#secret factions

[2-dsimp]

✨anon

Is it possible to run into the secret factions at any time or do they only unlock on a certain day or after a specific mission is met?

I.e. if we’re wandering around after school (or looking for the 5 who saw us) is there a possibility of secret faction encounter? (Since survival rate is…less if we do)

Since there is the implied 7 Archons as being a secret faction, would this mean that Lumine/Aether (maybe both?) are possibly the head of the Abyss Order faction?

(Sorry for all the asks - I just would like to survive to the horny harem route - and survive in general tbh)

1. I’m going to say yes to both. As they can be random encounters or be linked to certain main missions/side quests.

2. I cannot answer that since that’s for me to know and for you dear players to find out. But I will say that your survival rate will decrease drastically. (>^ω^<)

3. To clarify the leaders of said secret factions can be anyone so nothing and yet everything can be implied.

4. No worries! I’d love to answer any and all questions yall may have o(≧v≦)o

[duckinthewild]

I remade some old art i did back in 2019-2020! think i've come a bit of a long way.. the first once was from 2020 and the 2nd one was made today in 2023!

[blighted-lights]

old lady grouchy wine aunt ravage. you agree.

[olithewitch]

Can everyone take a moment to appreciate the fact that ldshadowlady in most SMPs is either cat coded or killer bunny coded, 2 animals that don't really get along with dogs, but she is almost exclusively friends with dog coded people with a few exceptions.

[crastlefolke]

cleo's episode is genuinely like a zombie apocalypse film. like. day starts as normal -> oh shit a death. anyway -> oh shit another death right in front of us -> huh that lot are acting a little weird -> oh shit more deaths -> whats this new weird gang thats sprung up -> carry on business as usual, new gang seems to be getting bigger -> other people are also weirded out -> "hey that new gang is made up of all the dead people" -> someone overhears vital information -> gather with other survivors to inform them -> agree that whatever it is, it's spreading -> zombie film reference -> set up fort -> survivors get picked off one by one -> pov character doesnt become a zombie but loses almost everyone to the infection

[ryssabrin]

ngl i am a little disappointed they did the fan service thing and made scout harding a companion. we're going to tevinter! orzammar has embassies there we could have gotten a cool embassy dwarf storyline or a kal-shirok dwarf. literally anything to flesh out dwarves more. harding's like varric where she doesn't seem connected at all to other dwarves so idk that her story will be that interesting. esp compared to the other companions revealed. her freckles are cute tho ig.

[arrozaurus]

i like doccy who because i can completely ignore the shows lore and handpick the most obscure expanded universe stories youve ever seen to make my own frankensteins canon. and the showrunners do it too

[hauntedbongwater]

I am fully expecting someone to edit the Harrenhal visions (especially the Alyssa one) with the screaming "you better stop" vine audio.

[mashbrainrot]

I SWEAR some people are just on a different m*shblr to me

[amaranthsynthesis]

on a little self-imposed creative retreat working on said the tiger to the king and im writing brief versions of the history of the empire and the history of the magerium :))) they are in direct disagreement :)))))))))

I'm having so much fun :)

[2-dsimp]

✨anon

Sorry to spam questions. I have brain rot about this.

Would the 7 (Venti, Zhongli, Ei, Nahida, Focalors, etc) have a secret group/society in the school that’s widely respected but not talked about. A sort of higher council than the existing one or a way to control influence in the school?

If so, would they use their canon archon names when referring to “7 business”? (Barbatos, Morax/Rex Lapis, Baal, Buer, etc.)

1. I can’t answer that question since it’ll give too much away. However, I will say that there may be potential secret factions belonging to different leaders hiding within the public eye. And their existence not only impacts the school but also the world outside of it.

Should you happen venture around the district that you’re currently in. You may be unfortunate or fortunate depending on who you run into that may be involved in those said factions. So caution must be advised if you’re determined to be involved with the ones lurking behind the scenes.

Once you’re in, you cannot get out.

[corvidaedream]

making a d&d character sheet for a d&d au version of laura palmer for funsies

[a-wartime-paradox]

That time a YA Series crossed over with Doctor Who, and know we have solutions to who the Other, Yssgaroth, and Enemy are (2013) [Mimir Canon-Weld]

I was on the Doctor Who Discord Server (in the "canon-welding" channel) and @aristidetwain mentioned a short story called "The Nameless City", which was a crossover between Doctor Who and Michael Scott's Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel . Me and Ryan Fogarty then proceeded to Canon-Weld to regeneration.

