#lore doc patch notes

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WOOOOO BIG LORE DOC UPDATE IS LIVE

Also, I'm considering adding a section for fanon stuff (notable fan theories, common shorthands for things like video titles, etc). Should I do that?

Changelog by page:

Title Page

+ Added subtitle "Document written & maintained by Tumblr user routerdisconnect". Gotta give myself some credit!

collinlock16/Collin

+ Added point "HAS UNADDRESSED GRIEF?!"

AwesomeG

+ Added point "Exclusively referred to with they/them in canon" + Added point "Commonly theorized to be Collin's sibling"

Vitriolic_Red

* Corrected "alpacas" to "llamas"

Rain Entity

* Renamed from "Glass Entity????" + Added drawn picture from Fatigued thumbnail #1

colinlock16/collinlock19/etc

* Renamed from "colinlock16/collinlock19/Co lin/IAmCollin/C19" - Removed screenshot with undyed armor - Removed screenshot of altered game menu + Added drawn picture from Fatigued thumbnail #1 + Added drawn picture of true form from Fatigued intro + Added point "Genuinely believes itself to be Collin" + Added point "In text, makes many typos" + Added point "Speaks with garbled text-to-speech" + Added point "Has a blobby true form" + Added point "HEAVILY corrupted inventory"

Gridman

* Renamed from "Gridworld Entity" * Reworded point "Suited skin with a weird face" to "Suited skin with numerous eyes" + Added drawn picture from Fatigued thumbnail #1 + Added point "Observes through invisible cameras called Remote Gorrister Blocks" + Added screenshot of Remote Gorrister Block

EntityOM

* Corrected phrase "weird obsidian obelisks" to "ominous obsidian obelisks" + Added drawn picture from Fatigued thumbnail #1 + Added point "Refers to “activation zones” as the only places these obelisks can be built" + Added subpoint "Apparently there aren’t many in Collin’s world"

"Satan"/Digital Satan

+ Added drawn picture from Fatigued intro

Sign Entity

+ Created page + Added point "Communicates through signs; seemingly able to spawn them in without having a visible presence" + Added point "Created an elaborate trap for Collin (he tricked CL19 into falling into it instead)" + Added point "Knows things about Collin’s personal life" + Added screenshots of its signs

Timeline

+ Added point "Confirmed to be correct by Oneshef"

[biffa001]

@ ur tag on that doc post u reblogged? whats the reason ?? --welsfight

I cant find the video but dinnerbone removed his arm

[nedsseveredhead]

Okay slightly more polished and official Lore Doc for Up The Wolves (AKA The Werewolf Mafia).

Check it out, lemme know what you think, make OCs if you like! I’ll go through and update it whenever I can with other helpful information… and if theres any major updates to it I’ll be sure to reblog this post with like.. patch notes fjcnc

[autumnslance]

Thank you for answering my question about the matching up of written and in-game characters, that definitely helps. I had planned to start playing my WoL first but reading your advice has me thinking maybe I need a character to just enjoy the story then go back and play my WoL. When you play Dark Autumn and Aeryn, do you play one all the way through or do you play Dark to a point then go back and play Aeryn to the same point? My WoL is FFVIII inspired and pulls a bit from the game itself. ♥

You’re welcome! And I know a few folks with that approach; they have their “gameplay main” but their “Warrior of Light” for fanfic, or even their RP main, is another character—who sometimes lags behind on finishing MSQ, even.

Dark’s my first FF14 char, and I never intended her to be “the” WoL. “A” WoL, a heroic adventurer with the Echo, but she is here to help the Actual WoL (whoever that is in my or friends’ stories).

I play Dark through first partially from habit. I got her to 4.1 before I made alts to replay ARR (it was before NG+) and see the other city intro stories. She went through the patches as they dropped. Eventually C’oretta, and then Aeryn, caught up. C’oretta got left behind though, as I started taking Aeryn through story after Dark was finished (I was also waiting on Dancer for C’oretta as melee is not my forte).

