#sarkaz

[sargehev]

Sarkaz mercenary Mudrock, formerly a part of the Reunion Movement

[shanks]

MildT

[alkalische]

sarkaz sorted and shit

[sleepy-crows]

This is probably just a mistake in her character design, but aren't Sarkaz supposed to have pointy ears?

[kurozu501]

cant believe all those theories about the angels actually being corrupted versions of the "devils" were casually confirmed in a single throwaway line.

[honouredsnakeprincess]

I don't think arknights' "races" are strictly biological categories, for obvious reasons. like, i'm pretty sure we already have confirmation that the sarkaz are a group of biologically distinctive peoples that just use the same name for historical/political reasons.

but see, i think the same can be said of the aegir. sharks and orcas are very different animals! so i think it's probably best to view the aegir as more akin to sarkaz than, say, lupo.

[washuuchan]

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Chapter 10

[sunder-the-gold]

Another fun lore book fact for you: Oni are a Sarkaz subrace like Anasa.

I fucking knew it!

Or at least I wanted it to be true.

Thanks.

Considering the classical image and opinion of oni in Japan, I wonder if the oni of Higashi face similar discrimination as Sarkaz elsewhere.

Were Yato and Noir Corne coincidentally both oni and assassins, or is that the sort of thing that Higashi lords thinks is most suitable for oni vassals?

[apocalypsegay]

can somebody give this woman the muscles she deserves for the love of GOD

[day-at-rhodes-island]

I’ve had this idea for a while, ever since I played through Birth of Tragedy, about what it actually means to be King of Sarkaz and how Sarkaz prophecy functions. I’ve seen others come to similar conclusions, and we keep getting things that fit, so I think it’s time for me to share it.

Spoilers if you haven’t gotten through Roaring Flare.

In 7-18 After Kal’tsit has a few very interesting lines:

The Sarkaz prophecy is born out of their collective racial memory.

The last of the ancient Wendigo bloodline is directly connected to the entire Sarkaz race?!

Patriot! Don’t believe the prophecy! It’s just a physiological side effect of the Originium Arts!

Okay, so Sarkaz have a collective racial memory, an interconnected web of subtle arts forming a network of latent telepathy throughout the entire race. This is important.

So now let’s talk about Amiya’s arts.

Amiya can cause others to have visions and access the emotions and memories of others. We see her access the Sarkaz racial memory in JT8-2 After. In fact, it is this act which convinces Kashchey that she is the real thing.

Talulah?: It’s genuine. Congratulations, Cautus.

Talulah?: You’re not a fragment, not an experiment, not an impostor.

Talulah?: You are indeed the Lord of Sarkaz... the enemy of humanity.

Amiya: No, I’m nothing but an Infected.

Amiya: A... person.

I think the main function of Amiya’s arts is to actively access the Sarkaz racial telepathy network. If that is the case, then King of Sarkaz is not just a political title, it’s what you call an individual who can command the Sarkaz like the head of a hive-mind. I think you can see this best in the Vigilo story Cogitatio with how the Sarkaz Traitor (Marco) acts.

Doctor: You're still lost. You don't know your own destiny. But 'He' wants it.

Doctor: It doesn't matter who 'you' are. He knows that there will always be people like you, and there will always be such a bridge.

Sarkaz Traitor: Who are you talking about?

Doctor: They awakened you, worked you up, and it's not so I could listen to your talk.

Doctor: He wants to know what Theresa says, and how I react.

Used like a puppet, unaware he was even acting on the will of others, and as soon as Theresa appears his loyalty immediately returns. It’s a subtle, subconscious, and incomplete control, but control all the same.

I think Sarkaz prophecy may function on this network as well. Patterns emerge, processing in the backgrounds of an entire race’s minds, a calculation born from millions of minds and millions of memories predicting what is to come. A powerful Sarkaz may have this pattern revealed to them under the right conditions, and you get a prophecy.

