#though lets be real it was entirely matildas fault for falling asleep in a public crowded place

[stari-hun]

Alternatively, I think its funny to think about how Kaalaa Baunaa, Shamane, and Kumar are this extremely doomed and tragic family dynamic (KB was Kumar's apprentice, but she was so young Kumar HAD to have taught her as an older guiding figure in some way). Then Kanjira just got roped into hearing about a plot to destroy her town while following Matilda who was led there by the plot, honestly, I wish they had more relevance cause while the doomed cyclone between the three is interesting Kanjira deserved her own story too. She could've given us much more insight on how Mor Panhk WAS, people around Kanjira knew she was an arcanist but didn't treat her any differently, but the woman taking care of her was human. I don't remember her name but she said something about babysitting all the kids in their neighborhood, hell she even got a reward for it and was offered asylum by the Foundation because of how many arcanist and human children she saved in the story (another reason to the tally why it was bs Schneider, a character with intimate knowledge of how the Manus worked inside and was apart of the group helping the city, being denied it was bs). I think it would've been a really interesting way to show that Mor Panhk wasn't a monolith of Arcanists vs Humans that Kumar and Shamane's parent's neighborhood was. The only real implication we got that it was only that kind of situation where they WENT there and saw how different it was despite not being so far away. Plus it would've really helped show the players how Kumar was stuck in an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Mor Pankh DIDNT value strong arcanists over humans or weaker arcanists, she grew up in an extremely traditional household that held power in blood over everything. Then she went into a field where arcanists were never seen as equal peers which was one of the first things mentioned alongside Laplace's introduction. Laplace is the one organization that entirely believes that arcanists and human science can be merged.

I think a lot about Shamane and Kumar as well as Kumar and Kaalaa Baunaa. But do we think about how Shamane knew that Kumar was about to kill herself? That she sent Kaalaa away from her so she wouldn't have the student she raised like a child see her death, but Shamane knew that her life was ending. I wonder if he saw her in the same way he saw animals and arcane beasts who were injured and ready to let go.