Shadowbringers 5.0 I finished on Dark Autumn and was planning to take time before leveling Aeryn. But I began her play through within a couple days cuz I wanted to relive that story. And that’s kind of how it goes; Dark plays through to the end of current MSQ, then Aeryn starts her playthrough a couple days or so later.

There’s content Aeryn’s done that Dark has not, like Bozja and Eureka. I leveled all the jobs and classes on Aeryn and saw all those stories on her first. But for Raids, Trials, MSQ, it’s typically Dark first—and in the case of Raids and Trials, it’s helpful to take Dark first not only for story, but to see the fight so when my FC does it later in the week and I take Aeryn I have a good idea of what’s going on (as I am RezMage).

Dark tackles the main stories first so I get the lore and info, but also my own kneejerk reactions out of the way. I can start thinking of my WoL’s story and how she reacts to it and where the other OCs fit, and then revise that and take more detailed notes on that second playthrough (usually adding to my initial notes and reactions, to see how they match up or change).

It’s also worth noting; C’oretta and Iyna, while part of my EW stories and have parts they take in EW’s plot, and assigned role quests…they are still in Shadowbringers and Stormblood patches respectively. I know the story and lore. It’s my fiction. They’re supporting characters for my WoL, as Dark is, so I can write them where I need them even if mechanically they are lagging behind until I have the time. I do similarly with which of them has done which class/job chain. What parts of MSQ and the Raid/Trial stories the 3 alts take on, compared to Aeryn—my WoL doesn’t do all of it herself.

(Though I do need to push Iyna through the last few StB patches and at least early ShB for general writing project reasons, to refresh myself on canon)

I actually keep A version of my timeline and ideas for the ladies on the blog (spoilers through current content so not sprout friendly). I have others in my doc folders—for jobs, for relationships—as well as all those notes, drabbles, and scraps as I go. But this helps give me a foundation. I can also shift it around; I added the Avengret stuff last year, and Zaine’s service in the Radiant Host only a couple months ago when I determined that was where he received his initial combat training and why he didn’t start adventuring and return to Eorzea until his mid-20s, trying to be the dutiful son first.

So. I play through entirely on Dark. Then take Aeryn through a few days after Dark finishes MSQ. During both, I keep drabble reactions, notes, etc. I kinda figure then, with all the story behind me, where all of my OCs fit into that story, and how. And I do my best to keep track of it in ways that work for me.

[carminite-wyrm]

A Genshin Impact Hermitcraft AU Idea, God Help Me

Last year, on September 28, a particular gacha rpg game was released and I, occasionally regrettably, fell straight into playing it. In honour of the fact that this will mean I have lasted nearly a whole year (I got the game a week after bc uni) determinedly not spending any money on Genshin whilst also trying to roll good characters…here’s a bunch of Hermitcraft Genshin AU ideas that I initially came up with at roughly 2.40 am.

The general idea of this AU is that the Hermits end up in a new world that has Genshin-esque mechanics, on top of the usual Minecraft shenanigans. So, Visions and stuff. Also, we’re gonna just…briefly ignore the actual Genshin lore in regards to how Visions and Gnosises (Gnoses?) come about, for this one.

Post-S8, the Hermits are travelling to a new world, ready for another season.

The moment they arrive, it is clear to them all that…something is different. Something is vastly different with this world, for all that it appears much like the previous servers that they have lived in and travelled to. There is something of a…presence to it, in a sense.

When the Something Different doesn’t appear immediately, being the demigods/almost-deities that they are, they go about their days, setting up starter bases, gathering the basic resources and tools, the usual beginnings.

