u/0Galahad

If the power attributed to okarun is the pinocchio, then the elements you can 100% expect to appear for sure are lies, but there is another omnipresent part of the pinocchio mythos, geppetto his father, the one who creates him from a "magical thing".

Now we have always wondered what is going on in okarun's family and house, that allows him to freely go wherever for however long, and as far as i remember never even mention needing permission, or getting into trouble or whatever you would expect from a teenager in his position, IIRC we did see his father, but only briefly and without much explanation of anything, we also only have seem his father.

So now i realize, maybe the reason they cannot extract a power from okarun, yet they refuse to believe that he truly has no power, is that the methods they use to determine where such powers are, actually points to okarun, but not because he holds the pinocchio power, but because he IS PINOCCHIO, and his father is the one who holds the power, the one who creates pinocchio, geppetto himself, thus okarun is basically a manifestation of the power, which his father controls, he is the pinocchio turned real boy, mayve okarun's father is well aware of everything going on and being either machiavelian or excentric, lets okarun deal with it on his own, so he can continue being a "real boy".

with the side stories, what ifs, games and tappei revelations, its gotten hard to keep track of what lore is confirmed around them, i don't know if the wiki has all the information cuz wiki's tend to lack little tidbits and explain certain nuanced information in a inaccurate way for ongoing series, i also assume it won't mention things that are all but confirmed in the texts, like minerva being emilia's mom(like that scene in the anime would be the most random thing of all time if minerva is only her "auntie" or whatever) so maybe someone who has recently reread the series can share a detail that strongly implies something like my example.

i think ravnos and salubri would really benefit of not being literal bottom of the barrel strugglers going into the future, and i realize that those 2 clans have kinda of a silver lining in their horrible situation, ravnos have nearly no low generation vampires amongst their ranks so not that much necessary to kill people for blood, while salubri from what i know are all about trying to not be monsters, so if there is ever to be some truce or alliance bewteen mankind and kine, i suppose the best clans to go for would be those 2, and then due to their very fucked up situation in kindred society i also tought that if someone could gain the trust of caitiff and thin-bloods to unify it would be those 2 clans, so maybe they could form a sect around that premise, the least monster of the monsters

1. I think carmilla is beyond's daughter, i think beyond wouldn't simply choose to have a single very convoluted way of saving his child in the succession war if he cares about them in any capacity, seeing how prepared and seemingly capable he is, i believe he would employ a more direct and consistent method, if his child is one of the upper princes he would have them be capable of extremely effective self defense, if it was one of the small ones he would have a loyal follower be on standby, it could have been wobble due to bill, but seeing as wobble situation has also become convoluted, i believe it has to be either halkenburg or carmilla, but IIRC halkenburg was way too naive and surprised with the explanation of the succession war and how it was impossible to simply leave it or abstain from participating, i dont think beyond would leave someone as capable and smart as halks in the dark, so it has to be carmilla, carmilla is sure of herself because she knows her real daddy is the motherfucking beyond netero, she has been taught nen by him, possibly developed her quite powerful hatsu under his instructions and got his approval of effectiveness, and was probably taught a bunch of strategic shit by him too, she is just as confident and arrogant as he is, only difference is that she is still naive due to being sheltered.

2. Beyond actually cares about people and morality, only in a cynical and distant way, i dont think togashi would make beyond be total scum after how well meruem went, specially when pariston is literally besides beyond waiting to be scum, thus i think beyond genuinely wants good for kakin, or at the very least he wants to "destroy" the current kakin through sabotage of the succession war, due to growing increasingly disgusted by the government while he lived in there and prepared for the voyage.

3. I think bill was bullshitting kurapika in the recent chapters, i simply can't believe beyond would hire someone so naively idealistic like bill was when giving that speech to kurapika, and it seemed like bill was gaslighting kurapika that dealing directly with beyond was in fact simple and necessary both morally and pragmatically.

Or a bunch of our friends are playing dumb, there is no way that every single being in the world meets paimon and has next to nothing to mention about her, the archons don't say or ask shit, the older entities dont say or ask shit, not even the civillians are intrigued enough about her like you would expect, there is no mention of anything related to her in any lore bit i recall, all hints of what she is come from small details in the actual story and other places, but as far as i know there is nothing related to paimon in all of teyvat history and memories.

Paimon is also clearly suspicious in her own "normal" behaviour, borderline useless even though she has mysteryous powers, i dont ever recall paimon being necessarily useful for anything or having any sort of useful power even tough she is clearly magical, a true coward even though she can at the very least fly and possibly teleport or turn invisible.

IIRC with snezhanaya already in sight we kinda know there truly is no other being like paimon, she is a baby sized flying girl, she has a seemingly female body separate from her clothes(uses feminine swimsuit), she is independent of the traveler enough to get an education in the akademiya(either she is teleporting there in our free time or we are traveling the entirety of teyvat minus the new regions all the time for years), dottore of all people as far as i recall never even mentions her, i dont believe for a second dottore would not be interested in paimon specially seeing she is OUR constant companion.

Paimon mystery is certainly being enforced IN-UNIVERSE, the powers that be don't want us knowing more about her, in a way its much more than a secret identity of a shade or phanes, its something quite eldritch

14 coffins to fulfill the ritual and "15 princes", nasubi knew all along...

like this has been going on for a while now, for the most schizo... i mean observant of us i dare say necrit really plays the role of a "authoritarian regime mouthpiece" perfectly, he tries to keep his words smooth and pleasing while really just saying shit that favours the corpos and delegitimizes the small guy and his complaints.

now with this video on big bad bear being banned, necrit makes it look like there is nothing in it for the consumer with leaks, like its always ruining the marvelous work of the corporation, its really disturbingly close to propaganda speech, but i may just be imagining things i guess...

