#escaton lore

[morning-day-yew]

Here’s some lore for the first god of light in my ttrpg fantasy setting.

[cagedchoices]

It's been a while since I've done bullet points for verse info, but I've been thinking about my Westworld season 1 AU so naturally the brain rot is setting in and I wanna hyperfixate on it.

The What If Caleb Was In Westworld S1? AU

Caleb winds up in possession of an obscene amount of wealth by saving Mr. Whitman's life and in an effort to find something to do with even just a fraction of the money he'll never use, he learns about Westworld.

Aa per canon lore, black hats and white hats are by far the most popular choice among the human guests, typically categorizing them into one of two roles.

Color theory and symbolism in the western hemisphere often dictates that the color white represents purity, innocence, light, and/or heroism as traditionally "good" traits whereas black is often chosen to represent power, darkness, death, mourning, and/or villainy as traditionally "bad" traits.

These are of course not the ONLY color hat a guest is permitted to wear. There are hosts and some background guests seen wearing brown hats or gray hats.

Brown hats and gray hats are naturally more "neutral" options than black hat or white hat. They represent a tendency to make impulsive decisions that happen in the moment. In color theory, brown often symbolizes a neutral but more earthy connection to the world around you. Gray is often chosen to represent an option directly in-between black and white, sometimes thought to be "boring"

Caleb would likely wear a brown or gray hat. I almost wanna say he'd go hatless because that is what he does in the 20s-themed knockoff park but. Cmon, playing cowboy without a hat is like. blasphemous?? So he really should have a hat. So I’m giving him one.

Caleb's outfits resemble Marty McFly's from Back to the Future Part III. Marty's clothes in turn vaguely resembled Clint Eastwood from the Man With No Name Trilogy.

I'm not 100% committed to this idea but. Young William takes on a bounty hunt for Slim Grant during the Past Timeline. Caleb could *maybe* take on the bounty for Hector Escaton in the Present Timeline. Ultimately, he'd probably forego collecting the bounty and let Hector and Armistice go. Tenderloin and the one other bandit whose name I don't remember are still gonna die tho.

[armazenamentoscans]

システム/龍属性 - モンスターハンター大辞典 Wiki*

現状、莫大な龍属性エネルギーを保有していながら、上記3種のような暴走や蝕まれると言った事もなく、完全に制御下に置けているモンスターはアルバトリオンとオストガロアのみで、どちらも世界観設定にて、生態系の頂点またはその次の位置に君臨する事が明言されている超大型モンスターである。At present, among monsters possessing immense Dragon Element energy, only Alatreon and Nakarkos can fully control it without succumbing to rampage or corruption. Both are classified as colossal monsters, explicitly stated in the lore to reign at the pinnacle or just below the ecosystem's hierarchy. アルバトリオンは、純粋な龍属性エネルギーを大規模な爆発という形で放つ「能雷ノヴァ」という攻撃技を有している。更に、龍活性状態の時に全属性攻撃、及びエスカトンジャッジメントが放たれる事実から、莫大な龍属性エネルギーを変換する形で他属性の力を発現させている可能性があり、その力の使い方は多岐に渡っている。Alatreon possesses a devastating attack called “Dragon Lightning Nova”, which unleashes pure dragon elemental energy in a massive explosion. Additionally, when in its Dragon Active state, it can perform attacks of all elemental types, including the catastrophic “Escaton Judgment”. This suggests that Alatreon has the ability to convert its immense dragon elemental energy into other elemental powers, utilizing them in various complex ways. アルバトリオンはあらゆる生命体を大きく逸脱した存在であり、「禁忌のモンスターの一角」とされているため、古龍を含めた普遍的な生物の範疇に含めて龍属性エネルギー制御の話をするのは野暮なのかもしれない。Alatreon is an entity that significantly deviates from all known life forms and is considered one of the “Forbidden Monsters”. Therefore, discussing the control of Dragon Element energy within the usual biological categories, including Elder Dragons, may be futile. 一方、オストガロアは同時に二つの触腕から龍属性の光線を自在に放つことができるばかりか、「痛能プレス」という全モンスター中最強クラスの龍属性攻撃を持っているなど、保有する龍属性のエネルギーはまさに桁外れと言う他ない。On the other hand, Nakarkos can freely release dragon-type beams from its two tentacles simultaneously and possesses one of the strongest dragon-type attacks in the entire monster kingdom, known as “Painful Press”. The amount of dragon-type energy it holds is simply beyond measure. 特に、絶命時に最後の力を振り絞って放った療能ブレスは、自身の潜む大洞窟の天井を貫いた上で、その遥か先にある天空の分厚い雲を吹き飛ばし、天候を変えてしまうなど、想像を絶する規模を持っていることが判明している。In particular, the therapeutic breath it unleashes with its final strength at the moment of its death is capable of piercing the ceiling of its vast underground cave and even blowing away thick clouds in the sky far beyond, altering the weather. This indicates that its power is on an unimaginable scale.

