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Hmm. Well I could make it clearer, but she's saying that she left her hometown when she met her husband and she hasn't really been back since. this is not a continuity error, but just some confusing talking. The reader is meant to understand that Otaliya lived a normal life, then she met the man who would become her husband, and then she never really went back home.

Arcs

Otaliya Mentioned running into her former husband but she introduced herself as a widow in the former meeting. That seems either a continuity error or implies something about the wrought we don't know right now.

Tom Pulk

It's also entirely possible that the old cosmology and the new cosmology have a hard gap that even paradox wizards can't cross, even if they can access an infinity of universes. There are an infinite number of numbers between 1 and 2 but none of those infinite amount of numbers is 3

Per Rozeta, melemizargo is a Creation wizard, and thus unable (or against his nature) to paradox shift. Connecting parallel universes seems like a huge, impossible mess that nobody would be happy with

Robbs

Love this <3

Arcs

So when I read this scene, it struck me as rather profound. I honestly don't think Arcs gets enough credit in the subtly of their writing sometimes. As a former soldier I am very much aware of war response and trauma. I do not have ptsd but I can recognize its flavors. Now, as to why this hit me so hard. We know that the wrought do forgotten campaigns and coppers are most likely the line troops of such. We also know that under significant emotional trauma wrought destabilize and can become someone else. What if all of these neighborhoods are those wrought becoming who they were forced to kill. Living out the last day of that person's life as themselves because that's how the trauma struck them. Some way to assuage the guilt of forever removing the truth of that person forever. If you think about things from an imortal viewpoint, where everyone subconsciously kind of expects things to go on forever. It might be a significant trauma to realize or be responsible for the end of things like that. Maybe not for one, or a few or a dozen but everyone has a breaking point. It's interesting to read and see how all the wrought seem to have little hitches in their behavior when Eric talks about anything that implies an abrupt end or change. I think the majority of wrought, not the ones who are different and can regularly interact with mortals, have similar responses to someone on the spectrum to change..... or I've just gone way to deep down the rabbit hole of my imagination and Arcs is gonna be all dude wtf.

Wyatt

Someone has to do it. Or veird would be no more

Martin Brandel

So based on the paradox wiz's ability to muck with time, we can assume that the old cosmology was not multidimensional in the many worlds interpretation as they could create paradoxes while the many worlds would just create a new branch in the multiverse. Which would explain why paradox wizards often die in time manipulation as they just disappear into an alternate reality. So if the old cosmology was infinite but only a since universe does that mean that that infinity was just expressed as infinite alternate worlds in the new cosmology, and could someone bridge them thus removing the worry of single world extinct through the link, and would this infinity of possibility make the dark dragon happy?

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

Har har...lol. Seriously though, do they try to help them or do they want them as they are so they can send out their mad dogs? If the latter, then their society is profoundly screwed up.

Overclocked

This is a wonderful comment, because... What did you *think* a Forgotten Campaign was?

Arcs

The part though where Erik learned that there are a bunch of Wrought towns full of shell shocked former troops who get murderous tendencies at the slightest change to their schedule. And that these people are also the soldiers they send out for a forgotten campaign? Yea no way they don't get spooked and murder every man, woman, and child wherever they go...

Overclocked

Thanks for the chapter. I really like how these Wrought are portrayed. They want to do right by the world, but they can't understand the difference between "right" and "safe."

Overclocked

He'll likely make more progress when he's not surrounded and waiting for judgement from people who are overtly discussing with him the idea of assassinating him. That's to say, it's not all the intelligence-stat talking.

Cam Hanach

thanks for the chapter 'you got money' you -> you've 'yet escalating ways' -> 'yet escalating, ways'

Corwin Amber

The wrought are such a nightmare, and I am here for it. Maybe they're not as bad as the elves were, but they are still so bad. I love that one way to describe this story is a queer anarcho-communist superman grappling with a world that has fascist metaphysics. It can be frustrating to see Erick time and time again dealing with these self-righteous, oppressive power structures. But it also rings true and it really satisfying. I like that Tasar is a terrible liar. Her awkwardness about her mom on the teleport platform was really funny. I hope Erick is able to push through his intelligence generated paranoia at some point. He can see all the motives and possibilities of people, but he can't properly weight them to understand what they actually mean with confidence. It's well done, but it is also kind of exhausting.

Ano Ano

Wonder why Tasar would be mad about her leaving the room tho, or who would have violently broken the door/table, if it wasn't Tasar.

Gardor

Seems like it! Who would have thought Otaliya was a shut-in.

Earfallas Blanc

Any sort of widespread food duplication would inevitably cause Atunir to go dark.

Dax

I think that was explained as the reason behind the fall of nelbor(?) maybe. People gave up farming and then wars were fought over those who could actually conjure decent food.

Ellija

If duplicate is the issue for trying to create a post scarcity world, maybe they'd have better luck with heavily pared down versions like 'duplicate food' or 'conjure permanent food'?

Yeah I wonder what that was about

Martin Brandel

I now see Erick as Tobey Maguire and I love it.

Pheonixarcher

I get the feeling Otaliya managing to get out of the room is a Big Deal. More wrought Truth stuff?

Cristi Palincas

Is good stuff, yeah.

Torbjørn Nilsen

Nice

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