Things change when Doc wakes up one morning after a hard day at work building a new redstone machine, to find a small glowing chess piece lying next to his head, crackling with an ethereal purple light

Upon picking it up, he feels a burst of energy, almost like that one time in the previous world where he and Ren built a lightning-summoning tower

However, the changes it has wrought become apparent later that day when Scar comes out of nowhere with the recording of a creeper’s tell-tale hiss and explosion, and Doc sends him flying backwards with a startled blast of lightning

At first, they chalk it up to ‘Something Funky With Doc’s Current Project’, but after some tests, some experimentation to confirm if it was a one-off reaction…they end up confirming that they may have found out what the Weird Thing about this season’s world is

The duo go to Xisuma with their findings, and, to their collective surprise, X can’t find anything blatantly broken in the server’s code, but he does find a few interesting lines within.

By all appearances, this is not a glitch, but simply an intended feature of the server

Seven lucky hermits, designated as Archons in the server code, will receive a Gnosis, an artefact of elemental power that the server can assign, given to the ‘player who best suits the element’

The server notes speak of how the power granted (and represented through the chess-piece-shaped item) will grant the receiver the capability to shape the land around them

By random chance, other players on the server will also be gifted a Vision, a somewhat lesser artefact that will still grant them a form of elemental power

Given that the Hermits are practically gods in their own right, considering they are already capable of shaping the worlds they arrive in as they see fit…are more curious than worried, at this point

They agree to keep an eye out, to see how chaotic the sudden acquisition of elemental powers will turn out

The next person to receive a Gnosis is Grian, who delights in the bursts of wind he can use to buffer his flight, gliding across the server with naught but the turquoise magic the server has seen fit to grant him

After that, most of the Hermits soon receives some sort of Elemental power from the server

A Summary of Who Gets What (That I can think of so far):

Doc: [Electro Archon]

Can summon lightning, without need for a trident, a thunderstorm, or a machine that can generate an ongoing thunderstorm for as long as its activated

Can also generate an Electro shield, though it does require his active concentration to maintain for longer than a few seconds. This shield appears like a charged creeper’s aura, except purple

Capable of generating a thunderstorm at will, but rarely does it on account of mob spawning dangers

Has found that by channelling a low level of Electro energy, he can in fact power redstone machines just by tapping them/being in close proximity to them

This has proven to both be a blessing and a curse, considering that on occasion, when startled, he has short-circuited some of his machines

Grian: [Anemo Archon]

Generally, uses his powers as a free rocket boost for flying around the server

Upon finding out that he can use the Anemo energy to create pockets of energy that can boost flight, he takes to leaving them all over the server, in convenient locations to make flight that much more efficient

Yes, he absolutely sets up a fancy elytra course that makes use of his flight-boosters to send players rocketing around a course at breakneck paces (poor Scar experiences many instances of kinetic energy)

Bdubs: [Geo Archon]

Suddenly, making mountains and other works of major terraforming is a lot easier

Certainly, he still prefers to sculpt them and detail them by hand, but bringing the basic shape of the mountain forth by brandishing the power of Geo is something that he can do with ease, in this world

A new shop pops up in the shopping district rather quickly after this realisation: Bdub’s Landshaping Service, Now offering quick terraforming at a budget price! (it is, in fact, a service that makes him quite the amount of money)

And when he wants to sleep, without the other hermits breaking his bed? A glowing shield of steadfast golden magic takes care of that.

Gem: [Dendro Archon]

The patch of the server that Gem has claimed for herself quickly springs to life as plants of all varieties grow to surprising proportions, energised by the power that she now can radiate

The effect is most notable in and around her home, of course, but wherever she travels, the plants grow more vibrantly for days afterwards

Adding a forest of birch around her house takes little more than a thought, a fact she uses to prank some of her friends, those who in the last world were rather vocal about their dislike of non-stripped birch

Another power Gem finds herself with is the ability to summon vines even without a surface for them to initially grow upon, and thus it is not uncommon to see Gem building or resting in a hammock of woven vines

Cub: [Cryo] (cannot make up my mind if I think he’d be Archon material or not)

Gathering powdered snow has never been easier, as instead of waiting for a storm to form and last longer than it takes a Hermit to get into the nearest bed, he can simply clap his hands together and a lump of snow shoots out from just above his shoulder.

