#TNP SPOILERS

[ryuichifoxe]

So, a good friend introduced me to The Northern Passage. I may have repurposed my old Witcher oc and have a soft spot for Lea...

[northern-passage]

So I have a theory that every Hunter has something on the otherside of the Vel. It's how they're able to draw upon and use it, because of this connection.

It's also how Hunters are able to close rifts. Because you have to ask yourself: If the Hunter closes it on this side, who (or what, to be more precise) closes it on the otherside?

But I've been thinking about the entity from C2, and starting a new playthrough I'm at the part where the Hunter is remembering the Ladder and this passage comes up:

During a particularly rough segment of the Ladder you completely lost your appetite and had insomnia so bad you began to see things constantly, a dark shadow always looming just beyond your vision.

Now obviously this could just be what it says, a side effect of the Hunter's insomnia, but... is the dark shadow the creation of the Hunter's... "opposite"?

i'll say.. not quite. i suppose these are light spoilers, but i want to talk about it hehe and throw you all a bone (though most of you are already very close to getting it right)

the connection hunters have mainly pulls power from the dark magic of the Vel itself, and the magic present on the other side, rather than from any sentient beings (like how mages pull power from natural forces: fire, storms, etc). however, it can latch on to something and drain it if it's in the wrong place at the wrong time when the hunter opens the Vel - or if it's patiently waiting for the hunter on the other side, which is exactly what happens in the isolation district. if the hunter is the one that voluntarily opens the Vel, you'll get this line:

"There's a familiar presence with you now, the faint rattle of chains ringing in your ears, and you let it step into your shadow - let it step into //you//. Together, you break into a run across the courtyard."

the hunter is pulling power directly from the entity here because it was literally following them and waiting for the opportunity to get through to them. it tried previously with the wraith, but ultimately failed since both it and the wraith were weaker, and then again the night before by luring the hunter into the woods so it could see them alone, but it still wasn't strong enough to break all the way through, even though it did get the hunter to open the Vel then.

when the Vel is torn open by the hunter in the isolation district, they are doing it forcibly and deliberately - there is no resistance from them anymore, so the entity is finally able to break all the way through.

if you do not open the Vel, it will end up collapsing on its own, mainly due to the fact the Vel was already incredibly fragile there but also because the entity is pushing in on the other side. you'll get a different scene where it will actually speak to you, and even though the hunter tries to resist, they're too weak in that moment, and the entity is able to forcibly let itself in.

and while the entity does tend to take the shape of the hunter, that's not it's "true form" and it will change shape quite a bit as the story progresses. now that it has made direct contact and finally attached itself fully to the hunter, we're going to be seeing it a lot more 👀

so it's not the hunter's shadow, necessarily, though you are right about that specific line regarding the Ladder - that comment about the dark shadow was deliberate. the thing that's following the hunter has been following them for a long time, but it existed long before the hunter did.

[harriertail]

I low-key hope they'll have to switch territories like some people said they might. But this time, I don't want the territories to be the same. Like oh how convenient, everyone got basically the same territory again! I want things to be different, so the Clans will have to get used and adapt to new places. I'm sure they can do more than just river area, moorland, swamp-y, and forest.

im actually all for them moving again - into a new territory meant for five clans that doesn't constantly expand inconsistently (behind ksyclan is mountains (SqHope), but behind shadowclan is forest and towns (TgShadow)? no sense) if the new territory had more exploration + them setting up landmarks and places (ie an owl tree, some rocks like snakerocks, yno just points of interest and things) id be all for it. some unconventional places too would be cool. maybe they should go north of the mountains to a completely wild area with craggy rocks for WindClan, a windswept and even a seaside delta for riverclan.

[ihazmunchies91]

"Do you know what the Hawthorne Effect is reader?"

"N-No I don't think-"

"It is the study of how one changes under the condition of being monitored or watched. Thier performance improves, their behaviors, their appearance, their body language. Before you entered this Parable, can you ever say you had anything profound happen to change your life for the better? I think not. Before this Parable, you were miserable. And Despite your happenings and events here, you have improved. You are happy."

Okay imma talk about Void here. I have brainrot about my boy.

Void Narrator is from a unfinished fanfic I did a year ago. It was a half life stanley parable crossover.

The Narrator was a Psychologist that worked for black mesa and was sent to infiltrate the facility that stanley worked at to study the mind control tactics they had. To him, this was the greatest opportunity to understanding how the mind worked in response to being controlled. And in his mind, this was the ultimate catalyst to him being the greatest psychologist. He felt as though he could use this tactic to become a better psychologist by mind controlling his patients somehow with the help of Black Mesa.

When the cascade resonance happened, he became mutated into an entity and is now a part of the void entirely. And he can be malicious and deadly. But he mostly watches everything. He erased stanleys coworkers including his closest friend (who later respawns).

I never finished the fanfic because I ran out of steam, and I didn't have a lot of information that I do now. So now he is in TNP (the narrative Parable) where he belongs.

