you were telling me to read the lore as if i was new hence why i informed you i was not. I do not care about the forum i never have i did this on a whim to see if people would be receptive to my story clearly i was mistaken to expect that.
okay but like, can i ask what itâs mutated with? is it mutated in combination with another Plasma Magic? Wood Magic?
i ask Wood Magic because of this primarily. imo, if you were to say this was purely visual (as in taking the appearance of a spider lily, but not actually BEING one), then itâd be pretty cool. how do they not burn though, assuming itâs actual spider lilies and not just plasma winding to look like one?
forgive me if iâm wrong since iâm doing research as i read through this and am trying to use this as an excuse to catch up on Arcane lore, but wasnât Aurem retconned out of existence?
looking through the Lore Doc it doesnât seem to be Prometheusâ main motif for granting Magic and also isnât mentioned in general. but i wonât blame you if you didnât know and again i could be wrong
i want to make another argument thatâs not like yrni0âs (the only reason iâm making this review is because i will NOT let them beat me in yapping over random things.)
wouldnât this be, idk, a little contradictory? to forge a sword made of Arcanium, which attracts, absorbs, and then promptly launches and/or is coated in said magic, alongside an unnamed metal which repels it (hence making it unable to absorb it in the first place.)
personally, a sword made of arcanium and a shield made out of this unnamed metal would be both cooler and make more sense, or hell, dual blades even.
also, i wish you wouldâve given a name to it. it doesnât have to be anything complicated. hell, i wouldâve been fine with even something as stupid as âRepelium.â just SOMETHING to make it feel more accurate lore-wise.
contrary to my previous argument, this time iâm directly repeating what yrni0âs; what happened?
i know you said you made a full 15-page lore doc about this so i hope the whole event is more fully-fleshed out in there, because to not only show how unconfident your MC was before the fight, and he somehow wins just feels⌠boring?
itâd be like if i took one of the most anticipated fights in something like, oh, i donât know, Seven Deadly Sins, and added it with poor animation! Oh⌠right.
saying that Ares, a literal god, who in the Arcane universe, weâve only seen weakened, zombified forms of, just somehow got defeated feels really, whatâs the word, not undermining. really anticlimatic.
okay i have a few gripes with this paragraph here.
first off, like yrni0 said (sorry i keep repeating their statements but iâm pretty much basing this whole thing from them), why represent Ares with a red spider lily?
spiders, spider lilies, or even the color red (for the most part) donât represent Ares, with red only being arguable because of warfare/bloodshed.
secondly, why does absorbing a flower give him immortality? i understand it was like, part of Ares or whatever, but from what i can see no form of immortality can realistically be given from a god when theyâre near death like that.
if that were the case, i feel Poseidon wouldâve given us more than his essence (and a non-canon Awakening.) i suppose you could maybe argue this and say that he like, looted Aresâ godlike strength, but that wouldnât make much sense either so idrk.
THIRDLY, you used his part-immortality as an argument against him winning not being able to breath in space, but you ALSO mentioned that he just doesnât age and is NOT unkillable.
choking to death because of zero oxygen or freezing to death because space is just that cold arenât age-related things, so heâd die regardless.
other than the argument thatâs already been made that Lancelot is canonical and this is not, so it feels like a weird non-canon retconn, thereâs also the other argument thatâs already been said that Cursebeard is a tyrant, so why would he devote his life to destroying said tyranny?
in fact, the same people who killed his family have the EXACT SAME ideas as Cursebeard; get lots of magic and rule the world. Cursebeard FORCED Prometheus into a corner and made him make curses so he could absorb them. those kidnappers FORCED your OC to work for them, using his magic at their own will.
Final thoughts uh⌠i think i yapped enough so just read above
also, yeah the punctuation makes this painful to read because of the sheer amount of run-ons (iâll let spelling mistakes slide)
you can use commas and still not use 100% perfect grammar like punctuation and capitalization. with big lore dumps/suggestions especially like this, you REALLY need punctuation or youâre gonna get a whole lot of âi ainât readinâ allatâ replies.
kk bye bye love yall feel free to correct me on anything i got wrong cause iâm definitely not up-to-date on Arcane lore.
mutations arenât actually combinations in aa iirc, just one magic changing into another, meaning you donât need both water magic and wind magic to get ice magic
In this particular case the plasma mutated as a result of prologued exposure to a certain energy which is the innate ability he is not aware of i mentioned.
okay just another minor gripe here is that you did this like, 5 times in the post and a couple times here.
you sometimes just leave things blank, a âcertainâ person, a âcertainâ energy, a âcertainâ object, which from a readerâs perspective would come off as either lazy or unorganized.
these are things that, imo, should be planned out. hell, even if you donât specifically mention what this âcertainâ thing is, the least you could do is hint that itâs foreshadowing at the reveal in the future, but saying itâs a âcertainâ thing doesnât feel like proper foreshadowing, just a sort of âiâll put it off till laterâ type of thing.
would you like me to spoil all my lore? im not putting anything off its all written I can simply tell you if you really want me to but it wonât make ad much sense without the story building up to it as a reveal.
I feel like anymore than this will cause us to get off-topicâŚ
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True.
They specifically mentioned the white part, leaving to our imagination that the particles became donut-shaped.
I did forget the bit about sparks, but my point still stands: Why is plasma miraculously shaping itself like that? Sure, it could be the casterâs wish, but that doesnât seem to be the case.