well, goodnight! Please share your own opinions with me if you'd like, I'd love to know everyone else's thoughts!

[caylenqueen]

Avalon, entering the room: *Sees Evergray and leaves*

Evergray, watching Avalon leave: There’s my monthly dose of Avalon…