#voron.txt

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Would be funny if Seridia gets her own Zoltraak moment where after talking to Juniper for a while she, the Witch Queen, realises that her methods of magic have long became outdated. That, despite the Gate being sealed for thousands of years, humans - the witches - managed to find so many new ways of doing magic that she never thought of.

I'd like to see Seridia listening to Juniper, nodding, and at some point going "Hold on. Wait a sec. I need to start taking notes."

I also wish she'd took notes from Juniper on fashion.

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still crazy to me that the main offensive ability of the Hermit pathway Beyonders is basically uploading a 54 yottabyte zip bomb into the enemy's neuralink

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The "message in a bottle" museum item and Errol's line about it still haunt me

"It was from some far flung island I'd never heard before. Their high priest was looking for a pen pal! I was happy to oblige him."

High priest.

Somewhere out there is an island with a temple. Whom do they worship? Could there be another dragon? Or it's one of ours? Or maybe they have a different patron/deity? Could it be a chicken? A horse? A crab? I'm still waiting for the crab statue to manifest itself, surely that's gonna happen after the lighthouse is repaired.

There are also a few lines from the NPCs that mention islands to the south visible from the beach. Could the priest's island be a part of an island chain there? Could they still have some remnants of Seridia or Caldarus influence? Can we establish a sailing route after the lighthouse starts working? Please?

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the more I think about the current state of the Mistria lore, the more I feel like the museum is one of its weakest parts

most of the tutorials and interactions tip toe around trying to not break the 4th wall too hard, to avoid saying "yes, you need to do that because you are The Player, and we cannot do that because We Are NPCs" but you're telling me that this happy go lucky community that gather together to do renovations and Friday gatherings and all that cannot donate a single bug to the Museum? Cannot bring in a flower? A shrimp?

You're telling me Luc keeps every single worm and beetle he finds and never had a thought to donate one to the museum? Celine, the all caring and kind Celine, never thought to help the town get a higher status by bringing in some flowers? Terithia wouldn't want to immortalise some of her best catches by bringing them to the display? Olric, the member of the Historical Society (when he remembers it), wouldn't bring in a cool rock he found? I feel like even Balor would chip in with some old pot he thought has no value (until Eiland starts elaborating for 5 hours about the historical value of it).

I feel like it'd make more sense if Errol said that everyone is involved and that "the best ones will be put on display" and when the wings open you'd see your flowers next to Celine's and your fish next to Terithia, some beetles from Luc, maybe a frog from Dell (it's not required for the museum but Dell insisted), and ofc there'd be some weird rocks from Olric (when he remembers), and some relics from Eiland and Balor.

And then there'd be more variety to the NPC lines too. Terithia being competitive on who gets the bigger fish into the museum. Balor finding it funny that he submitted the same artifact as you did earlier this week and he didn't even know it was an artifact until Eiland- you know.

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Fields of Mistria is a Horror game where you play as The Horror

The game starts pretty normally - the village needs a boost in the economy to recover after a horrible earthquake, so might as well get some farmer to occupy that abandoned plot of land south of the village. Might as well contact the adventurers guild, surely they'll have someone willing to settle down for something less adventurous.

Balor picks up the new farmer at the bridge and brings the newbie to the farm. Eiland shows the farmer around - the two of them find a curious statue of a dragon on that abandoned farm but Eiland doesn't pay it too much attention and never comes to check it again (despite his interest in all old stuff).

And yet, the statue speaks to the new farmer. Teaches the farmer magic. Urges the farmer to remove the seals deep in the mines. Who sealed the dragon is unknown. No one suspects the seals are there for a reason. Clearly, the seals must be removed, since the farmer says so.

Magic, dragons, Witchspeak - all are things of fairy tales after all. There's no way this will have any bad effect on the village.

Surely, the farmer summoning a rain or commanding the plants to grow or conjuring a horse out of thin air is… normal, right? The villagers are quick to comment on the new crops shipped, on the new museum finds. No one says a word about the magic. The horse. The rains. The crops. The dragon.

No one says a word about the farmer being able to tell where any villager is at any given moment. No one says a word when the farmer changes the clothes, the haircut, the hair colour, the skin colour in just a second. The farmer always looked like this of course. No one notices when the farmer's name changes. The farmer's name was always Ȧ̷͎̟͉̓͌̄̌͘r̷̘̠̙̪̤͔̥̥̀̿ī̴̭̗̯̜̺̂̈́, was it not?

Surely, it is fine to have the s̷h̸a̴p̵e̸s̶h̵i̷f̵t̸i̷n̸g̸ ̴m̸e̸m̴o̸r̶y̴-̵m̶o̴d̴i̶f̷y̵i̸n̵g̶ ̸m̵a̸g̷i̶c̵-̴c̵a̵s̴t̴i̶n̷g̸ ̷e̶n̵t̵i̶t̵y̶ in your village.

It helps the village to recover after the earthquake, after all.

The earthquake that opened the seals that hold the dragon down.

The seals that Ȧ̷͎̟͉̓͌̄̌͘r̷̘̠̙̪̤͔̥̥̀̿ī̴̭̗̯̜̺̂̈́ is trying to remove.

Surely, this is all for the greater good.

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Time to drop this little guy on tumblr too. He's a silly little OC I made for Mistria fandom (he is not a farmer, more of an NPC)

Cyril is a foreign painter with distant blood connections to Mistria who's been having dreams about dragons ever since he was a child. He's famous for his landscape paintings, but dragons are his true passion.

He has a chance to appear on a random map (except the player's farm) on a random workday, once a week. The player receives a notification about it, similar to Saturday market.

He'll spend his day next to an easel on the map he spawns at until 20:00. In the evening he will go to the inn, the museum, or Valen's house. He sells paintings and wallpaper blueprints.

At 2/4/6/8 hearts he posts a request on the board. These requests serve as his story line. The next request is only posted if the previous one has been completed.

Every item with 'Dragon' in its name is his loved gift. His loved gifts also include Ancient Royal Scepter and both statuettes but excludes Dragon Horn Mushroom with Thyme and furniture. His hated gift is coffee.

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please I just wanted to get some sleep

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me: man, I'm having no luck trying to re-build my fanfic storyline after all the new lore I got from the mines-story-ending update. I should take a break and read more of Circle of Inevitability or something.

my brain, two months and three COI volumes later: ok so before the Dragon Era and everything there was one dragon, maybe like the first dragon ever. Yes, the Dragon of Fate. And They grew so powerful that They could no longer maintain their physical form, so their soul became one with the world, their body split to form other dragons, and their blood scattered all over the world and became what is now known as essence. And thus the dragons that consume essence become closer to the Dragon of Fate, gaining knowledge and power. Mmm, yes, yes. But gathering essence bit by bit was not very convenient for the dragons, so once humans came into being, the dragons delegated that task to their chosen dragonsworn. In exchange for the essence, the dragons gave their followers power and knowledge, which helped them slow down their own growth and prevent them from becoming another Dragon of Fate. Yes, some say that dragon is still alive, woven into the very fabric of the reality, both the weaver of fate and its prisoner...

me: ...okay yeah maybe reading COI so much was a mistake