#blue prince

[azurityarts]

random perspective and interior practice of the Spare Room in Blue Prince

[alphactory]

won't overwhelm tumblr with "hey, I posted a vod" but just this once, first casual vid on the new channel

[dead-dove-moment]

Baroness Auravei is my favorite character in Blue Prince and one of the reasons is that, even though there's only like 2-3 documents you can find which she actually wrote, once you've read them you can start getting a sense of what kind of person she was by looking at her interior design decisions.

Take the Chapel, for example.

We know very little about how the people of Nevmora practice their devotion to the Ajeran Angels, but we do know that there's theological debate over their "natural order": that is, how to order them in a way that represents natural law. Baron Herbert makes his own opinion on the matter clear in his Will, and chooses a sequence that feels... traditionalist, as befits a man who always felt bound by tradition.

In particular, it's clear how much that sequence reflects Orindia's terminally monarchy-brained culture. Hierarchy holds primacy: first the Paragon of Royalty (Orinda), then that of lesser masters (Lydia), and only after that do we get to the Angels who represent the actual day-to-day labor that sustains life. Terminating the sequence in Mila and Draxus even forms a kind of "valar morghulis, valar dohaeris" couplet.

But Auravei's Chapel redprint, and her modifications to the Sinclair family Tomb to integrate it with her husband's excavation of the Underground, paint a different picture.

To the architect of Mount Holly, where does a "natural order" that puts hierarchy above all lead? The alcove where the Baron left Mary's rough drafts, which to him was a place of honor, but in structural terms is a dead end.

To the architect of Mount Holly, what "natural order" is worth honoring, because it leads to a deeper truth? An order that begins first in the natural world, and then passes to technology and industry, and then to service, and only at the end – when all the real work has been done – does Mastery enter in, and from there Royalty, and from there Death.

As a theological position to hold in a place like Fenn Aries, this is downright iconoclastic... but perhaps to be expected of the woman who once lamented "how little regard is often shown for that which I hold sacred", and who accepted her title of Baroness only reluctantly, and who pledged her allegiance not to any king's banner, past or present, but to the color that represented, to her, the twin virtues of creativity and truth.

[reckless-rider]

ik this game is meant to be hard but god damn is it hard lmao

[briar-mosaic]

NO ONE TOUCH ME IM FLYING TO PLANET MORA

[imageartifacts]

Me: I would like uhh... a location please

Drafting pool: You want Red room? You want fucking Red room?

Me: blueprince

[finalvortex]

my normal and not scary house

[inky-fandoms]

I’ve been seeing a lot of “blue prince would be better if the RNG wasn’t there” and I think it’s a lot of people who haven’t truly understood the mechanics of the game yet.

There are rooms that edit other rooms, there are rooms that make new rooms, there are rooms that can only generate in certain areas, there are rooms that can only generate with certain keys, and there are rooms you just simply haven’t added to your drafting pool yet.

If RNG had not been added, and you were just given all the blue prints, there wouldn’t be any mystery left to the game.

If you’ve been grinding to solve a singular puzzle, but feel like you keep getting blocked, look for a different answer. It is never “point A+point B=Point C”, too many rooms are interwoven, because this is a house with too many rooms to fit into its walls.

The RNG is not getting in the way, you just haven’t found another way around yet.