#tash rambles

Brain: New fixation?

Me: Wha-No, nonono, old fixation, Gears of War, big beefy guys? Yes?

Brain: Mmm, big beefy guys, yesyes

Me: Yeah, there we go, so if I could just bring your attention over here...

Brain: Warhammer 40k.

Me: Nooo, Gears of War? Big, sweet, traumatised guys? That fic we were writing?

Brain: Warhammer 40k. Adeptus Astartes. Salamander Chapter. Bigger guys, more sweet, more trauma, yes?

Me:No! NO! NONONONONO Why is the Wiki open? Who the hell did that?!?? No, no, stop reading, STOP READING! AHHHHGGGHH!!!!! FUCK!!!

Brain: *happy noises*

Me:

Did Sindar meet the Noldor fresh off the boat and quickly realise they knew nothing about battlefield medicine, surgery, or autopsies? After all the Sindar have been living in Arda under the stars alongside all the beasts of Morgoth you betcha they’ve seen battle wounds.

That just makes me so frustrated because I find it a very bleak and  anticlimactic ending to be honest. It’s just that, I get that  foreshadowing is hard in ttrpg especially since it depends so much on  dice rolls and player interactions, but there must have been a way of  hinting this in the endgame. Before it you could maybe count Mr Ceiling I guess,  since that left the world with a lot of broken and not working  technology, but it still had a lot more episode time and interactions, plus  Hamid trying to learn the impact of what shutting it down would have  globally..

But then again I just can’t see the reasoning for the story’s conclusion to boil down to: no magic is the best answer to all the questions that were being asked throughout the campaign. It’s just... there were a lot questions and questioning about who should hold the power, all of the struggles between the various fractions - the Meritocrats, the Harlequins, the cult of Hades and of course the Blue veins entity.. but all of them had more or less equal access to the magic as it was an integral part of their lives, their society. Since it was an entire world built on magic it makes zero sense to me that the resolution to all of this power struggles boiled down to no magic for everyone. The world was already so rich in the different cultures and their relationships to major magical abilities e.g. the Ursans, the elvish tribes of Americas... I just feel that pursuing the peoples’ aspect and combining all their wisdoms to life and living would be stronger end point and erasing the line would be the one of division of people not cutting the world from it’s lifeline. (I have a whole other ton of issues with that considering my beloved giant bear, the gods and the afterlives...)