Noticed that a lot of people here seem to have a "normal" hardback copy of The Wicked And The Warped alongside their limited edition.

Given how precious the limited edition is, do people here have a beater non-limited book they actually read, while the limited edition goes on the shelf?

 

I'm still waiting for my Limited edition to arrive, but don't know if I should even open it.

• Nib: <F> preferred, but given how hard this pen is to find, I'll take any nib and swap the nib afterwards.

• Condition: [C] or better.

• Location: In Australia, happy to pay for tracked international shipping

I haven't been able to find this pen anywhere (it's either the Rollerball being sold, or the Carbon Abyssus). I imagine this thread might be up for months, I'll check it every so often, so unless the thread is closed, post here and DM!

Please post here before DMing.

Notes

• This post uses datamined lore from 7.0. Critically, the machine-translated text from 7.0 refers to a mysterious lord "■■" Monomakh meets in the Shadow Realm as "he". There is speculation that "he" is Noy, however it is possible that "he" was a mistranslation of the gender neutral term "他", which previously occurred with Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. This theory assumes "■■" is Koitar/Anastasya
• Assumptions
  • Koitar = Anastasya = Tsaritsa
  • Monomakh = Belyi Tsar = Pakkaisukko
  • Voyager = Seutervoinen = Anacharsis
• This timeline challenges the common theories that Tsaritsa is the Daughter of Pakkaisukko, and that the 3rd Descender was the Tsaritsa's lover.

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~6000 Years Ago

• Koitar & Voyager rebel against the Heavenly Principles in Hyperborea. They create the Fae from dragon bones. The most powerful Fae (Monomakh, future Belyi Tsar) is to be made from the Cryo Sovereign's remains but the project is halted by a Celestial Nail.
• Koitar is memory wiped by the Heavenly Principles and imprisoned in Amsvartnir
• Voyager founds Khaenriah

~4000 Years Ago

• Koitar meets Boreas, regaining some of her memories.
• Boreas leaves for Mondstadt
• Koitar returns to Hyperborea, exploring Hyperborea, Snezhnaya & the Shadow Realm.
• Koitar somehow completes the Cryo Sovereign Fae project and Monomakh is born.
• At some point Koitar signs a new NDA with Celestia & gains the name Anastasya
• Monomakh wanders around Snezhnaya trying to find their purpose in life
• Monomakh discovers Aksinya's preservation pod, releases and adopts her
• Monomakh begins ruling the Northlands, occasionally fighting alongside Anastasya
• ?Anastasya befriends Aksinya

~3700 Years Ago

• Monomakh AKA "Pakkaisukko" attempts to break into the Shadow Realm. Monomakh coerces the 3rd Descender Saarelainen into opening the passage by bargaining ???'s life. Tragically, Monomakh didn't know Anastasya could already enter the Shadow Realm.
• Saaralainen dies and is turned into the Gnoses
• Monomakh meets Anastasya in the Shadow Realm, but she is unable to share information due to the Celestia NDA
• Archon War starts
• Monomakh finishes investigating the Shadow Realm, finds "evidence" that Fae are meant to replace humanity, and accepts the Cryo Gnosis & a Celestia NDA
• Monomakh, now Belyi Tsar, rules the Northlands/Snezhnaya with Fae nobility ruling the country

~500 Years Ago

• Monomakh/Belyi Tsar is fatally wounded in the Khaenriah Cataclysm
• Belyi Tsar returns to Snezhnaya and uses his memories/body to grow a mini Moonshade tree to hide what Snezhnaya is up to
• Anastasya witnesses the Khaenriahns be cursed
• Anastasya takes up the Cryo Gnosis and becomes the Tsaritsa
• Anastasya (perhaps with a lingering love for humanity as a former Angel?) purges many Fae from the Snezhnayan nobility and raises humans to an equal status
• Anastasya recruits Pierro, they start the Fatui & begin recruiting Harbingers

~ 0 Years Ago

• Tsaritsa begins collecting Gnoses
• Project Stuzha underway
• Traveller arrives in Snezhnaya