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With this discussion about undead and liches it occurs to me that Blitzhart has almost certainly boned one before. 
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Overlady: Attack of the Minions (Thread II)
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Amusingly enough, something similar actually did happen in one of the fairy tales.
It starts with Ivan the Fool being married to Vasilisa the Wise and living in her house. Vasilisa has to travel somewhere for her magic business, so she leaves Ivan home and says that he can go anywhere in the house except that one room. Naturally, it doesn't take long for Ivan to do exactly that.
In the room he finds Koschey (though he doesn't know it's Koschey, of course) chained to a wall and stripped off his power. Koschey asks for water and Ivan obliges. Koschey drinks three buckets of water, which restores his powers and allows him to break the chains, fly away and kidnap Vasilisa while he's on it, leaving Ivan to fix the mess.
Eventually Ivan manages to kill Koschey and rescue Vasilisa. While the story is silent about it, we can safely assume that he found himself in that same room shortly after.
The moral here is that you should trust your loved ones (especially when she's called the Wise and you're called the Fool). If your wife has a naked old man chained up in a room she forbids you to go into, that's probably for a good reason and you shouldn't meddle. At the very least wait for her to return and explain the situation rather than do something drastic like giving the man water to drink.
I think Lee would be kinda suspicious of any miraculous life-prolonging treatment that requires you to operate a needle on yourself and results in a drastic weight loss and pale complexion.
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I think that is various Curiosity tropes, like Curiosity killed a cat. Also seemingly similar story to what you said:
Curiosity is crapshoot:
Folklore
- The Bluebeard story. Every wife gets killed for curiosity until one of them turns out to have common sense in addition to curiosity and starts to plan her escape after finding the corpses of all the previous wives.
- This is an especially interesting example, because over time the emphasis of the story changed. The early versions focused on how curiosity, as well as being brave and clever, saved the heroine. (If she hadn't looked through the forbidden door, she would have stayed married to a serial killer.) Later versions
altered the story to imply that curiosity is unmitigatingly bad; the heroine is so wild with curiosity that she abandons her duties and disobeys her husband. The subtext seems almost to read that she deserves death.
- There's also another one where the moral is curiosity isn't necessarily bad but assumptions and lack of trust will color your perceptions. In that version, the wife peeks in his closet and sees heads in the dark. He drags her back to the closet to show her the heads where she kills him... and in the light of the candle, she see the heads are actually statue busts. Cue massive What Have I Done.
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I am brought to mind how the earlier versions of red riding hood had her not getting eaten but escaping which sometimes resulted in the wolf being drowned as it chased her depending on the version... Of course in some of those early versions it was not a wolf but a werewolf or ogre. Then of course you got the grim version of course there were two wolfs with red not being tricked by the second wolf and instead her and grandmother eventually drown the second wolf with trickery.
At this point we're a long, long away from the topic, so this derail will end now.
And you've probably got a few more ideas for pre-chapter quotes now.
Epigraph is the term for that. Very useful sort of thing.
Back towards the story though, I'm rather curious about how things will turn out for our dear Overlady once she faces the newly ascended Baelogi.
With Eleanore freshly busted from jail ... a regular barrel-o-laughs.*
*For the readers.
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By the way.... Why is there that saying:
From perspective of Evil that is just asking for putting poisoned knifes between you and meatshields, instead of shield between you and poisoned knifes? Unless it is pretend to be "Best friend forever" with those enemies, as they need really close monitoring, get as much use out of them as you can and kill them at first signs of danger (or bit earlier, as they are likely also pretending to be friend to you and are sharpening knifes)...
Eleanore could still be Louise's enemy... or was already years ago in usual arguments between sisters, with Louise sometimes going to bed without dinner, just for a bucket full of tar and feathers to fall on her head when entering her room...
Eh, Louise just conquered public speaking. Nothing can stop her now.
It's a shortened version. The full saying is "keep your friends close and your enemies closer, slowly roasting in your personal torture dungeon."
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It's pretty similar to clubbing them I'd assume.With this discussion about undead and liches it occurs to me that Blitzhart has almost certainly boned one before.
Though I wonder how that would have worked.
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Though she did cheat with that confidence potion, but as goes Evil saying:
And then again, that roasting of enemy in dungeon just asks for James Bond to escape easily, so just shoot that enemy and burn/destroy body to make it useless to necromancers.
Speaking like that is just asking for something you stop her, you fool.
Eh, you worry too much. I mean, seriously, public speaking. Louise is OP. Honestly, what could possibly pose a challenge to her now? Biology exam she isn't prepared for?
ES isn't going for the baelogi romance route this playthrough, so there won't be any "playing doctor".
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That is not at all cute with Baelogi making making parasite wasps and that fungus transforming ants into zombies, along with it's opinion on Marcipan's crush on Wardes.
So using word "romance route of Louise + Baelogi" can more likely be sarcasm. First thoughts are that Louise lost in fight with Baelogi, but was not killed. Instead preserved to serve as guinea pig or incubator for monsters...
So... burn that dark angel/god/god-in-making to pink fires?
I'm being 100% serious. The route really is a thing of beauty, my favorite romance in the dark god routes in fact. However it is only accessible to those who are following the greater Dark God Aethe main story route, which can diverge into a Dark Goddess Baelogi route should you choose to do so. You were thinking of one of the possible bad ends for fighting against her.
Doesn't Ivan get killed at least once going after Koschei? I distinctly remember there being a detail of Ivan getting literally torn to pieces and his wife's brothers (who I think are birds for some reason) have to put his sorry ass back together and bring him back to life.
ES has asked to drop it.
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And is one of routes storming and taking over Heaven?
Haven't read source, but source is Paradise lost? And was saying more of sour grapes, trying to lie to self in failing to take over?
Also Baelogi screaming: "I said I will show them and look who rules now! I showed you!"
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More on topic, might be interesting to see if Heaven is doing anything about those incursions or are they too high on something hippies or searching for God or something else.
Then there is that boring "Balance of Good and Evil" that might be in effect here. Good forces usually have tied hands, so mortals have to deal with problems with minimal help from heaven or devils are allowed to do more. With someone opening all those abyssal portals (can't be all Magda, like one Guichi saw), Good side should be moved to start doing something, having excuse for more then passively sitting and maybe giving cryptic, almost useless advices.
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TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
This function pretty deeply on Tropes, and the cosmic forces of good being passive, behind the scenes, and/or seemingly but not actually absent is very much within the Tropes. It's not like Good doesn't have a ton of things going for it already, anyways.
Like its super-aggravating capacity for a small group of Good young adults to murderise their way through a dark empire that took decades to build over the course of around 20-40 hours of gameplay (excluding cutscenes).
TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Exactly what I was thinking of, as that has actually been pretty explicitly mentioned in universe and not just in your notes/dialog with the readers. Heroes punch up more successfully then villains punch down.
This isn't a story where good and evil are actual mirror images with direct equivalency going on at all levels.
