Steelus is an old Magic User who states he came to the Bronze Sea to look for Ancient Magic Scrolls (based on when getting Lost/Ancient Magics would rely on Scrolls instead of Hecate Shards). Odds are Mages are the only players who can get Ancient Magics.
Kjartan is the large NPC at the Northern Entrance to the lodge who asks you if you’ve learned any Fighting Styles.
Meng Ozun has a Greatsword laid out on the table he’s sitting at, and states that he’s a Bounty Hunter.
These NPCs have uniquely-colored nametags, and each one is implied or is stated to have the general abilities of one of the full stat builds. Ambanes is more than likely a part of that little group, although he doesn’t bring up Spirit Weapons at all. There are Spirit Weapons found in the Dark Sea, though, such as the ones dropped by Satyrs.
It uses the same model as the Staff of Night so everybody jumped to saying it’s a confirmed spirit weapon. I do think it’s a spirit weapon but I personally find that evidence to be a little stupid. It sharing a model with the Staff of Night feels more like an oversight than an intentional choice to me, because only one of each weapon exists, so Ambanes and Dusk having one exactly identical makes no sense. I hope Dusk’s staff gets a custom model. Not only would it distinguish itself, but we’d get to see Xeno or Astral cook again
cooking is cooking no matter how bad it is
but if you want a genuinely serious response, it’s not like he’s completely inept when it comes to lore. He makes a lot of bad decisions and fumbles, yes, but he’s shown that he’s at the very least capable of world building and character writing. Another thing that can be pointed out is that there’s a good few areas where there’s really big potential for it to be great. While you could argue that him not tapping into that potential is another fumble, and I wouldn’t disagree, the fact that there’s that much potential lying in the lore proves in of itself that Vetex isn’t as horrendous of a writer as we joke that he is
tl;dr: he’s not THAT bad, he could make it peak if he improved some areas, though
He could reach far better heights if he had worldbuilding from scratch.
Oberon wasn’t that bad of a name, and he probably could have thought up of one himself if he was dissatisfied with taking a name from Inheritance.
Ian’s Cross had far more potential than Athens, who was Ian and why is he important to the town?
I feel like switching to real world history and places, plot holes aside, was just the easy way out of having to think up of his own places, events, and many characters, as was the case with king Arthur.
