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It literally means 'immortal heroes', so specifically high powered Chinese fantasy (high fantasy can have other definitions, IME).

But as the term is usually used, it generally also features cultivation (and thus progression) as well, which is to say gradually gaining in supernatural power by some active means. So, 'high powered Chinese progression fantasy' is probably closer to the usual use case.
I would also add that NorseQuest is a very unusual cultivation fantasy story and, in my opinion, is a poor introduction to the genre. I think it's fairly accessible, but what it isn't is your typical xianxia so you probably should keep that in mind if you decide to give other stories a shot.
 
Bro, he's an Odr cultivator monster. With a name that basically means 'Ragnarok'. I think you need to respect Big Bad Wolf more. Like, a whole, whole, whole lot more. Like, the powerlevel of people can be read in how dramatic their introductions are - just reread the update to get a feel for his powerlevel! It's very high.

It absolutely is. I literally just said that? Like, I'm saying it's not as powerful as Steinarr...I said it being more powerful than Dorri and thus literally anyone else in the Valley was pretty plausible. It could also be talking itself up slightly and be 'only' on par with the Almost Peak people...but that still puts it in the top 10 of the Valley. Like, it's between the 2nd and 10th most powerful thing in the Valley and the most powerful we've ever fought other than Steinarr by a fair bit.

That doesn't mean it's power is unlimited, though.

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(He's probably stronger than Dorri, but weaker than Steinarr.)

I'd peg that as the high end of its plausible power level, yeah. I just think it's also believable that it's not quite that scary, though still very high end.

I would also add that NorseQuest is a very unusual cultivation fantasy story and, in my opinion, is a poor introduction to the genre. I think it's fairly accessible, but what it isn't is your typical xianxia so you probably should keep that in mind if you decide to give other stories a shot.

This is very true. The cultural differences between Norse and Chinese society and several other things make it highly atypical of the genre.
 
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The Sun Rises (Shard)
The Sun Rises*

"Moonless Night I am named,
Mani's great devourer."

"The setting sun you fear,
The night's many terrors."

"Behold then rising sun,
Burning the night with light."

"Skyfire I am called,
The sunlit dawn my herald!"

AN: Anyway somewhat hubristic but might as well get in some writing in to hopefully inspire some of the conversations in the next update. It's in conversational form, of course.

@Imperial Fister

*In reference to the song by the same name from Okami, which features a.. Sun-Wolf.
 
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@DeadmanwalkingXI , if we get a poetry inspiration out of this fight, can we get Halla to create the poetry? It would be so cool, not to mention the orthstirr gains have to be quite good for the feat to have been witnessed by so many badass warriors.
 
I would also add that NorseQuest is a very unusual cultivation fantasy story and, in my opinion, is a poor introduction to the genre. I think it's fairly accessible, but what it isn't is your typical xianxia so you probably should keep that in mind if you decide to give other stories a shot.
This is very true. The cultural differences between Norse and Chinese society and several other things make it highly atypical of the genre.
This is more a wuxia really. It's also atypical in that the cultivation system is unknown, the cultivation system(s) as well.
@DeadmanwalkingXI , if we get a poetry inspiration out of this fight, can we get Halla to create the poetry? It would be so cool, not to mention the orthstirr gains have to be quite good for the feat to have been witnessed by so many badass warriors.
i could write it and then it could get canonized :p
 
a day for the dayless dog )fearsome hill)
a dare for the dayless dog:

do you dare you dayless dog
dare you eat the light bringer?
the daughter of the freedfire

will your maw ever devour
these heroes of great fortidtude
can your fangs even graze
the iron skin of the bearbreaker
or the fair hide of skylighter

run oh mutt of fenris
run and live a second longer
or stay and die where you stand
your day has come you mutt of fenris
choose your death and do it wisely

(btw are there any good kennings for steinarr other than freedfire)
 
(btw are there any good kennings for steinarr other than freedfire)
Stone Fighter/Stone Warrior

Can also refer to his Fylgur I suppose, giving the possibility of Stone Dog, Warstone Dog, and similar.
I'd peg that as the high end of its plausible power level, yeah. I just think it's also believable that it's not quite that scary, though still very high end.
Having thought about it, Wolf is probably about as strong as Dorri in net, and no stronger. Moonless Night seems really pretentious as far as names go. I mean, naming yourself as the monster who ate the Moon? That's like naming yourself Thor.

