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The one primarily at fault is Primus Tachonis (and the dice). He is the one who put Wick in that position to begin with, and it was an impossible choice. Yes, Wick could have been extra noble and sacrificed himself to save that random NPC, but would that have served the overall story? Would that have been a satisfying end to his character arc? As a player, I completely understand why Sam would not want to lose his character that way, especially since he was so backed into a corner after a series of unfortunate rolls. Story-wise, it would have majorly messed things up for the rest of the party, and we had literally just had three major deaths. The choice makes sense.

Let's also not pretend Primus wouldn't have killed the NPC anyway if Wick had declined to. There was no saving that NPC, but Wick had a chance to save himself.

It also makes for more interesting character development, in my opinion. Wick now has to live with what he did, and we have already seen that it's broken him in a way. He spent the whole time afterward crying about it, and he was visibly distraught and out of sorts. I think that's far more interesting to delve into than just "he got murdered trying to protect a random character we know nothing about."

Wick and the party are trying to play the long game, and in order to do that, some or all of them are going to have to do things they don't want to do. Being in the position he is, Wick is unfortunately more susceptible to being pushed toward those things.

“Damage to the nerves that control motor function can cause weakness, twitching and paralysis in the hand, wrist and arm. Sensory nerve damage symptoms include pain, numbness, tingling, increased sensitivity, burning and problems positioning the hand correctly.” —Golden State Orthopedics & Spine

I pinched by median nerve in college and lost the feeling in my fingertips for months. Luckily physical therapy got me back in the saddle—but I like to think about Caleb having to relearn how to cast with hands that don’t feel like they belong to him. Or maybe Caleb retains some sensation in his hands but suffers bouts of chronic burning pain that worsens with pressure and temperature changes. How does Caleb hold his pen now, to accommodate his loose grip; the pain; the shaking?

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Celestial Oak I painted this over a month ago and totally forgot to post it lol

I love the idea of each acorn containing it's very own universe 🌌 I've also been designing some acorn lanterns, photos coming soon!

Basically:

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Amazon is now allowing these lists to be fulfilled by third-party sellers.

Amazon will provide your name and address to said third party sellers

Third party sellers may or may not post tracking updates (aka: your address) to the person who ORDERED the item from your wishlist

Third party delivery companies may also post their delivery photos - of your front door and house number - and send them to the person who ordered the gift.

Bearing in mind that this much is true ONLY in LitMoR, not canon: No, because the Luxon feels lonely because it desires life and connection and understanding and all things one associates with creation; Predathos feels lonely because it's (A. a disparate piece of a whole being that is equating hunger and loneliness as the same thing because it can only feel very few emotions (B. Part of an entity that is a master manipulator and people feel bad when they hear something is lonely and sad and will help it. Both of these things are very true. It IS hungry and it DOES want to be returned to its Whole, but also it thinks you'll let it out if it cries about being lonely enough.

I think what you’re doing with Tharizdun and the Luxon is lazy writing and frankly inaccurate to the daoist canon! Yin and yang are not good vs evil and it’s definitely not light vs dark. It’s light and dark, man and woman, passive and aggressive working together in harmony never in conflict with each other. Which doesn’t describe the relationship between them because they seem more like enemies than partners with Tharizdun’s motive to make the multiverse a void. Hard to do that when someone else keeps creating stuff to replace what you have destroyed, right?

Also I don’t agree with that connection and understanding can be associated with creation or that destruction cannot be attributed to something good even if it’s not mentioned in the post.

For example, do you think the Berlin Wall was created to connect the west and east and build understanding between the two sides? Do you think that it was an act of evil to tear down that wall and joining the two sides once again?

I’m not trying to berate you, I’m just so tired of people saying that the two opposite forces that they are writing are each other’s yin and yang and then have being god and the devil from the Abrahamic Christianity when they are not even close at all! If they are just going to be god and the devil then why bother with telling the audience that they’re yin and yang in the first place! Just have them be the forces of good and evil from start and don’t spread misinformation about an entire religion!

What you’re possibly planning to do with Tharizdun and the Luxon is exactly the same mistake that Nickelodeon did in legend of Korra with Raava and Vaatu. The thing with the dao is if you try to take one side away from it then the balance will be messed up and everyone will be miserable because of it. That didn’t happen because the show made it so it was a bad thing for Vaatu to gain any ground while there was no consequences for Raava to do the same. Hello Future Me actually expands on this in his videos and what changes he would made to make the second season fit more with the lore of atla and eastern philosophy that its magic system was based on.

It was actually from those same videos that I learned about orange and blue morality. I think that system would fit the Eldritch entities better than the black and white one that the primes and betrayers go by. They’re not the gods so why should they act and think like them? Admittedly it’s the hardest one to write because you have to think like something that’s not human.

You’re likely not interested in my version of the relationship but I imagined Tharizdun as a vulture. Yep, my version is a decomposer meaning something that eats dead things. Except instead of eating dead antelopes, it eats dead worlds or places that have stagnated so much that might as well be dead which would explain why it went after Tengar when nothing there had died(I’m basing this on the canon, just so you know). Just for it to be consequences for the oblivion being locked up and not doing its job properly of eating dead worlds to prevent their rot and corruption from spreading to other worlds or planes even. Just like the vultures.

-Rabbits not giving a shit about your "laws of science":

"oh, that makes sense."