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aren`t cities bigger in craddle? It should be above baseline city levelOh damn, that's a good feat. I guess that'll probably be baseline City level?
aren`t cities bigger in craddle? It should be above baseline city level
Considering what I already outlined above here, this statement seems viable as a means of getting the relative size of a Small City on cradle:The city of Blackflame which are specifically called "Small" by WOG is still as large as the entire sacred valley and it's city walls alone are described as analogues to mountains by Lindon(And it's not like Lindon doesn't grasp how large mountains are cause he's lived in a valley surrounded by them his whole life) which is insane because the sacred Valley has lots of normal sized mountain within its area including the main mountains which are denoted as massive which take days to travel even while on thousand mile cloud.
Yes I've already outlined this in a post above but to reiterate:Is Sacred Valley considered to be a small city size in-universe?
In short the city of black flame of considered itself a small city to which it is noted that it is the same size as the entirety of sacred valleyThe city of Blackflame which are specifically called "Small" by WOG is still as large as the entire sacred valley and it's city walls alone are described as analogues to mountains by Lindon(And it's not like Lindon doesn't grasp how large mountains are cause he's lived in a valley surrounded by them his whole life) which is insane because the sacred Valley has lots of normal sized mountain within its area including the main mountains which are denoted as massive which take days to travel even while on thousand mile cloud.
Yes the hundreds of miles is referring to the "Curse of sacred valley" which is the power suppressing boundary formation that surrounds sacred valleys perimeter specifically which drains power from anything that enters sacred valley. It's not referring to the labyrinth at all in any way or to any degree besides the fact that it's power sources are in the labyrinth but specifically the parts of the labyrinth directly under each of the main large mountains surrounding sacred valley(which we know because of what reigan shen did to turn it off in reaper)And anyway, are we sure that hundreds of miles statement is referring to the Sacred Valley itself and not just the Labyrinth underneath it?
Alright, when you get replies feel free to share the general consensus if you need to. Though I'm 99.9% certain you'll get pretty much the same answer I'm already giving which is that Cradle is just a ridiculously big planet and that sacred valley is also just really big.I asked on the Cradle subreddit for other people's thoughts because the verse doesn't have any knowledgeable members on this site that we can call in (The verse doesn't exist yet and all the future knowledgeable members are already here).
Can probably do the Void Dragon one, but will have to look into the height of Ghostwater domes.Would you be willing to do the calcs on those?
She loved it here. Pariana had been born far from the human standard—she was three meters tall, bald, and golden-skinned, an outcast even in the world of her birth. But the population here, workers trained to operate in border worlds, had been born in Sanctum: the home of the Abidan. They were used to stranger sights than her. They treated her no differently for her appearance, nor for her power or status. She was only a one-star Titan, not too far above them. So they treated her as one of her own. |
As soon as her Presence indicated that someone had slipped through the spatial crack, she fired. Each of the three circles released a white-hot beam of destructive energy that thundered through the air, focusing on the crack. She had over-fortified this world, both in her zeal to protect it and out of a lack of other things to do; any one of these formations was powerful enough to scour Iteration 986 clean in a single blast. Three at the same time released a blinding light and a deafening roar. Her Presence automatically protected her eyes and ears, throwing up a barrier around her to protect from the furious explosion of wind that tore up the plains for kilometers, shredding crops, sending a ring of dust blasting into the distance. As a Titan, she had been trained to produce shields and barriers of all kinds. With her best efforts, she could maybe have defended against one of these attacks. She would have no hope against all three. [...] A rifle, two sickles, three golden formation-circles, and a maw of smoke all turned toward Suriel. Each weapon carried enough power to rend continents and shatter space. |
Northstrider could destroy this man. He could do it. He didn’t know if Kiuran would stay dead, but he was willing to put that to the test. (Wintersteel, Chapter 19) |
