A silly lore post with my day 1 thoughts on our new seasonal guide!
Please don't take anything I say too seriously, this is all for fun!
Share your thoughts, I'm very interested!
Is this an excuse to make Nesting & Flight guide close friends?... Yes!
Discussing the Whale in the room...
Nesting Guide's ties to the Forest Elder
TL;DR: Nesting guide was a former apprentice of Forest Elder, due to them having a photo framed with the two & seemingly being more powerful than typical ancestors.
Now for typing's sake, I'll be referring to the Forest Elder as Teth.
I couldn't see it clearly in the trailer (nor in beta), but the photo framed of Teth and Nesting got my brain going wild with thoughts.
The first thought I've had is that Nesting was an apprentice of Teth, similar to how Flight was an apprentice of Ayin.
From the first cutscene after we revive them, they already seem more powerful than the other spirits; they're able to lift up seemingly heavy objects with barely any trouble (ESPECIALLY multiple objects at once.)
Nesting also seems to be able to spawn furniture items whenever, whether this is a game mechanic or not I don't know! But it's a fun idea to play around with.
That's basically my day 1 thoughts, I may come back and make more posts similar as the season goes on! 9CD wasn't all that interesting so I'm glad I can finally talk about a season like this again!
Now... Some final notes from me...
I don't think Teth and Nesting are related as iirc Elders and Ancestors are completely separate beings.
I barely got to test this season in beta, so I'm fully blind on future quests (besides quest 2,) so some stuff may get debunked, but that's ok!!
I'm just very excited to see another Spirit with close ties to an Elder. It makes me wonder if there's any other spirits with close ties. (I have more thoughts on that, that I may put in a separate post.)
Thanks for reading! Don't be shy to share any thoughts you have on this! Just please be civil.