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If you want to read this book on your own and don't want spoilers skip this.

Glorian we already know is a descendent of Kalyba so that's why she felt the eruption cuz of her mageblood

Which makes me wonder if her mother also felt the eruption

Wulf ALSO has mageblood bc he fainted on the day of the dreadmount eruption

Wulf is in fact Tunuva's supposedly "dead" son that Kalyba/Canthe/Whatever the fuck her name is kidnapped for some reason (no body no death)

Dumai, Kanifa, and Nikeya have just taken off for Sepul and I 100% guarantee Dumai and Nikeya are about to have an enemies to lovers arc a hundred percent

I still can't decide if Glorian is going to get a love interest but if she is then I don't think they've been introduced yet

Honestly I hope she doesn't my aroace queen

Thrit and Wulf are gay as fuck

Glorian and Dumai have some sort of dream link (faceless figures in their dreams, "i'm on an island" "i'm also on an island" aka Seiiki and Inys)

Canthe is absolutely sending Tunuva those dreams about Esbar killing her

Samantha Shannon did say that Neporo ‘might’ have outlived Kalyba, but Tonra was dead when Dumai came to her.

Or was she? In her own writing, Tonra states that falling from a height and being dashed to pieces might not be enough to kill her. On the mountain, she might simply have slipped into a coma, and seemed dead when her body was found. Dumai, Nikeya, and Kanifa were all suffering altitude sickness when they found Tonra’s body - they weren’t thinking straight, and might have not checked for her pulse and breathing very well.

Also, Canthe/Kalyba had no pulse when it was checked. It might be that it was an illusion, but it might also be that the first to eat the fruit of the siden trees get their whole body paused - not just an end to aging, but no pulse either.

If Tonra is Neporo, then her hair still grew, but it might just mean that bodily processes slow to the point of being nearly undetectable. If Neporo, Cleolind, and Kalyba’s hearts only beat once a minute, it would be easy to miss.

‘It was still a promise.’

SPOILERS AHEAD:

oh for pete’s sake

@soft-raphael if you have a list we can post it here. i’m not up to date with saphael fics so i’ve mostly been in the malec side of this scandal so i may need assistance from people in order to go to war for our saphael brethren

anybody wants to help that’ll be fine, just remember 

don’t resort to name calling/threats of violence or things of that ilk 

if we did it’d be like the pot calling the kettle black to quote an old saying, we’d be in the same boat as them and as such wouldn’t have a leg to stand on morally or otherwise. 

lmao don’t ask questions you already know the answer to >.<

I feel you darling :(

The thing is, this game wasn’t made with the fandom in mind. We are sadly just a small percentage of overall game sales and consumers.

I highly doubt Bethesda looks around at the main fanbase, and gauges what the long-time fans want. Although if they did, it would be pretty clear that Joseph is a fan favorite. I’ve noticed that most of the fandom is unhappy with this game, regardless of Joseph’s inclusion. It has many issues, and Joseph not being in it just one of them.

Like any other game in the industry, it seems to be a money-making move with how much the game overall changed . They want to make the game with consumers in mind so that it will be a successful sell. As many gameplay mechanics as possible, a shit-talking macho hero, themes of familial love and devotion, open-world, plenty of action sequences. They want games to SELL, whether or not it includes a new fanbase or not. Indie games seem far more likely to look into their fan bases, since they are smaller, and gauge responses. Bethesda is a huge company. And as a whole, as important as Joseph was to Seb in the first game, the vast majority of players probably don’t even care that he wasn’t included. 

As you can see, TEW2 took elements from nearly every other successful and popular game that’s come out over the last few years. The Last of Us, The Division, Silent Hill, RE7, Layers of Fear, Uncharted 4… just to name a few. They seemed to me, to really diverge from the original source, to the point of it doesn’t even feel like a sequel to the game. But it’s selling copies.

Whether or not the game is bad you'll always be mama to me! You're such a great friend and I know this game has hurt you a lot but we'll still be here for you regardless~

AWWW thank you sweet babe! I’m so happy I have you and Alec like, you’re seriously the best ♥ I’m glad we’re all able to unite and get through this.... and so happy you both understand ;-;

            @birds-mid-atlantic

Very well done review of the game.  I don't own it yet but after reading your review it's helped me figure out whether I want to purchase or not.  For now I'm holding off.  And this was very well written and a great explanation without spoiling too much.  Thank you for sharing :)

            Thanks so much! It felt really good to finally get that all out after thinking about it for a week. The fact that it could help fellow fans is a plus, really ;-;

            @kanifa

I can't say I wanted to buy the game after seeing some first few videos from Let's Players. This open world thing just doesn't work for me. I hate having to go through all of these things cuz I'm always scared I miss these little things and stuff like that. Also when you're finally willing to go further along in the original story - which in tew 2 was nothing more than bullshit - something "important" always gets in your way.

            To shorten it: The game should have been about Sebastian saving Joseph from another STEM, not about his stupid daughter we knew nothing about in the first place. I don't even like her, she's annoying. And Myra, ugh, she would have been much better as a truly evil character. The end should have been Seb, Joseph and maybe Kidman going off to live a new life in some town far away. Detective Trio is best Trio. (And some Joseb, let's be real.)

         Yeah, this was the sequel I didn't want at all, and yet... I still found myself hoping for the best. Lesson learned, I suppose. The open world does feel like that. And in a horror genre,  you don't want that feeling because it really takes you out of the moment. And AGREED! I never cared for Myra except for as an important part of Seb's backstory. It was more fun to imagine how she’d be and leave some mystery. Lily wasn't even a well-written child... and yeah, this is a sequel to the DLCs mainly. Which a lot of people haven’t even played! Not the main game, so the two seem so disparate it's almost hilarious. The DLCs seemed to hint that Myra was villainous but I guess it was just HEY LOOK! SURPRISE! SHE'S ALIVE! But either way, agreed... KCPD trio was the driving force of the first game. They should have kept it that way.

@invisibleeldritchdragon

I think I read somewhere that Joseph is now a test subject for Mobius and his mind is now broken from all the strain... I hope it won't turn out to be completely true... Well, I think we have to hope EW2 will sell well, so that we can get a sequel or big DLC with Joseph.