Its sensing people’s power levels, their distance from magic energy and stuff. Vetex just hasnt added it in yet, bit it existed in AA
we ain’t fodder we’re killing calvus when we’re only slightly above the level of a centurion, and they had awakenings
we’re fucking GOATED
hell, if we weren’t subjected to cutscene hell, we’d probably be able to chip into julian’s health a good bit
Calvus was a terrible Savant and got hard carried by his lost magic apparently, so it wasnt a huge massive feat that we wont against him. (And even then, MC was actually pretty battered and exhausted from that according to quest desc)
And Vetex confirmed that a Curse User is a level above everyone else, he easily wouldve killed everyone in the hall if Morden wasnt there.
calvus is a high lord of the order of aesir and king of ravenna, which may or may not be the reason the bronze sea is named the way it is, he’s not incompetent, if he WAS total garbage, he’d probably get overthrown by a bunch of centurions earlier
i know that ravenna as a whole is pretty loyal to him (the fucking tiberians refer to him as “the great King Calvus” despite being neglected by him), but this is a kingdom with all the politics involved, SOMEONE must’ve thought of trying to take the throne at some point
on another note, i really wish vetex put more attention into how calvus got ravenna to basically worship him, i want to SEE the propaganda against winterveil, and why he just doesn’t give a shit about tiberia (THIS IS NEVER EXPANDED UPON!!!)
thinking about it now, it’s probably because the rest of the game’s development sacrifices some of the story, so maybe we’ll see what he can do when he’s solely focused on writing if/when he becomes an author one day
edit: oh, right, julian, uuuuh
listen i know that some curses are just better than others but the man died against someone who practically JUST got his
julian + argos carried calvus
edit: rah its death curse against glass curse the power difference is massive
I’m killing you.
edit: GRRRAGH I’D CARE MORE FOR JULIAN IF HE SOMEHOW DIDN’T HAVE LESS SCREENTIME THAN CARINA
I would kinda assume they took in Calvus cause hes the only ruler in Bronze Sea (and Order of Aesir seems that they need control over the War Seas for a higher purpose), so making him a High Lord would also assert control over the place. Tbh, its pretty clear that Calvus is the weakest member and is more like raised by them rather than a real leader. They made it pretty clear that Calvus is actually kinda weak which was why they needed the Death Curse.
Also, about the part about dethroning Calvus thing, that actually happened, but with the previous King. Remember the war with the Thorne Empire at Blasted Rock? Yeah, pretty sure that counted. And they got absolutely destroyed, but something weird happened and thats the only reason why Ravenna is still there.
calvus has a savant skill issue and had to get the death curse (he didnt) to even measure up to the other high lords
still should’ve given it to Argos not himself.
Calvus is dumb and wants every single power, thats why he didnt give it to Argos
ARGOS WAS ALREADY OLDD GRAHHHH IT WOULDN’T HAVE REJUVENATED HIM
(completed sentence)
Technicly it wouldve but ik what you mean lmao
Argos should’ve grabbed the cloud curse at least.
you’re right and that makes sense, but i’m still standing by my claim that killing him is an achievement
he remarks on us being special immediately before stabbing neviro and we KILLED him
without any awakening, which his centurions SOMEHOW have (seriously, ik that we’re awakening-deficient somehow, probably for the same reason why the order was experimenting on us, but warren told us directly that the awakening could only be warranted with something as monumental as calvus’s defeat, how do these glorified goons have it?)
we are SUPER skilled/powerful in comparison to anyone else at our level
…so anyway that tornado at blasted rock is 100% the artifact of some kind of attack right
cloud curse was probably funneled off to the order
fuck it
we need more magic wands and other magical staves
MC shoulda parried julian smh
its when your arcane reaches climax after all the odyssing and you arcane apotheosis all over
(very mature comment)
Warren said something about our body was ready but our mind wasnt
basically yes we are strong strong, even without being awakened, probably due to being a legacy
but our human mind couldnt really develop fast enough to allow our power to grow to its next stage aka awakening, which is why we had the whole meditating things