I wish I could be a fly on the wall in the Borderlands series writing room. Like you've got most of the team writing a bombastic tale of mercenary hijinx chock full of quips and references, and then over in a dark corner there's like 3 Lore Guysâ„¢ writing a space epic to rival the scope and scale of Dune about obsession and power and the inevitability of entropy and how civilizations attempt to convey messages beyond their graves, and the consequences for misinterpreting them, and it feels like neither team even knows that the other one exists. It's wild. Like whoever is writing all the stuff with Nyriad and the Eridians has never heard the name Moxxi before. I love it.
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So my gf has been working a little more on her Borderlands au and decided to bring Nyriad back from the dead, so I’ve drawn up a little pfp for her based on how she envisions Nyriad’s design and ofc I’ve given her a wife (as I always end up doing with characters I see as my wife’s), so here is her zombie wife who came back a little wrong (she was not a zombie the last time they saw each other).
Assuming Troy was still alive enough for Tyreen to absorb him and it got me thinking. If Maya's powers went to Ava before that then what if the same happened with Lilith's powers returning to her but Ty not being full dead? Instead a la Destroyer "dying" in BL1, it reforms inside the vault; Ty waking up locked inside w/ her ending then mirroring Nyriad's.
I decided I would collect all the Eridian Writings to listen to in order and found that they saved out of order. So I’ve compiled a list that I can look back on and listen to in the correct order. This post is more for my own benefit.
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To talk about the Leech I feel I must first talk about Nyriad and what I think about her and the way she was raised.Â
So Nyriad lived in an era where for better or worse the Sirens always came together and lived as a unit. However I believe the Sirens did not live as a unified force as some would naturally be more inclined to leadership than the others. I also believe that they lied to Nyriad about the nature of her powers because the other sirens knew what she was and feared her.Â
I believe that the Leech power and the Siren who wields it is meant to be a check for the other Sirens. If another Siren were to abuse their powers and step out of line it would be the job of the Leech Siren to take her sisters power and hold it until a suitable replacement could be found, this is the true nature of the Leech power, to take but also to give. Because of the high amount of responsibility the Leech Siren was often kept in the outskirts of Siren life either by self imposed exile pr the group simply keeping them at arms length.Â
In Nyriad’s case though I believe something else happened, She had to dispose of the seventh Siren at a young age before she was truly able to understand her task and so instead of doing her duty she locked them away, and after that her Siren sisters, all of whom where older than her and wiser in her opinion told her that she was a burden on Siren kind, a Leech, a monster who had no place in this world and she believed them. Hence why she was so willing to lock herself and her power away in a vault forever, while the rest of Siren kind has remained unchecked and forgotten about their sister who was always meant to temper them. Â
Now onto the TwinsÂ
The way I write the power split is that Tyreen has the majority of the powers, and all of Nyriad’s memories/ the ability to commune with her. Her powers where never tempered by learning from an adult siren as Leda was killed by Tyreen’s powers before she could teach her daughter. As such her powers are reactive; Negative emotions set off her leeching ability in a way she cannot control. When she is calm and collected she can use her powers at will and no one is in danger of being leeched, but fear, anger, distress, etc all turn her into a dangerous force that cannot be controlled until she calms down. Â
The Leech power needing to be fed on a regular bias also stunted her growth, she’s very short and makes up for with heeled boots. The trade off being she doesn’t need to eat real food as often so long as she feeds on something.Â
She can take other sirens powers but she cannot give them back, she was not the one to get that side of the leech power, Troy was.
Troy, has no off switch for his side of the power, he leeches every siren he comes in contact with, but only if he makes contact with their markings, hence why he always touches Tyreen’s Siren arm to feed and why he dusted Maya. However in return for not being able to turn it off he also has the missing part of Tyreen’s power, the Give to the take, he can put his leeched energy into other things.Â
Troy however also has to deal with the fact that because he has part of Tyreen’s power, his body is trying to destroy itself. The Siren energy in him wants to be a part of its proper host, hence why he heals very slowly and is basically being eaten from the inside out. Of course it is part of his though, and giving it up would surely kill him just the same as living with it does.Â
Maya didn't go back to Athenas because it "felt important" or to "know more about" whatever the fuck, she went back because the part of Nyriad in that siren book had started calling out to her and drawing her to the book, which was the only reason she even found the damn thing hidden in some musty corner of the abbey library.