There’s another side to this though, the possibility that these prophecies are self-fulfilling. We know Amiya can affect the minds of others, what if the network affects the minds of the Sarkaz, subconsciously turning them into agents of this manufactured fate.

What I find the most worrying about all of this though is that Amiya’s powers function on non-Sarkaz. What if the Sarkaz network can effect them as well? Could anyone become subtly swayed to fulfill the prophecies of the Sarkaz?

What are the limits of the Sarkaz King’s control?

Vigilo - Pignus:

Closure: That was Theresa—same as she looked on the news, too. No Sarkaz would ever mistake her for anyone else.

PRTS: It's possible that there are others who share the same general appearance. If someone who looked like Theresa had appeared...

Closure: Nope, not possible. Even if there were someone like that, we'd never get it wrong.

Closure: The monarch herself showed up and waltzed into my little room. Then she told me she was looking for someone to break the shackles of tradition, and for that she needed an engineer, the key to her plans.

Closure: She didn't even try to explain anything to me at first, nope. Not a word to try to convince me to go with her.

Closure: If it had been anybody but Theresa, I'd've thought they were nuts and would've thrown them right out the window.

PRTS: So you turned her down?

Closure: Nope, I accepted her offer.

Closure: I said yes... because of the curiosity that'd been driving me the whole time.

7-18 After:

Patriot: I heard, in the past, Lords of Sarkaz, gave visions of comfort, as favors.

Patriot: Their champions, could see great walls, or loves long passed—

Patriot: Countless soldiers, for these visions, fought ceaselessly.

JT8-2 Before:

Talulah?: Cautus, if I were to ask you to build me an illusion that would entrance me forever... would you refuse?

Amiya: Nnh...!

Talulah?: Would you hold back and avoid using this kind of power?

Amiya: I won't answer you.

Talulah?: Your expression and hesitation betray your thoughts, self-proclaimed kind Cautus.

Amiya: I've never said that!

Talulah?: Your actions speak louder than words, false Infected warrior.

Talulah?: Black Arts that absorb memories but do not differentiate between consciousness. Not a unilateral extraction, but rather proliferation and acquisition that goes both ways...

7-18 After:

I see cities, devastated.

I see Originium, blanketing the land.

I see you, black crown on your head, melting millions of lives, into nothing but memories.

I see the, King of Sarkaz, enslaving all peoples, everywhere.

You will be the most horrific disaster to afflict our world.

[exoticalmonde]

Arknights Chapter XI - Return To Mist

So... Chapter Eleven is at its end and because I am desperate to have enough Originium I need to go through as many chapters in Adverse level as I can so this terrible Clown Fiesta of a skinset coming out tomorrow would be mine.

And conveniently enough, Dr. Kryo is here to help me out.

SPOILERS OF THE STORY AHEAD

Mandatory Opening video because it's too good to skip. I love re-watching these after I'm done with a chapter.

Me, frantically: "Kryo, Gummy is gonna be eaten." Kryo: "AH- UH- STALL WITH GRAVEL." Me: Stalls Gravel: *Gets devoured* Pinkie, returning out of nowhere: "I see Gravel has been used. They really took 'Eat dirt' to a next level."

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I have had this woman ever since I started playing, and I have spent all this time almost not reading anything about her. My lass was in Kazimierz, she's here in Victoria with us now, she's a follower of the wendigo, a witch... and I still gape at the mention of her actual relations and experience.

She's a necromancer and a Sarkaz with the funkiest horns ever and just refuses to elaborate, uses her dark arts to heal as a mock of redemption... or something.

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Me: "IS THAT--" Pinkie, amused, sarcastic, smug: "Yeah?" Me: "Now I don't care who it is."

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HOLY HECK IT'S THE --- GOOD GOD OH MY GOODNESS AAAAaa--

Kal'tsit lore, Kal'tsit jumping in front of us to save me, to save Amiya little baby saw so much and she's sobbing limp in my arms after the wall crumbled underneath her tiny little bunny feet!!!

