#but I'm planning to continue revisiting Dain's AQs

[reginrokkr]

𝐂𝐗𝐈𝐕𝐋. I'm revisiting the cutscenes of Dain's AQs and it's pretty neat to notice little things with a fuller perspective:

✧ It never fails to interest me that he would know about Venti and Zhongli's identity.

✦ It's also pretty telling that he gives importance to his observations of other powerful creatures being subjected to the gods' whims, as if implying that they could very well do their own thing without being chained to them.

✧ About the Abyss Order: It's even harder now not to think that Dain knows where to appear and when, or at least more or less. In the AQ: Dainsleif he was chasing an Abyss Herald and went to Wolvendom and in AQ: We Will Be Reunited it is shown that he was actually on to something except he was too early when he did the first time he went to see Boreas (this calls for speculation if maybe there have been times in which he was in the Abyss and the sense of time was distorted, considering how it works there and how it warps one's perception, or if it was a miscalculation on his part to show up the first time he did when in reality he should've gone to that place later, whatever the case— if one of the uses he gives to his connection with Irminsul is to know exactly where to go and at which moment to achieve his goals, that's a pretty big move).

✦ I like the detail that he would seek information for someone, as Dain says he did in order to give the Abyss Twin information about Boreas. Given the circumstances of the time during the Cataclysm, I highly doubt that he would go around asking people in order to conjure a complete tale about Boreas or read into books when he has a reliable source of information. And speaking which— this does seem to indicate that back then he already had a connection with Irminsul.

✧ More about the Abyss Order: When Paimon comments about how much Dain knows about them and he says that they have a common history. It's impressive to see this now and realize that he must've meant that there was once a time in which they actually shared a nation and a daily life, considering that the Abyss Order was founded by Chlothar and, while not the whole Abyss Order is formed by Khaenri'ahns, it is safe to say that a significant portion of the organization is.

[reginrokkr]

I'm early today and ready to be productive in the blog, as I clearly skipped that yesterday with the gif making. After revisiting AQ: Requiem of the Echoing Depths and writing a post about it, I'll focus on writing and depending on how much content I deliver, I might continue with the series of Dain gifsets I had planned to do! But not without writing. This will be the priority once I'm done peeking into that AQ.