#yumaris

[bayofwolves]

If I was an artist I'd hop on that trend everyone is doing and draw Conor, Meilin, Takoda and Xanthe turning a corner in the tunnels of Sadre only to find themselves in the Backrooms. But alas

[random-stuff-incorrect-quotes]

Abeke, helping Rollan with his dating profile: Now, let’s look at the bio. “Just a chill guy who likes to have fun.” This is garbage.

Rollan: What? What’s wrong with it? It’s not offensive!

Abeke: Well, yeah, it could 100%, definitely be worse, but… it’s boring. You like to have fun? So does everyone else in Erdas! You might as well change this to “I have eyes”.

Rollan: But not everyone in Erdas has eyes!

Abeke: Okay, good point - Yumaris does exist.

[bayofwolves]

i've said this before and i'll say it again: abeke should have joined the conquerors officially. knowingly. gar, zerif, shane and yumaris should have just told it straight and admitted to abeke who they were. they were manipulating the story perfectly. they already kinda got her believing the greencloaks were corrupt, they could have easily added "the conquerors were the good guys and they lied to you" into the mix. i don’t understand why they didn’t take the final step. abeke was naive and trusting. they could have roped her right into it and had one of the four fallen summoners fighting under their banners, the figurehead of their army even. abeke having been a real conqueror and knowing it would’ve made for an even more intriguing storyline imo.

[bayofwolves]

Do you guys think Shane met Xanthe when he went to Sadre with Yumaris after The Book of Shane: Vengeance?

I think so. I imagine Xanthe found him and Yumaris on one of her wanders and could hardly stay away from them during the short time they stayed. Her first time meeting updwellers, you see. She only really talked to Shane, though, because Yumaris never spoke to her, only whispering strange things in Shane's ear.

Xanthe met Shane before his transformation began, but the sight of him and the name he gave -- his true name -- were, of course, insignificant to her. (How could she know?) Yumaris never provided her name, and Shane did not supply it in her stead. Xanthe referred to her as the "old woman". Conor and Meilin were intrigued to learn that there had been humans in Sadre before them, and recently at that, but Xanthe never got far enough into her story to reveal the boy's name and appearance to anyone but Takoda. These were throwaway details that meant nothing to the monk. Both sides of the war managed to keep the truth of the Devourer's identity hush-hush, and outlying communities across Erdas such as Takoda's had no idea.

Xanthe and Shane unexpectedly meet again in the aftermath of The Burning Tide, when Shane delivers Abeke and Rollan to their reunion with the underground explorers. It's hard for Xanthe to connect the Shane who abruptly descended into her world to the new one standing before her, with scales and claws and haunting eyes. But it's him! The first updweller she ever met! What a small world.