Ask Thaumcraft Ridgedog

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Ridgedog paused, the static and energy that had charged the air starting to disperse. His face was squeezed tight, like an immense headache had taken over him. It wouldn't be hard to assume that such a thing had, in fact, happened.

Finally, when he was ready again, he looked back up at you, his eyes suddenly clear as the air now was.

"When I awoke,"

"I would have to use a substantial amount of power to take down the Queen of the End. She was powerful, capable of an array of powers that no living creature could comprehend.

Her domain was an endless black hole, trapped in the void of another dimension. Her minions stay there with her, only leaving the other world under her order, to recon the areas. She held no threat against the world I controlled but... she had plans. I...

I should have never tampered with her minions. Should have never tampered with Rythian. He deserved punishment, but nothing as severe as what I had set upon him. He toyed with the balance of power, his mystical flowers leaving everything upturned and the price of all that precious suddenly as worthy as a hunk of dirt. But...

I made a grave mistake.

(( thank you so much!!

I'm really sorry to everyone waiting for another update, this blog will conclude someday trust me!! I love this blog with all my heart and even tho i've fallen into a bit of a snare when it comes to motivation.

"Through activating his ender abilities, doing something so straining that needed a huge concentration of energy, Rythian alerted the Enderdragon!

"She burst through the earth by the Blackrock castle and went to seek her lost property, the enderman that I had stolen and trapped inside of Rythian, bringing destruction with her.

"The Curse of the End came with her, the mighty hole she had emerged from becoming a vacuum, sucking in all the earth in the surrounding area." 

"If I continued to stand idly by, the world would be sucked into The End, this world I worked so hard to protect gone! I had to take action,"

Ridgedog's voice was becoming heated, excited, and his hands clenched.

((Hey there! Im not all that well versed in Thuamcraft4 and this blog runs off Thamcraft3 but I did play around in a little so i might be able to help you out.

When you run out of research points, its a good idea to put bookshelves around your research table, much like how you would for an enchantment table, and it'll slowly put more research points into your research bench. Or so Ive been told, Again I havent played much of TC4.

Another method Ive heard is keeping water by your research table, like in a small pool, will generate water aspect in your bench. Not sure about that one.

A process I do know that works as a guarantee but I havent tested the recharge time on is turning your shards into one element crystal clusters, you can research that to get your base elements which you can then make into more complicated ones. Ive been told they recharge but I dont know at what rate.

"Trapped within Lalna's force field with no means of escape, Rythian was forced to bring up a side of him that he'd rather not think about, much less use.

"I watched from the sidelines, curious to see what the man would do in such a situation. There was a nuke under his home and with Zoeya gone, he had nothing but that home left for him. Added with the humiliation of being caught by his rival, the way he was stuck under Lalna's thumb, I was curious to see how he'd work his way out of this situation.

"There were several ways, but it was curious the path he chose, one that was foolish of me to allow.

"Control was slipping from my hands as the days went, I see now. These people made me feel complacent and lazy, far too entertaining to want to tightly control like i had with previous generations..."

He sighed.

"Rythian started to tap into the enderman inside of him, drawing upon the curse that i had tied to him. He drew the energy that they had and with seeming ease teleported out of the force field. Where the enderpearls had gotten caught on the force field, Rythian, by focusing this energy, was able to leave the confines without issue.

"After Rythian and Zoeya's bonding time, they had a little tiff with Sjin. I didnt intervene because I didnt see much of an issue with the little trickster taking their pet. After all, in the end, the dinosaur was saved.

"The true issue arose when Rythian and Lalna started to butt heads. The word of his revenge was spreading, and Lalna reacted."

"As you know, he placed a nuke under Blackrock. Rythian reacted much like how I predicted, with hostility. He went to to confront Lalna, where he was trapped within his force field."

"My coat has extreme value to me. Whilst the Sipsco were fumbling around with their dirt factory, Rythian and Zoeya dealing with their reptile issues, I was busy chatting with the strange spaceman that I had introduced Lalna to.

