#agartha

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when I run ttrpgs I tend to create a Wretched Man for my players to hate. Not like a sexyman (desirable to tumblr) or like a nastyman (desirable specifically to my friend chesca) but like a guy that just fucking sucks to hang around

In my underdark dnd campaign it was Zach Baggins, a parody of Zach Bagans who was a halfling. He was honestly kinda fun, a grating peprsonality but easily led and nothing malicious about him. My players hated him almost unreasonably though, but that was fun for me. He went on to invent cinema

In my ursha game that I eventually rejiggered into the filmverse, the Wretched Man was Kevin Ngyuen. He was a stereotypical jock with buried yandere tendencies. he became a kind of weird voluntary slave for the cult-leader PC. Her player wrote an ending for Kevin in which he got isekaied and hit with the trans beam. Kevin survives as Kevin Hei in the filmverse where he now simps for Mindy in an echo of his original arc

In my space based DnD game my Wretched Man was Skurret Rattano, a particularly vile mixture of Travis Bickle, Scout from TF2, and every anime pervert character. he's the worst person so far and the mention of his name in my servers is like throwing a live grenade

Probably my favorite out of the bunch is Jensen Leach. He's on the opposite side of the spectrum from Skurret I think. A subtle Wretched Man. He's not an over the top sexist or completely delusional. He's just kind of a banal idiot. His personal views are vaguely libertarian but he votes democrat. He thinks girl gamers are more rare and beautiful than a unicorn. He gets into fights with 13 year olds about star wars lore. He gets the power fantasy of being isekaied to Areatam but is turned into a bug in the process so no harem for him. Technically. I plan for him to marry a sapient hive of honeybees and be condemned to an eternity in hell together

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Agartha Cadilek‘s

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Zato1 drinks Venom's Dairy Queen and enters Agartha.

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Grateful to the cats for helping to clear all this up.

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[wanderingmind867]

I like agartha and the agarthans in Fire Emblem Three Houses. The agarthans taught me about the bizarre mythology of agartha. Some people really believe there's a hidden underground continent named agartha, and it apparently first showed up in some pseudoscience or whatever texts written in the 1870s. It's fascinating. And although the agarthans are evil, I think of them as the embodiment of why I hate everything I learn about the old testament in the bible. I've never read the bible. I can't handle the old language. But I've gotten the gist of some of some of the main stories.

Why did God flood earth? Because we didn't respect him enough. Why were we kicked out of paradise? Because we dared to yearn for knowledge. Why did God destroy the Tower of Babel? Because he was scared humans working together would rival his own power! The God of the Old Testament apparently goes back to Yahweh, an ancient war deity. He was worshipped in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. He's from the same region as deities like Baal and Asherah, if that means anything. And I see the God of the Old Testament being a war god. He is very…spiteful.

Reading the fire emblem wiki I found gives me the impression that the agarthans are the humans here, and that Sothis is Yahweh. We can't see the past, but apparently Sothis punished the agarthans ancestors for daring to be technologically advanced. They dared to create technology and dream of being equal to the nabateans. As punishment for their insolence, Sothis and her daughter Seiros waged war on them. The continent was devastated in the war. Sothis healed the land, but she fell into a long slumber. And those mortals who dreamed of technological greatness…they were forced to go underground.

Living underground, these mortals learned to nurse a grudge. For centuries they wanted revenge, hating the unfair punishment they felt they received from the Goddess. As they lived underground, they adapted. Their skin grew chalk white, their eyes adapted to see in pitch darkness. They brought their technology underground and they planned revenge. As the generations passed, the anger only grew. They eventually just became bloodthirsty. They would kill the goddess. They would slaughter the nabateans, and they would take back their place in the sun!

So the agarthans became immoral, and they eventually manipulated Nemesis into killing Sothis and her kin. From there, they got to work using their science to make weapons out of the bones. But this only led to Rhea/Seiros going mad with grief, and so the cycle continued onwards. Rhea wasn't at fault. Nemesis was at fault, being a common bandit so willing to slaughter someone for power. But the agarthans weren't at fault. They wanted revenge for their wholesale devastation years prior, and that's still something they fight for.

The agarthans were mistreated, abandoned by everyone. So they turned to dark arts and evil science to try and advance their cause of returning to the surface world. If Sothis hadn't punished them in the past, they wouldn't have become what they did. This is on Sothis just as much as it is on the agarthans! Sothis started it. The nabateans had a chance to make amends and apologize for what Sothis did, but they never took their opportunity. So the agarthans eventually snapped and became willing to murder the goddess. And thus began the conflict in Fodlan.

Rhea isn't the evil one, really. It's her mother. Sothis started everything, and the fact that she isn't alive to pay anymore means the agarthans had to turn to focusing on the rest of the nabateans. If Sothis was still alive, I think her death would've fixed everything. If you could get Rhea to see the cruelty of her mother…we might be on the way to fixing the continent.

I love Solon. He's my favourite of the named agarthans. The old warlock dabbling in human experimentation and hiding out as a kindly librarian. I wish he was playable. I would kill to support him and talk to him. He's older than Kronya and maybe even older than Thales. He might know more about the conflict than any of the other agarthans we get to meet. He certainly knew about the void dimension of Zahras. And him referring to Byleth as the "Fell Star"…I know Solon was hiding some great lore. I would've loved to have seen more of him.