Thinking about it further, the Wolf is a narrative opponent for Dorri specifically, as they are both Jarls with their own Hirds.
 
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@DeadmanwalkingXI , if we get a poetry inspiration out of this fight, can we get Halla to create the poetry? It would be so cool, not to mention the orthstirr gains have to be quite good for the feat to have been witnessed by so many badass warriors.

So, we get Orthstirr right off the bat for the fight and the witnesses, no poetry composition necessary.

If we spent an action making Poetry later, we would get Orthstirr from doing so only for the poem, which is based purely on rolled successes on the Wordplay roll, so, on average, about 8 Orthstirr, 13 if we can use Frenzy. If we wait until we've upped Hugr and Hugr Infusion, and spend an Odr, maybe we can make that 16 or so and maybe an ancillary benefit. That's worth an action if it ups Odr income by 1. It's not worth an action otherwise, I don't think. Now, it upping Odr income will 100% be the case at some point and we'll likely write Poetry when it is (if we can free up the action, anyway), but probably not until then.

In the meantime, not spending an action doesn't mean Halla doesn't compose poetry, necessarily, it means the poetry she's composed isn't being widely distributed yet because she doesn't think it's ready...it's the distribution that grants the Orthstirr, after all.

This is more a wuxia really. It's also atypical in that the cultivation system is unknown, the cultivation system(s) as well.

Blackhand threw a ship from Norway to Persia and we've talked with Thor. We're not personally wildly powerful, but this is definitely a xianxia world, if not a super high powered one as xianxia goes.

Having thought about it, Wolf is probably about as strong as Dorri in net, and no stronger. Moonless Night seems really pretentious as far as names go. I mean, naming yourself as the monster who ate the Moon? That's like naming yourself Thor.

Thinking about it further, the Wolf is a narrative opponent for Dorri specifically, as they are both Jarls with their own Hirds.

This is plausible, but not certain. I could still see it anywhere between Almost Peak and Peak.
 
Maybe everyone else will get a Sun Muna from it. I wonder if the Wolf will call us a Seeress in the fight?

The Dwarves call our Skyfire kenning to mean 'as deadly as the sun', now we can give our kenning another Twist - The Sun Itself. Heralded by the Rising Sun - especially cool when considering the sun appears behind us, giving us an awesome afterglow - should mean that our battle should go down in the sagas for sure.

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Is there any thematic reasoning we're breaking the night spell so early on?
Practical - Breaking negative battlefield effects are always good.

Thematically, it's a reply to Moonless' Night:
"Long have I waited," the Fenriskin's voice is disturbingly human—a voice perfectly suited to tricking households out into the open, "long have I fed from the scraps thrown to me from the feasting table, but now it is time for me to feast. He calls me Moonless Night and I am why you fear the setting sun."
"I am [why you fear] the Setting Sun"
"Then remember [why you fear] the Rising Sun!"

It even fits very well with Halla's legend in the fight right after she earned Skyfire:
There's a bloody grin on your face as, for a moment, the sun joins you on the earth.
Even by the dwarves too!
"Skyfire, eh?" Toki grins, a bloodthirsty spark in his eye as he gestures a hand at the crowd of about twenty dwarves all crammed into the entranceway. "You hear that, brothers? Halla here is as deadly as the sun! With her help, we'll slaughter those Lurkaling dirt scratchers!"
So now she can say this as a prelude to stabbing Moonless Night in the face:

"I am Halla Skyfire, herald by the sunlit dawn!"

Which is of course very cool. Really continuing her Saga's personal themes of The Burning Sun (AKA Skyfire).

(Assuming we don't get squashed. That wouldn't be very awesome.)
 
Is there any thematic reasoning we're breaking the night spell so early on?

