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#an ocean of horror and suffering - headcanons
in the very first session, to enter the Feywild, we all had to shrink down to Smurf size.
why and how did that happen
there's a reason why we're being levelled up it's because something horrible is going to happen that we will have to survive
i know that we were discussing paying wheat a visit before we go on to the grain family's house but i would like to raise the terrifying possibility that wheat grain could no longer be alive. or at least not in the material plane. i will remind you that when we left necropolis it was moments before the city was swallowed up by the ooze and we have no idea how far that has spread by now and how much of the city is gone. wheat grain could be floating around in the in between for all we know
more on the light thing.Maybe it's not as magical of an explanation as i originally thought? mushrooms grow in dark environments because thwyre more likely to be able to sustain the level of moisture that they need. Sunlit areas dry out quickly which isn't ideal. and i don't think the great sage is going around watering these guys every day. so maybe the magical sunlight produced by daylight and weaker spells like the light cantrip speed up that process??? but then what about the sunlight up in the Feywild.
you know something interesting? when we stumbled into the Feywild in our very first session we did not see a single mushroom. there was the weird bleached grass and the pale sky and the forest that looked like all the colour had been leached out of it. No mushrooms though.
we are at the stage now that i think it would be beneficial to create a timeline of the infection. Because i don't think that the mushrooms and their spores were the main sources of disease anymore, not after a certain point.
the great sage used the rats (who were unaware of what they were doing?) to spread the spores across the channels of magic from the underdark to the feydark.
those spores infected whatever fey dwelled in the feydark and also grew into mushrooms which began to siphon magic from the wells of primal essence.
now, this is where it gets a bit more unclear. the infection would have had to spread to the main part of the feywild. And i actually don't think that it was the rats. at this point, the fey up in the fey cities would have heard whisperings of a new plague of sorts going around down in the feydark. perhaps the fey government would have sent a few officials to check it out?
and when those guys went down there they would have gotten infected too. As they returned to the surface in their corrupted forms, they would have been spreading the disease to every other fey crossing their path
(note? It's possible that the disease has increased in efficacy over the years. so initially, it was a lot slower in taking root, allowing the fey to retain some mind and direct themselves back to the surface. if not, it could also have happened by any mindless fey accidentally stumbling across an entrance)
the more undeveloped areas of the feywild would have been hit first, purely because of. Lack of awareness or knowledge of the plague?
this was all in conjunction with the great separation. So happening around the same time. And strife was already prevalent And tensions would be running high
an important point to speculate on here is when exactly the fey king was infected. We do know that the fey king and the great sage were in correspondence before the great separation. (side note. The great rat the great separation the great sage. dm maybe you should come up with a different descriptor for once/j)
perhaps there was a trap set for the fey king? He was lured to the material plane and infected there?
My theory on the fey king is for another day. i have many thoughts
now at some point those in the fey city will have realised that there is no point in going out and trying to save the infected. All they can do now is they and fortify the city to prevent themselves and the remaining fey from it
everyone keep your pants on I'm here and so is the long awaited theorist debrief of every loredrop/confirmation we have had today. Further elaboration on certain things will be posted in the coming days.(Feel free to send in a request if there is anything you'd like me to focus on!) It's been like four hours people no need to send death threats. I will go in order of least to most shocking
1) the life and death of fey are part of a larger cycle of primal magic. fey are born of primal essence, and when they 'die' their form breaks down and the magic returns to the landscape of the feywild. It's basically sustainable energy! However, when the fey are diseased, their form is broken down by the mushroom and the primal magic is sucked from it. Their souls are cleaved from their bodies. as they lack hosts, they go where all(most) lost things go: the cosmic junkyard. this also explains why new fey haven't been forming and why the primal magic has not. Replenished itself. Because the fey souls are still in purgatory!!i have theorised about all of this in the past and I am glad to receive confirmation my hands still smell like cereal what the hell but I've washed and sanitized my hands so many times and i also showered I think i might be imagining it anyway
2) the feydark has been infected for a long, long time. (And I was wrong about calling it the last bastion of defence + the place farthest from the material plane- I'd go as far as to say now that it is in fact the most connected )Honestly i probably should have seen this coming considering if you look at the unofficial map for like two seconds you can see that the sewer tunnels (which- mind you! Used to be the official channels of magic between the realms) connect the underdark (where the great sages lab was) and the feydark. Additionally, if the great sage's intention was to wipe out primal magic entirely, what better way to do so than to release a deadly disease that feeds on it right into the heart of it?
3) not only is the great sage alive (in... Some capacity) certain members of the grain family know exactly where he is and also maintain contact with him. this is not particularly surprising after what we learnt last session and i did theorise somewhere on this blog that the grain family was harbouring him. But it was nice to finally know for sure and at last have a lead for finding him
4) giving up your name to the fey makes some part of you fey. Or at least gives you the equivalent of fey ancestry. at the start of the season we thought that it would eventually turn you entirely fey And that's wrong now but. interesting nonetheless. explains the soulless black eyes. i put it this high on the surprising list solely because it explains more about magic flow. every being is made of a ratio of primal to arcane magic and we being from the material plane are much more arcane. but giving your name up to the fey changes that concentration somehow and imbues more primal magic into you
5) now we're getting to the real stuff!! the mediocris mycelium has already mutated. this makes sense considering it has been a thousand years since it was originally released. it is capable of 'taking over'. Or corrupting? other types of fungi that already exist and feed on primal magic. Although this may be because the great sage based his mushrooms of of those in the first place. anywho, their biology is similar enough that they've merged in a sense and can now feed on the primal magic in beings who are part fey and have lesser concentrations of it; like those who have given up their names. this raises the possibility of the mushroom mutating again to be able to feed off of even weaker sources of primal magic... Even those as weak as. Say. Denizens of the material plane? This is no longer just a genocidal threat to the fey. it is evolving into something much larger and much more terrifying. The disruption in the flow of magic is hurting everyone because there has to be an exchange of magic in order for the twin realms to function
6) the feydark has an immune system. Theory on this next time.
7) and now what was, in my opinion, the craziest lore dropped today. the fey king's soul is currently in a state of purgatory. it has not been completely severed from his form, but it isn't exactly attached either. He has been fighting himself, like we saw the researcher do, for centuries. i have a couple theories on that! and a few suggestions on how we could use this neat little detail to prevent our worlds from being destroyed. or you could say. chewed.
i will not say any more as i cannot in good conscience keep my fair lady elizabeth waiting for my presence in our Minecraft world any longer farewell
Does this mean that the barrier is here too???????????
"sometimes family is more complicated than you think" is this personal is this foreshadowing
how did the infection get to the feydark before us....? so it's not completely spared after all. what's stopping it from progressing to the stores of primal magic? is it the sheer concentration? it's very slowly encroaching and that's what is sucking up the magic
why does light/radiant damage affect the mushrooms and spores and infected fey? could it be because we are arcane spellcasters from the material plane and so the source of our magic being arcane cuts off the primal magic the mushrooms feed on
primal magic is gold and arcane is ....purple?
why don't physical barriers work against the infected fey???? Why does it have to be magical???? Im sure that regular fey can do extraplanar travel but. Infected?wait no the magical barrier isn't a barrier against the infected feys bodies as much as it is a barrier to their souls which are part of the in between. That makes sense
THE MUSHROOMS GROW ON THE INSIDE OF THE INFECTED FEY??? this is how they propagate wait its because they feed on primal magic I guess this was obvious
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and that as they look at us right now they see us as we were in the past