Questioner In one of the short stories you had Northstrider fighting Alin. And one of the thoughts that we read from Northstrider was mentioning about how weak one of the Abidan was that contacted him. Does that mean, I guess theoretically, that Northstrider would be able to kill them if he fought them. Will Wight Yeah. Northstrider could beat some of the weaker or less combat focused lower level Abidan. Absolutely. Suriel would, you know juggle him like a ball. |
George Will, how many people of Northstriders level would it roughly take to defeat weakest member of The Wolves? I know that suitability is a huge factor in a fight, which is why i don'T expect a definite answer. Will Wight Assuming the weakest of the Wolves, i.e. someone who has no other powers besides those of the Abidan and little combat experience but they're trying to work in the Wolf Division anyway...AND assuming we mean "beat in a fight" rather than "kill"...Northstrider might be able to do it in a 1v1. There's a wide gap between the least of the Abidan and the Judges, plus people who are weaker than Northstrider could still technically ascend. |
Razael, the Wolf The Way protects, but it also strengthens. The Wolves are the Abidan combat division, and each of them commands formidable destructive potential. While most other divisions are filled up by Abidan from Sanctum and the other core worlds--and thus essentially born into the Abidan--the Wolves pride themselves on taking "wild" recruits. Most Wolves were renowned warriors in their original worlds, and they carry those powers with them into battle. As Gadrael is the Court's shield, Razael is their sword. She is the unstoppable force, the heavy artillery unleashed against the greatest of the Abidan's enemies. Before the rise of Ozriel, it fell to the office of Razael to destroy worlds as completely as possible. Razael therefore considers herself something of a rival to the Reaper. Ozriel does not return the sentiment. |
The highest levels of the Ninecloud Court (like Luminous Queen Sha Miara) are on the same tier as the Dreadgods. They are capable of evaporating seas and obliterating nations singlehandedly. The dragons of the Blackflame Empire were scary, but not THAT scary. |
Questioner Northstrider vs. Sha Miara Will Wight Sha Miara wins due to a mismatch of powers. If she knows what his powers are like and how they work, she can shut them down directly.In a contest of pure force, she would get annihilated. |
“To the north is the Trackless Sea, the widest ocean we know. Covers half the world, by our maps. The Kotai clan mans this wall—” He traced a long shape down the beach. “— which keeps the ocean tribes out. Those enemies are glad to know that we’re focused somewhere else. They’re hungry for the land.” Naru Gwei kept talking, but Lindon focused on the west. He saw the Desolate Wilds, marked as a black smudge, and recognized a range of mountains by the coast. Closer to the western sea than he’d ever realized. (Underlord, Chapter 14) |
And like Obbergobb said these guys also are pretty definitively above Pariana pay grade as shown by their feats of easily dispatching her and her own statement on the matterThe woman in lion fur conjured a thousand ghostly mouths on worm-like bodies of black smoke. They dove for Suriel, and each one felt like a plague that could decimate planets. They carried ancient hatred that soaked Pariana’s soul, and only her Presence’s protection kept their energy from sending her into madness.
(Underlord Prologue Page 13)
Pretty cut and dry for what Northstrider is implying here which is that Monarchs can supposedly destroy half the planet. There's the obvious caveats which Obber brough up originally like it possibly being a rampage sort of situation etc.“It’s not as simple a situation as you believe,” Northstrider went on, which was one of the few times Lindon had heard him continue a topic of his own volition. “How many lives do we preserve by minimizing conflict between one another? If we all left, then the first Herald to advance could annihilate an entire hemisphere of the planet with no one to keep them in check.”
(Dreadgod Chp. 3 Page 66)
B) The Word "Sea" on cradle refers to 2 giant oceans that seemingly occupy half the planetThe highest levels of the Ninecloud Court (like Luminous Queen Sha Miara) are on the same tier as the Dreadgods. They are capable of evaporating seas and obliterating nations singlehandedly. The dragons of the Blackflame Empire were scary, but not THAT scary.
WOG
3. Northstriders Pocket Worlds“To the north is the Trackless Sea, the widest ocean we know. Covers half the world, by our maps. The Kotai clan mans this wall—” He traced a long shape down the beach. “— which keeps the ocean tribes out. Those enemies are glad to know that we’re focused somewhere else. They’re hungry for the land.”
Naru Gwei kept talking, but Lindon focused on the west. He saw the Desolate Wilds, marked as a black smudge, and recognized a range of mountains by the coast. Closer to the western sea than he’d ever realized.
