my main problem with the story is we are way too powerful
think about it if we are able to dismantle 9% of the order
(level 100 that counts as "apprentice " plus we were under-fed and in jail for MONTHS and we are able to beat a high lord)
if we are able to kill one high-order lord why can’t we just kill all of the others?
because the way I see it the high lords are the best of the best the ones holding up the order and if he was beaten that easy what stakes do we have?
I would have liked it more if the king was the one that forced to us reawaken just to make it out to the 2nd sea alive
(for one he knows we are a threat seeing how we killed a lesser lord of the order why didn’t he prepare anything? it doesn’t fit for the order to be so reactionary if the order was more of a planner the reason he didn’t outright kill us but just jailed us can be so he can use us as bait)
all I see right now is the story is a bit of a letdown but it is just the start and keeps getting better I would love it see how it ends
For example Neviro being the Prince of Winterveil. It’s nice that we are able to communicate and ask him about the Order of Aesir, so astute people are able to ascertain that there’s something more to him than meets the eye.
However him being revealed to be the prince was way too quick, I mean we were just told about the Extermination of the Winterfell Royalty and the Ravenna’s pursuit for them. And there was only one singular appearance of him in the story and does nothing to make us think, oh perhaps that one random dude who told us about the Order of Aesir is the lost Prince.
What was supposed to clue us in? His white hair?
And there’s not much reason for him to know or try to find out about the Order of Aesir because they had NO involvement in the massacring of his family.
Still Vetex handled like pretty much all aspects of the game singlehandly, so I really shouldn’t expect or judge him for not delivering a grade A blockbuster novel material.
There’s like, only one evidence outside of the storyline that Winterfell existed at all. (I get that it’s kind of the point, but still.)
On Munera Island, the secret spot has a blue banner with a snowflake on it, presumably the banner of Winterfell.
Come to think of it, was Neviro the one taking care of Munera? The guy on the island mentions how weird it is that part of it is pristine.
…also, my misremembered High School Spanish figured out he had something to do with Winterfell five minutes before then, I suspect his name comes from “nevar” (snow) or some equivalent.
I think it’d be interesting if in one of the parts, you end up working with one unknowingly and end up finding out after you’ve already set things up for them, which at that point you’d have to both end their plan and to clean up the mess.
i almost feel like it’s vaguely implied that julian survived, it really is just downright silly for a curse user to die offscreen, we didn’t even get to see the glass curse burst out from within the castle, off to end up somewhere else in the war seas
The charismatic last prince of winterfell is the character needed to clean up the logistical and political mess after the overpowered entities finish throwing galaxies at each other. I hope he’s utilized more in the future .
i know that this is probably gonna be adjusted later on in AO’s story while not even being part of AO AND was probably going to be expanded on but:
this is stupid. the main villain of AA was a puppet of the god who we haven’t even heard talked about in the entirety of arcane universe until this point, and it’s the god who was the LEAST fucked up of all of the greek gods. this only takes away from durza and makes NO sense. he needs an actual motive for this aside from “ooh, he’s evil” you know who was evil? DURZA. you know why he became evil? BECAUSE THE ABSORPTION CURSE IS POWERFUL AND POWER CORRUPTS
if he’s really gonna make hades evil, at least give him an actual reason to be or make him a PURE evil badass who’s so cool that it doesn’t matter. the only reason i can see for hades being behind all of this is that all the other gods (who poseidon literally referred to as FAMILY) are dead (which, not even all of them are, it feels like it’s implied that more than just hades is alive), and he doesn’t see the point in not doing it (which would also mean that he doesn’t give a damn about humanity). maybe he wants to revive them from the dead to see them again but ends up getting corrupted by the power, like durza did? there’s still tons of holes in this without just saying “yeah, he’s always been evil” which is still stupid
Ya they were all dead at this time except Poseidon, Hades, and Apollo(Apollo might’ve been retconned and he never actually got introduced to us and isn’t in the lore doc).
No, according to the most recent (to my knowledge) info, Apollo is the actual god. I have no idea how AR devs got that misunderstanding, the only way I could think of is some exchange like this (hypothetical):
“Hey so just making sure, Apollo in the One Shot Pirates is the actual god Apollo himself, right?”
And then Tech sarcastically says something along the lines of “Yeah sure bro, the guy named Apollo who’s ranked up there with Poseidon and Arthur is just some guy off the street, not the real deal” and it was taken literally
I think it was a human, vetex has said before that at the time of Magius Apollo had died of old age which meant he was probably mortal
His description in one of the old Arcane trellos doesn’t indicate any godhood either (but ig that could be a matter of the description being too brief)
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