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When the west finally gets the newest Korean Lost Ark update, I am gonna make the Armen Edit I've been waiting for

One that has a HAPPY ENDING where he COMES BACK TO US

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Lost Ark spoilers for the newest KR update under the cut

DOES ANYONE KNOW ARMENS FAVORITE RAPPORT ITEM

I NEED TO KNOW

FOR SCIENCE

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Tags have spoilers :P

I do NOT like what Kharmine is implicating o_o 

Light of Destiny Story Summary

Earlier this week “The Light of Destiny” storyline was dropped on the Korean LOA servers. This post is a summary of its major events and character beats. 

This post contains MAJOR spoilers below the cut!

-Scaria sends a letter to Thirain declaring both him and the adventurer under arrest for “murdering god’s priest”, particularly Bishop Antoinio. Thirain and the adventurer put their heads together to plan what defense they can. The adventurer sends a letter to Jederico asking for help since he was witness to the events in Pleccia (like the kidnapping of Delains around the world and the church’s human experimentations) and is a friend within the Scarian Church. 

-During this, the adventurer experiences episodes of fatigue, hearing voices, dizziness, and fainting. When they try to rest, a light emerges from their body, followed by visions of Armen’s past. These visions include a child Armen having a conversation with Archon Gustaven about the Ark and Kazeros; Gustaven sending the now grown Armen, who promises to follow the path of the light because that’s what his mother would want, on a pilgrimage; and Armen’s point-of-view during Lostwind Cliff. 

Speaking of Lostwind Cliff, we learn those events forced him to relive the trauma of Claudia’s murder. We see the shadows taking on the silhouette of his mother pinned to a tree with a sword in her gut, for example. He also wasn’t cognizant while slaughtering those priests and Solas. 

We learn that Armen has followed the adventurer's journey this entire time. And, well, he’s been really miserable and lonely without them. It’s not so much that Armen WANTS to walk his current path, but rather feels it’s necessary.

-The adventurer discovers that Luterra, towards the end of his life, also experienced visions of other peoples’ past and emotions. Shandi later explains this is a trait unique to the Ark Inheritor. 

-Thirain and the adventurer go to Pleccia for their trail without a fight because Thirain doesn’t want to give Sacria an excuse to invade Luterra, and it’s pretty obvious the Sacrians are eager for slaughter. 

-The trial is held at Ignis Cathedral in Pleccia. Bishop Lazarus is fixated on the adventurer, condemning them for slaughtering innocent holy men, for defending Armen at Lostwind Cliff instead of apprehending him, and for making up lies about Sacria. Lazarus points out demons appear wherever the adventurer goes, and accuses them of causing the demon attacks. 

It quickly becomes apparent Sacria is really after the adventurer alone. Lazarus offers to let Thirain and his kingdom off the hook if he validates Sacria’s accusations and blames everything on the adventurer. We’re treated to a shot of Thirain reaching for Vanquisher when Jederico and the Avesta burst through the cathedral door. Jederico successfully presents his evidence defending the adventurer. The judge overseeing the trail, Judge Pio, dismisses the case.  

-A pillar of light is seen from far off in the horizon. Bishop Lazarus and his soldiers rush out of the Cathedral. The adventurer discovers this pillar was the missing Archon Gustaven’s power. They also discover an encrypted document which is a map to Gustaven’s prison. Turns out he’s being held on the lost island of Praeteria. The adventurer, Thirain, Jedricio and the Avesta go to rescue him. 

-The island is swarming with Twilight Priests and filled with Sylmael statues. The presence of so much Sylmael saps the adventurer’s strength and blankets the island in a thick fog. At one point, the fog becomes so thick it separates the adventurer from their friends. The adventurer is attacked by Twilight Priests. During this, the adventurer is incapacitated by another vision of Armen’s past. 

-The flashback shows Armen and Kharmine, who is disguised as Morphous, meeting with Balisio. Balisio claims to know what Armen is actually, that he can show Armen his fate, and release Armen’s true power. Armen accepts Balisio’s offer and a pillar of light surrounds him.

Later, Armen tells the adventurer Balisio wants the seven Arks combined and their power released. For what end, however, we don’t know. Unfortunately we still know next to nothing about Balisio or his motives. 

-Armen saves the adventurer. As the two of them head off to rescue Gustaven, Armen pours his heart out about how hard he tries to keep the people he cares about happy and safe, always seems to lose them in the end. 

-Thanks to all the Sylmael, Armen and the adventurer are caught up in a curse. Armen is forced to again relive the right his mother died and all the trauma of it.  I’m not going to summarize it in detail, but basically the adventurer guides them through it and helps him heal from his grief and sadness, breaking the curse. 

-Armen and the adventurer catch up with Thirain and the others, who are all fighting Lazarus and his Twilight mooks. Adventurer and pals beat the shit of them and Armen uses his divine magic to free Gustaven from his Sylmael powered prison. 

-Once outside and alone together, Armen reveals he’s the Lost Ark to the adventurer. He tells the adventurer he’ll stand with them against Kazeros and promises to not leave their side again. He also believes the adventurer, who has the power to overcome fate and destiny, can stop the Prophecy of Chaos from reaching its desired outcome.

-Kharmine shows up one last time to poop the party by telling Armen things might not go the way he thinks and that no one can escape their fate.

-We cut to Petrania where Brelshaza tells Kazeros and Thaemine that Akkan did well completing the Red Moon. Kazeros rambles off some mumbo jumbo about the Prophecy of Chaos as the Red Moon dissolves. 

