#sso kora

[pandoriasmostwanted]

Is it just me or does Kora's hand gestures she makes when speaking look like sign language?

[intheferns]

11. Orchard

Rowan trees in the Mistfall

[star-stable-tournaments]

Have you ever thought to yourself: Yee howdy, I wish I could know what everyone thinks of my favorite character, and I also wish we could all definitively rank them in popularity based on the whims of the public? Then do I have the thing for you!

Right out the gate, it's time to vote for favorite characters. The votes for favorite NPC (human) and favorite NPC (other) will be running alongside each other, with the vote for NPC (other) starting a little later to make them both finish at the same time and end in an epic dual victory.

I have chosen to split them up because there's a lot of NPC's and we can expedite the process somewhat by having separate tournaments running alongside each other.

Humanoid creatures such as Pandorians residing in the circus will be counted as humans because that's how they choose to present and I will respect that.

Certain conditions apply regarding characters added to SSO just to host races, NPC's that are named but do not take part in quests, and characters from earlier games. these characters will not partake because the list is so. long. already.

Every poll will be accompanied by a picture and a brief description to refresh your memory, so don't worry if you can't remember them just by name! If you have any concerns or can't see your favorite NPC anywhere, send a message or an ask.

The first NPC (human) tournamnet will take place over 3 sessions of 40 posts per week, because it's 120 posts and I don't want to overwhelm you with that many posts. Once we've narrowed it down to 60 favorites it will be split into 2 sessions, and once we've only got 30 contestants left, I'll post them all in one go until a winner is declared. That's also when the NPC (other) polls will be posted.

Who will go up against who is randomized and can be found under the cut.

The First tournament:

Kirsty Griswald VS Evergray

Violet Dappelbrook VS Mrs. Pike

Derek VS Professor Chiron

Mr. Pike VS Hawaii Jones

Rami VS Felicity

Ydris VS Astrid Ingvarsdottir

Sunshine Joytree VS Mr. Anwir

Jessica Lunar VS Syntax Silverstream

Elsa Einstein VS Harold

Larry VS Landon

Captain Brus VS Pi the witch

Sigry Varanger VS Julie

Aideen VS Jill Goldspur

Tor Sunfield VS Pamela Moonriver

HelmsmanVS The main character

Idun Goldspur VS Mandy

Mr. T. Cray VS Lizzy Jarlasson

Marisol VS Ewa

Sigrid VS Leonardo

Donald the builder VS Captain Waterloo

Eddie VS Bernardine Winterwell XVII

Jade VS Doreen

Courtney Summers VS Bob

Janitor VS Mayor Klaus

Terrance Rockwell VS Gary Goldtooth

Nanook VS Ivan Drake

Saga Sunfield VS Aaron Silverglade

Yousef Sahli VS The Baroness

Gavin VS Wynna Sunbeam

Galloper Thompson VS Stephanie

Isebell Figg VS Dylan

Fina Way VS Mario

Hanna Jarlasson VS Filip Sunfield

Carl VS Ms. Drake

Tim Hooper VS Isabel Stonefield

Justin Moorland VS Mrs. Peterson

Charlotte VS Tiera Vaughan

Scott Buttergood VS Li Ming Yue

Anne von Blyssen VS Darko (oh my god)

Ashley VS Lance

The second tournament:

Joe Jarlasson VS Bob Jarlasson

Linn VS Xin

Alex Cloudmill VS Maya Dew (I promise this is randomly generated, this is homophobia)

Mrs. Hill VS Josie

Jon Jarl VS Jonas

Lydia Rockwell VS Martina Sunfield

Nova VS Ferdinand

John VS Eva von Blyssen

Nic Stoneground VS Hugh

Big Bonny VS Magnus Steinar

Loretta VS Anastasia Silverglade

Edith Octavia Hartwood VS Spymaster

Sedna VS Fleur

Ricky Winterwell VS Will

Barbara VS Helga

Edward Rockwell VS Frank Einstein

Rob VS Mrs. Packard

Carl Peterson VS Kora Pelletier

Rhiannon VS Agnetha

Gaia VS Buck

Huck VS Silencia Tranquila

Jakob Goldspur VS Isolde Goldspur

Igor VS Steve

Tan VS Linda Chanda

Mrs. Dew VS Reyansh

Jack Goldspur VS Ed Field

Karl Franz of Silver Fork VS Mrs. Holdsworth

Mr. Sands VS Farah

Professor Hayden VS Daxton the tailor

Jasper Holbrook VS Erik Hightower

Tamika VS Barney Summers

Dr. Eiren Doyle VS Granny Rose

Catherine Moorland VS Ana

Poppy VS Mr. K. Trout

Tobbe Larsson VS Thomas Moorland

Imane Highcantle VS Andy

Charles VS Mel

Jupiter Peacebloom VS Mr. Hill

Stacy VS Sive

Rowan Allaway VS Mr. Dew

The third tournament:

Claire VS Guillermo Gadea

Marley Summers VS Johanna

Reed Kessler VS Jenna

Robert Buttergood VS Josh

Jamie Olivetree VS Gunther

Madison Hightower VS Mr. Cod

Tristan Goldspur VS Alexander Goldspur

Godfrey VS Carney Summers

Mr. Kembell VS Thalia

Carmela VS Mica Stoneground

Harley VS Harriet

Jessica VS Amelia

Erissa VS Freja Sunfield

Alonso Rivera Sandoval VS Emma

Kit Shorthouse VS Raptor

Luke Excavator VS Herman

Council Man VS Mrs. Cloudmill

Mr. Andersson VS Lily Bones

Keema Steelgait VS Luciana

Walter Winterwell VS James Cloudmill

Holly Hightower VS Elizabeth Sunbeam

Stein VS Enitan Taiwo Ladipo

Sindra VS Felix

Nathalie Moonriver VS Björn

Councilman Skoll VS Rania Varanger

Lisa Peterson VS Loke Sunfield

Professor Jura VS Dorith Jarlasson

Hannibal Goldspur VS Hermit

Junior Buttergood VS Conrad Maarsden

Gretchen VS Li Jian

Rin VS Sonja

Angus Goldspur VS Daisy

Petunia VS Ginny

Kai VS Judy

Mary VS Zed

Katja VS Stanislav

Mrs. X VS Ms. Morse

Sabine VS Sahar

Carin VS Avalon

Kent Jarlasson VS Beatriz

When there are only 30 rounds left, I will start posting NPC (other) tournamnets as well. They consist of these competitors:

Starshine VS Nightdust

Meteor VS Pearl Hart

Knut VS Esben

Popcorn VS Summerflower

Calanthe VS Nutkins

Sahara VS Mayor Peanut

Beeper VS Hieronymo

Sirio VS Lynx

Galloper Thompson's Horse VS Mudskipper

Sprout VS Pistachio

Lignos VS Firewind

Cayenne VS Mortifa

Crowy McCaw VS Ms. Morse's Horse

Diggory VS Shay

Ganymede VS Athena

Balder VS Pico

Nihili VS Lemmy

Beatrix VS Archie

Acerbus VS Ancient Tree

Rocco VS Lucien

Juniper VS Dellingr

Techno VS Birdie

Swedenborg VS Atlas

Crabapple VS Sapling

Ash VS Cedar

Khaan VS Kasper

Bartok VS Hrafnfaxa vom Schwanenteich

Blondie VS Rosemary

Lady VS Garnok

Balder's Mother vS Pari

Shakira VS Elli

Butterfly VS Fripp

Mardy VS Bear

Alder VS Pegaso

Valiant VS Mousebiscuit

Goons VS Brunte

[lukas-crowsong]

THAT'S LESBIAN ACTIVITY

[windforestsso]

Any theories, headcanon or misunderstandings that got debunked or corrected later in the game?

I have few things I thought wrong. A lot I have probably forgot.

I cant remember any old theories, just headcanons and misunderstandings. Here is a list of stuff I do remember I got wrong:

Avalon is a woman: For the longest of time I thought Avalon was a woman. I somehow completly missed that he was refered to as a man for years. When I did that quest were Avalon later gives MC his old training outfit and it was pink and fit MC perfectly I was just more convinced he was a woman. I dont think it was untill the dream of frozen bodies that I finally realised he was infact a man. So yeah, very late.

Ms. Drake and Darko are sibling: This wasnt very long lived. I think it was Drake and Darko that just sounded similar enouth that Darko just changed his name slightly to be more sneaky. I realised quite quikly that it didnt make sense. First of all I have already seen the meeting they had with eachother and they didnt know eachother. And Ms. Drake already have a brother. I know you can have multible but it made me realise Darko doesnt fit into that family.

