#tahlia

[snowflake-sage]

Lesbians 💖🌺

[salt-apple]

claire and those girls...

claire no hat

[creepycraft]

"A friend of the sea is a friend of mine!"

"Echo shards? I can get you some - there's a flooded ruin near here, just give me one second!"

"Here you go! Visit again sometime, we can play with the fishies!"

A gift for Hex of @hexavexen. Hope you enjoy those echo shards!

[keeperesque]

good night

[berie-kat]

I’m putting so much effort into this right now 😭😭😭

Hopefully I can finish soon.

But it’s really kicking me in the butt rn….

Its okay tho! Ik im gonna be happy when I finish it!

Anyways thats all bye!!

[casey-nova-12]

Last post I claimed that Noel’s Lament was my favorite. But I lied, Thalia is my favorite of the soundtrack. It’s just so sincere and sweet!

Constance also looks adorable :)

[polistini]

theyre so normal

[mage-parivir]

A few things in the demo update, if you tell Saine your callsign name, there are blanks in the places where he would use it talking to you. Also, if you don’t watch the fireworks with the Arcadians, you don’t have the waking nightmare, but the next morning there’s an option that references it. Similarly, if you ask about the necromancers you might also recognize people you didn’t meet, since you went to bed early. Oh! And a story question! Is what Thalia does a kind of necromancy?

Thank you for this wealth of bug reports! I'll be sure to look into them before the next update. Spoilers on Tahlia's powerset below! Also massive massive spiritism lore-dump.

Rather than necromancy, it's a kind of time reversal (but not exactly). By virtue of her phantasma (who fittingly has the epithet of Dark Chronicler), she has the ability to access the akashic records - a compendium of all events and people that has occurred and lived in the universe. Using this, she can reconstruct events as illusions (as showcased in her day-off event), and can reconstruct individuals' bodies as vessels.

In the AMR universe, souls reside in an in-between plane before they ascend to a higher realm, but are universally eager, driven by instinct, to return to the earthly plane. When the conditions for them to do so are met - that is, a suitable vessel has been prepared, they would be all too happy to return.

This is the foundational technique involved in Spiritism, wherein the caster's mana is twisted to replicate the spirits' living vessels, but stripped down to its bare bones (pun intended). However, given that the caster dedicates a limited amount of mana to these spells, the 'revival' burns out quickly, and the spirits will dissipate again before long, to return to the in-between plane.

There is a genuine art of perfect necromancy called aresei hath aorea (song of the dead) that has been studied at length by Arcadians of old. The technique would theoretically involve a painstaking recreation of the human body and its mana systems, involving a rigorous set of alchemical and spiritual processes. The goal is that the constructed vessel would have the ability to produce enough mana to sustain its own life, through methods used by the living (eating, basically) - but in all the trials attempted in the past, the efficiency with which these constructs derive mana vs. the amount of food they can physically stomach was not enough for them to self-sustain.

Arcadian records would show that numerous projects over the years have successfully maintained aresei hath aorea for months at a time, in which the caster continuously supplies mana for the construct at all times. Rather than being applied to battle, in which the resurrection's mana consumption would burn through the caster's in no time at all, this technique was instead used for individuals to live out their last years with the ones they could not bear to part with. Invariably, casters who persisted in the act would perish alongside their beloved months later due to mana exhaustion.

Tahlia's phantasma - conspicuously, one entirely unmentioned in Arcadian records - allows her to skip the construction process and recreate the mage exactly as they died, with perfectly efficient mana conversion systems. The mage's soul, however, continues to face rejection from the earthly plane, and is constantly assaulted by hostile mana - it is another aspect of Tahlia's powerset that allows her to protect the mage from these consequences.