[dire-miralis]

Monster hunter rise is the only video game i own that makes me actually boil with rage to the point of bashing on my desk and controller.

This game is genuine toxin to my body.

[Rant about Rise being poorly designed below, if you're the type who whines whenever people rightfully criticize Rise just don't bother]

I can vastly handle games being difficult, what i can't handle is games being poorly balanced. If a game is too difficult for me, i just don't play it and maybe try later, the problem with Sunbreak is that the endgame isn't difficult, it's piss easy 90% of the time, but then you get specific monsters that are just pure artificial difficulty.

I would rather be given a shock collar that activates once for every tick of damage Alatreon does to me in Iceborne (including escaton judgement) over having to fight Primordial Malzeno again.

At least Alatreon has a very clear gimmick and vastly compensates for it by being somewhat easy to predict after only a few tries which gives room for experimenting with builds.

Primordial Malzeno hits Extremely hard, is Very fast, has SEVERAL pinning moves, a very cheap ult that happens AFTER A PINNING MOVE, and combos that last for an eternity where you're just supposed to dodge and wait. As a HH user, i get almost no opportunity to properly use Silkbind Shockwave without being immediately punished afterwards because the HH silkbind moves give you way too many frames of vulnerability, as if the Rise devs hadn't ruined the HH enough from the start.

And it also doesn't help my case that a lot of things are done to counter people who overuse the wirebug dodge, in a shitty design decision where a lot of monster have plenty of their attacks designed to do several ticks of damage to make sure flighty players get caught, making it a fucking nightmare for people like me who only do regular dodging.

I don't even understand why Primordial gets to be this hard hitting, it's not a black dragon, it's an average elder dragon that honestly isn't really that interesting when you compare it to regular Malzeno or Nergigante or, dare i say even Velkhana, a monster that i genuinely hate the design of, but is vastly more integral to the world of Monster Hunter. It just, shows up randomly, like so many things in SB do. It has no ecology background, no lore, no buildup, nothing, it's just, there, because Malzeno needed a different form to compensate for the gaping lack of content.

I wanted to play to relax and decided to get back in Rise to grind because i've pretty much completed everything there was to do in IB and i still don't have Risen Shagaru in SB, but every time i turn this game back on i remember why i never fucking play it. It's not fun, it's draining, it's a chore, and a single failed quest is a massive waste of time in what is already a grindy hellscape.

[monster-huntologist]

May I ask why you think Alatreon is better than Fatalis ?

(Just want to say first that this is purely a matter of opinion. Fatalis is still pretty great in his own right, I just don’t enjoy him myself in the way others may)

(Alatreon was difficult to start out with because the details of its fight and Escaton weren’t explained properly. Once I got those figured out, it’s fight was rather fun. It’s attacks were learnable and none of them dealt an overwhelming amount of damage other than maybe his Dragon blast. They were still dangerous, but not completely overwhelming. The race to deal enough elemental damage is challenging but in a good way. I’ve actually refought him to help others despite having all the materials I need because I actually enjoy fighting him. The only issue is randoms online still using Raw or Blast weapons.)

(Fatalis on the other hand, I see as somewhat of the opposite. His Super Flames are easier to handle than Escaton and definitely have some cinematic punch to them, but I personally think Escaton looks better aesthetically. In exchange for that though, practically every single attack of his takes about fucking half of your health even with full Defence skills and max upgraded armor. He’s also got the biggest healthpool in the entire game, and you’re expected to lower it while trying not to get one-shot in a time limit barely longer than a Seige fight. He may be canonically one of the dangerous monsters in existence, but I don’t think exchanging a fun fight for the sake of completely living up to that name was the right thing to do. If his attacks dealt less damage, I believe I would be able to actually enjoy fighting him. It’s a good thing I making my Hunter avoid making the armor for lore reasons because when I finally beat him, there’s no way I’m going back.)

[sukunussy]

@silver9mm tagged me uwu thanks, love!

rules: choose 10 favourite characters/people from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 other people!

clark kent (dc)

yennefer of vengerberg (the witcher)

illya kuryakin (tmfu) 

kore/persephone (lore olympus)

toph beifong (avatar: the last airbender)

amenadiel (lucifer)

samantha carter (stargate: sg-1)

michelle jones (mcu)

hector escaton (westworld)

chuck hansen (pacific rim)

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[morning-day-yew]

Have a bunch of nonsense about the Dragonborn of my D&D/Pathfinder setting.

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