Haven't read all the replies yet so someone may have already said this, but only Malice's children from after her ascension to Monarch have the bloodline armor. Neither Fury nor Charity have it, so it's not really that eyebrow-raising.
Path of the Immeasurable Swarm [Worm/Cradle]
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Roth963
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It is just future sight if I remember correctly, she looks at their fate.
I am not sure you would get much from a baby brain, probably not something as specific as pride, considering how plastic a baby brain is.
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Yeah pretty sure Fury and Charity don't have it. I think only her direct descendants after she became monarch have it. Although considering she has had over a hundred children that is not exactly a small number.
But nobody will think it that weird she does not have the bloodline armour. Considering she is Charity's disciple they will likely just assume she is from that branch of the family. Only someone who really digs like Eithan will find out she is adopted but even then it doesn't really matter. She was Charity's disciple and openly uses the Akura name so she is not really any different to any other main family member as far as anyone is concerned.
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I haven't read the Cradle series, but from what I've gathered throughout this fic, Taylor has pretty much reached the level where she can say "Two plus two equals three" and 99% of people are going to answer "How right you are, Honoured Sage! Pleasedonteatme!"
Anyone in the remaining 1% probably has better things to do than quibble about her heritage and either hates her guts regardless, or has no reason to burn political capital belabouring the issue.
Anyone in the remaining 1% probably has better things to do than quibble about her heritage and either hates her guts regardless, or has no reason to burn political capital belabouring the issue.
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Technically speaking, Taylor was able to do that before with basically everyone on her "home" continent, due to her status as an Akura and as the Heart Sage's Disciple, but yeah, Taylor is now able to do that on her own merits.
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The reason Taylor might care about people finding out she's not a "blood-Akura" isn't because of politics.. she's never truly cared about that and now she's too powerful that it doesn't matter.
The only reason Taylor might care is because that particular tidbit of information is directly related to the fact that she's from another world.
She said as much (to the readers) when Eithan was asking her about it.
The only reason Taylor might care is because that particular tidbit of information is directly related to the fact that she's from another world.
She said as much (to the readers) when Eithan was asking her about it.
Yep and that is big news to anyone aware of the Abidan and their policies because they are rather strict on that
Roth963
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To be fair, she isn't as strong as someone who can ascend, or at least wasn't that strong before she became a sage, so anyone can probably guess that her free movement is the result of that.
She wasn't as as strong as someone who can ascend from Cradle. We don't know where the cutoff is in all the various sectors and the Abidan ultimately don't care about that anyway. They do not want anything from one iteration interfering in others. The Abidan themselves are themselves limited though they have more freedom (and most of those we see are high ranking Abidan who are both few in number and presumably able to minimize their impact on reality as needed).
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Taylor wasn't from an iteration at all, by all appearances, she is very far from Earth Bet indeed. Probably keeps the Abidan, who may have actually noticed her at this point, from actually caring very much. Especially given how much they allowed fate to be disturbed to set off a monarch war.
Do we have any evidence of her not being from a iteration? Based off the epilogue chapters there is a lot of thematic variation between iterations. I could see worm's sci-fi/cosmic horror/superhero fitting in.
Entities have destroyed thousands of worlds, probably more. Everyone in the way relies on worlds full of humans to stabalize the way. If she was from somewhere in the way the abidan would have already fought and destroyed the entities because of how detrimental they are to the very existence of reality as they know it. The way is also fairly finite, the abidan have not been able to make new planets wholesale in a while and instead have to piece new ones together from destroyed ones. So that makes it even less likely that the entities could have existed within the way and it's iterations.
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Restraint. For the thing she both has a lot of, and really, really needs to work on.
Conviction she mainlines that shit. Say what you will about Taylor but lacking in Conviction she isn't.
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If we assume that each alternate universe within Worm (Earth Aleph, Earth Bet, etc.) is it's own Iteration, then it would not make much sense for that cluster of Iterations to be within the Way Between Worlds. It might be possible for Worm to be a cluster of Iterations outside of and separate from the Way.
If we assume that all of Worm is contained within a single Iteration (and thus the Entities are also contained within the Iteration) then it could exist within the Way and the Abidan wouldn't have any reason to get involved with the Entities.
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So do I need to know about abidan archives to read this? I would read the original but I don't really wanna touch as big an uncompleted series like that. Especially cause I'm not sure if a potential ending would ruin it for me or leave too many questions unanswered for me. Cause you know plenty of series do that.
OctarineShrike
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Cradle is a complete series. Nothing really hinges on obscure factoids you'd only know from the Abidan Archive and it's WoGs.
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I thought it was a multiverse with multiple fics in it which aren't all complete? For this fic do I need to have read cradle though?
OctarineShrike
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Yeah Will Wight's stuff is a multiverse. The plots are all pretty self contained though. Nothing in the first book of the Last Horizon or Traveler's Gate series seems to directly connect to cradle and I've read those.
You should be fine with a wiki or the first few books if you can tolerate potential spoilers though things do butterfly away from canon in a big way once you get far enough into the fic.
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So probably shouldn't read this without reading cradle okay.
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Cradle is kind of like douluo dalu in that the protagonist gets to the very peak of the mortal world then ends right? Also was curious if there are ranks for ascended beings? As I don't really see them as much different other than how one ascends determines what their like as an ascended being.
OctarineShrike
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When you ascend you don't go further in the sacred arts, you start learning other magic systems and exploiting potential synergies to get stronger in a metaphysical sense.
You do get to see a bit of what Lindon does after he ascends(I figure if I don't go into details it's not really spoileriffic, after all it's Xianxia)
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Oh well we probably won't see those anyways in this story.
You can read it even if you haven't read cradle. That's what I did, and I liked it so much I ended up reading cradle. (Which I also really enjoyed)