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Added 2023-09-09 18:35:16 +0000 UTCErick Flatt, [60-ish] [Current Year: 14
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Surprised he didn't create a planet inside himself/benevolence like his sun to be his reson factory and a secure vault for stuff he picks up in his time at margleknot
Naoggeddon
2023-09-13 21:57:40 +0000 UTCfxd
Arcs
2023-09-13 18:08:18 +0000 UTC'where there resons' there -> these or the
Corwin Amber
2023-09-13 17:39:59 +0000 UTCAgree with all your points, especially the more suns and making more Benevolence dragons.
John Anastacio
2023-09-11 11:08:45 +0000 UTCIt seems odd he has not just asked Yigg for more space to build more suns. It seems odd that his status does not track his dragon-ness. Dragon essence should defintely be a thing outside the script that he should be able to track. How come he did not buy any books on magic, crafting, seeds, etc. in the market as he was walking thou? Maybe someone in the market would have had some type of storage device as well he did not bother creating an inventory so he should get something like that here. I really hope he ends up at the Waiting Room soon and picks out a bunch of dragons willing to be converted to benevolance dragon for the free resurrection. I Also hope he works with Yigg to setup some type of orgnisation to provide Reincarnations.
Findell
2023-09-11 03:09:14 +0000 UTCYeah I had this sense too. It feels to convenient.
Heru Kane
2023-09-10 19:05:31 +0000 UTCEvil Benevolence seems fascinating especially with the context that Benevolence seeks power first and helps later. Maybe they can reforge the Tower into some sort of Autocratic force for Balance like a Benevolent Inquisition.
Brisingaer
2023-09-10 18:03:40 +0000 UTCHe let plenty of evils be wdym 🙃 it even backfired on him a couple of times. Also, he is not Jane, gaming the system like that is not aligned with his character at all. Not even mentioning the nuances that are very abundant in this story. Does killing Nothaganathor really ended the matter and easy as that? If it's that simple why didn't Shadow do it herself then? She's strong enough for sure. If you looked at all those time he gain power, it just come as consequences of trying to find solutions that's goes very circumspect about it rather than a direct smite. I mean, zone of peace, Empathy, Gate, Benevolent. 🤷
Spark
2023-09-10 16:24:42 +0000 UTCI wouldn't call it hypocrisy so much as a tension. He wants to make everything better. Continual improvement. Ideally he wouldn't need to be powerful, but with the world as is, he needs to be powerful to make the world better. Maybe the world could eventually be made good enough that Erick wouldn't need personal power, but the only way to get there is for him to have a shit ton of personal power.
Ano Ano
2023-09-10 16:16:16 +0000 UTCWhile true, he also wants to remove/change all the Evil he sees. Which is impossible if he wants to be Erick the Bum. Again, he's very much a hypocrite in that he's always breaking the limits on power while claiming no one should have so much power.
Patchumz
2023-09-10 11:25:38 +0000 UTCHe kind of is infinitely strong though. It's just his infinity doesn't dwarf all other infinities in existence. I don't think he'd want it to either. Erick has long protested that no one should have as much power as he held on Veird. Look at how happy he was to be an anonymous bum.
Ano Ano
2023-09-10 06:20:27 +0000 UTCHe wasn't outside in space for terribly long. Can't remember exactly how long, it did take a while to get himself established and figure out what to do, but it wasn't for years.
tibbish
2023-09-10 06:16:38 +0000 UTCthis is correct!
Arcs
2023-09-10 06:16:19 +0000 UTCAs near as I can tell the resons are generated through his body and moved to his mind somehow through the channels. The part where he was talking about messing with and when he considered them (at first, he changed his mind) fully obsolete was the where this was gone over in the story. Those channels, or his body, appear to have limits for moving the resons and when those limits are exceeded they're popping out of his body whichever way they can.
tibbish
2023-09-10 06:14:19 +0000 UTCI laughed at the level of the tower. 1-87 the American police code for murder/homicide.
Laevus Deus
2023-09-10 01:32:44 +0000 UTCI was under the impression that is true once he arrive to Margleknot. The period it took for him to ascend was not under that decreed
Pablo Barbatto
2023-09-10 00:28:43 +0000 UTCYggdrasil decreed that for every year Erick spends in Margleknot, only a day will pass in Veird. From their perspective, not too much time has passed at all.