Elizabeth is blond: Not a big thing at all. But I just though Elizabets hair was dark blond. I also though it was blond because the soul rider of the sun was suppose to be blond. (Red is the color of blood and the one that heals, dark is the visions of the future and the rider of the past and future, sun goes down in southeast, she rides with golden hair and wings, the warriors color is that of leather and mud. Not the exact wordings, just simpelfied for this post) Her roots are redish but I just thought it was more suppose to be dark roots and it got ligher as it grows. The baroness said her good friend she is missing had red hair. I thought she ment Catherine, but people on tumblr said she was talking about Elizabeth so that when I realised her hair was suppouse to be red.

Kora is deaf: One of her hand movements when she talk looks like she is signing something. I assumed that because it might be bit difficult to make a completly deaf person sso made it so she could read lips and have learned how to mimic the words like some deaf people have done. And thats why she could talk to and understand mc.��  With Ranja I thought SSO just wanted to have some characters with disabilities to get some representation. It wasnt a long lived theory because no character mentiond it to be the case in the quest were you meet her. But I do like the idea that she maybe have a parents that is deaf or something that cause her to learn sign language early in life and so signed while talking without really thinking about it.  

And few things that I didnt get wrong in SSO but in SSL and later got corrected by SSO.

Alex is a guy: There was a guy in my school who dressed like Alex and had long hair aswell. So when I first time saw Alex I thought of the guy is school. I never notice she had boobs. :/ I thought she was like the token guy character to make sure it wasnt just girls. I only had the first SSL game but few of the comic. But still never realised she was a girl untill I started to play SSO and got introduced to Alex again.

Janitor and Herman is the same person: They have the same body type. I thinks thats all to it. I never realised they werent the same character in SSL and I thought it was bullshit that Herman would supportive over Lisas magical adventures one second and then try to capture her the next. When I first played that part where you sneak into the school at night and the janitor is there. I just run right into the flashlight thinking it was Herman. It wasnt untill I started playing SSO and meet Janitor in the mall that I star questioned if that was really Herman. And then meet Herman in the jorvik stables and realised they are not the same character.

Jorvik Stables was attached to the School: I really thought the stables was the schools private stable. The school was way to fancy to be a public school so I thought it made perfect sense that it had a private stable. And thats why Lisa went there to learn riding because it was expected of her to be there. And beside. There was like only privetly owned horses there. It didnt seem like a normal riding school. It also ties in to why I thought Janitor and Herman was the same guy. I thought Herman was the schools groundskeeper or something and his job was to take care of the school grounds and horses. I run around like crazy around Jorvik stables in both SSO and Autumn rider trying to figure out which building was the school. Shocker, no building was big enough.

Fripp is a fox: Like come on!! He look more like a fox than a squrriel! He had a canine nose, not a rodent one. He still doesnt have a rodent nose even if it isnt as canin anymore.

[galloperthompson]

In honor of the quests coming out next week

Bonus:

[lisasprideflag]

this just in: flying lesbians from mistfall roam jorvik

[starbornsoulrider]

IS THAT KORA THAT THE SOUL RIDERS ARE HANGING OUT WITH IN DARK SONG??? AAAA SHE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE DRUIDS IM SO EXCITED 💕😭 I CANT WAIT FOR DARK SONG TO COME OUT IN ENGLISH

[elisestormwright]

whaaaat? me? actually playing through story quests? can’t be real

[juni-ravenhall]

flowercrowns pt.2 ❀✿❀✿❀ (feel free to use for icons, no credit needed)

[infected-hive]

List of characters I might be able to cosplay without wigs or contacts (???):

- Alex Cloudmill (SSO)

- Kora Pelletier (SSO) (This one depends on if I can make a braided crown with my short hair)

- Lex Foster (Hatchetfield)

Idk other ones or if this gives enough info about what my hair is like and you know some other characters from these fandoms that might fit hmu

[sirimoonbear]

i love animal missions so much,,,,

[sorceressferaly]

The trail ride note!

Right, the trail ride note... so I certainly did write that. Bit of an Easter egg that I wasn't certain if anyone would figure out, but I've learned to not underestimate the SSO player base when it comes to finding hidden interesting details!

It was at the time meant to be some foreshadowing of information that was known behind the scenes, but it wasn't certain whether it would be revealed in the game itself.

From a Doylist perspective, we wanted to put some items in the trail ride that could potentially be interesting along with being vendor trash, but we mostly ended up with a few joke items. One of these was two indecipherable notes written in Squirrel (continuing the in-joke about the hyper-intelligent squirrels/chipmunks on Jorvik), but I felt that, hey, if you get a secret note, wouldn't it be fun if you could decipher it?