Immediately shattering his boss arena with basically a perfect counter just after he made it will look awesome, and it probably is doing weird stuff like cutting us off from allies and maybe activating a Kenning type thig for him (we have extra dice while flying from Skyfire, he probably gets cool shit from Moonless Night). It probably will give us Orthstirr just from the style points of that alone, even before Orthstirr from not dying to him
 
Is there any thematic reasoning we're breaking the night spell so early on?

As others note, it is in fact a very cool thematic beat. Also, just on a practical level, why would we let an enemy keep an advantage any longer than we had to? Like, breaking it is good and will not get better for waiting, but might get a lot worse depending on what effects it has. Since we can, we should.
 
Come to that nk of it, there's probably nothing stopping him from trying to recast Moonless Night. I wonder if this is where those stories of battles taking several days comes from.
 
He probably would have to dispel our Unending Time in the Sun to recast Moonless Night.
 
He probably would have to dispel our Unending Time in the Sun to recast Moonless Night.

This. Unending Time In The Sun is ongoing and would be powered by 9 Odr. He'd need to spend an action, likely a lot of Orthstirr, and probably at least 10 Odr if not more dispelling it...he's probably just gonna try and kill us and get rid of it that way. Well, assuming nobody else distracts him, anyway. I have high hopes for Nainn Rotting to use his Rot Hugareida on him, which seems pretty distracting.

So I guess our Seeress training is going to come out soon to the general public.

I mean, we've been visiting Solrun at her house in town and probably helping out our neighbors with medical stuff. I don't think we were really trying to keep it a secret.
 
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I mean, we've been visiting Solrun at her house in town and probably helping out our neighbors with medical stuff. I don't think we were really trying to keep it a secret.
Well, some things are more obviously Seidr than other things. Plus, our neighbors probably aren't spreading info that we're a Seeress since that would reduce our rep. We can achieve most medical stuff with our Fire Hugareida, after all, and knowing Seidr in itself doesn't automatically make you a Seeress.
 
This is gonna be though one, huh? More a puzzle than a numbers game... i kinda like it!
Very rarely, a wolf will be born with the blood of Fenrir coursing through its veins. These wolves inevitably gain a cruel, wicked intelligence and an intense hunger for the heart's blood of man. They gather wolves around them like a Jarl does a hird, a twisted mockery of the rightful order of the world.
Hm... interesting.
Makes me curious what happens when they are raised by a loving human asa dog, but we might get around that, during one of the later descendants.
Out of curiosity, what made you folks click on the quest for the first time?
It was either from forge/threads of destiny discord or seeing your new quest under the comment box.
After all, that's a Gods-damned throne of bones. Not just normal bones, but tooth-carved bones. Intricate, delicate designs cover every inch of that fell chair—a record of lives taken, of hearts devoured by its dread master. The stench of death clings to it, choking out hope's light with the shroud of the dead and dying.
hm...
Tooth carved bones....
We gotta get rid of that. Throne are big symbols we damage it, it lessens if not outright nulls whatever bonus it gives to him.
also, @Imperial Fister can halla see/understand of the carvings?
"Long have I waited," the Fenriskin's voice is disturbingly human—a voice perfectly suited to tricking households out into the open, "long have I fed from the scraps thrown to me from the feasting table, but now it is time for me to feast. He calls me Moonless Night and I am why you fear the setting sun."
Hm... He calls him that, huh? Drysalt lackey?
'No the fuck he isn't!' Blackhand growls his defiance to the heavens, his wrath fueling your heart's hammer, 'Send this mangy mutt running with his tail between his legs! How fucking dare he use that fucking name.'
"Hey, Blackhand, what do you know about that name?
He's planning on throwing out a couple half-hearted swipes and maybe also some kind of magical attack—he clearly doesn't think much of you.
Makes sense, he has Odr, he probably has extra resources we do not know, we are in the seat of his power and we are surrou-
The wolves are staying out of it
by his followers... ok nvm.

I guess its time for Builder Bomb?
At leas, i am sure his throne gives him buffs.

Edit: right, the vote....
[X] Plan Rising Sun
 
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I wonder if kennings can have their effects upgraded. Skyfire becoming more broadly interpreted, for example, in this the Sun interpretations that Halla has been providing. As deadly as the Sun indeed!
 
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