I am so sad oh my golly Mrs. Cat lady you are in the middle of all the drama, you are THE historical event you horrendeous fossil you, all the horrible things that happened happened because of you and now everybody is mad; what does your brain see that we do not, what sort of demons haunt you, whose voice do you hear that guides you, I need to know. ---

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Pinkie: "Oh hey Kal'tsit, what are you doing there?" Me, who already knows: "I don't want to." Kryo: "Are you ready to hear the team comp? Oh, it's pre-set. Tell me when you're ready." Me: "... Let me go through the story first. I feel like I need to learn the context before I witness it." Pinkie: "Yes please." Me and Pinkie: *Reading* Kryo: *Falls asleep* Me: "Alright, we're done now. I'm ready for guidance." Kryo: "..." Me: "Kryo?" Kryo: "..." Pinkie: "Is he gone? I have time. Let's do it." Me: "... Alright." ---

Me: "I want to save her." Pinkie: "You can't stop a canon event." Me: "I don't want it to be a canon event."

Pinkie: "O, he's coming." Me: *Sad whimpering*

Pinkie: "Oh, here it comes." Kal'tsit: *Dies* Pinkie: "Now he's gonna leave. So long, losers. Refuses to elaborate."

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Me: *Pogging* "It's the sword!" Pinkie: "Wow, now we have TWO swords that only work if the one destined and chosen by the sword is wielding it."

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Man... My life in Operation 11-18, am I right?

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Kryo: "Why is he panting in my ear? Dog, chill!" Me: "Thank you for your services... Both Hung's VA and Hung himself."

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Me: "I don't know which one is worse, a level where the enemies are only three 'No Data' boxes, or the levels where there are three rows of them." Pinkie: "Hey, but you get to find out for yourself, right? It's the fun part of it. Trial and error." Me: "I don't want trial and error..." ---

Me: "What was the Steam Knight music called again?" Pinkie: "You don't need to know." Kryo: "Sexy Vampire music." Pinkie: "Damn it... It's Vampire Sex Music." Me: "Reverse-psychologises you into telling us the name because you think we got it wrong and you always need to be right." Pinkie: "... How dare you."

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Me: "So, the Vampire Sex Music." Pinkie: "Yeah." Me: "..." Steam Knight:

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Pinkie: "I wish he was someone we could get as a character one day. Imagine being able to deploy the Steam Knight." Me: "He's gorgeous. Look at that."

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Me: *Squealing* "Look at her! Baba! Look at her tiny ears. Oh my god her teeny tail. I love her." Pinkie: "I remember when people were super surprised to just... see baby Siege out of nowhere."

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Lord, this scene...

Absolutely insane.

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First try, here we go-

OH NO

EBENHOLZ

...

Pinkie: "I think you need a better Hoshiguma." Me: "..." Kryo: "My Hoshiguma was lvl40 E2, I think hers (lvl25 E2) would be fine." Pinkie: "I struggled and mine was lvl60." Me: "Maybe because you didn't have Ebenholz E2 level 90." Pinkie: "WELL! You're right. You'd think that I'm missing the boss-killer on the Boss stage and would do something about him sooner, but I just haven't been able to around all the other things I need to do for this game." ---

Me and Kryo: *Finish the stage on the second try* Us: *Celebrating* Me: "It was so much easier than I expected. I've seen so many elaborate videos that are... Really nothing in comparison." Pinkie: "It seems I am the problem. Skill issue."

[alkalische]

WOAG! it's the kazdel military commission!

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Sarkaz Lethality on nouns and verbs

Pretty simple.

Nouns are marked for whether they were/are/will be dead or not (nouns considered "inanimate" are not exempt from this).

Verbs have a special mood for if the action resulted in the death of someone. the verbs terat 'to be dead', trat 'kill', and tetra 'die' are exempt from this marking.

[kwaiiart]

Doctor, let us do the work

[restingknight]

Arknights a sarkaz doctor and frostnova share some candy.