This crossover featured the Archons from Scott's series, of which none are named in this crossover short, but in Scott's series three were named: Cernunnus, Coatlicue, and Mimir.

Cernunnus can obviously be can-welded to being @doctornolonger 's creation, Cernunnus the leader of the (original?) Mammoths.

Coatlicue was, within Scott's series, a scientist that turned herself into a monstrosity. According to the TARDIS wiki's "Behind the Scenes" section on the article "Archons (The Nameless City)", she is the "snake-like progenitor of all vampires", although I could not find any source for either the real-life Aztec god nor Scott's creation being either of these. If this were to be true, it allows for an obvious canon-weld with the King Vampires of the Yssgaroth.

"Out of her own DNA she created the original blood drinkers, who would eventually become your race. Coatlicue was the first vampire"

Now we come to Mimir, where things get crazy. In Norse myth, and in Scott's series, Mimir is mentioned to have "given knowledge to Odin". Of course, in my canon-welding mind, I see that literally any Head of the Gods is Rassilon Urizen the Architect. Who else is mentioned to have given Rassilon knowledge? The Other (PROSE: Lungbarrow). Hence, Mimir is the Other. This also fits with the "ancient being" origin for the Other. This means that the Great Houses were helped in development by a species that contained at least two notable members who would eventually become their worst enemies (Coatlicue/Yssgaroth and Cernnunos/The Enemy). The original short story The Nameless City says that the Archons created the seeds for the TARDISs timeships, and that Rassilon Urizen stole the seeds in a great war. This war, presumably, happened before the First War in Heaven / Yssgaroth War, due to the fact that the Great Houses do have timeships in that war. This also gives another motivator for the Yssgaroth in their War besides the Child-That-Was-Taken. The Archons are also mentioned to be the "last of the Old Ones, from the universe before this", but I normally interpret the "universe before this" to refer to the "time before this", i.e. the unachored universe. They also still have a homeworld, the titular Nameless City with the Great Desolation (presumably positioned outside normal spacetime, and I think the main Spiral Politic).

In conclusion, this canon-weld has resulted in a revised timeline (in my personal canon):

Before anything and everything

The Great Old Ones exist somehow.

Most of the Great Old Ones die off, or potentially construct their own Spirals, totally disconnected to the eventual Spiral Politic.

The shobogans are born on the planet Gallifrey

A group of the last Great Old Ones come together as the "Archons"

An order reminiscent of what the Great Houses will be are formed, and the Pythian Order leave Gallifrey (some going to the nearby planet Karn)

The Almost-Great Houses wage many wars against the peoples of the universe, especially the Archons.

Cernunnus creates many "mammoth empires" across the universe

Mimir, in an attempt to stop this devastating War, joins Urizen by his side, only to be remembered simply as "the other"

With the knowledge Mimir had granted him, Odin Urizen finally stole the timeship seeds the Archons had been growing, forcing them to surrender.

The Archons retreat to their own semi-anchored reality, the Great Desolation. Coatlicue presumably creates her own Spiral soon after this, spawning the Yssgaroth.

Tecteun discovers the Child-That-Was-Taken/Timeless Child under a "rift" (in reality one of the early anchors for the Anchoring of the Thread project, already being executed by Urizen). The other side of this rift could be presumed to be the Spiral Yssgaroth.

The Great Houses execute the Anchoring of the Thread, which immediately summons Coatlicue (the King Vampire) to their Homeworld, creating the caldera. The Yssgaroth War begins.

Blah blah blah Pre-War era, blah blah blah the War happens

[cattycaleb]

it’s also just hitting me that bells hells aren’t even level 10 yet. like girl the entire cerberus assembly is up in this bitch i will be VERY surprised if they manage to flawlessly prevent the godpocalypse. oh man. vox machina were level 9 when their campaign began. i can’t even begin to imagine where the story’s gonna head after this solstice. i’m so freaking excited

[dirt-str1der]

Sagawa and shimano likers have like infinitely more interesting takes on their relationship than their haters because people who dislike them will be like UGH those SCHEMING old fucks are probably tongue fucking and sipping champagne over how best to ruin majimas life , and sagawa/shimano fans are like They wanna mail each other bombs so bad

[youcanthandelthetruth]

My aunts have known their cousins have a secret half-sister for more than a year... finally blackmailed them into telling