#sam is a very weird very private homage to zenos that he's not talkin about with anyone.

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ilya's official and immutable class progression as of the last time i thought abt it real hard is arr - gld+tangential blm > hw - drk+mch > sb - drk+mch > shb - drk+mch > ew - drk+mch > dt - gnb+mch+sam

i'm still attempting to shoehorn blm in there somehow, but i simply do not think he would have been accepted into the thaumauge's guild, lmao, so it's mostly legacy baby mode cowboy wizard wishful thinking to weird drk magic pipeline, at this point. i'm not sure how much he's actually canonically mch, either, because the separation from the violence viscerally bothers him but ALSO he and stephanivien truly do get along like a house on fire and i think he probably carries the thing out of a weird sense of love, lmao.

he's just a. he's just a guy with a sword, man, idk what else to do about it.