Favorite History/Lore?

Skye

I WASN'T GOING TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT

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Asmodron

The emotion driven and lustful one hates the logical and nerdy one. Who'd have thought.

Tahquil

... Awkward.

Reiloch

I've always had a soft spot for the original Key Rite. Everybody really came together, and it was a great group effort both at the ritual itself as well as the planning that went in to it. What Ashtan really needed at the time was a non-theistic Chaos Bible, and I'm really glad I got to be a part of its unveiling.

Caelan

Sartan said:

Death's Heart remains my all-time favorite event. There have been arguably some much better events since then, but that one in particular locked me completely into Achaea.

As for stories, or lore, there is too much to even begin to list off.

I was thinking this. Maybe because I just don't pay much attention to other events, but Death's Heart holds a spot for my because I was just a fledgling Sentinel playing for about a month or something. I don't even remember the details. Just the chaos and confusion and possible world ending... So it was my first big event. They say you always remember your first. Death's Heart you filthy whore, you. 

Caelan

Cooper 

You loved dying to Napoloen and Mordyval's firelords as much as I did then, eh?

Lol. So many angry afternoons after those deaths.

Who was the Infernal with ghe.. I think it was a steel warhawk or something? I remember wanting one bad.

Telendrieth

Barring recent events which I'm still not sure how I feel about, the two that probably impacted Telen the most were Bal'met and Thoth's death. When I was new and very young to the game, Miramar picked up on my roleplay and interacted with me pretty frequently. Those interactions eventually had Her guiding me to Cyrene and were some of the most awesome times I had as a character. Seeing Her die was a really rough thing for Telen, and left me pretty saddened as a player. Aside from Miramar, Thoth was also one of my favourite divine. I'm honestly not sure which event I would say was the most fun though. I have super fond memories of an event way back in the day where our dreams would manifest as denizens and try and eat us. As a young player that one always stuck with me.

Farrah

Skye said:

I girl-crushed on Damen Kephry in my early days @Nicola

I really liked his relationship with Catarin and was totally shipping them too bad he deathflagged himself so badly

As to modern events... even though I wasn't really involved in the events until much later (I was 90% dormant for the first half of it until all the Gods started getting killed) I liked the Bal'met event, not just for its scale but also its presentation.

The destruction and desperate evacuation of Shallam and seeing all the Gods shouting at each other like that, and seeing them fight while all the mortals just watch helplessly or try to empower their god through prayer was one of those super immersive moments where you feel like 'these are Gods' and you feel like there are real stakes, rather the niggling meta that 'this is an admin in a godshell' and 'eh it'll be back to normal in a month'.

All I could think of was that nothing would ever be the same again after this. For someone who's been playing a long time and was getting a little jaded about it all, it really brought it back for me.

Ngl, would totally ship Damen/Catarin over Lucaine/Catarin.

Navarr

Going to go out on a limb and say I adore the blademaster lore, history around it and of course Lucaine. I admire tales of samurai and the blademaster resonated well and so I dived in to playing a very heavily RP'd blademaster many years ago and still play it. By far I think as far as RP'g a class, blademaster has been my favourite.

Shirszae

I don't know much I care about Lucaine but for some reasons I really like the poems attributed to him.  Other than that, the tale of Travian Shea never fails to get me all emotional no matter how many times I read it. Whoever wrote it was a fucking master

Kiet

It took me a while to decide but my favorite has to be Babel's awakening. I was pretty close with a few occies back in the day, and I used to sit at Fire and Spice every so often while they raved about Babel's return and all those other things. While I wasn't a direct participant, it was really fun watching the weird crazy thing my friends were doing turn into something real, and the entire event was super fun beyond that.

I remember how bummed the entire Babelite cult was when Eris looked like she pk'd Babel and it was over, and then how excited they were when he came back after all. It really was kind of a rollercoaster for the ones that spent ages hyping up Babel as a prophecy, and the emotional aspect of it for them was vicariously cool for me.

Tiax

I really like the twist in jester history that they saved the occultist a from the church.  I think it really adds depth to the archetype and connects them to other factions in the world.  There's a lot of opportunity to run with jesters as secret agents hiding behind a facade of being a hapless doofus.  Unfortunately, the early jesters guild never really picked it up internally, and we ended up as just plain old hapless doofuses for a long time.