QUOTE (Phred @ Jan 21 2011, 10:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, I didn't expect it so soon either after December's release and with all the changes going on, and also because in most cases a new story ties into to a previous or ongoing event. (Or is it forshadowing 
) Or maybe this one doesn't have any of that and it was just the right time to release it.
I see the lack of gods sharded being a result--the book says that there were dozens of others, not just the ones that remained safe in the basin of life, so I doubt the book would list everyone since dozens were doing it.
One flaw in the explanation I see is the existence of the Daggers of Reincarnation. This allows you to actually change your race! So what happens to the soul. If you reincarnate from Mugwump to Tae'Dae, what happens to the soul involved. (Heck, maybe this will get people to pause more before changing their race...or not...)
) Or maybe this one doesn't have any of that and it was just the right time to release it.I see the lack of gods sharded being a result--the book says that there were dozens of others, not just the ones that remained safe in the basin of life, so I doubt the book would list everyone since dozens were doing it.
One flaw in the explanation I see is the existence of the Daggers of Reincarnation. This allows you to actually change your race! So what happens to the soul. If you reincarnate from Mugwump to Tae'Dae, what happens to the soul involved. (Heck, maybe this will get people to pause more before changing their race...or not...)
Doesn't change much. The Portal is still the "It's magic!" answer to those sort of questions. Along with marking someone out of the portal as an "extraordinary person" it also makes the abilities of their soul much more fluid, not locked into just one role.
I'm mostly excited as the souls sort of continue the entire theme of Lusternia being a game about the first law of thermodynamics. After Yudhe, Dynara, and Magnora you never see anything new created. It's all just transformed energy. Without Dynara or Magnora the ability for energy to be created or destroyed has actually left the first world.
QUOTE (Phred @ Jan 21 2011, 11:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
One flaw in the explanation I see is the existence of the Daggers of Reincarnation. This allows you to actually change your race! So what happens to the soul. If you reincarnate from Mugwump to Tae'Dae, what happens to the soul involved. (Heck, maybe this will get people to pause more before changing their race...or not...)
Daggers of reincarnation and the one free reincarnation everyone gets are supposed to act as "revisions" to the Tapestry, since not everyone starts out as the right race. You're just a loboshigaru's soul in a merin's body.
Why not blame those terribly naughty humans for soul migration?
Can the main site be updated with the new books? >.> I am already behind in reading these 
What I personally found interesting (but never really clicked for me) was that it seemed to me the forms sharded Elders could take differed from their original form. I mean, it sounded like to me that Loboshi sharded into a lupine form but maybe didn't look like that herself. So now, if say....Eventru sharded, we wouldn't have glitzy gold bearded people running around but could be some form of tentacular monstrosity that reflects his inner e-soul.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
Gentlemen, behold!
Eventru splintered.
Eventru splintered.
QUOTE (Xiel @ Jan 21 2011, 01:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What I personally found interesting (but never really clicked for me) was that it seemed to me the forms sharded Elders could take differed from their original form. I mean, it sounded like to me that Loboshi sharded into a lupine form but maybe didn't look like that herself. So now, if say....Eventru sharded, we wouldn't have glitzy gold bearded people running around but could be some form of tentacular monstrosity that reflects his inner e-soul.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
I thought this was obvious, given that Bollikin became all different types of furrikin (certainly, he wasn't some eerie amalgam of turtles, squirrels, foxes, bears, etc etc etc etc etc), and that Dracnoris (who was a Primal God and so decidedly not star-shaped) became the very star-shaped dracnari.
(Though I think what you're more surprised by is that Loboshi may not have been lupine herself!)
QUOTE (Xiel @ Jan 21 2011, 01:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What I personally found interesting (but never really clicked for me) was that it seemed to me the forms sharded Elders could take differed from their original form. I mean, it sounded like to me that Loboshi sharded into a lupine form but maybe didn't look like that herself. So now, if say....Eventru sharded, we wouldn't have glitzy gold bearded people running around but could be some form of tentacular monstrosity that reflects his inner e-soul.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
Unless I misunderstood that anyway, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless, I think.
I was thinking this too, especially since it seems to be suggesting that maybe Tae didn't look like a bear. Xyl must look like a Lucidian though, he references his crystal skin a lot. Mugwumpois may not have been amphibious, since it took Xyl a while to figure out it was her shards he was seeing.
This sounds like a question for Ask Estarra!
