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2023-04-09 05:00:59
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Couldn't think of anything to put here that wasn't a spoiler, so...

Thanks for reading! Y'all are the best!

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Comments

Cirvante

It's interesting that the souls of the Xiugaaran natives are underdeveloped compared to adventurers. They all got carried to their caps and don't exercise their powers in regular life-and-death battles. It could also have something to do with the essence scarcity in the City of Lights. Vatreece mentioned that Tallheart and Ameliah are ahead of Rain in terms of cultivation as their soul rank has naturally increased over the years, while his got wrecked by his paling-breach. As glorified city guards living in an essence-starved city, their souls might just be naturally underdeveloped.

Elaborate

I thought it was interesting how Lightbreaker kept himself hovering through willpower where the System malfunctioned, and went back to Skills when the System reasserted itself. This is not the only possible interpretation of the text, but... Does the System not just provide Skills, but also supress non-System magic? If people were more powerful before the System, that explains a bit about how they could construct the System in the first place...

Anonymous
>>105997937

There was also rather a lot of peacocking in the city, its possible that their builds are at least somewhat suited to vanity rather than efficiency. Like how Rain could tell Thrast was weak for a silver.

Conor McGroarty
>>106051027

Was the fight between Warden/Granny Vatreece and Fecht truly more calamitous than the civil war of the Majistraal? Vatreece styled herself as “the greatest mentalist since the fall of the Majistraal” meaning that the Majistraal had people who were her equal or better. You weren’t even considered a full Majistraal until you reached Platinum with all preceding tiers being trainees at most. So considering that the War back then should have been much more devastating than Fecht and Vatreece’s scuffle, it is a reasonable assumption to conclude that the System has gone too long without maintenance. Could even be that Majistraal modifications to make the System more “convenient” weakened the initial System and its protections Carum (Karum? Whatever the name of the God of Smiths and Death was called) made. This is a theory but perhaps the initial system Karum made had natural monsters and all leveling happened naturally through manually learning Reading and such. Perhaps Karum designed the System that way as he knew people would abuse their powers and harm the world and so put much of the system hardware into protecting and preventing holes in reality (his system could probably withstand clashes between level 100s). Majistraal modifications making power more accessible and easier to achieve lower the safety threshold as the hardware had to come from somewhere and now the world can receive damage from Platinum levels. Now with the System going millennia without maintenance and working with the more unstable model the Majistraal made it, even high silvers (Lavarro) and golds (Velika, Lightbreaker, etc) are a danger to reality to varying degrees. Basically someone needs to slap all the powerful people with world ending powers to behave and seize the administrator position (I would imagine that if a terminal to access and control the System had to be anywhere, it would be in the deepest place with the highest essence concentration). Then they need to work on fixing the mess the System has become with a large support staff to help (like Ascension).

Eidetic Eidolon

Sometimes I feel like I took a left turn somewhere while the readers and author drove into the desert. I don't get how so many of you guys enjoy theory crafting about a story that has turned into nothing but theory crafting itself. Too many of the chapters end up being entirely in Rain's head involving solely...theory crafting. You guys aren't actually being provided the canon upon which to do your own theory crafting because all Rain ever does is speculate.

Elaborate
>>106522433

I admit it would be nice if Rain did some more thorough testing of his theories, nailing down some facts. My view is, though, that SS most likely hasn't nailed down most details of the setting yet themselves, and thus (hopefully) finds it useful to hear and digest our various ideas in order to do so. As such, we're not as much theorycrafting as we are doing lossy collective worldbuilding at one remove. Which might be better or worse depending on your point of view.