It's a bit funny to see somebody refering to them with masculine pronouns under somebody doing the same with feminine ones while there are others only using only their name.
They do got a Vorshir helping in the form of Etaja but Etaja is committed in that they learn other power systems and is willing to save everyone of his home world at the cost of hurting other Iterations, by their own actions they're Vorshir. Keras would have issues with lots of the Vorshir but is already kinda connected to the faction through their connection to Etaja.
Yerin being able to nullify endurance is important but something to note is that Keras can heal themselves and will get better at it. I agree that Yerin will always be more skilled then Keras in combat but Keras can become skilled enough to close the gap a bit. Keras could train more esoteric effects and have them become more potent. But I can see how Keras's build vulnerable to Yerin's raw lethality.
Keras is a battle field build not a duel build which is ironic given that they've only done duels.
I've only slipped up a couple of times but it happens.
I was laughing too; really gives insight into how the questers see Keras when they slip and use gendered terms, though the masculine following right after feminine was especially ironic.
I mean Etaja seemed very against the Abidan's policy on handling nearly destroyed worlds but that may have just been a just his own world thing and that he's mostly Vorshir due to his actions, connections and convenience.
When we last improved Verdant Valley it said Mastered is the 'Lowgold' equivalent. Mayve that means we can't add new aspects from here, only improve on what it can already do?
As far as this quest is concerned, it's either five or six, so Basic -> Advanced -> Mastered -> ??? -> ??? -> maybe one more. I'm leaving a little room for me to decide between those two based on how certain things feel as Keras gets older and more established.
Nothing quite that formal. Techniques can continue to evolve in whatever way a user stretches themself to achieve. Certain types of things are harder/impossible to walk back, but this is more gut feeling than hard rules about what can and can't be done at a given level.
Lowgold is also noted to be proof of being an adult on Cradle.
Mastered is mastered like you can claim to be a master of a certain craft once you get that good. Also the higher level stuff being lesser firm and unknown makes sense since that level of skill is rarer and harder to reach.
We've focused on brining up Keras's stats to be well rounded but you are right in how Stamina used to be much proportionally higher, but something to note is that Keras is well above average in most things and the things where that's not the case is being fixed by the Mighty Heart of Oak. But I agree that if we're going to increase a stat is should be stamina which would force it into the B- level.
For some cultures at least.
Fair, I just took Mastered to mean it was the top of the scale.
Stamina doesn't get actively boosted by anything we have though (technique or otherwise), so upping it next chance we get would be preferable.
Oh sure. I figure the next time we get a stat upgrade that doesn't come from the Mighty Heart of Oak will be Highgold at the earliest, and that's at least a year or two away.
That's a good point each culture could handle things different, same with schools/sects and clans. But for Keras is seems like gold = adult in their place of origin though that's not exactly the most impressive place around.
Coordination and Stamina do have out of battlefield uses that help more for their refiner job then strength, speed and toughness. Stamina will be useful for survival situations where Keras has to fight for long periods of time or do lots of healing.
Keras's strength is now massively boosted by Field's Strength and is already above average for a low gold being at C, it's just that it isn't at C+ like the other stats besides toughness is.
Upgrading toughness would boost Keras's weakest stat to being above average for a Low Gold and then it would be equal with strength which will be good since strength and toughness are equally boosted by the Cycling.
We have aoe pretty much covered so I'd like to go for stronger shots and possibly applying status effects with death madra.
Interestingly mastered just means you have it to a professional level.
I forgot about it while planning the stat boost, but stuff is going to go down in the near future so maybe going into toughness to help survive that will be for the best.
Keras's life is going to become more chaotic but that's also going to force them to kick their growth up a level and they'll be facing more dangerous things that will test them.
Yeah the Mighty Heart of Oak is longer term growth not immediate.
So broadly, the Abidan are the "good guys" and the Vroshir are "everybody else".
The main things coming up are the attempt on the Prince's life, the Dreadgod's arrival, and the Uncrowned King tournament. The attempt on the prince's life is going to mess with Keras's schedule and make things chaotic and then the dreadgod's arrival is going to kick thing into an even higher gear. And Keras is likely gong to be one of the Kingdom's candidates for the Uncrowned King tournament.
It's probably going to be both along with the attempt on the Prince's life complicating things, but Keras's life being taken up by the attempts of the Heaven's Facade is the most immediately obvious.
So basically Keras went in and gave a good showing but at that point it was something Keras got used to and became know for.
Abidan basically make sure Iterations follow their natural paths and that the greatest good is severed, they're good as an organization but very stagnant and hidebound and have their number of assholes.
The Vroshir being everyone else is a good description of things.
