Rosa's adventures in Gielinor

there’s zero reason why the ilujanka shouldn’t have been able to breed on gielinor.

the reason why the ilujanka are/were slowly becoming infertile is because iaia’s anima was too sterile to sustain creating life - presumably sentient life, because we know that sentient life produces and consumes more anima than non-sentient life. iaia’s plantlife etc. seemed to be getting along just fine.

and yet when they moved to gielinor, nothing.

it’s not because they’re from a different world - gielinor literally has no native sentient lifeforms aside from the tokhaar, and they don’t even count because they came directly from the elder kiln, not gielinor’s animascape. every other species that moved to gielinor was able to breed just fine, even mahjarrat who do have good reasons to have trouble reproducing on a different world.

@adamantinetower​

happens to the best of us, king 😔

@tinswag same, my dude. same

@landscapingfan you're very welcome and don't worry, i opened this can myself gjdjdsh and knowing me i'll continue to ramble about this

@heartofnova I KNOW? I KNOW. this ONE FUCKING DECISION goofed up so much shit purely because no-one bothered to reread mahmems and the side effect of it turning wahi from a sceptic refusing to revere a god who held no love for them into... someone denying the events of something he was physically present for

all because nobody stopped to check their own god damn lore

so CoM had a lot of goofiness in it, largely people acting very out of character and also the fact that the player character didn’t really need to be involved at all but much of the OOC-ness can be put down to a combination of the writers having to try and distribute dialogue evenly amongst every character, thus no single character really got to have a properly big, fleshed out speaking role (aside from azzy, zaros, and arguably kharshai),

and also the fact that two of those aforementioned major characters were probably not in the best place mentally for the duration. zaros having to recall the betrayal and azzy having to not only relive that through their bond, but also literally relive it through divination memory shit wouldn’t have been the greatest time for them, ya dig!

but anyway i’m blathering. i could talk a lot about CoM.

the big “mistake” in CoM was, like i sort of mentioned, something that you could actually work with. you could either ignore it outright or find other things in-canon to explain it with to make it Less Stupid.

the mistake was two-fold: the reveal that zamorak had been there personally when seren came to the mahjarrat posing as mah and taught them the rituals. right from the off, this reveal COMPLETELY fucks the timeline of mahjarrat history. it makes zamorak - and by extension, almost every other mahjarrat, because zamorak is one of the oldest - either WAY older or WAY younger (we’ll get to that) than you would otherwise suspect. this also naturally necessitates that azzy was there for this moment as well, since he’s The oldest.

first of all, the idea that any currently living mahjarrat was alive for this thing that supposedly happened so far in their culture’s past that none of them even believe mah is real anymore is just capital-f Fucking Stupid. this cultural turning point that shaped their entire history and put them down the path of becoming the bloodthirsty, violent, warlike species that they are today? the thing that happened so far into their species history that it’s literally part of their own creation myth by the present day?

nah lmao not only did that happen within living memory, it didn’t even happen within living memory of the oldest member of their species, because:

BILRACH WAS THERE TOO.

this is the second part of this mistake, and instead of being the result of just not thinking the implications of things through like the first bit, this part is directly because of NOT KNOWING THEIR OWN FUCKING LORE.

everything wrong with “zamorak was there when seren taught them the rituals” so far can either be ignored or teeth-grittingly headcanoned into making sense. but the mere addition of bilrach popping in to say “hey i remember that shit too! i was there!” fucks it ALL THE WAY INTO THE STRATOSPHERE

why?

because bilrach is one of the youngest mahjarrat! in mahjarrat memories, bilrach is described as being young by the time of the move to gielinor. combine this with khazard probably being the only mahjarrat born on gielinor, and that makes bilrach like, the second or third-youngest mahjarrat!

so if he was there too then this shit happened like barely ten thousand years ago! so not only is zamorak way younger than you’d think, but so is azzy, the guy who’s so brain-breakingly old that even the other mahjarrat find his age incredible!

WHAT THE FUCK!

there is seriously so much that this one singular decision fucks up that i could keep at this for several paragraphs more but i’ll spare you because god damn. unfortunately they hardcore doubled down on this in future updates in way that made it CATASTROPHICALLY MORE STUPID because this one flub makes anything else based on it go to shit

i drew this ages back and it never got finished so i decided to just post it as it is for now, enjoy

this actually started out as anatomy practice but then the same thing that always happens when i do musculature practice occurred - i accidentally over-exaggerated - and dear old azzy ended up twice as beefy as intended. what a shame

i can’t decide if that line of trindine’s is meant to be taken literally or if it’s supposed to be her being RIDICULOUSLY irreverent and making a “reverend father/dad” joke

there’s also so many more parallels you could draw by looking at the real-world history of the roman empire. the most relevant one is that for a long period of time, “pontifex maximus” and “emperor” were the same position. the emperor was automatically head of the church.

aside from the many other things that were wrong or disappointing with the quest, what the hell was up with the “reveal” about the voices? like, we’ve got two options now. either we believe that seren is telling the truth and that they’re just a “face” of the blessing, and therefore the ENTIRE plot thread of soulbond is completely nixed and dead and never existed at all, thus throwing a six year long plot thread in the trash despite all hints and developments to the contrary,

OR

we don’t believe seren because we have literally zero reason to trust a word she says now about anything, let alone the mechanics of the blessing which she has no reason to know ANYTHING about, and we’re back at net zero information about the voices again and have to wait another six years for the next minuscule bit of content.