#kryta

@nyoka-gorefell

I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about Logan! Yeehaw!

I mained human so I kinda liked Logan. I've always been biased toward him. I didn't necessarily think he'd made the right decision, but I supported his right to make it. Like he said in the Dream-vision of him: you would have made the same choice, any of you, if the one you loved was in danger!

Basically, it was a bad spot all around. Lose-lose situation. He made the most of it. That was my view.

I'm planning a rewrite of Edge of Destiny (someday lol) to make it better + clearer what was going on with Logan + etc.

And I found something: the narrative in the book does not condemn or exalt either decision. Either decision would have been bad, no way around it.

One problem: that's not how books work.

The way the climactic decision-point works is that you make a personal sacrifice for the good, moral quality being extolled by the narrative. If the thing you sacrificed was, itself, considered good by the narrative, there would come a surprise twist that would mean the thing wasn't actually sacrificed, as a "reward" for making the selfless decision to uphold good and moral purity or whatever.

The problem with Logan's story is that neither option was presented as the 'moral, good' option. As Logan was leaving, Eir said "you have to do what is right," but beyond this, no indication is given to Logan which option is morally superior. You can? sorta? infer that of course the main conflict with the dragon is the preferred one. Rytlock and Eir's dialogue after Logan leaves also clarifies this.

But Logan himself was never presented with a clear moral dichotomy; he was merely given the trolley problem, which is bad however you slice it.

I bet Logan would have haters even if he'd stayed; Kryta would have fallen into disarray. The Ministry would have taken power. We'd have Caudecus in charge. Human/charr relations would heat up. We'd have the return of the White Mantle like snap, or else all-out anarchy. Humanity would be toast. Logan would get all the blame from the playerbase.

It starts to become a problem because They leave no room for new adventurers to pop off. Every time some green-leaf dude shows up, ready to start their legend, the Commander has already taken care of the issue and disappeared again into the deep depths of the Northern Shiverpeaks, or in the caves of Elona, or maybe they’ve pitched a tent somewhere in Cantha. 

Maybe all of the above. 

And arguably, the Commander is easily one of the most well-traveled characters. Not only have the explored virtually everything, their modes of transportation are endless. Sure there’s aircrafts and ships, and also the frequently touched upon but often ignored waypoints, but they also have like. A literal Elder-dragon and a mini dragon and griffon and weird overgrown beetle and some sand dog and basically a dozen other hopped up on steroid creatures that are completely willing to let anything from a 2-3 foot tall Asura to 9+ tall Norn or Charr atop of them.

And so they show up, on the back of one of the above weird and rare creatures, decked out in armor that probably required the sacrifices of a lot of small creatures and about 2 tons of cleaning supplies to get that shine, with a shiny sword or something that for some reason has no corporeal form but can slice through a mountain, kill the minor Big Boss dude, and then disappear once more.

So if you’re grieving, right, aside from wearing black (which isn’t really a requirement aside from wearing it to the funeral itself), one of the surefire ways to know someone’s in grief is hair. Krytans grow it out, regardless of whether the style suits you or now, and hair can go to surprising lengths with these. You cut most of it off as a sign that your mourning period is done. There are also mourning-specific hairstyles that people wear.

On the flipside, Ascalonians cut half of it off. That’s why Nyra cuts hers pre-season 3, leaving her with shoulder-length as opposed to her previous half-back one. She does this the morning before his funeral and places it where his body would’ve been. That’s also why she gets in some heat when she refuses to cut half of it off after Deborah goes missing; she doesn’t fully think Deborah is dead, but for the off chance that she is and that’s an idea she is too scared to accept (she’s 15 and her sister’s been declared dead without a body to confirm it) she cuts 1/4 of it. She also cuts 1/4 when Forgal dies, but that’s because, once again, she isn’t ready to let go yet.

She stops observing this custom after PoF. As we know, Balthazar burnt most of it off when he killed her, leaving her with extremely short hair that she can’t help but dislike to this day because of that, and for a while, any significant hair shortening brought her varying levels of distress depending on the point she’s gotten to in therapy, so she ditches it. Nice thing about being Krytan-Ascalonian is that she can always say she’s now doing it the Krytan way.

in dear regards of my friend, guildmate and companion @medical-unprofessional-rat-man​, a little oc introduction (funnily enough, not my main, but ... ehm ... let’s start!)

… also known as mery, duchess ashford or our dear bubblegum lesbian

race/class: human, necromancer

sexuality: lesbian

background: born to spy parents who worked for the crown and were killed by the white mantle, came under the care of the wealthy couple ashford of divinity's reach and lived a very happy childhood as a socialite of divinity's reach

likes: arts, music, science

dislikes: the color combination red and white for obvious reasons, persons disregarding her or Ari's intelligence

ria is her best friend

sees ari as mentor, even after leaving the pact, will personally kill and resurrect and kill again anyone who dares to insult him

has left the pact due to … differences with trahearne

says „I am your God now“ at some point

socialite with an edge

Check out Ari at @medical-unprofessional-rat-man​