It does hurt, getting hit by the sudden snow barrage that Cub is now capable of, but except for the occasional snowball fight, his newfound snow-creation ability is used for making increasingly more insane mob farms and snowy building decoration

False: [Pyro]

The magic her Pyro Vision grants her doesn’t become apparent, not for a while, until she visits the Nether for the first time in this world

A mis-swing in a bastion, and suddenly a horde of piglins and hoglins are chasing after her, and there isn’t enough time to pillar away.

She readies her sword and shield, ready to fight, and suddenly her blade crackles to life with bright flames, unlike the fire aspect enchantment in that it actually is on fire.

Every attack she lands, whilst her sword is alight, seems to invigorate her, return strength and stamina that was lost when she had first tried to flee the enraged inhabitants of the bastion

Xisuma:

The admin is one of the few to not receive a Vision or a Gnosis

Quietly, he does admit to being relieved, considering his powers as an admin are already much greater than that of the other Hermits, for all that they are still his equals

And then, one day, whilst X is placing his diamonds to sign up to one of Grian’s newest competitions, he feels a rush of foreign magic, so unlike the familiar ordered pulses of server code

The blast of wind that comes with a swing of his sword, much later whilst he is mob-farming, is greatly surprising, if not unexpected.

The funny thing about all these new powers, granted by the server itself in the form of artefacts that can easily sit in one’s palm, is that for all they are miraculous on their own, the natural capabilities of the Hermits are already enough to rival them

In the hands of an ordinary person, an ordinary player, the powers from this world would bring them close to the near-omnipotence of Creative, could even be the driving force of server-wide conflict.

Powers such as these, while they can build great things, can so easily be used to destroy, to cause war and destruction, and in other realities, they have.

Perhaps whatever trick of fate that caused the server to be capable of granting these powers hoped to create that conflict, to see what would happen when only a few of their number were gifted such strengths.

Later, when the initial surprise and rush to test out the limits of the server’s granted magics dies down, Zedaph approaches Xisuma, one of the few to not possess an artefact of elemental magic, with an observation

Zedaph notes that, from his studies of the Hermits’ new powers, almost all of them are oriented vastly towards combat, whether they be summonable blades of frost, elemental shields, or even the ability to soothe aches and hurts

And even though the Hermits have all found ways to make those powers work in the ways that they wish them to, it does not take away from the fact that the likeliest original purpose of this server’s magic was for fighting

Any other server, any other group, Zedaph quietly says, and there would more than likely have been bloodshed, given the inequality in the range of power granted

At the end of the day however, unexpected gifts of power or not, the Hermits, at their core, are a group that creates and innovates, a band of friends that shape entire worlds with naught but their own ideas and willpower, and regardless of what powers they now possess in this particular realm, that will not change.

[azems-familiar]

Hey I’m asking a couple of the writer asks at once if that’s okay. 4, 18, 32 and 37?

4) how many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? care to share one of them?

oh goodness you’re just really curious in what i’m working on, aren’t you?

hmmm, so i mean in terms of ideas i always have at least like 5 that would be so much fun to write - there’s a Qui-Gon/Shmi ficlet inspired by fae lore and a fantasy book i really like; there’s all these ideas for that post going around that’s like, “what if you stopped aging after 18 until you met your soulmate” but put that in the gffa (imagine! Cody desperately trying to hide from Obi-Wan that he’s aging when most of his bros aren’t! Rex being the only person that undertstands! Anakin and Padme never stopped aging because they met each other at such young ages); a rexsoka modern soulmates AU where you see in black and white until you meet your soulmate, but Ahsoka’s blind - this one would explore different ways that people could manipulate a blind person and would deal with some... light emotional/mental abuse, but it’s a super interesting idea. i have a few other ideas that i’m in varying stages of sorta-writing (Ahsoka saves rogue one is the name of a doc right now) as well, but if i listed everything this’d get way too long...

