Keraxe actually has the most thematically fitting curses if you ask me. Wotan has Wood to match Yggdrasil, and his sons all have curses and names that represent Norse gods, apparently.
I actually completely agree. I should have worded what I said better and added extra context. I think most kingdoms should not have fitting curses. Since they’re randomly-found treasures it would just be too hard to believe such a consistent coincidence. I think there should be exceptions to this rule, though.
For one, I believe it makes sense for a kingdom’s founder to usually have a curse that matches its theme. They already owned the curse by the time they started the kingdom, so they very easily could have themed it after their own powers. I believe this happened with Sameria, Azura, and Keraxe.
And for two, if a kingdom having a random curse negatively affects the narrative whereas another one wouldn’t, as a writer I say it’s okay to throw the “it’s gotta be random” thing aside and make some tweaks. If Neviro having Darkness would make his fighting scenes feel too indistinct from Morden’s (which likely won’t even be the case anyway, I’m just irrationally afraid) then I’d turn a blind eye to Winterveil coincidentally acquiring a curse like Blizzard, Snow, or Frostmetal.
Yup, but I’m not here to talk about in-universe reasoning. I wanna discuss why the writers, Vetex and Tech, decided to make Darkness of all curses what Winterveil and Neviro get. Do you think there’s a narrative purpose for this, like Neviro developing an inferiority complex to Morden? Or are the writers trying to say something about Neviro and his personality through this? Is it a hint that Winterveil might be darker than it seems? What’s the out-of-universe reason for the decision?
Yeah. If I am I don’t really care though, overthinking is fun and I like seeing all the different ideas people have about why decisions like these are made.
idk about you but i find it mildly funny that neviro and calvus both share fragments of a powerful and opposing curse (darkness and aether) and one gets negdiffed by the other within their first 5 seconds of their encounter
There ain’t even one kingdom doing everything right bro.
Winterveil, according to the Gloam Note, has these cult-like chants about the glorious ruler, and they threw people attached to heavy things into a hole full of water.
his inheriting the power of darkness is less giving him a cool power, because that’s not Neviro’s function in the narrative
it ties him to his past it’s proof of his noble line which will be very important as the powerhouse three of the group would rather choke out an order member and deal with diplomacy later.
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