3/17/2023 0 Comments Tyranny vellum citadel![]() ![]() What the game doesn't explicitly call out is that the powerful have more context to see the entire system and need to somehow balance the evidence of their eyes and ears with the ideology the system is supposedly based on - whether that's becoming a cynic like Bleden Mark, a madman like Nerat, or just blinding yourself with your own ideology like Tunon. The socioeconomic class structures are based around who has magic and who doesn't, and attempts to gain more power are crushed ruthlessly via Bleden Mark or some application of the law. Wizards have more privileges than you, and Archons have privileges above that. Kyros is infallible and may not be invoked lightly. The game has made it quite clear that Kyros' laws are designed to maintain the existing power structure over everything else. Kyros!Īn Outside Context Problem, or, the Trouble with Power The harvest has always been controlled by Kyros, who brings prosperity, but blights your crops.but has you share so is good. ![]() It's straight out of 1984 where we have always been at war with Eastasia. This scenario should be familiar - Kyros is going out of her way to eradicate any sort of cultural or intellectual context that will let you change Kyros' laws as unjust or the legitimacy of Kyros to rule. We run into the concept of forbidden knowledge fairly early in the game when Kyros commands the Vellum Citadel be destroyed, and the game continues to reinforce this theme.īlatantly Untrue Shit Tunon Said Earlier posted: : The harvest blooms and blights by the will of Kyros. I'm not sure I got that across as well as I could have judging from the quoted post. ![]() The Bane aren't so much new ideas so much as a different context free from Kyrosian brainwashing. However, reading the rest of the post - that I asserted the Bane are new ideas and thus my theory is invalidated because the Bane predate Kyros - makes me suspect that I haven't done a very good job communicating my theory to the thread. Nerat is a sickly green flame with obviously worked stone masks, Tunon is a literal walking shadow (something mythology tends to portray as unnatural) with a worked mask, and Graven Ashe has glowy blue eyes and whatever the hell that orb is. The game establishes that practicing magic for a really long time makes you look inhuman. They are wacky ethereal monsters that look completely unnatural, similarly to how the most powerful practictioners of magic look like this: The Bane don't represent nature, as they're creatures of magic that do Arcane damage and cast spells like "Bolt of Corruption". Nature worship isn't anything new, and even if you worship it nature will still kill you. They are a primeval or at least very ancient force of nature to be dealt with, or (foolishly) captured/controlled. The Oldwall civ had mitigations to lock them away or otherwise deal with them, but the idea that they represent new ideas somehow is backwards. Bane by all evidence have been around before Kyros, exist in the present, and continue to react to magic shenanigans during the course of the game. The text and circumstances in-game directly contradict your theory. ![]()
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