#open questions

Occurs in the following canon words:

pirimmur ‘to use’

pirimmuy ‘useful’

pirimpir ‘urine’ < pirim + pir, literally “used water”

This has bugged me for a good while, because by surface analysis, it looks like it comes from the root *pir meaning ‘water.’ What does water and usefulness have to do with each other? Perhaps the semantics went something like:

water (something, e.g. crops) > benefit > profit > use

But idk, it still doesn’t feel quite intuitive to me.

Another option that occurred to me is:

par-im (from par ‘for’) > pirim

While the semantics would make sense to me, that seems dissatisfactory because usually it is to be the suffix where the vowel assimilation occurs, not the root. Why isn’t it e.g. *parom then?

why and when was the abyssal snake shorn of light?

when was the god of rot sealed? is the blind swordsman an exceptionally long-lived person (and if yes, how?) or were they simply operating in a timeframe where destined death had already been removed?

farum azula was hit by a meteor. was that connected to someone's fate in the stars, like another meteor opens the way to nokron for ranni? why is caelid so connected to meteors anyway*? was that impact related to its crumbling, to a decline of plac's god, to bayle's attack?

if farum is so old and bayle's attack can be dated as parallel to rauh if a giant killed that giant drake at the bottom of the jagged peaks, and marika is post-ancient dynasty as a member of hornsent society, was there a big gap in time where nobody had the elden ring? did plac's god escape to space, similar to ranni hiding there in the age of stars? is that why enir-ilim has to reach the sky for marika to get the elden ring? is that why time has to stop at the top of enir-ilim, like in farum azula?

what did the nox do to earn their punishment anyway? text says by the greater will but it could be metyr also

It's not a competitive thing, I usually don't care that much if I win. It's just that talking smack is as much a part of the game as the actual rules are. Seriously, I've been trained in the competitve sport of Board Game Battlefield Banter since I've been old enough to talk.

Maybe it's just because I'm a pretty agreeable person who hates conflict, but the first time I played cards with my friends at college, they were all really shocked by how mean I get the second the games come out. It wasn't enough to hurt anyone's feelings, but they'd never really heard me sass and rib people like that before.

The more I think about it the more curious I get. Because I thought the smack talk was universal.

To me, board/card games without the sass is like video games without the sound. You CAN still play it, and there are circumstances where you HAVE to, but most everyone agrees it's better with the sound and you're not getting the full experience without it.

beware; arcane spoilers and lots of speculation. again.

in a previous post, i dissected the three most common clues that jinx might still be alive at the end of arcane s02.

today i would like to add three more aspects that intertwine.

first. in the opening scene of the memorial service - the mourners write names on papers, burn them and let them fly - we see for a brief moment from behind a blue-haired girl who looks somewhat similar to powder from ep. 7. but … it's not powder. the ribbons in the hair are different. and arcane fooled us once before when jinx mistook the pink-haired girl for vi during her fight with the firelights and then killed her. a blue-haired girl at the memorial: that‘s a simple distraction.

second. jinx has changed. she has become caring: for isha, for the jinxers, for vi, for vander in warwick-form and - for ekko. if she’s alive, she leaves piltover on her terms. this changed jinx would leave without telling vi she was alive - because vi would never let go of her. but she wouldn't let ekko grieve for no reason. an ekko who knows she's alive but chooses to stay in zaun for zaun's sake wouldn't need to burn this paper because there would be no one to grieve for (and it's not just for appearances, because no one in zaun can see him, he's alone in that moment which means: he’s really grieving a death).

third. jinx embraces warwick. during the fall, she actively turns towards him. she hugs him. this is not the gesture of someone who then detonates a monkey bomb and runs away. this jinx doesn't want vander/ warwick to die alone. this jinx would stay. her own life is not so important to her that she would want to escape by any means necessary. wait, there's a big “but” in this case: i really don't think that explosion would have killed the enhanced warwick beast. if jinx had known he could survive the explosion, she might have left. or she might have stayed around to make sure the explosion actually killed them both.

in summary, i have to say: i hate these open-ended questions because i think “who is dead and whose death is faked?” is not a story-driven decision, it's just studio-interest-driven. this decision leaves all options on the table in case the studio needs some familiar characters to support another series with cameos.