Yes, He is aware of G-Man from his orginal story. He was a frequent visitor.

Voids name is yet to be spoken publically. It will be featured in the fanfic.

He can hear thoughts very easily, which is also how he's able to do psychology very well. he's also incredibly violent when it comes to intruders in his territory, however, he has a select few narrators that he tolerates in his facility, they come to visit him and play games, however, void tends to cheat when it comes to games. He can tranform the cards and dice to his liking.

He was a psychologist for workers at Black Mesa because many of the workers, mostly the scientist became frequently stressed about their work position and needing to get things done on time or else they would face expulsion from the facility.

When he was a psychologist to black Mesa, he would often spend his earnings on gambling, and he would never lose, often using his psychology to trick others into losing, and thus, when he was transformed into a void creature, he used his abilities to his full advantage, he could care less if he was caught.

He loves having a drink before he gets started on his work. he has various wines and decanters. he owns a parlor inside the void which looks like a bar in a casino. Clean green and red carpets. A poker table. several couches ro get comfortable on or rest. A fireplace. he also has his doctorates hangingon his wall above the wine cabinet.

I loves him. T.T

art by emiletb

[mist-dancing]

I don’t underdstand the “omg no they ruined squirrelstar by making her leader!!!” And like… what books are you guys reading? I think she’s great. She’s mischevious, funny, she’s rather friendly to most of her clan, and she’s genuinely being a good leader.

Idk in all of the other arcs she just seems really stressed out and angry, probably because there’s always somebody after her, but after Brambleclaw retired she seems great. Do you guys just want her to be stressed out or something? I genuinely don’t get it.

[punkymaysnark]

Welcome to the traumatized gray cats club, Moonpaw. Assuming you are going to be gray because that's our trend right now.

[shummthechumm]

i will never let this scene go why would they write this

[bonefall]

the idea of a cat attacking a bulldozer, let alone SPECKLETAIL, is cracking me up. i’m dying. definitely the second option for Thornclaw’s death lol

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[thenightpool]

You've narrowed our sixteen Ultimate Rinharu Moments down to just two! Now it's time to decide on the winner: The Night Pool or Harurinralia. (Or, perhaps, make them tie?)

[flipseed]

The Rewritten Timeline

Period One

- Ancients: LionClan, TigerClan, LeopardClan rule the forest, told through dramatic epics of lions getting their manes, tigers their stripes, and leopards their spots.

- Dawn: DOTC except they do not come from the Tribe of Rushing Water or the ancient cats from the lake. they are descendants of tigers and lions and leopards, with the five clans taking traits from the three big ones and dividing the forest amongst them to share in peace and harmony. there's the in between the AE and DOTC, with the Tale of Two Brothers (Gray Wing & Clear Sky), One Eye's Demise which created the Dark Forest, the Bloodiest Battle and the creation of StarClan, and Moth Flight's Vision which led to the Moonstone and creation of medicine cats. Thunderstar and Skystar are not father/son in this au. All Clan founders are the same age in this au 👍

- Might of Justice/Code Era: the warrior code is established in a series of events that have since become fables. The tradition of the Gathering on the full moon is also established by Birchstar of SkyClan after the events of Cloudberry's Lament. Half-moon meeting for medicine cats is also established in this era by Swiftfoot of WindClan during the events of The Medicine Cats Decide

- Skyfall Era: SkyClan gets driven out. The name initially puts blame on SkyClan, but this era is eventually referred to as StarClan's Failing or The Four's Secret in modern versions of the stories

Period Two

- Golden Era: After SkyClan was forced out of their home, the four remaining Clans seemed to prosper, proving to those who sympathized with SkyClan that they were better off without them and the four Clans were righteous. Peace and harmony were restored for a brief period, until Ripplestar's attack

- Bloodstained Era: The Clans quickly fell into old habits of killing and plundering one another, still relatively lawless in regards to battles and borders. Four new rules were added during this era in order to prevent the copius amount of bloodshed that had happened without rules to guide the Clan cats. The Clans realized that in order to distinguish themselves from rogues, they had to maintain some semblance of dignity and honor as well as respect for each other

Period Three

- Secrecy Era: The Clans stopped relying on each other and Gatherings became short due to each Clan trying to prevent inter-Clan romances after Mapleshade's death. Oakstar is also conducting his raids on Twolegplace during this time in order to appease StarClan and make sure none of his warriors betray him again

- Thunder's Beginning Era: Goosefeather's birth marks the beginning of this era. His prophecies changed ThunderClan, and by extension all five Clans, forever. Pinestar's Secret was added to the code during this era and an interpretation of the code began to gain traction: where loyalty is stressed, might = right, and some rules are deemed not as important or are tossed completely. This era ends with Brokenstar succeeding Raggedstar

- Fire Alone Era: Rusty is brought into ThunderClan and eventually becomes Firestar. This era covers the events of the first series and ends with Scourge's demise. This era also establishes the banning of cruel renaming in the code. Also Longtail is made deputy instead of Graystripe at the end 👍. After Longtail loses his vision, he steps down as deputy and then Graystripe is chosen 😊.

