Actually, why was she anti-tech? Guess we'll never know.
Lady Emerald? My guess was that it was a combination of classic elderly conservatism (she was visibly late middle age) and her Grace distribution. She fought by animating terrain, allowing it to express aesthetically appropriate capabilities. Perhaps technology was incompatible with her naturalistic powerset or it skewed the results somehow? Easy to imagine the manifestation of a
findross-infused metropolis going wrong somehow. Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to display my knowledge of Sorceress trivia, as encyclopedic as it is useless! Now, if only we knew why Abacus hated Gisena...
You know, Accretion reminds me a bit of Chrysopoeia. They're both about becoming more than humans, and Chrysopoeia DID need you to have a self-image to aim to, kinda like Accretion instead depends on building your own legend, making you distinctive. They have some similarities.
This is a good catch, the self-image aspect of being a Mage-Slayer was never thoroughly explored, though our glimpse of Glaine at the end was pretty telling. There's a similarity between visual distinctiveness offering shortcuts and the need for a coherent legend to successfully Accrete it. Hell, the way masters of the Way can exert themselves to ignore physics looks a lot like Rank in practice, conditioning gets less relevant too. Hunger can manually train Rank now, I wonder if that process has anything in common with Chrysopoeia?
Also I wonder, would Joanian be french?
Also doesn't Hunger know that English is the multiversal language?
Linguistic challenges conspicuously keep failing to come up, I suspect the Accursed snuck a translation system into the Cursebearer package. But yeah, Joanian's analogous to French, the Maiden has obvious parallels to Joan of Arc.
*insert Imperia flashback here
Sweet Accursed, you're (relatively) fresh from the salt mines of the Terrascape. Curious how that whole debacle looked when reading from start to finish, none of the participants are remotely objective about it, myself included.
)had, explicitely, "a soul too strong for his own soul"