18) do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

not really, actually! i’d probably be better at actually stayign focused and finishing things if i made outlines, but my preferred way to write is to talk things through with a friend to give me solid plot ideas and then to just kinda... let the characters do their own thing

32) how do you feel about smut?

i am ace. i don’t terribly mind smut, and i’ll read it in a story if it’s emotional or if it checks a couple other boxes, but i’ve never written it and i doubt i will. i’m perfectly fine with just writing some UST, flirting, and fading to black.

37) talk about your current wips.

ohhh boy here goes. i’m just gonna go with what gdocs i have open right now, excluding the Hunger Games AU series and lullabies, as y’all already know about those 

i’m gonna be here til i’m nothing (but bones in the ground): a fullmetal alchemist fic i’ve been commissioned to do by a close friend of mine, who requested for Hughes and Roy during the Ishvalan War of Extermination

for want of a battle (the kingdom was lost): this is my self-indulgent “what if Vader decided to defect during twilight of the apprentice” fic - so far featuring Rex punching Vader, some background rexsoka, Ezra being suspicious, Ahsoka being Ahsoka, and soon to feature Vader reforming and getting a new suit, the takedown of the Empire, and Vader meeting his children and old Obi-Wan

i just wanna keep calling your name (until you come back home): codywan post Order 66 reunion fic! set in a verse where some influential Jedi survived Order 66 and Obi-Wan’s in hiding on Alderaan watching over both the twins, this fic is a series of dreams that chipped Cody and Obi-Wan share through the Force. it’ll eventually lead to Obi-Wan figuring out where Cody is and rescuing him from the Empire

Hunter AU: this currently-nameless fic is based off of a post by @gallusrostromegalus about Coruscant’s lower levels, in which Ahsoka is part of a clan in the mid/low levels who hunts the slightly terrifying creatures who live down there and yknow is just chillin and surviving, and Rex and a small squad are sent down on an undercover mission to discover the source of something that’s been, through the Dark Side of the Force, augmenting negative emotions (fear and anger) and inciting wild riots and protests and things on the surface. @collegefangirl3791 and i have some Real Fun plans for this, including a journey all the way down to Coruscant’s byssal level, completely underground, which has glowworms and glowing crystals and acidic rivers and lots of fun, alien things (literal built up layers of pure sulfur crystals, for instance) that we’ve come up with. that’s one i’m very excited about.

a smol excerpt (note that Rex and the boys have all been disguised so they don’t look identical):

The green-eyed blond man points at the jar that the injured man is holding, says, “This. Couple bacta patches.”

That’s- so much. Ahsoka can’t help grinning, pleased with herself - Carda will definitely be happy with this, maybe enough that Ahsoka can get some extra rations, and there’s probably plenty of bacta to act as tribute for these people. “Okay. Cool. I can take you to see my boss, but you’ll have to wait until closer to the end of wake, I’ve got shit to sell.”

She gives them all a pointed look, then adds, “Oh, by the way, what’re your names? I’m Ahsoka.”

“I’m Rex,” the blond man who’s been talking says, and they go around the circle - the man with the scar on his face is Cody, Jesse has the facial tattoo, Echo is the injured one, and Fives is the redhead. They seem… nice enough, and they agree to wait for her, and so Ahsoka goes back to Teren and the table.

“I got us some bacta,” she singsongs, patting Teren’s shoulder. “Definitely gonna get the extra rations this week.”

“You left our table unattended for like- too long,” Teren says, grumpy. “So she’s not gonna give them to you.”