Period Four

- Midnight Era: This era covers the events of Brambleclaw and crew leaving to the Clans making it to the lake

- Sunset Era: Begins with Tallstar making Onestar leader instead of Mudclaw and basically the second half of TNP. Ends with Firestar choosing Brambleclaw as his deputy in replacement of the missing Graystripe

Period Five

Some cats argue if Period Five and Four are actually separate, since all the events that happened are so close together time-wise, but others argue they are distinct and separate due to the different prophecies that ruled both periods

- Beyond Stars Era: Covers basically all of PoT, with changes to who knows about the Three and Sol's influence and Firestar dying in the fire scene. Hollyleaf's Gathering outburst is what officially adds the medicine cats can't have kits rule to the code

- Omens/Apocalypse Era: Covers all of OotS, with Bramblestar taking over ThunderClan and Rowanstar taking over ShadowClan. The Clans are uneasy with Hollyleaf's disappearance, since they all thought she was part of the Three. Dovewing's discovery of her own powers puts most cats' minds at ease. There are small groups of cats in each Clan that fear the Three and their power and believe they are going to bring the worst and destroy the Clans with their power. This era ends with the Great Battle

- Recovery Era: Dovewing's Silence & Bramblestar's Storm take place during this time, where the Clans are trying to decide how to deal with the DF trainees and the loss of a good chunk of their Clanmates. Two new rules are added to the code during this time. One for dealing with DF trainees and Bramblestar's rule about helping the Clans

Period Six

- Return of SkyClan Era: covers all of AVoS, Hawkwing's Journey, and Tigerheart's Shadow. The Kin stays for longer this time, Onestar and Darktail still die together but at the end instead, and Tree's mediator position is added to the code

- Longest Night/Cruel Season/Ashfur's Reign Era: begins with the long leaf-bare and ends with Bristlefrost's double death and the restructuring of the code

[saucetail-hasanewblog]

I've been getting really, really into warrior cats again. I don't know why exactly

[tessied]

Okay. All my Warriors books have arrived and I'm so excited for the journey. I finished Darkest Hour last week and I started reading Midnight on the train. So far so good! I feel like the writing changed up some? Maybe I liked the way more dramatic and emotional writing from TPB, it just feels a little drier to me. Though the new conflict and prophecy is interesting so I will continue reading.

[northern-passage]

SPOILERS : but the fact that in my route my mc ended up clawing at the old scars Lea (WHO IM ROMANCING BTW) used to have hurts me deeply damn you author for the emotional scars this will most def inflict on both of them (But not actually damn you your writing is fantastic I love this<3)

[wrecking]

i'm genuinely so excited abt TGA and TNP. i'll just infodump abt them below the cut but know if you're a #fan of my music they are spoilers for december

so uh, they're my "failed children" that were destined for greatness yet fell apart for reasons both in and out of my control. they're like Diorama if they didn't release the first time.

The Golden Altar is about dash. it's primarily material i wrote in early 2020, right after the pandemic started but before the blm protests-- i was in the middle of rolling it out when that hit and like. justin and i chose to more or less dissect and reassemble my solo record as a record for our band so we could incentivize people donating to charity. it's quite a lot of ambient music and i'm quite in love with it in particular. imagine soft warm colors, a wheat field at golden hour, sparse synthwork.

i should say also, the two covers are pretty damn complex and going to be in widescreen for youtube releases! i cannot wait to show them, the mockups alone are insane.

as i've been working through my reworked discography-- remastering things, finishing unfinished projects-- i realized these two needed to hit it out of the park if they're to stick their landings, and i hope they do. god, i hope they do.

i'll probably release one song from both in late october, just as a jumpscare lol.

The Neon Priestess meanwhile, was my late 2020 project-- originally intended to be a "smashed together greatest hits"-- a great reset for my discography, and it almost was. it, like most projects with such an insane scope, fell apart rather slowly and messily. how fitting a project to be themed after me. it's such a shame i didn't get a lot of the material recovered, but i think i've still got quite the record on my hands. this one is scrappier, weirder, more erratic and aggressive and experimental, it has little pieces of everything in it, it's polarizing imo. think neons, pitch black and bright colors, harsh light, a city street.

i'm glad to say i'll be virtually done with my archival releases once these are done. i have 1 outtakes ep that i want to beef up (songs that didn't quite fit in anywhere or were cut for other reasons), but other than that, 2025 will be entirely new material. i just hope TGA & TNP get the attention they deserve.

i also want to change the bandcamp layout again come december for them, pray for my ability to make them both look good lmfao

[ihazmunchies91]

"But I don't regret loving you....I'm so sorry."

Spoilers of what is to come in The Narrative Parable.

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Harry: Sadist.

[mist-dancing]

DID SMOKY NAME ONE OF HIS KIDS AFTER HIS EX WIFE?!