I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Does anyone remember what page I posted that rough list on? I seem to have forgotten to note it down, whoops.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
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Here it is.
I.F. Ister
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Thank you very much, have a Reward Dice for the trouble
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It would depend on what you do with the ship I expect. A ship sitting in harbour earns no orthstirr, like a farm that isn't worked. A ship making regular profitable trade runs is like a prosperous farm, proof that you are a worthy steward and attract wealth. And a ship going on raids is like a sword, a tool you use to obtain and magnify orthstirr.
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Technically, an unworked farm does give a little bit of Orthstirr if it's impressive enough (specifically, some of the 'you have a farm' orthstirr was based on building quality...just having a nice house you're maintaining is slightly Orthstirr-worthy), and I'd imagine just having and maintaining a ship is similarly a small trickle, but I basically agree in principle.
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Isn't Drysalt based in Troll town, as in, an entire town of knight tier combatants?
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Probably, yes, though they're the equivalent of low-tier Knights for the most part. Note that the Headman and his entire warband are not here with us because they're dealing with that. And that it's daylight so if they can, say, break a hole into troll-town they'd have a pretty huge advantage.
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It might just be memes infecting me, but did Hala really just point at herself with her thumb like a Vegeta who is about to get his ass kicked?
Alectai
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ORE WA!
Joking aside, Vegeta's real problem is that he gloated before he won. Halla, as one of Proper Hubris, gloats after she wins.
Man, Sigurdr is going to be so chill compared to Halla. He just wants to go on Adventures.
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You see, Drysalt, You're not dealing with the average Norse warrior anymore, etcetera, etcetera
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But he will have to be constantly dealing with oh god who have my sisters killed now
I.F. Ister
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The mental image I have of Siggy is something like this;
Hawaiian t-shirt
Aviators (rose gold)
Wide-brim bucket hat
Round face, casual soft smile. Light-hearted twinkle in his eye.
Now, obviously most of those are not possible in-setting, but it gets the vibe across.
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Bold of Sigurdr to assume he can get out of being drafted into the family Felag.
Consider the benefits, Orthstirr all around, free loot, and not having to deal with the fallout of his siblings going on killing sprees locally and acausing feud spirals.
Consider the benefits, Orthstirr all around, free loot, and not having to deal with the fallout of his siblings going on killing sprees locally and acausing feud spirals.
Alectai
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I still hope we've figured enough out about Odr Cultivation that his journeys take him to the Far East and he ends up being this weird out of context barbarian just walking around and doing generic Hero Things and nobody can figure out how the fuck he works, that isn't just casually snuffed out by a single expert waving their palm.
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Honestly, his older brother is probably just as bad as his sister. Maybe worse.
This seems legit, yeah.
I mean, he's definitely gonna be involved in those, yeah.
I'm not sure we need high levels of Odr cultivation for this, just being badass. 10th Decade Knights are no joke even by Far East master standards and Steinarr killed one pretty readily. Basic Norse pseudo-cultivation has problems, but the ability to kill even fairly impressive cultivators is not among them.
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An actual grapple Glima Trick isn't crazy talk, though we want the Armory Pocket enhancement first so we can summon and unsummon Sagaseeker at will.
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Like, uh, every judge on the Thing? There's almost definitely a lot of 30 year old+ people in the Valley.
I think Halla's on the cuff point between Low Ironbrother to high Stoneson at any rate.
Final Boss guesses thus far..
Hasvir Valley-Savior (Draugr)
Drysalt - I think we would legitimately all die if this was the final boss
A giant fuckoff Iron Golem
Dwarves?????
Trolls????
Some kind of potted men or literal ghosts?? We have not seen pottery around yet.
Well, we don't know the quality/quantity of Far East Masters. It's definitely not usual Xianxia as they haven't been literally eating everything.
Although I suspect they operate something like a mix of Feudal Europe (noblese oblige) and Greek Philosophy for their cultivation.
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We've been told (and even shown, we got an interlude from over there) that it's pretty standard xianxia cultivation over there, it's just at the same power level as, like, Knights rather than vastly higher than that.
Like, the Meteor was from there, and launched by a high-end cultivator. Which is impressive, but Blackhand once threw an entire ship to Persia, so...
I.F. Ister
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Real talk, Drysalt is so far out of your league it's not even funny
There's simply not been enough build up to use Drysalt as a boss, except as a forced life end
I like my cultivation to be on the lower end of the power scaling spectrum. Otherwise you lose sight of exactly how ridiculous something is.
Nobody is strong enough to destroy the planet in NorseQuest, that's just not something that's possible without some real shenanigans, like a gigantic mega-ritual thing.
Like, the Earth survived a planet of similar size slamming into it and emerged relatively fine. The Earth doesn't fuck around. It's dense as hell.
To be able to destroy the Earth, you'd need power beyond the ability of humans to comprehend. Sure, maybe a cultivator of that power level would shrug, but the reader isn't a cultivator of that power level. Like, the power creep that something of that scale generates is ridiculous. Not a fan.
Alectai
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Oh boy, would you call him Steelfather Tier then? As in "A Threat that demands that level of firepower to be able to challenge?"
Anyway, it's good that going to the Far East won't be a death sentence outside of Endgame at least, that's definitely on my bucket list for Sigurdr at least.