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Themes of Order vs. Chaos are obviously very common, but ER has a pretty specific concept of what Chaos is (and does). The regressing of things to a primordial state of oneness. From a cosmic view, it is an attempt to restore an original perfection that preceeded disparity.
I've been trying to put into words what what I find compelling about DS vs. ER as a setting.
DS spells out its world premise in the introduction. You begin the game with full knowledge of what the cosmic stakes are. Lore hunting in DS is largely about figuring out how the things you observe in game fit into a known universe framework.
ER's introduction tells you about the political situation of the land you are stepping into, but is light on cosmology. Which is not surprising, given the main quest of ER, endings and all are very much about the societal stakes, the universe simply rolls on regardless (mostly). Lore hunting in ER is more about reconstructing the universe and it's history using the pieces you are handed.
TLDR; DS -> You are given the outline to fill with details. ER -> You are given details to build an outline.
Its very striking that "emanation cosmology, where humans souls reincarnate" describes certain Buddhist traditions but also some esoteric Jewish ones. Also describes ER.
And sure, we don't know if there is a goal to reincarnation in ER, or even the mechanics of it (other than it exists). ER drinks from world religion broadly, rather than specifically. Every belief from Tutelaries to Spirit calling has a wide distribution in the real world.
Some choice quotes. "Hell is actually a metaphor for being reincarnated as an animal" is one of the more out there concepts.
interesting 2 me how glintstone magic is very,, martial. and some engineering. but war and engineering are notably aspects of civilization, especially in comparison to early astrology (which was primarily divination)
and of course most examples being martial in nature also kind of makes sense, because its an action game with combat, but it does make me wonder the full uses of glintstone and its properties. is it more or less just a power source? a force? a conduit for manipulation?
in terms of dnd schools of magic, i can at least think of examples like:
conjuration- summoning spirit beasts, teleportation
evocation- energy blasts
illusion- illusory walls
abjuration- magic locks and barriers
enchantment- puppetry
notably i don't recall any sort of healing potential, at least in known examples (that's all in incants). and again, astrology was primarily divination; now im also wondering if transmutation is in line with sorcery, or kind of its own school? at least the silver tears and potentially albinaurics don't seem inherently tied to glintstone sorcery (and transmutation is kind of broad anyway, living jars ritual is also basically that too)
necromancy is obviously kind of its own thing. most other magic examples are generally evocation/conjuration, to my recollection
As you said, on some level sorcery has a gameplay function it needs to fill. In that sense its not any more innately martial than any other thing you can do ER.
If you trace the lineage of Glintstone Sorcery, the idea seems to be that it is an emulation of cosmic events in microcosm. The foundational sorceries are all derived from observing the heavens (ie. Astrology). Theres also the suggestion that part of academic Astrology involves recreating said cosmic phenomena in experimental settings. (see. Graven-School Talisman, Shard Spiral). Its an observational and experimental science.
Explicit Albinauric connection has been scrubbed from the final version, though it exists in cut-content (Thops dialogue). But you still very much have a connection via. Eternal Cities -> Sellia -> Lusat -> Academy.
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the veiled monarch..
crucible is soup. crucible turns soup into gold. this is the magnum opus. living jars turn soup into gold, and one (theoretically) even became god from that. (did marika become god because of the literal crucible of the jar process? or was her crucible more emotional, the grief of the shaman village?)
"the greater will fractured the One Great" but maybe its more like. the greater will (= gold) was more a result of that soup in the first place ?? an order that came out of the chaos, then fashioned more and more of that chaos into further order
and then order overtakes more than chaos, but then the vestiges of that chaos make us the frenzied flame. both have aspects of the sun... whatever that means
basically, its difficult to pinpoint whether the greater will is an originator, or a parasite, or maybe just one half of a primordial balance-seesaw (with chaos on the other half). and also it's magnum opus all the way down
Apparently, some of the original texts about Golems describe them as being mute? Something, something, 2nd gen Albinaurics.
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Odisha. Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone
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re; the wider Astrology tradition, I completely forgot this piece of Sellen dialogue.
...I heard that Master Lusat returned to his home. A place called Sellia, in the eastern Caelid Wilds.
The most genuinely fascinating type of lore theorist is the "mystical theorist". Those able to directly channel the same headspace as Miyazaki and make seemingly random statements that only become more correct as you chew on it. Just pure intuition.
In the pre-dlc times, Quelaag on YT said something about how FROM associates horns with being spirit containers, the "Candle Omens" (refering to screenshots of Inquistors) are spirit callers. She correctly predicted the core of Hornsent belief from nothing but DLC trailer footage, its genuinely incredible.
Those are definitely relevant, but besides the examples you mentioned, she noted that Sewer Omens could breathe a substance thats visually like the Wraiths (of Wraith Calling Bell). Which is to say the breath is composed of spirits (Omens being spirit attractors also known from other areas). The Dung Eater is also a spirit container/attractor.
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Raya Lucaria days Radagon in the blue/indigo of sorceries. “Thus did the hero aspire to be complete”.
Color study for yuming li’s course. :3