(Underlord, Chapter 14)
This pocket world differs from Ghostwater and is described as smaller because it only contains 1 air bubbled space( about the size of a large house) without water rather than multiple the way ghostwater had since that dimension housed multiple research facilities:Northstrider’s pocket world looked like Ghostwater in miniature. She knelt on the sand surrounded by stalks of drifting seaweed as high as trees, and they were covered by a dome of aura that held back an ocean’s worth of water.
(Wintersteel Chp. 19 Page 310)
As I said on the prior point there's some room for debate about whether Will meant Sea in the traditional sense in his statement or in the Cradle sense where these massive oceans are still referred to as "Seas" but Yerin in this statement outright refers to the space as an oceans worth of water so it serves as supporting evidence for the above statements by Naru Gwei since Yerin was present when he made them and explained what the trackless sea was etc.But Lindon had described the water around him as utterly dark and swimming with creatures, while this was bright blue and clear. There were no monsters here that Yerin had found. The entire space was only as big as what Yerin would call a large house. It was divided roughly into quarters: the sandy area where she was now, a forest of blades that was thick with sword aura, a cave containing two wells of glowing water, and a fenced-off living area.
(Wintertsteel Chp. 19 page 311)
So basically the current frame of scaling AP for Monarchs and Dreadgods stem only from Northstriders feat of almost destroying the entire desolate wilds with a single punch on the phoenix, my argument is basically that this feat isn't anywhere near a full powered monarch attack but they upscale from it with Northstriders hemisphere statment as a basis for where they actually are.
My main reasons for why I say this fall into
How Monarchs fight: In Dreadgod while fighting Akura Malice Lindon outlined how monarchs fight Dreadgods:
- How Monarchs fight Dreadgods
- Lindons own statements on Monarch feats
He explained how the main focus to draw from is that they minimize damage and herd them where they want them to go which we know malice and northstrider were doing during their fight with the phoenix and titan as they were specifically herding the Dreadgod away
Lindons Statements: During Dreadgod Akura Malice actually does stops holding back and uses her full power and her enforcer technique to which Lindon comments the following:
He specifies that
- This is the first time he's seen a full power monarch technique despite having previously witnessed the almost desolate wilds destroying attack and having seen malice use a different full body enforcer technique fighting the Titan
- This is an enforcer technique beyond anything he has ever seen despite the fact that the attack northstrider used on the Phoenix was an enforcer technique and again Akura malice fighting the titan with a different one
- Malice's concentrated full on attacks before using this enforcer technique did absolutely nothing to the titan while immediately after all of her attacks do damage
- The Blow was felt by the "World" itself
At this point, I'm stating the "Hemisphere Statement" as less of the evidence in of itself and just to serves as supporting evidence for what I outlined can be considered the actual feat which to be calced which are eitherThe hemisphere statement just seems very unreliable to me. It really seems like he just means a Monarch could go on a rampage and destroy everything in a hemisphere, and we have no timeframe for that. It is decent supporting evidence, but I don't think it should be used as a feat on its own.
I also don't see why we shouldn't try to assess this using the ocean size in relation to cradle like the Trackless Sea when the initial Trackless sea statement was heard and told directly to Lindon & Yerin and she's the one who gives the statement about the pocket world having an Oceans worth of water so her knowledge of an ocean is based of what she has heard.The prime chamber of the Ghostwater facility was much as he’d left it decades before. It was a cave he’d hollowed out with one scoop of his hand, with an exit on one wall, his oracle tree on the other, and not much else of note.
It had splintered like glass on the edge of shattering. Some of the cracks in space were so wide that he could see the void through them; endless black like the depths of space, speckled with lights like spinning, colored stars.
Reaching out, Northstrider extended his will to every corner of the pocket world.
“Hold, ” he commanded.
The spatial cracks froze.
Compelled by his presence, space slowly stabilized, knitting back together. Reality reasserted itself, and Northstrider paced across the stone floor.