As such, I added a small Easter egg that you could take the notes to the Spymaster's table and use them there to either get: a) A note about squirrels going on strike unless they get more nuts. b) A warning from an unknown sender to an unknown recipient.

The first one is solely a joke, but the second one was meant to hint at something else.

Taking on a Watsonian perspective, the note had to have a sender, who is unknown and an intended recipient, which is unknown (perhaps presumed to be the Player, but really, didn't the Player just pick it up on a random trail ride?)

Who sends messages by squirrel anyway? Besides the critters themselves, the only humans so far to be shown in the game with some ability to communicate with squirrels are the Spymaster and Kora.

I sadly must say that I can't shed any more light on this, as most of my intentions regarding who sent it, and what the intentions were have not yet been revealed within the lore of the franchise. It may never come to full fruition as plans can change in development.

Some parts in the Light Ride and Catherine's Diary quest might be related to said foreshadowing though.

[soul4sisters]

SSO NPC’s as Zodiac Signs

Aries - Alex, Rhiannon

stubborn, exciting, determined

Taurus - Lisa

headstrong, protective, patient

Gemini - James, Keema

funny, energetic, quizzical

Cancer - Tan, Violet

supportive, sensitive, caring

Leo - Loretta, Elizabeth, Sigry

proud, outspoken, faithful

Virgo - Justin, Baroness, Kora

clean, understanding, calm

Libra - Avalon, Thomas, Erik

indecisive, accepting, fair, 

Scorpio - Anne, Mr. Anvir

endearing, careful, briliant

Sagittarius - Madison, Darko, Evergray

carefree, passionate, adventurous

Capricorn - Mrs. Drake

strong, willful, driven

Aquarius - Linda, Rania, Eiren

throughtful, collected, deep

Pisces - Maya, Alonso, Holly

creative, emotional, quiet

[ssojack]

sso hogwarts au: headcanons!

so i was brainstorming some more for my sso hogwarts au based off of the sortings i came up with, and i liked how they turned out! here’s a few i’ve written so far.

halfblood alex plays beater on the gryffindor quidditch team and often has to use her bat to intimidate the assholes who pick on her little brother, who’s in slytherin and has made enemies with half the school.

purebloods tan and loretta grew up together but were separated when they got to hogwarts by being sorted into hufflepuff and slytherin, respectively. they’re still inseparable, though, and get ridiculously competitive when they have to play quidditch matches against each other (they’re both chasers).

wicked smart STEM genius and muggleborn ravenclaw syntax frequently gets locked out of their common room because they’re complete and utter shit at riddles, and can often be seen doing homework outside the tower entrance, waiting for someone to come along.

pureblood gryffindor anne came up with the idea of a hogwarts pride parade in her fourth year, and now in her seventh year, as head girl, she’s turned it into an all-out festival and a hogwarts tradition.

halfblood gryffindor rania, as the only blind student at hogwarts, is always accompanied by her seeing-eye-owl dellingr. she’s always completely unapologetic about droppings left in the corridors, and she likes to roam the halls of hogwarts far past curfew.

hufflepuff lisa, hufflepuff mel, and slytherin thalia are in charge of the hogwarts drama club, where the three of them work to put on an annual musical. lisa runs the musical numbers, mel writes the script, and thalia directs...and acts, simultaneously, which is a bit weird but it works out. there’s also a full crew of ravenclaws working behind the scenes: ming yue helps out with special effects, kora paints the set, luciana is the prop master, and cosplay expert linda is in charge of costumes.

muggleborn gryffindor mica holds the record for most house points lost by a single student since she can’t seem to stop sticking her nose into trouble. she’s always on new adventures, like trying to map out the forbidden forest, attempting to climb the whomping willow, and adding random ingredients into dangerous potions to see what will happen.

pureblood ricky is always the star of slytherin quidditch games. he plays keeper, and his combination of obscure techniques and dance moves (?) that he uses to block the hoops give slytherin an impenetrable defense.

muggleborn gryffindor madison is that One Kid who figured out how to sneak electronics into hogwarts, and she’s made tons of money off kids who will pay her to be able to play on her GEMO for a few minutes. so far she’s figured out how to charge it with magic, but she can only play games offline since she hasn’t managed to set up a wifi network yet. syntax is helping, though, and the two of them are making slow but steady progress.

i may come up with some more later :) feel free to add any of your own headcanons to this post!