#plasmified zango

Sincerest apologies for inadvertently misleading you. There’s no new official Team Cherry Sea of Sorrow updates that I am aware of (As of the taping of this episode in front of a live studio audience on Friday, February 13th, 2026).

Voyager Crest is just what I’m calling my latest pie in the sky theory of a possible DLC exclusive crest hiding under that blue tarp in the trailer.

The Witch & Hunter Crests are obviously exceptions to this rule, but all of Hornet’s other Crests are wrenched from the entombed dead in Pharloom.

This salt washed plinth and blue shroud echo the temple shrines of the Reaper, Wanderer, Beast, Architect, and Shaman.

So, I think it’s not unreasonable to guess there might be a Zango/Zylotol shaped corpse in an ocean cliff temple for Hornet to graverob in Sea of Sorrow. I’m almost certain multiple people have already made the same connections.

And while I was there I went to go check on Zylotol, hoping that maybe he had managed to gather some more insight and knowledge about how Lifeblood works, but unfortunately my more realistic expectations had proven to be much more grounded.

He has indeed gone the way of the Moss Prophet...

Surprisingly now he does have Needolin dialogue, even though when he was much more upright he did not?

Wonder why that is...

From the dialogue, I wonder if his motivations for investing so heavily into the research of Lifeblood, to the point of recklessly imbibing it himself, is because of a similar motivation as Victor Fries. Maybe he was hoping that if he cracked it that he could use it to help save the waning life of whoever this "dear one," was.

Also went back to Zango, more out of idle "Well, I'm here, let me try and see if I can kill him," than any expectation.

Huh. Uh. Okay well that's taken care of at least, take that everyone on online forums saying he's a dps check and that I should be using Wanderer's Crest. Two cogflies used up and two others significantly damaged, intense pressure with the Reaper's crest that did shove him significantly so that I had more space to avoid getting hit by his vollies, one use of the harpoon actually landing and sticking a hit onto him, and I think three uses of Sharpdart?

Awesome.

Feel bad for him though, both with how little Zylotol seemed to care for him and how Hornet just straight up blames him for seeding the Lifeblood around the caverns, enough so to say that he deserves this, despite him being Zylotol's assistant working under Zylotol's instructions.

When I initially found him back during Act 2, he just seemed incredibly tragic.

Actually going back to the screenshots I took of his Needolin dialogue I got reminded of this line

So actually Hornet chill please they weren't ambitious zealots trying to attain eternal life and power or anything, they were trying to survive and save their home as well as the bugs within.

Husk of an alchemist's assistant granted false life by Plasmium.

He carelessly seeded these caves with that cursed substance... His final fate seems fair reward for those efforts, yet I feel some sympathy. It is an alluring power.

Classification: Minor Denizen

While the void invades Pharloom, in the corner of the kingdom of the Wormways a wholly different threat is spreading. Plasmium, AKA Lifeblood is overcoming the tunnels and denizens of the wormways, including this unfortunately apprentice of the Alchemist Zyloxol. While I put most of the blame for this unfortunate bugs fate on his mentor, I still think he should have known better than to meddle so directly in forces he clearly didn't understand. At the very least, I wouldn't have had to clean up this extremely infuriating mess he left behind.