-Finally we get a flashback to 500 years ago when Luterra was preparing to seal Kazeros. Azena demands to know why Luterra is not killing Kazeros instead. Luterra explains he can’t and that  he’ll leave it to the Successor of the Ark. As he prepares to release the Ark’s power, he calls out the adventurer’s name. 

Here's a video with all the cutscenes:

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PSA:

YOU CAN RAPPORT THIS GUY NOW

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Y'all are still playing Lost Ark but what about watching the ANIME instead? (ʘ ʖ̯ ʘ) Jk, just made these fake animu screencaps a while ago and I wish I could make more but there's just so much to draw aaaaaah (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)

With subs for the real feels ™

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Also can I just say that Kharmine's voice actor, Alejandro Saab, has been KILLING it as Kharmine? He gives just the right amount of mocking and menacing, it's SO good.

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If anyone needs me, I'll be playing through the entire korean version of lost ark just to experience the quest coming in August

Spoilers ahead!

I'm just saying, if it comes between choosing to unite the arks to stop Kazeros, and saving Armen (who I'm like 99% sure is the key/Lost Ark)... welcome back Kazeros.

But I'm genuinely curious as to how they'll wrap up Armens story, it's been a long time coming - and the west has only had the game for a little over a year x_X

Also, Morpheus is back?? I didn't expect them to maintain that kind of story continuity, but it's a nice surprise. Morpheus and Armen were the first two characters we met in the game, on the ship to Trua. Now both of them will be there at the end of this chapter -very much a full-circle moment.

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The grip that this character has on me is, quite frankly, ridiculous. 

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Spoilers for Elgacia! 

I need to cry about the translation change, 모험기님 is a polite way of saying “adventurer”, but they changed it to “old friend”, which just hit me right in the damn heart. Armen wasn’t in this quest too much, but it’s setting up Pleccia WHICH if we’re lucky, should be released early fall. There’s no field boss, chaos dungeon, or endgame content tied with the continent so I’m HOPING we get it pretty soon. 

-it was VERY interesting to see the Lazeniths grapple with their absolute faith in Regulus, and their loved ones being smote with the Light’s Judgment. 

There were so many standout moments for me, in no particular order: 

-I really liked Nineveh showing us around. Seeing her house was a very sweet moment, and all in all her character really shone in this quest. 

-Lauriel was a compelling antagonist and I while I didn’t necessarily feel bad for him, he sacrificed himself to try and steer his people towards the one future where they aren’t killed. And he’s never going to see it :( 

-this quest reminded me how dark Lost Ark can go. Diogenes being imprisoned in agony for 500 years, Lazeniths watching their loved ones being killed in front of them, and Nineveh struggling with being told she abandoned the people she was supposed to protect. 

-and the CUTSCENES my GOD. The Kayangel one, the one where Beatrice opens Trixion, and Vairgrys’ cutscene were so good. I read somewhere that this was Gold River’s (the creator of Lost Ark and very beloved by the Korean community) vision for the end of this chapter, and one of the last things he did before taking a step back to focus on his health. 

I could go on, but this post is getting long- I shall keep yelling, and I’d love to hear what other people thought!

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I have so many thoughts 😐 but I'm going to play it through again on another character to get the full gist. My main thought boils down to, the story has definitely moved into a new chapter, they HEAVILY hinted to something, but there's still a ton that hadn't been cleared up.

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I finally got around to logging back into tumblr after my phone broke, and I am READY FOR ELGACIA BABY

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#ifsmilegate #makesuschoosebetweensavingarmen #andsavingtheworld #orhasarmensacrificehimselfinanyway #tableswillbeflipped

The latest story update on the Korean Lost Ark servers, the one featuring Pletze, came with a daily quest you needed to repeat for a 100 days to complete. Finishing it rewards you with a cutscene featuring Armen.

Spoilers behind the cut! 

Keep reading

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I don't know how Tumblr woooorks

Does liking someone's reblog of my post count as liking my own post???

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Happy 1 Year to Lost Ark. Highlights from playing this game since launch include: 

-not knowing about engravings and using a bunch of books on the Mayhem one, even though I play deathblade 

-thinking that we were going to see Armen pretty soon after he left us on Lostwind Cliff because he’s such an important character so he’ll come back soon right?

-publishing my first ever fic on AO3! And people liked it! And it gave me the warmest of fuzzies! 

-yelling at Kharmine for re-making Velcruze after spending hours trying to break it 

-lailai

-and for the first time, interacting with ppl on Tumblr, which also gave me the warm fuzzies because as someone who doesn’t really have friends who are into a lot of the stuff that I am, it felt great to yell abt Lost Ark stuff with other people 

And, finally: 

- getting the achievement “I’m Dying, sis” from the Vykas raid 

Pls add on with any good memories u got if you want! 

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#theyreeachotherscomfortperson #allegroliterallysays #armensmemoriesofusANDTHIRAIN #arethelightheholdsonto #soulmatebehaviour

P L E A S E i cannot be the only one who ships armen and thirain, there has to be more of us

i mean come on 😫😫😫

just LOOK at it

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Legit about to cry over a lost ark quest

(Spoiler): I-202 sends for your help, you come to help it and realize its friend B-0031 is not working. You do a kill quest to find parts for B-0031. And once you put them in I-202 gets excited, then opens its chest panel for you to take out the engine in I-202 to put inside B-0031. I didn't want to do it but I had to, to complete the quest. Once you do it, B-0031 starts working again. I-202 shows how happy it is before it collapses on the ground... and that's the end of the quest.