#coe lore

[thecomfywriter]

Who is Fdryx (probably misspelt but oh well) like what's his purpose?

no no you spelled it correctly! lets get into it :)

f’dryx’s purpose?

narratively, f’dryx’s role in the story is as a fallen hero (go figure. i seem to love those). he doesn’t really start off as a hero tho ngl. he kinda just starts off as an idiot lol

he was a regular guy who ended up in the wrong situation. unlike alan or evan, who fit more of the “chosen one” category, f’dryx could have been anyone. he wasn’t fated for this. he wasn’t described in a prophecy. he wasn’t born for this role, neither was he special. he was just your average drunken fool who made mistakes and lives life. i think that’s what i like about his story the most.

in every way, f’dryx was unspecial. that’s what makes his descent as probably one of the worst villains in elayza since hilbert so iconic to me. he was a regular joe who got mixed up with the wrong people, got tested too far, and reverted back to his animalistic desire to survive. THATS why he ends up getting “chosen” later on. not immediately. not fated for it. lemme see if i can find the drafted scene where it’s described to him on “why me?” (why him?)

you say you [redacted] yourself out, f’dryx, but that is what i loved about you. you degraded yourself, accepted absolute humiliation, tore your soul and esteem apart and stomped it into the dirt, all for a chance to survive. you sold your dignity to survive. and you don’t even know why you wanted to! you don’t even want to survive! you don’t even want to live! you accepted that you had no purpose and yet you still fought to keep your meaningless life! that sacrifice… that self sacrifice… that mindless drive to live… i wanted it. i needed it. and now, i have it. because now i have you. you are mine, f’dryx. we are bound by eternity.  - CoE [DRAFT], P

i’m not gonna spoil who is talking to him in this scene, but that’s the bare bones essence of his purpose.

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

My question about Fdryx! ...How do you pronounce his name?

hi hi illarian! literally so late to this forgive me 🥲

f'dryx's name:

f'dryx's name is pronounced as the following:

'fi' as in 'fiddle'

'dri' as in 'drip'

'x' as in 'ks'

so all together it would be [fi-dri-x] or 'f'dryx'

thanks for the ask, ilia!

[thecomfywriter]

F'dryx meets Blair what happens?

bro is on his hands and knees. like i said--fdryx is a cockroach. he will do anything to survive.

THAT BEING SAID...

f'dryx meeting blaire:

pre-AV arc? he is lying, seducing, finessing his way out of all the danger signals blaire exudes. he would recognize her as trouble from the moMENT he set eyes on her, because he has been in enough troubling situations to gain discernment. bro is the king of bad decisions LMAO but at least he develops hindsight from his messiness.

HOWEVER!

f'dryx meeting blaire post-AV arc?

this is the one situation where, if blaire didn't impress him (which, let's be so real--she probably would), SHE wouldn't leave the situation alive.

🤡🤡

thanks for the ask, wyked!

[thecomfywriter]

How did Fdryx meet Evan?

lmao

f'dryx and evan's first encounter:

they met when f'dryx arrived at evan's doorstep basically on his deathbed, bleeding out from 47 stab wounds and somehow still dragging a whole UNCONSCIOUS DRAGON behind him.

yeah, that was kinda wild. i feel like no one canonically appreciates f'dryx enough for that endeavour. bro had GRIT and WILLPOWER and he made it WORK.

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Does Fdryx die? How much changes between his first and final scene?

oooooo broski wants SPOILERs SPOILERS

f'dryx's ultimate ending [big spoiler warning]:

on the inside? hell yeah.

a lot changes from the first scene to the last. for starts, bro is sober now. his first appearance, he was a bumbling failed artist and a complete drunk. a fool, essentially. a womanizer, purposeless, and drowning in debt. bro's only skillset was his witty sharp tongue, his ability to flirt, and his sketching abilities + a knickknack for inventing things. he isn't a failed artist in the sense of being bad at art. he's failed in the sense of soilaila's unreal standards when it comes to artisians from that family. they expect you to have the hands of the gods themselves capable of crafting life from your touch. bro was not that. so he took a societal L

that beING SAID... his last appearance?

utterly devastated and scrapped out hollow. broken mind and with so much blood on his hands, he doesn't even know if he can count anymore. the entire world hates him. even the gods fear him. and he's on evan's hitlist and under his mentorship simultaneously (somehow). also? bro went from failed artist to master of the arcane.

i love f'dryx and his arc. :)

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Why did Evan have to heal Fdryx?

oop-

f'dryx's time in evan's healing palace:

long story short: bro got stabbed 47 times and it injured quite a few organs and magical networks, which messed up quite a bit of his health and magical abilities. so evan's purpose in f'dryx's story is to help him revive his ability to perform stable magic and to heal all the injuries he sustained.

thanks for the ask, sol!

[thecomfywriter]

Has F'dryx ever met one of the gods?

💀

f'dryx and the zaverena:

so like... what if i told you he not only met one of the gods, but ALL of them?

what would your response be?

what would you say?

what if i told you all the gods, like everyone else in the world, steers TF away from him?

how would you react, my darling wyked?

[thecomfywriter]

F'dryx meets von Doro what happens?

oof okay.

f'dryx meeting von doro:

pre-AV arc? he would bow and try to be as cordial and "not a bumbling drunkard fool" as possible. she wouldn't even entertain him. the meeting would end promptly and filling f'dryx with shame lmao

post-AV arc? von doro would steer tf away from him, and if she WAS forced to encounter him, she'd make the meeting short and tasteful. no chance of offending him. no chance of pissing him off. and then she's getting tf out of there.

thanks for the ask, wyked!