Katsura Lore
This is the identity of an even weaker, failure of a knight hailing from The Temple of the Old Dawn itself. A knight who worshipped Sevras, The Lord of Divination and god of The Arcane and Knowledge Domains.
What is Azuran the Gleaming Knight?
This is the kingdom Violet calls home; a capitalist nightmare full of scheming opportunists, economic inequalities, and many poor poor bastards who are victims of it all.
What is The Taldor Kingdom?
This stretch of land was once a collection of rival Goblinoid villages until Ognious Moz made landfall in the modern age. However, now it is a Socialist farce that Grigory gave his life to protect for people he doesn't even remember. How pitiful.
What is The Southern Maglubiyet?
This kingdom was once the ancestral home of an ancient thunder of Dragons and Dragon Riders but devolved into another worthless place clinging onto its golden era. An era brought to an end due to Uthgard's barbaric family, and their need to consolidate power.
What is The Kingdom of the Fallen Rain?
This device was supposedly created to generate high amounts of pure resonating magical energy, that way it can produce proxy threads of the weave to be manipulated however the creator saw fit.
What is the SOIP Flyback Transformer?
This is the name of the territory that Katsura's isolationist cult calls home. A place full of mutated horrors, eldritch beasts, and fanatical survivalists who fight to survive to emulate a doomed race of people from a bygone era.
What is The Far Lands?
This type of herb was a common shipment that had to be smuggled into Iomedea due to its historical significance in The Southern Maglubiyet, and was the shipment Violet got shot over during one of her jobs for her employers.
What is Dill Weed?
This is the traumatic conflict that haunts Gregory's memories and tortures his very soul. The event where he single-handedly failed his entire squad, allowing them all to fall into Delirium with him. They are damned because of him and the country he so desperately wants to save.
What is The Second Shattering War?
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This is the description of the curse Sasha had, the one that he told Grigory about on Paradis.
What is being forced to shapeshift into whoever the other person on the island desires the most?
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This group "enforced and protected" the Setessa Neighborhood through petty crimes, threats of force, and smuggling of illegal Black Market magic items. Eventually, Violet becomes orphaned and is forced to work for this group due to her parent's inability to pay their protection fees on time.
What is The Jack Vance Crime Family?
This is the rank Grigory held during his tenure as a part of "The Pioneers" back in the 1880's. A rank that he used as a sheep to preach to the other sheep about their place within the slaughterhouse that was The USC army. From proper etiquette to ideals that they should hold within themselves, to keep themselves "educated". Like that helped them in the end when their flesh was pealing from their bones.
What is Commissar?
This is the name of the first person to trust that Uthgard isn't the monster she pretends to not be. He is disillusioned by his own beliefs that people are inherently good, and that they normally only sin due to their circumstances. Truly, a foolish self-serving ideology. He will most likely become another victim of Uthgard's rage at some point.
What is Fink Fonolo?
This project is dedicated to creating a central processing unit using organic materials that surpass the efficiency of traditional transistor-based computers.
What is The New Sun Initiative?
The absent-minded ditz is an outcast hailing from here. This place was once an ancient temple for a long-forgotten elven dynasty but is now the repurposed home for a group of culture-appropriating survivalists, hell-bent on chasing ghosts. Even in an unhinged cult, she could not live up to their standards due to her uselessness as a member.
What is The Temple of the True Wild?
This is an aspiration of Violet, an ideal of hers that she will never be able to fulfill. Because at the end of the day, gutter trash will always be gutter trash. There is no way to change your nature and give meaning to something meaningless.
What is proving that shes worthy of a better life?
This is the group of people Grigory thinks he forgot but is honestly repressing because he clearly can't handle the implications that by trying to protect them, he caused more damage by dying when they needed him the most.
What is Grigory's sad excuse for a family?
Uthgard uses this entity as her reasoning for why she committed her greatest sin but honestly is just an excuse to hide her true nature. All living Sapiens are irredeemable monsters, and Uthgard is one of the biggest ones around. How do you even live with yourself?
What is The Dragon known as Fue, child of The Hand of the Astral Titan?
These are the names of the two Banshees that attacked your group during your first day wandering The Lots.
What are Egret & Ibis?
This is the pathetic reason Katsura feels so isolated, unable to truly connect with those around her. Her biggest weakness, and the reason why she will never truly have people to call her own.
What is being incapable of trusting others?
This is the name of the church that resides in the Setessa Neighborhood that Violet was betrayed by when her adoptive missionary decided to forsake his religion to protect her from their god. Another parental figure that died trying to protect something so useless, and not worth saving.
What is The Church of Garyx?
This person gave up on their sad pitiful life once they learned that Grigory "died" a pointless death in an even more pointless war. They wasted away through starvation, hoping for the chance to see Grigory once again.
What is Grigory's Depressed human mother, Ekaterina "Katya" Vazov? An anxiously attached woman who stood by and watched all the older men in her family die. Just like Grigory, she caused more pain in the end. What a joke.
This is Utgard's greatest sin, the reason she can never truly free herself from the guilt of committing an unspeakable act. The event that she blames on her ancestry, but is something she secretly wanted to do all along. There was never a greater reason, she was the beast all along.
What is slaughtering her entire family, her fiancé's family, and all of their friends?
This is the year the Dwarves of The Underdark decided to flee to the surface. This is also the same year that the Star Stone supposedly made landfall in The Shattered Atoll. Its landing was foretold by the Dwarves as a sign to leave their home by their gods.
What is 1446 B.A.?