(Ghostwater Chp 18 Page 244)
Alright, I'll try and get to doing that tomorrowDo you want to post those two feats to the calc request forum?
and the shown resistancesTelepathy (Communicates telepathically through the mind and soul[60]), Mind Manipulation (Can manipulate the minds of others[61]), Illusion Creation (Can project illusions into reality or directly into a targets minds[62]), Sense Manipulation (Can strip a person of all their senses[63]), Memory Manipulation (Dross can manipulate memories[64]), Pain Manipulation (Using Foxfire Lindon can inflict the illusion of pain on a spiritual level[65]), Afterimage Creation (Using the Foxtail technique Lindon can produce afterimages of himself[66]), Perception Manipulation (Dross can accelerate Lindons perception of time to the point he perceives everything as having stopped[67] and slow the Silent Kings mental space which accelerates seconds to the point they are drawn out to decades[68]), Multiple Selves (Type 2), Photographic Memory, Genius Intelligence, Precognition and Information Analysis (Dross can create complex predictive models of an opponent's actions with a high degree of accuracy in the form of "Battle plans"[69][70] which give a detailed guide on exactly what Lindon needs to do to win a fight[71] allowing Lindon to then simply execute the steps necessary to succeed[72]), Weapon Control and Danmaku (Dross can control Lindons weapons for him and does so for 50 launcher constructs at once[73]), Poison Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation and Fire Manipulation (Via launcher constructs[74]), Power Mimicry (Dross can analyze techniques he see's allowing Lindon to either developed his own version of a technique or consume the necessary energy from a target without bringing it to his core[75] to outright copy the technique)
Resistance to Mind Manipulation(Dross can dismantle mental attacks and techniques[141]), Telepathy (Dross can hide Lindons thoughts from other telepaths[142]), Illusion Creation (Dross protects Lindons mind from illusions[143]), Perception Manipulation (Dross allows Lindon to completely ignore techniques that alter even light and perception to fool a target[144]), Dream Manipulation (Dross can enter dreams and pull a target out of a dream being manipulated[145]), Possession and Soul Manipulation (Allows Lindon to resist the Silent Kings technique which possess a target and fully control them even affecting purely spiritual beings like remnants[146] which affects targets across several continents a planet with a population in the trillions[147] most of which have inherent resistance to mind manipulation)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Extrasensory Perception and Enhanced Senses (Sacred Artist acquire several sensory enhancements as they advance[1] including Copper Sight which allows them to see the invisible aura of the world around them[2], Enhanced mundane sensory capabilities granted at Iron[3] and Spiritual Perception which lets them sense the souls/spiritual energy around them gained at Jade[4]), Information Analysis (Spiritual perception can be used to ascertain information about a targets level of power, the nature of their madra, their position and even whether they are human or not), Immortality (Type 7; Sacred Artists leave behind Remnants on death[5]), Soul Manipulation (Via Spiritual pressure), Aura (Overwhelming & Fear-Inducing), Energy Manipulation, Energy Projection, Statistics Amplification (All Sacred Artists can enforce themselves with madra naturally[18].), Elemental Manipulation (Sacred Artists can manipulate aura of various aspects which itself manipulates corresponding elements with ruler techniques[19]), Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact with Madra), Power Nullification (Stronger Madra can disperse weaker madra[22].), Instinctive Reaction to Death Manipulation (A Gold's life aura reacts automatically to protect them from Death Madra[20]),
Soul Manipulation (All Sacred Artists have an inherent spiritual protection that requires an overwhelming difference in power to overcome to which the power of a Sacred Artists own soul increases as they advance which translates directly to their spiritual resistance[23]), Mind Manipulation (A sacred Artists natural spiritual protection grants them resistance to mind manipulation[125].), Blood Manipulation (Blood inside or on a sacred artists body is under the influence of their spiritual protection preventing it from being affected[126].), Extrasensory Perception and Information Analysis (Through the use of a "Veil"[127] Sacred Artists can hind their presence and detailed information about them from the senses of others[128][129].), Gravity Manipulation (Madra Naturally supports Sacred Artists and allows them to adapt to increased Gravity.), Durability Negation (to internal attacks[134]), Sound Manipulation (Madra protects the hearing of Sacred Artists, but they needs to actively focus on it[55])