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I really should stop trying to fill the maps before I do all the quests. Last time I raged for hours in Aetia because I'd explored every corner and it wouldn't filled... The last missing landmark was in fact Zeon's fucking potato field OTL

isurd <3333333 the guy ever..........

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Day 10! 12 days of Labors continues! 🤟🏛

Heracles labor #10: "Retrieve the Cattle of Geryon"

Appollodorus writes, "As a tenth labour he was ordered to fetch the kine of Geryon from Erythia. Now Erythia was an island near the ocean; it is now called Gadira. This island was inhabited by Geryon, son of Chrysaor by Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean. He had the body of three men grown together and joined in one at the waist, but parted in three from the flanks and thighs. He owned red kine, of which Eurytion was the herdsman and Orthus, the two-headed hound, begotten by Typhon on Echidna, was the watchdog. So journeying through Europe to fetch the kine of Geryon he destroyed many wild beasts and set foot in Libya, and proceeding to Tartessus he erected as tokens of his journey two pillars over against each other at the boundaries of Europe and Libya. But being heated by the Sun on his journey, he bent his bow at the god, who in admiration of his hardihood, gave him a golden goblet in which he crossed the ocean. And having reached Erythia he lodged on Mount Abas. However the dog, perceiving him, rushed at him; but he smote it with his club, and when the herdsman Eurytion came to the help of the dog, Hercules killed him also."

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ok im writing this at 1am

a mutation where it’s just erythias face plastered onto your creatures head. i hope this doesn’t come across as mean but i just genuinely think this would be the funniest thing

april fools day idea contender

Another fun theory: Bionis's ecosystem is held together by fate and duck tape. By removing the passage of fate, Shulk inadvertently caused multiple ecological crisises at once.

Evidence:

- Ponios, Laias, and Fossil Monkeys all canonically went extinct in Xenoblade 3. You can find their fossils as collectibles.

- Most of the life from Bionis uses the designs of their Alrest counterparts, implying that their Bionis versions couldn't sustain themselves. View Ferrises, Gogols, and Ignas for the most obvious examples.

- a lot of the stuff from Bionis that didn't explicitly go extinct is still not visible in Aionios. Such as Dienos, Hillns, Lexoses, etc.

- While there is stuff from Bionis that survived no fate, it's few and far between, especially considering that the stuff that did survive consists mostly of wildlife with identical counterparts in Alrest, which makes it indescribable whether their Bionis variants actually survived or not.

- none of the plant life from Eryth Sea appears to have survived Aionios. The plants from the floating islands are different and also it's a wasteland, while the life in Erythia Sea is completely different from what existed in Eryth Sea.

- Erythia Sea mostly consists of enemies introduced in Xenoblade 3. Considering the nature of Zanza's world vs Alrest, there are a few lore explanations I can image to explain this.

These guys could have existed in Alrest and Rex and Co. just never encountered them (which is probable since they canonically did not see the entirety of Alrest and the only Archipelago or Sea-like place they visited was Leftheria). Which means stuff like Gulpins always existed.

They evolved from their Bionis variants. Which has some basis in the Merfray closely resembling the Ignas that inhabited Eryth Sea. My only question here is how they managed to evolve so quickly. That kind of evolution should normally take millions of years. While it's unclear how long Aionios has existed, it's somewhere in the realm of thousands of years, not millions. So something's up if we were to assume this option.

Alvis edited the biological make-up of lifeforms in the new world, which would permit Gulpins and Merfrey to exist. I have not played Future Connected, so if there is any explicit evidence for that idea, it would occur there given that it's the only instance of gameplay between Shulk's world and Aionios.

Somehow the merging of worlds caused new species to be invented. Unless 3's story dlc ends in a way where someone temporarily assumes godhood, this seems unlikely.

Aionios only took parts of the Bionis and Alrest. So the creatures from Bionis that didn't make it into Aionios are happy and alive in Shulk's World.

Alrest's wildlife is simply built different. So, when Aionios was formed, Alrest's life acted like an invasive species and decimated the life native to Bionis. But these creatures wouldn't be extinct if the worlds didn't fuse.

- a lot of the life on Bionis doesn't look even remotely sustainable, especially factoring in their location. Like, take the Gogols in Bionis Leg for example, where the fuck are they securing the food required to sustain a group of apes that are literally larger than any other local wildlife. Rotbart in particular is unsustainable. Where's he getting his food from? My poor boy is gonna starve to death. How dare Zanza do this to Rotbart >:(

- a lot of life on Bionis looks like a mistake. Like, why tf do Deinos have a second head lodged into their neck? High Entia being able to fly with their wings would realistically result in their necks snapping, especially considering that they lack any visible muscle around their necks to prevent that from happening. Nebula literally just kill themselves as a self-defense mechanism. What the fuck? Also what the fuck is wrong with the Ferrises in Makna Forest? Like, why'd Zanza do that to their face? Fucking rude. Why are there so many creatures in Valak Mountain that do not look even remotely adapted to the concept of the cold?

- Zanza didn't give a crap about the sustainability of his creations without the Passage of Fate to keep them in check. The whole point of Alvis rebelling against him was that Zanza created an unsustainable world. So, creating an ecosystem that wouldn't immediately self combust without Fate keeping it in check would've taken a lot of effort that Zanza had no incentive to make. Alvis also doesn't exactly have a given reason to care if the ecosystem in Shulk's world implodes. And Shulk wouldn't have had a reason to create something to keep the ecosystem in check because he's not a biologist and he'd have no way of knowing about how evolution actually works since he spent his entire life experiencing biology under Zanza's framework (basically, he never thought to question how removing the concept of Fate might affect random wild animals).