"He was an interesting man and I soon found myself connecting with him, soon becoming... well, best friends with him. I would assist him with his silly little cookie factory, giving little hints and helpful tips on how to help the factory run smoother.

"We decided, on a whim, to get 'matching' jackets of sorts. Opposing colors and altered styles but still connecting in its own ways. A little hint towards the others of our hidden friendship."

You ask, staring at the ruffle of white cloth that covered Ridgedog's neck.

He nods and undoes the red ribbon that keeps the ruffles up against his neck, revealing the scar that lined across his skin.

"Its funny that you mention her. I never intended to put her back into this new world, she never really interested me, but after seeing how totally obsessed Rythian had become.... well, i couldn't just idly sit by.

"I had changed him so deeply that it would be incredibly detrimental to Rythian to just pull the Enderman out of him and act like i never did it to begin with. He would be torn apart, left into pieces that I honestly didn't want to take the time to  deal with.

"I was very fond of Rythian in a small way, perhaps more fond of his struggle then anything else. But I had bestowed magical knowledge to him and I did want to allow the races in this world to learn about it too and feel the closeness of the earth that I had!

"So the fix seemed simple. Much like Sjin and Lalna, Rythian simply needed a distraction. Another force of life to balance him back out. He would still deal with his punishment, but he would be accompanied by someone kind and just, someone who would be able to see past his torment and love him.

"And Zoeya fit that almost to a T. I didnt have to tamper with her at all. I simply adding a bit of the wisp spirit inside of her to give them more of a bond with the monster bound Rythian, something she would often mistake as a blaze ability, and I let them meet.

"I created a new area for them to live in, their punishment for the old world varying in degree.

"Admittedly, I went the easiest on Lalna, a personal favorite of mine. I left him with his new friends, Xephos and Honeydew, a duo that would hold his attention the majority of his time. He deserved something more severe, as I think retroactively, but I enjoyed most of his creations and his attitude towards learning and creating delighted me enough to let him off easy.

"Sjin, I left under the supervision of Sips, a hard man with a dream to start an empire. Like I thought, the attention from the man settled Sjin down. And while I had initially assumed the harsh nature that Sips had would be a punishment in its own right, like humans are, Sjin made the best of a bad situation. He warmed up to the man instantly, and they formed a bond that I had never really encountered before. Something between colleagues and friends and lovers all mixed up into a strange combination that is their relationship.

"And then, there was Rythian."

"I was the harshest on him. Despite being one of the ones I had shared my knowledge with, I wasn't very interested in the man personally. He was quiet and reserved to himself and his studies. I didn't know much about him and I doubt the others knew much more than I did.

"I had ripped one of the monsters out of a dimension I had recently discovered, lovingly dubbed The End, and I had infused it within Rythian.

"He was always a loner and with a creature trapped within him, constantly trying to break free, it seemed that it would be a good punishment.

"I gathered the souls of the people lost in that explosion and I kept them under my belt. I would rework the world, rework these people so that such a mistake would never happen again.

"The air was filled with flux, making my hair stand on end as i scoped around the crater that once was this beautiful, advanced town.

"In my search I discovered many things I had not noticed before in the town. A small dinosaur trapped in the rubble. The body of a mushroom enthusiast. I found intricate railroads and a pair of brothers who ran them.

"And then I found that Rythian, too, had a basement that he used to develop his trade in, very much like Lalna."

Ridge let a faint smile appear and you think to yourself that he looks much younger when he doesn't have such a grim expression on all the time.

"Rythian and Lalna have always been very much alike.

"But Rythian always seemed to have an interest in weapons. His various rings, fire and flying and arrows, I found more weapons under his base that day. There were stacks of magically charged TNT, a ring that worked like an instant quarry, and a lens that took out huge chunks of land at a time.

"I was enraged. I had initially thought that Sjin was the only threat in this world, and there it was. Magic being used to create destruction, the opposite of what I wanted.