A Tale of Lost Swords Discussion Thread

[Monarch_Laciel]

Interesting changes have been made....

The Swords are now "pillars of the world" that maintain the reality of the world, and each weapon embodies one half of the dual concept it is named for, as well as all concepts connected to those.

The seventh weapon, currently the Sword of Spirit, is meant to be a weapon that has no dual concept, and transcends duality, and is somehow superior to all the others, but I haven't quite worked out what it is precisely. So for now "sword of spirit" is just a placeholder.

Considering the Swords embody fundamental dual concepts of the world, and these swords were made by the Dead Gods, this probably makes the Dead Gods transdual.

Interesting...

 

[CrossverseCrisis]

TFW even the creator of his work finds a concept he recently thought of putting as interesting.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

IF it wasn't interesting I wouldn't add it to begin with so...

 

[CrossverseCrisis]

Heh.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

Bazinga cuz new lore.

So, in A Tale of Lost Swords, the world got ******* owned by the gods falling out of heaven and crashing into it. The multiverse was broken into a bajillion pieces random pockets of space-time were sent flying through dimensionless chaos People were ****** Like Gajillions of people died Luckily the multiverse is infinite so there was a bajillion more people around still Anyway then these blokes called the seven heroes showed up And blokettes Can't be sexist, women can be heroes too And the seven heroes had found these nifty things called The God Swords aka divine blades, aka god blades, etc etc etc And these swords were actually things that had fallen out of heaven along with the gods So the seven heroes kicked the asses of all the chaos horrors invading the world and put all the remaining pieces of the multiverse back together in a giant spiral shape because why the **** not and then they ****** off, who cares and in this new spiral world, the sky is red because the world is really just a bajillion pocket dimensions of space time from across the multiverse randomly shuffled together and if you look up you can see that the spiral world is floating in the middle of all that chaos outside the multiverse. which is red because Warhammer 40K has affected me oh and there's a second sun in the sky right in the middle from wherever you are, no matter where you are weird except its not actually a su it's the ******* hole in the multiverse where the gods fell into the world and ****** it over with their crash landing. stupid ***** and from this hole magic flows into the world and magic lets you do cool shit thanks for coming to my ted talk but WAIT there's more the seven heroes, being stupid ***** themselves didn't properly fix up the world and so there's cracks in the spiral world which lead to CHAOS dun dun duuuuuhhhhh cracks are small so CHAOS can't get in and **** shit up too much But what they can do is send in little mini chaos horrors well I say little they're generally as big as a tall ma 6 foot maybe more so yeah, chaos horrors, aka ******* monsters keep leaking into the world So in conclusion we have a spiral universe made of pocket dimensions with holes in them that leak monsters floating in the not-warp and the spiral leads to heaven which gives people magic thanks for coming to my 2nd ted talk

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

In A Tale of Lost Swords, the world is in a constant cycle The timeline loops back on itself in a constant cycle of creation and destruction, of rise and fall of civilisations The reason for this, is when the seven heroes reconstructed the world out of the shattered pieces of the multiverse, they didn't actually have unlimited "time" They could only reconstruct the timeline to a certain length So although they knew it was kinda dumb to make the world loop on itself, to them it was the only way they could allow the world to continue "forever" However, one of them, the "fallen" hero, hatched a plot He had more faith in humanity than the others you see. He believed that given enough time, they would find a solution and become able to make their own "time" So that their world could continue into the future instead of just repeating So, in an incredibly risky move, he intentionally created cracks in the spiral (Spiral = world/timeline) This would allow chaos i (Which is very dangerous and is the reason for many horrible plagues and monster hordes in the world) But at the same time, the chaos would allow some humans to retain their memories of prior cycles It would free their souls from being bound to the repeating spiral The other heroes turned against the fallen hero for this, and declared him fallen which is how he got the name They preferred the safety of an eternally looping yet stagnant world to the possibility of destruction that allowing Chaos back in would cause Which I guess you can't really blame them for Anyway, the fallen hero hoped that eventually, someone would use their accumulated knowledge from the repetitions of the spiral to find a way to create a new future Infection by chaos causes more than just memory accumulation though Also messes with self control Order and logic become less important The worse the infection, the more insane the infected becomes Eventually the soul eroded away All that is left is a husk And of course Because the infected's souls are free of the loop The infection can accumulate over loops New born children whose souls have experienced dozens of loops and accumulated infection are born as the Mindless Catatonic brain dead living "corpses" Of course, this means there is a "time" limit to the fallen hero's pla Eventually, if no "new future" is found, all souls will be eroded, and the spiral will become a world of soulless husks. Which puts some more justification on the original heroes' anger at the fallen hero for doing this In case you are wondering, each length of loop is about 20,000 years It's also not incredibly easy to be infected by chaos And the time taken until the soul's complete erosion is a while Like, several lifetimes even if you're consistently being exposed to chaos and worsening the infectio So it's not a quick process, just a near inevitable one Also, minimal infection by chaos doesn't let you fully remember everything from past loops So you can't just get slightly infected and then never do anything to worsen the infection and still remember everything At best, you'd have some dreams of past lives that you'd nearly completely forget as soon as you wake up.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

https://fcoc-vs-battles.fandom.com/wiki/Valdís

A new challenger enters the fray.

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

I'm counting the seconds of this verse's life

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

?

This is probably the verse I've got the most of a story worked out for, it's not dying anytime soon.

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

It was a joke about how you had a lot of energy with this a long ass time ago, but then it kinda got abandoned for like 2 years

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

more like less than one year and I only abandoned it on the wiki

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

I only recently got onto the FC/OC discord gimme break

 

[DMUA]

I see I'm not alienating you effectively enough

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

the fact that you're actively trying to drive people off of the discord is concerning

 

[DMUA]

I'm sure that's the least of concerning things about my psychology

 

[Hl3_or_bust]