Who would win? On one side, we have the hundreds of billions of people in the Realm of Myth, a fragment of an aeons old godlike being, and the weight of royal tradition. On the other, a particularly salty eight year old.
On the flipside though it's been like two weeks since the last Apocryphal proc. Plenty of time for it to charge up again.
If it was that easy I'd vote for Shelter in a heartbeat, but even if it were possible I don't think Hunger would go back on his word in such a way.
Hunger got an AU Gisena who tried and failed to assassinate Jotarun, where the original was paralyzed by his Stranger Title equivalent (which we now know to be Rank), so she never encountered Seram. It would have to be a different timeline that resulted in the Foremost faction, since I don't see a world overrun by orcs allocating part of the budget to building a theme park, no matter how interested the Hero was in the dismal science.
I... had mostly moved past the Gisena conspiracy theories, but this is a salient reminder that we really don't know what's going on in her head. All we see is the carefully cultivated exterior, something she's adept at controlling. Pragmatism may dictate rationing our paranoia for allies we didn't purchase as a Remittance, but I wonder what words of advice Augustine's father would have for Hunger?
The power of the Signs are backed by the Tower Itself, which has indelibly fused with the Evening Sky to make it the full Cloak of Sky. Having to destroy the Evening Sky to escape the binding is admittedly speculation, but at bare minimum if we seek to renege the Tower Itself which the Signs spring from would probably be disabled.
Foolish little sister, if you wish to kill me-
Are you, Adorie? Are you really?
It's okay, Second Stage has us covered so death is merely a setback. Though we probably shouldn't show our spectral credentials, the less we have in common with the Shard, the better.
A: Behold, it is I, the gweat and teewible deity of the Lowd Pwotectow!
What I felt after reading the interlude was pretty much exclusively a drive for calculated murder. Her motivations didn't inspire any sympathy in me, personally.
You know, we haven't had a Hunger interlude either. I know he's the strongest in the party, but how sure are we that he's on our side? He's definitely pretty sus.
We saw her working at her forge, it's some kind of crafting-focused power centered around the ability to Build. Hard to compare it to the freeform findross manipulation of True Quintessence, since the Foremost presumably eclipsed the Maiden but Augustine is a half-breed wielding vestigial portions of two bloodlines. Though it's interesting that the Maiden and Arcanist are styled similarly:
Hunger might be able to channel some of that whole revenge, no matter the cost idea she has rattling around in her head.
