let me explain! playing it back recently. i saw my self untangling the tightly interwoven threads that ll made shadowbringers feel so good. It had everything. a mysterious unknown world, the scions. in action and bloody awesome too. Yshtola leading an entire group of people. thancred finding a new cause. alphinaud finding somewhat of a home where he had allways been traveling. and you, the warrior of light., you were not just the warrior of light, in that word you were anything but a hero, and your job was to undoo what "heroes did" you were alone, but yet you werent. you were important, but so small.
the world was filled with wonderful lore that could easily stretch 3 books. each of the gorgeous cities lost to time, they're history, people and magics still remaining in traces. beautiful ancient styles that make you want to know more. nothing futuristic or dystopian. just pure fantasy. nowhere is this handled better than in il mheg. what can i saw about titania? was she not extremely popular? beloved and adored. what about feo ul. you're number one fan. it all felt so magical. there were multilayered villain's and hierarchy's and even something massive beyond the whole scope of what YOU even thought possible. And at the heart of all of it. a villian that we will NEVER see again. A man, a friend, a human. empathic, emotional, tired of fighting tired of the same cycles of misery and fighting. but he really did try and he suffered great losses doing so.
there are no ways to fully explain how truly narratively amazing from every direction SHB really was. how beautifully every character brought everything together, every city having its own story and wonder for you to unpack piece by piece. and all of this handled in just ONE expansion. shb could have ended on 5.0 and it would have been a complete perfect story. yet somehow even the patches got better. ardbert is one of the most inspirational characters i have ever seen. he was forged not in being given power, but in being tasked with how to use it properly, and he is a beautiful tragic character. when the exarchs story ended in 5.3 i knew he was gone and it hurt and my character hurt too, and i felt every aching minute of it and it was amazing.
so why do i bring this up. perhaps to evoke thought in SE. to look back at a previous masterpiece, and untangle the narrative threads of genuis and success. perhaps they need to find that spark again. or perhaps in your downtime to inspire you to replay shb, and experience it all again with newfound appreciation. the comedy the tears and the amazing sense of adventure.
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the world was filled with wonderful lore that could easily stretch 3 books. each of the gorgeous cities lost to time, they're history, people and magics still remaining in traces. beautiful ancient styles that make you want to know more. nothing futuristic or dystopian. just pure fantasy. nowhere is this handled better than in il mheg. what can i saw about titania? was she not extremely popular? beloved and adored. what about feo ul. you're number one fan. it all felt so magical. there were multilayered villain's and hierarchy's and even something massive beyond the whole scope of what YOU even thought possible. And at the heart of all of it. a villian that we will NEVER see again. A man, a friend, a human. empathic, emotional, tired of fighting tired of the same cycles of misery and fighting. but he really did try and he suffered great losses doing so.
there are no ways to fully explain how truly narratively amazing from every direction SHB really was. how beautifully every character brought everything together, every city having its own story and wonder for you to unpack piece by piece. and all of this handled in just ONE expansion. shb could have ended on 5.0 and it would have been a complete perfect story. yet somehow even the patches got better. ardbert is one of the most inspirational characters i have ever seen. he was forged not in being given power, but in being tasked with how to use it properly, and he is a beautiful tragic character. when the exarchs story ended in 5.3 i knew he was gone and it hurt and my character hurt too, and i felt every aching minute of it and it was amazing.
so why do i bring this up. perhaps to evoke thought in SE. to look back at a previous masterpiece, and untangle the narrative threads of genuis and success. perhaps they need to find that spark again. or perhaps in your downtime to inspire you to replay shb, and experience it all again with newfound appreciation. the comedy the tears and the amazing sense of adventure.
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