My PC was embraced a few months before the week of nightmares, so theorethically they originally had the old ravnos in-clan disciplines, and lost fortitude as one of the many consequences of ravnos sapping us all dry while being burned by the full concentrated power of the sun, now i bought the loreseet of a vial of zaps blood and have already arranged with my narrator about what advantages and disadvantages we want for its consumption, one of them would be to recover fortitude in some way, as my coterie already has 2 toreadors one of which is very invested in presence, while im also always the "face of the party" so changing roles might be fun.

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First i planned to switching away animalism as i had mixed up what disciplines ravnos clan originally had, and now have realized the odd one out is presence, i already have 1 dot in presence, losing it would be a small hit to my charisma pools but i suppose 1 more hp is a great substitute, i suppose technically i could get a 4th in-clan discipline but im already getting blood potency 2 and a 4th dot of obfuscate from that 15xp investment, so im trying to have restraint lest the narrator throw ANOTHER werewolf at me for my greed...

(Manipulation, conjuration, emission and enhancement)

the users was born and lived most of his life in a hot and tropical climate, while hating the heat, sweat and brightness of it all, eventually growing to adore the idea of colder climates and their fashion, sought to become a hunter for the opportunity to leave his homecountry and travel to seek some place with the perfect climate he longed for and upon being initiated in the nen arts, developed this hatsu.

it functions by manipulating the kinetic energy that we call heat, specifically manipulating its transference and with the help of enhancement being delivered via EN, also increasing the kinetic energy in things, it however required some compensatory measures, first is that the ability requires EN to be deployed and can only function within its range, the second is that the user must conjure the "winter cloak" and wear it, upon wearing it the users body heat instantly begins to be sapped to partially source the heat increase and also pay a price for the power while limiting the time it can be used in a single "sitting", lest the user kill himself by freezing.

both conditions severely limit the longevity and safety of use to allow for its potency, upon both conditions being met the ability becomes functional, allowing the user to manipulate the heat and transfer it around with maximum physically possible efficiency and also increase the heat/kinetic energy in objects and people in a significant way and in a resonably fast timeframe, the user can and tends to also "work himself up" before activating the winter cloak, which allows for a more significant amount of body heat to be instantly sapped and increased through enhancement and then be directed towards the enviroment, at maximum power this ability allows the user to melt metal and stone, incinerate flammable matter and overwhelm most opponentst with significant and dangerous heat or cold precisely applied to weak points like the brain or heart, if not setting them on fire completely or freezing them solid for the more vulnerable such as non-enhancers, however such power level has a reasonable ramp up time which is further aggravated by the time limits on the ability usage.

it kinda feels like im suffering from success, im constantly finding myself way ahead of my team for many fights, while playing mainly engage supports, then i just happen to find a perfect window for a game winning engage, and either have to give it up or coin-flip it in the hopes that someone arrives quick enough to capitalize, and in general most of my lost games are from me eventually inting as i get fed up from having to wait for the crawling sack of stones and inconsciously start trolling, like its just frustrating to have to wait for them constantly and most of the time lose the contests anyway due to being late for setup and positioning or get engaged if i try to zone them out to stall, i have a very strong mental for toxicity and playing as the losing side, but not so much for unfun play patterns like spectating farming lanes or this...

seeing as the requirements for vanish excluding unseen passage is most likely to artifically limit you from getting silence of death and invisibility, we changed this in our table, however i myself still see the slight value in having some invisibility without a rouse check, but silence of death simply seems more useful in general, so i want the ancillae and elders experienced opinions.

So IIRC original league lore(i think it was the original one) was that summoners rift was a war game made to stop actual wars, where nations from the future of runeterra would send mages specialized in summoning to bring out historical figures from the nexus crystal and battle it out to decide conflicts without actual bloodshed, thats why we had "summoner spell" which would be limited interference from the summoners and why we had character voice lines aknowledging summoners like sona who only has voice lines due to the apparent mental link between both parties, and even why the goal for both teams is to destroy the enemy nexus which is essential to maintain the summons, this inevitably meant that many champions were from different times from each other.

THEN we got the runeterra lore rework that for the longest time made it so the league of legends game was just a game for us with no part in the story and that pretty much all champions were alive and active roughly at the same time all over the world, this is where league lore really became popular beyond the game itself and where our hopes and dreams of serialized animations, movies and the MMO were born, all to see that glorious world, its inhabitants and its stories in motion.

And then finally we got arcane season 2, which seems to pretty much bring us back to champions being from different times in runeterra history and having more isolated stories, seeing as so many zaunites and pilts don't exist yet or are already gone by the time arcane s2 ends...

Which begs the question, will we also go back to summoners rift actually being a thing in future runeterra? Would the true reason they decided to do the arcane lore rework be to go back to their roots, is that what the LoL 2 project is truly about?

i think that loresheet must have been released before they tought about releasing the ravnos clan for this edition as it does not really take into consideration the one to take it being an actual ravnos for some reason(or maybe im missing something and ravnos can't take that loresheet) so i need opinions from the ancillae here...