Spoilers: my question mostly concerns revelations for 5.x, but dips into 6.x and upcoming 8.x
I’ve been playing off an on since ARR but my breaks were so long, every time I came back I’d forgotten what had happened so I was usually a little lost/didn’t pay attention well as a result. I’ve recently started over and, this time, I’m actually retaining the story and paying attention to the lore, but there’s something I want to understand a little better.
In ShB, when Emet-Selch explains the reflections of the sundered world, he uses Mini Minfilia/Ryne as an example, making an exact but diminished replica of her. He makes it sound like the sundered reflections are one for one. In the upcoming Evercold (I’ve not played the lead up patches yet) I’ve seen the promo stuff and Lagertha, Ysayle’s counterpart on the fourth, looks identical to her.
Ardbert is supposed to be the WoL’s counterpart on the first, but unless you look like John Final Fantasy, he doesn’t look like your WoL (in my case, a female Viera). Likewise, the first doesn’t look like our world and has very different people’s inhabiting it (the fae, dwarves etc.)
So are reflections a toss up between what stays the same or changes? Are things supposed to be the same, mirror reflections, but our WoL designs are not “canonical”? Are we to assume Azem looked like us, or like Ardbert?
Bonus question: what exactly is Minfilia? I don’t think she’s a sundered Venat, since Venat became Hydaelyn. As the Oracle of Light, is Minfilia a sort of “chosen” of Hydaelyn, d&d style? Is she an avatar?
Any insights are mightily appreciated!
Also, in before “how do reflections work?” “By looking in a mirror.”
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I’ve been playing off an on since ARR but my breaks were so long, every time I came back I’d forgotten what had happened so I was usually a little lost/didn’t pay attention well as a result. I’ve recently started over and, this time, I’m actually retaining the story and paying attention to the lore, but there’s something I want to understand a little better.
In ShB, when Emet-Selch explains the reflections of the sundered world, he uses Mini Minfilia/Ryne as an example, making an exact but diminished replica of her. He makes it sound like the sundered reflections are one for one. In the upcoming Evercold (I’ve not played the lead up patches yet) I’ve seen the promo stuff and Lagertha, Ysayle’s counterpart on the fourth, looks identical to her.
Ardbert is supposed to be the WoL’s counterpart on the first, but unless you look like John Final Fantasy, he doesn’t look like your WoL (in my case, a female Viera). Likewise, the first doesn’t look like our world and has very different people’s inhabiting it (the fae, dwarves etc.)
So are reflections a toss up between what stays the same or changes? Are things supposed to be the same, mirror reflections, but our WoL designs are not “canonical”? Are we to assume Azem looked like us, or like Ardbert?
Bonus question: what exactly is Minfilia? I don’t think she’s a sundered Venat, since Venat became Hydaelyn. As the Oracle of Light, is Minfilia a sort of “chosen” of Hydaelyn, d&d style? Is she an avatar?
Any insights are mightily appreciated!
Also, in before “how do reflections work?” “By looking in a mirror.”
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