- the one instance of an invasive species occurring on Bionis was the Leone Telethia in Makna Forest. We can see that a single animal going somewhere it shouldn't resulted in multiple areas of the forest being utterly decimated. We could assume that this is a Telethia thing, but without Fate keeping every species in its designated location (and Telethia still existing in Shulk's world), there's nothing really stopping random animals from going places they weren't designed to go and bulldozing the food chain.

- the same thing as the previous point could be applied to Alrest and Aionios for different reasons. In Alrest, you're looking at a ton of different island ecosystems and then they suddenly get gracelessly mashed together to form Elysium. There's nothing stopping, say the Gogols native to Gormott from migrating to Uraya and decimating the ecosystem that wasn't adapted to Gogols. Meanwhile Aionios even less gracefully mashes unrelated worlds together while spontaneously imploding. The Tirkins from Gaur Plain perhaps died off because of the giant ambush predator plants ported from Alrest. Which would explain why there are no Tirkins in Aionios's plains areas.

day 4 - weak spot

lanz/taion/noah/eunie

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erythia sea was such a beautiful region; the sounds of the waves crashing on the beach, the rustling of leaves in the gentle breeze. the quiet chatter of his companions put lanz at ease.

except... it was a bit too quiet.

turning around from where he was sitting on the beach, lanz noticed that three of his friends had gone missing. they'd likely gone to fetch tea ingredients, he figured. at least the three of them were together-

"NOW!"

lanz barely processed exactly what happened, all he knew is that he was pinned on his stomach by... one, two- oh those cheeky mudders! and of course they'd waited for him to give his power frame to riku for maintenance.

"good thinkin' taion!" he heard eunie say. of course that damn four-eyes came up with this plan. taion was probably pushing up his glasses and giving a proud smirk, lanz guessed.

"alright, what's with all this?" lanz groaned. "is this an intervention or somethin'?"

"of sorts," said noah. "i know i already explained everything to you, taion, but i think it's best if we actually show you." lanz felt noah's hands settle on his shoulder blades. the realization came then—this was no intervention. this was revenge.

"no, NO! noah, don't you spahAHARKIN'—NOHOHOHAHA!" there was little lanz could do as noah's fingers scribbled right between the bottom of his shoulder blades and his back ribs. only noah and eunie knew about this weak spot, since they were first-termers. they'd exploited it without mercy, until lanz became the known tickle monster he was now.

"quite the reaction..." taion chuckled. noah's hands switched with taion's, but it still tickled all the same. "you weren't kidding."

"take what you can get now, love," eunie giggled, shifting lower to get behind lanz's knees while noah's fingers spidered over his lower back. "he's gonna sparkin' kill us after this!"

lanz's hysterical cackling rang out through the remote island, and the only thing going through his mind was how he was going to murder his tormentors.

so is anyone going to bring up how incredibly childish and unprofessional erythia acts or

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The Garden of Eden has captured the imagination of people throughout the centuries. Apparently, the ancient Greeks had their imaginations captured as well.

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Colony Mu is so weird and kind of depressing because it's always existed in this manufactured bubble up until now. It's in a pretty isolated spot and it doesn't seem like many colonies knows of their existence. All the attacks they got from Kevesi soldiers were created by the consul, who purposefully made it so that they lost a good amount of soldiers every time. So then outside of that they had to spend all their time recovering from the attacks, leaving them with mostly really young soldiers who don't have the proper experience to take on the roles they're forced to. And then that put them in a position where they're constantly too weak to defend themselves for the next attack, which would inevitably take out even more of their numbers. And they've just been surviving in this vicious cycle for who knows how many terms.

Like first of all I just can't imagine the amount of stress and trauma they all constantly experienced from watching so many people around them die and their colony be pushed to the brink of collapse but never quite giving out over and over again. But I think what's even worst is that now that they've lost the lieutenant/consul who was arranging everything to keep them alive, they're completely on their own. The colony is pretty much just a bunch of kids stranded on a rock in the middle of the erythia sea who now have to figure out how to survive.

Like there's something so depressing about how excited they were to be free of the flame clock, but then directly after that the question of 'what now?' comes up and it sort of dawns on everyone that none of them are really prepared to keep the colony surviving. If you talk to any of them now they always bring up how much they wished Irma would've survived because she was the one who knew how to manage everything, or how the atmosphere has become so tense and unhappy. No one can agree on anything because no one really knows what's best for the colony; none of them have that level of experience or knowledge. They tried to come up with a new lieutenant to lead them but that plan failed and they ended up back where they started. And on top of that some of them have said that since Fiona travels with the Ouroboros, the colony is struggling to even have the encouragement to keep pushing forward, since her ability to motivate everyone was what kept them going up until now.

They just all seem so lost and confused, and a lot of the younger ones are sad that no one's getting along but no one knows how to fix it so it's just this weird, tense stasis they're stuck in. You would expect everyone to be feeling so much better after escaping the constant suffering of battle but then you realize that was literally all they had, that was all they operated under for who knows how many terms. Now that they have freedom they're completely lost.

the creatures of sonaria recode is such a conundrum to me bc like

yeah, cool new game, but like. this wasnt what we were asking for, erythia. fix the goddamn economy.

here are my littles guys!!!!!

hatch -> baby finished (current) -> adult scries!

Dahlia | Lemon/Twilight/Cobalt

Erythia | Terracotta/Brown/Yellow

they are both male, so I'm currently looking for a color similar dragon for both so i can have babies.

Erythia Sashimi Plate/Highly-Piley Ocean's Bounty

Wish, Aasimar Life Cleric for @erythia-xiv