One small thing I noticed while reading the latest AK chapters is how significant sound is to the Sarkaz
While blood is the most significant form of power for them (see the Crimson Court and the Confessarius), many other culturally significant things involve sound
The biggest thing I can point to is the Bone Whistle of the Elegaic Court/Banshees. There's a real significance given to the Death Knell and the witnessing of a dying Sarkaz. The spoken word seems to cement the death into the collective memory. Those who heard the Death Knell of the first Damazti Lord somehow knew that this was a true death.
And then, the prophecy of the Last Wendigo. The way he shouted it into the sky. Kal'tsit even told people to not listen and yet his voice was heard, so far that even the Damazti knows about it.
It remains to be seen if this amounts to anything but I do find it interesting how a deaf Sarkaz would navigate their heritage considering how important hearing is to them
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I don't think arknights' "races" are strictly biological categories, for obvious reasons. like, i'm pretty sure we already have confirmation that the sarkaz are a group of biologically distinctive peoples that just use the same name for historical/political reasons.
but see, i think the same can be said of the aegir. sharks and orcas are very different animals! so i think it's probably best to view the aegir as more akin to sarkaz than, say, lupo.
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Another fun lore book fact for you: Oni are a Sarkaz subrace like Anasa.
I fucking knew it!
Or at least I wanted it to be true.
Thanks.
Considering the classical image and opinion of oni in Japan, I wonder if the oni of Higashi face similar discrimination as Sarkaz elsewhere.
Were Yato and Noir Corne coincidentally both oni and assassins, or is that the sort of thing that Higashi lords thinks is most suitable for oni vassals?
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Arknights Chapter XI - Return To Mist
So... Chapter Eleven is at its end and because I am desperate to have enough Originium I need to go through as many chapters in Adverse level as I can so this terrible Clown Fiesta of a skinset coming out tomorrow would be mine.
And conveniently enough, Dr. Kryo is here to help me out.
SPOILERS OF THE STORY AHEAD
Mandatory Opening video because it's too good to skip. I love re-watching these after I'm done with a chapter.
Me, frantically: "Kryo, Gummy is gonna be eaten."
Kryo: "AH- UH- STALL WITH GRAVEL."
Me: Stalls
Gravel: *Gets devoured*
Pinkie, returning out of nowhere: "I see Gravel has been used. They really took 'Eat dirt' to a next level."
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I have had this woman ever since I started playing, and I have spent all this time almost not reading anything about her. My lass was in Kazimierz, she's here in Victoria with us now, she's a follower of the wendigo, a witch... and I still gape at the mention of her actual relations and experience.
She's a necromancer and a Sarkaz with the funkiest horns ever and just refuses to elaborate, uses her dark arts to heal as a mock of redemption... or something.
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Me: "IS THAT--"
Pinkie, amused, sarcastic, smug: "Yeah?"
Me: "Now I don't care who it is."
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HOLY HECK IT'S THE --- GOOD GOD OH MY GOODNESS AAAAaa--
Kal'tsit lore, Kal'tsit jumping in front of us to save me, to save Amiya little baby saw so much and she's sobbing limp in my arms after the wall crumbled underneath her tiny little bunny feet!!!
I am so sad oh my golly Mrs. Cat lady you are in the middle of all the drama, you are THE historical event you horrendeous fossil you, all the horrible things that happened happened because of you and now everybody is mad; what does your brain see that we do not, what sort of demons haunt you, whose voice do you hear that guides you, I need to know.
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Pinkie: "Oh hey Kal'tsit, what are you doing there?"
Me, who already knows: "I don't want to."
Kryo: "Are you ready to hear the team comp? Oh, it's pre-set. Tell me when you're ready."
Me: "... Let me go through the story first. I feel like I need to learn the context before I witness it."
Pinkie: "Yes please."
Me and Pinkie: *Reading*
Kryo: *Falls asleep*
Me: "Alright, we're done now. I'm ready for guidance."
Kryo: "..."
Me: "Kryo?"
Kryo: "..."
Pinkie: "Is he gone? I have time. Let's do it."
Me: "... Alright."
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Me: "I want to save her."
Pinkie: "You can't stop a canon event."
Me: "I don't want it to be a canon event."
Pinkie: "O, he's coming."
Me: *Sad whimpering*
Pinkie: "Oh, here it comes."
Kal'tsit: *Dies*
Pinkie: "Now he's gonna leave. So long, losers. Refuses to elaborate."
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Me: *Pogging* "It's the sword!"
Pinkie: "Wow, now we have TWO swords that only work if the one destined and chosen by the sword is wielding it."
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Man... My life in Operation 11-18, am I right?
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Kryo: "Why is he panting in my ear? Dog, chill!"
Me: "Thank you for your services... Both Hung's VA and Hung himself."
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Me: "I don't know which one is worse, a level where the enemies are only three 'No Data' boxes, or the levels where there are three rows of them."
Pinkie: "Hey, but you get to find out for yourself, right? It's the fun part of it. Trial and error."
Me: "I don't want trial and error..."
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Me: "What was the Steam Knight music called again?"
Pinkie: "You don't need to know."
Kryo: "Sexy Vampire music."
Pinkie: "Damn it... It's Vampire Sex Music."
Me: "Reverse-psychologises you into telling us the name because you think we got it wrong and you always need to be right."
Pinkie: "... How dare you."
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Me: "So, the Vampire Sex Music."
Pinkie: "Yeah."
Me: "..."
Steam Knight:
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Pinkie: "I wish he was someone we could get as a character one day. Imagine being able to deploy the Steam Knight."
Me: "He's gorgeous. Look at that."
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Me: *Squealing* "Look at her! Baba! Look at her tiny ears. Oh my god her teeny tail. I love her."
Pinkie: "I remember when people were super surprised to just... see baby Siege out of nowhere."
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Lord, this scene...
Absolutely insane.
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First try, here we go-
OH NO
EBENHOLZ
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Pinkie: "I think you need a better Hoshiguma."
Me: "..."
Kryo: "My Hoshiguma was lvl40 E2, I think hers (lvl25 E2) would be fine."
Pinkie: "I struggled and mine was lvl60."
Me: "Maybe because you didn't have Ebenholz E2 level 90."
Pinkie: "WELL! You're right. You'd think that I'm missing the boss-killer on the Boss stage and would do something about him sooner, but I just haven't been able to around all the other things I need to do for this game."
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Me and Kryo: *Finish the stage on the second try*
Us: *Celebrating*
Me: "It was so much easier than I expected. I've seen so many elaborate videos that are... Really nothing in comparison."
Pinkie: "It seems I am the problem. Skill issue."
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Flamebringer?
Flamebringer holds a philosophy that much resembles the gentle nihilism of any sarkaz mercenary, a philosophy that Theresa rejected. His way almost seems older though, like he holds the martial beliefs that would later become the outlook of the modern wandering sarkaz warriors.
He fought for Theresa, but he was not changed by her beliefs as W was, and I think it is very unlikely Flamebringer will change in the years to come.
A true warrior knows no fear of death. He will challenge the limits of life itself again and again, in search of the depths of his own heart, in search of eternal glory, and in search of the greatest skill.
He is already where he wants to be.
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