Ahsoka flicks Teren’s left lek, grinning when he grumbles and ducks away from her. “So you don’t count as attended, is that what you’re saying? Or did you wander off?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“Well, it’s what you said.”

anyway, on to the last two!

qui-gon lives: fairly self explanatory. Qui-Gon survives on Naboo. shit happens. he and Shmi are definitely a thing i don’t make the rules.

can you see right through me: this one is one i’m very excited about as well - it’s kinda modern day, but also kinda not, because it’s a modern day where the Greek mythology is all real. so some technology still is a thing but other stuff isn’t, and some things are replaced by magic, etc. Ahsoka is Medusa, basically, and her Gorgon sibs are Barriss and Anakin, and Rex is a blind enchanter who happens to run into them once. things happen. it’s fun.

okay, i think that’s everything. yeesh, this is a long post, sorry about that!

[rndomdragon]

Mercy might still be responsible for Reaper

So, everybody seems upset about the whole ‘terrible writing’ thing that seems to be going on about how Blizzard made it seem that now it was Moria’s fault that Gabriel became Reaper, despite his interaction with Mercy: 

“What happened to you, Gabriel?”

“You tell me, Doc”

But no one seems to be looking at the facts. Take this photo of Gabriel for an example:

Here, he’s clearly being experimented on by Moria back in Blackwatch, as you can see by the logo on her shoulder. Take note of his skin colour and the fact that he is ALIVE during this experiment.

Compare this to the pictures of Gabriel in-game, during the present time in the Overwatch universe:

If I'm not wrong, the patches of gray-white on his biceps are his new skin colour, after dying. This could mean a lot of things, but the facts basically are:

1. Mercy is not responsible for his smoky powers state. Moria did that. She is specialized on science on the cellular level (proof from Reaper’s state of between being able to diffuse between a smoky state and solid), which Mercy isn’t stated to be specialized in.

2. Moria cannot (to my knowledge) resurrect people, but Mercy can (her powers in-game proving that).

3. Reaper’s skin, when he was still Gabriel, was still the same colour as normal, but after becoming Reaper, he became much paler, probably a side effect of death.

My conclusion on the lore of Reaper is that Moria experimented on Gabriel without Mercy’s knowledge, and when he died, she resurrected him but her technology did not 100% work with him because of the preexisting nanobots (or whatever Moria did to him) interfering with her ability to resurrect. Mercy didn't seem like a type of person that would experiment with a person before her technology was perfected, like how Moria had said: “Others weren't willing to take the risks I did”. She could simply not have known about his state and thought she could save him because she now had the ability to resurrect people. Then Reaper happened, proving the interaction:

“What happened to you, Gabriel?”

“You tell me, Doc.”

Because she actually had no idea what happened to him since her resurrect ability (assuming how it works in-game is like the cannon) wasn't supposed to turn someone into a smoke monster thing. He still blames her, obviously, since he might have known about her technology (being the Blackwatch Commander and all) because he now has to cover his face and most of his body, perhaps because his body is in a battle between Moria’s and Mercy’s technology; decaying and regenerating at a cellular level. It probably also causes him a lot of pain.

Moria is also in Talon, and I’m pretty sure she could connect the dots between Reaper and Gabriel’s powers. She could be telling Reaper that this was all Mercy’s fault, spurring his need for revenge.

Anyway, that's my thoughts on the matter. 100% open for discussion.

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Idk if anyone else sees this as being as significant as I do, but just letting y'all know I'm removing the note about Souler and Hungry appearing together from the lore doc. I originally included it because, with the way people thought they were the same being for a while, I assumed they must have some kind of connection, but looking through everything again, they've only ever so much as appeared in the same video once--not even in the same scene (though they were back-to-back, which is probably part of where the confusion came from)!

On a smaller note I also got a better picture of Hungry's player model, from when it pushed AwesomeG down the hole. Did you know its hoodie is red?

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Added the weird unexplained timeloop from Tired 1 to the "Misc Lore" section

Added @tropicalcontinental's timeline video to the "Misc Lore" section

collinlock16 character/lore doc (written and maintained by me)