John Anastacio
2023-09-10 00:16:31 +0000 UTC"and his Lightning Path was telling him that whatever he was observing right now wasn’t important at all." Probably another case of benevolence shielding Erick from Consequences.
Echohunter
2023-09-09 23:33:21 +0000 UTCI do like the literal opposites in methods of growth Benevolence and Malevolence are. Scheming against the entire world for the sake of power vs power for the sake of the entire world. And that Erick's most impressive acts are acts of skill and talent not strength alone. Really fun read.
Brisingaer
2023-09-09 22:14:47 +0000 UTCI also miss Ophiel and Poi. I hope they are doing well back in vierd.
Pablo Barbatto
2023-09-09 21:33:31 +0000 UTCGreat Chapter!!! The chapters of this new book has the same nostalgic feeling from the first book where Erick is relearning what is this new world bit by bit. The big difference I see is that before he wanted to fit in with the environment and now he is wanting to create a positive change along the way.
Pablo Barbatto
2023-09-09 21:32:51 +0000 UTCSure he *says* that, but he also resolutely Destroys all Evil he encounters that he can Destroy without ramifications to Good. He literally Destroyed all visible Evil on Veird before he left and has a working system to continue it. So it's less about what he chose to be and more about *what he does*. What he currently does pretty much all the time is at odds with his strategy in Margleknot before he started throwing hands (in words, by threatening Slavery as a concept) at the Tower, which is very much more his style. It just feels hypocritical to blame Paradox for the fact that he's not currently trying to break his own power system to become infinitely strong when this is what he's always done before when there are problems too big for him. He couldn't defend his little town, so he started breaking the rules with little Wizardry and creating insane spells and unlocking Particle Magic. He couldn't defend the major cities he was involved in so he broke more rules and became a Wizard. He couldn't defend the world so he broke the ultimate rule and became a True Wizard. Now everyone is telling him he can't defeat Evil because of the Balance and Noth is a very powerful, but not infinitely powerful, being. So why isn't he trying to gain more power when he already has all the tools in the sky above him, with access Margleknot literally lets him control (even if that means not helping people temporarily with his Reson production, but those people weren't being helped before him anyways)?
Patchumz
2023-09-09 20:53:55 +0000 UTCloving it! i'm a bit confused why Erick has resons spilling out if he produces too many. I'm curious about the answer as stated and also why a paradox wizard would have an issue with what seems like 'not big enough on the inside' problems
Michael Olson
2023-09-09 20:45:40 +0000 UTCErick voluntarily chose to become Paradox, not Creation or Destruction. That's the short answer. There's a longer answer, but that's in the story itself.
Arcs
2023-09-09 20:33:06 +0000 UTCI'm curious as to why Erick can't just... conjure up a way to generate infinite power, since he already seems on the cusp of it. Such as directing all the power of his Benevolent Sun into his Darkness and Stats and once he was strong enough, just cull Noth the easy way. He could probably wipe out Elemental Malevolence from reality if he really put his mind to the problem, given how Benevolence acts when it finds a problem it can eat. Also this infinite power could lead him to generating infinitely more powerful sources of Benevolence which lead to infinitely more powerful sources of Resons and thus the end of Evil itself.
Patchumz
2023-09-09 20:27:20 +0000 UTCLove the last sentence, as if he just reincarnated himself. Haha.
Jean Clinet
2023-09-09 20:22:40 +0000 UTC👍
Pheonixarcher
2023-09-09 20:10:35 +0000 UTCthank you!
Arcs
2023-09-09 19:56:09 +0000 UTCWell then at the wraith tower is a smart group knowing that Erick and his abilities are very much a shake up to the established status quo. I’m loving how Erick is growing in connections, power, and influence. Quick question can we get a reaction or exploration to how Quill and Jane and the other are doing with Erick gone and what they are doing specifically. Thanks for the chapter
Zero
2023-09-09 19:51:19 +0000 UTCJust wanted to say, Arcs, that it's truly impressive how consistently you've managed to write such a wonderful story. Reading a new chapter has been a highlight of my week for years now. Thank you!
Matt H
2023-09-09 19:50:45 +0000 UTCWow! Very good.
Heru Kane
2023-09-09 19:33:22 +0000 UTCNice
enleed
2023-09-09 19:07:56 +0000 UTC
