#poe land

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Poe: Hey, are you okay? Sherry: just peachy

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

[forthegothicheroine]

[Poe's] genius is so inescapable that we find it necessary to introduce stories of madmen, of murder, of exotic torture and obsession with death to our children in school just because we need to show them what great literature is or else fail in our roles as educators, decent people, and apex predators.

J. W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

[bragganhyl]

Ngl I am curious to see how the Watcher will be haunting avowed's narrative, or at least I hope they will

[tarbuchyloewenthal]

Avowed Tinfoil Hat Time

one tiny lore tidbit that is fairly obscure, and actually might have a lot to do with the story of avowed is that the emperor's scepter has an adra jewel which stores the souls of past aedyran kings and queens.

this comes into play in a couple of lines with sargamis from the barbarian gamescom footage, when the player and the oracle speculate a bit on just why the emperor would send our envoy in particular.

could the ancient souls in the scepter, y'know the major icon of aedyran heraldry

could the ancient souls have communicated to the emperor that our godlike envoy might have some connection to the living lands. and could that connection go all the way back to the godless and the origin of the two major ethnic groups in aedyr? both the meadow folk and wood elves are said to have originated in the far north.

north, vitally, being the direction in which lies the living lands. was there some calamity that caused the godless to flee and become the far distant ancestors to the aedyrans?

i don't quite think the timeline would match up, but if it does. . . oh boy oh boy oh boy

[atopvisenyashill]

do u ship reylo? 👀

[luna-loveboop]

How's Twilight Princess??

- hero-of-the-wolf

WHOEVER DECIDED TO PUT A CAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT WITH TWO POES INSIDE OF IT IN CLOSE QUARTERS BETTER COUNT THEIR DAYS BECAUSE THAT WAS TERRIFYING

[layalu]

OOoh, if you're still doing the Watcher Ask Game, 3, 13, 16, and 21 for Alder 👀

[ask game]

thank you Marie!! :]

3. what are your watcher's likes and dislikes (like the ones poe2 companions have)?

likes: > anti-leaden key >> autonomy > skulduggery > lighthearted > anti-eothas

dislikes: << animal cruelty <<< pro-godlike <<< racism < impassioned

13. how does your watcher relate to their culture?

Pretty okay! He's had a phase when he tried to distance himself from it after leaving, mostly the things directly associated with his circle. But he does still consider his place of origin a part of his identity, it's shaped a lot of how he lives and thinks, after all, and he comes back around to accepting and appreciating that.

16. how did your watcher react to the reveal that the gods were created by engwithans?

Alder did not care much, to be honest. Regardless of what their origin was, as far as he is concerned they are Very Real. He's talked to them. Bargained with them. They Exist and they Have Power, who cares if they were made artificially, ages ago?

That said. In that moment when it was revealed, it was his past life fronting, and they did NOT take it well. At All. Because of what it meant for their actions, and for their betrayal of Iovara.

21. which faction did your watcher choose in poe2?

Huana, though that was. not the plan fjsdlkfjds.

Essentially Alder had zero (0) patience for the local conflicts on account of. The Fucking God Colossus. And he did sympathise with Onekaza but this was about Getting To Eothas, Fast, and to him asking the RDC was the most sensible choice. They had powerful fleets and new underwater breathing technology and they were known for their efficiency, so to him it made the most sense. Until Karū asked him to kill the Queen, which Alder refused, which she wouldn't accept and declared him a threat, so that was that.

He went to report back to Onekaza after that and it was enough to make her agree to help, luckily.

[dollybites]

a moth in my bed

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Happy birthday, Edel!

[thelastofthebookworms]

Queen of Knives (I don't have my own copy of Smoke and Mirrors with me and didn't find a link)

Mahabharata

Paul Revere's Ride

Bisclavret

The Waste Land

The Cremation of Sam McGee

The Raven

Divine Comedy

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Okay so I still have a few names (notably Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and John Milton) in mind for at least another poll, maybe two or even three if you make suggestions. Thank you for the ones you've already made, by the way ! (I favor the lay of the Honeysuckle but it'll go in another poll just as the Shooting of Dan McGrew)

Yes I know this one is difficult too. Good luck.

My tag for this series is 'narrative poems'. Other poetry polls in my 'poetry' tag.

[spectordameron]

its always fun to me - and I don't mean this in a pretentious way - to see folks be like oh I didn't see this coming or didn't expect this about story or character beats in my favorite sw stories. because I always assume it's just blatantly obvious to everyone, and not. that I have eerily just completely and correctly plugged into the story.

[forthegothicheroine]

Ray Bradbury, an original voice and heart in the science fiction and horror genres, was always vociferous about Poe's influence on his own stories. In his introduction to the 1966 science fiction anthology S is for Space, he listed him as an influence along with Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley. "Edgar Allan Poe was the bat-winged cousin we kept high in the attic room." Thirty years later, in a new forward to his macabre anthology The October Country, Bradbury wrote that Poe had grown to become more of a patriarch on the Bradbury family Halloween tree: "My proper home was Usher, my aunts and uncles descended from Poe." Where the two diverge on the family tree is that Bradbury wrote from a totally different place. Every word Bradbury wrote, no matter how sinister, no matter how fraught with soul-peril, seems to have been written with a child laughing over his shoulder, whereas any laughter Poe might have heard as he composed his tales was of the maniacal sort. The two would be perfect for a revamp of The Odd Couple.

J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

[bragganhyl]

on the one hand i'm still hyped for avowed on the other hand no chanter skills in the tree :( or druid skills :( or priest skills :(

[galaxicide]

Imagine having takes that Ben would ever be the leader of the resistance in Leia's absence. That's Poe's gig and well deserved. Ben is a Solo in more than just name. He's not a politician or diplomat. He's his father's son. HE WASN'T EVEN A GOOD LEADER FOR THE EMPIRE FFS....anyway. no, that's actually it.