QuestionThese interpretations are amazing! Would you be willing to do a Sylph of Hope? Also, would Broomkind be a suitable weapon for that class? Answer

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Powers: CA

As I mentioned before, the Sylph and the Maid are the passive-active pair for the Creation class. While they were once both believed to be entirely female-exclusive, Hussie just about nullified that idea given his verdict on a female Prince’s potential existence. The Sylph would create their Aspect for others, using it to help them, like Aranea Serket, the Sylph of Light, bringing back Terezi’s eyesight (although technically, it didn’t really help her, but it’s not like she really knew that). In any case, the Sylph potentially has the ability to heal using their Aspect, or outright heal their Aspect. The Sylph of Space, Kanaya Maryam, tried to use the Matriorb to heal Space of her race’s absence.
A Sylph of Hope, therefore, would have the ability to create Hope for others. This means a varying degree of things because Hope is a very, VERY powerful Aspect. Hope is an Aspect that has been mentioned multiple times to be a force of unparalleled power and strength, and Hope players have been shown to have quite the destructive power at their side (e.g., Eridan, the Prince of Hope, destroying the Matriorb, Jake, the Page of Hope not only making ‘Mind Dirk’ real enough to threaten Aranea’s life, but also surrounding himself in a blinding halo of pure Hope energy). A Sylph of Hope would be capable of a lot of destruction, despite their being a member of the Creation class, because nothing is more dangerous than Hope, even in the literal sense of the word. We have had so much time to ponder of revolution, recently, given events, and I know now that Hope is a very dangerous thing for a single person to have, let alone a groups of hundreds or thousands. If there is Hope in a group that what they work for will mean something in due time, and they will only work harder because they know that what they are doing will amount to something. So it’s a powerful tool, and to create Hope in others means that the Sylph can make people believe in very powerful and very important things. The Sylph could make allies believe in themselves or in their abilities. On the flip side, the Sylph could make their enemies believe that they are going to lose or that they will miss. If they think that, why would they want to stick around, am I right?
Hope, in its less literal sense, could literally just be pure energy, like the “white science,” that Eridan uses with his wand, or the halo that Jake was surrounded with when Aranea allowed him to reach his full potential. A Sylph could create that energy for others, meaning that they could potentially surround their allies in a protective halo of Hope energy, or supply their allies with energy when they are dead tired or hurt during a battle.
Speaking of injuries, the Sylph’s potential role as a healing class is quite the interesting one. As far as healing Hope is concerned, it means that if Hope lacking, or is outright gone, the Sylph of Hope would be able to create it, and heal both the session and Hope itself by replenishing its supply. They would have to be careful about where they have their teammates and allies place their beliefs, though, because if something happens to go wrong with the object of their faith, then something could end up very wrong. The more interesting of the two healing abilities, though, is the Sylph’s speculated ability to heal others using Hope. Where this could mean healing using the energy that is at their disposal, I like to think that the Sylph of Hope would be able to use their belief to heal people. That’s right: this Sylph, provided they’re well-versed with their abilities and whatever they place their faith in, they can simply pray the injury away. How this looks to others may be something as simple as a short prayer and touching the wound and having it disappear, or more along the lines of glowing miraculous Hope energy emanating from the person and healing the wound, I don’t know. I just know that Hope is a much more flexible Aspect to work with as far as healing because it works as long as the Sylph believes they can do it, and that the object of their faith can help them, be that object themselves or some sort of deity.
So in conclusion, the Sylph of Hope, armed with the proper Hope, is very, very terrifying to be facing off against.


Weapons: TC

Well, I’ve been waiting for a while to do a Hope player, so I thank you for this.  Hope weapons have a very obvious pattern to them, as all of their weapons are some form of a gun.  Eridan and Cronus Ampora, who are the Prince and Bard of Hope, both used Ahab’s Crosshairs, which is a “legendary” harpoon gun.  Jake, the Page of Hope, wields his dual pistols.  However, the only Sylph whose strife specibus has been revealed is Kanaya, and her weapon transforms from something rather unassuming (her lipstick) into something quite intimidating (that bloody chainsaw).  Also, it has been speculated that Aranea uses the Fluorite Octet as her weapon of choice, which also fit the transformation pattern, transforming from something unassuming (dice) into something that would strike fear into the hearts of her foes (a guillotine, a sword, or a large number of other things).  As such, Broomkind is still fair game, but in order to fit the pattern, it would have to be able to transform into a gun of some sort.  I still definitely like that original strife specibus, though, as nobody ever thinks to use it (also CA likes it because of the whole “witch but more magical” imagery that Kanaya set up for Sylphs).  In any case, here are the strife specibi that your Broomkind strife specibus may be able to transform into.

  • Automatickind: WHERE IS THE GUN CONTROL???
  • Flamethrowerkind: Fire indeed hot.
  • Laserkind: IMMA FIRIN MAH LASER!  BWAAAAAH!
  • Launcherkind: A potato gun?  I see why you preferred the broom.
  • Pistolkind: DON’T MOVE OR I’LL SHOOT YOU WITH MY INVISIBLE GUN!
  • Riflekind: Bang bang, badow badow badow, bang bang.
  • Shotgunkind: Aaah, you got me.



Land and Quest: TC and CA

Hope lands. Well, this should be a bit of an adventure, given how we, ONCE AGAIN, only have information from one land. Eridan Ampora, the Prince of Hope, and his land, The Land of Wrath and Angels. Where Jake English was the Page of Hope, his session was a Void session, thereby making his land inherently different from that of a normal session. Once again we recommend this word list to aid you in the creation of your land, in both its quest and its aesthetic.
Eridan’s land is fairly easy to dissect. Angels is more than obviously the Aspect word because Wrath is more of a Rage word anyway. Where we don’t know which is the quest and which is the aesthetic, I would hazard a guess that Wrath is the quest word, and that Angels is the aesthetic word, given how the angels were apparently fairly peaceful before Eridan started shooting them, meaning that Eridan’s planet wasn’t inherently wrathful, so that’s not the aesthetic. As a side note, this might mean that Eridan knew a lot more about his planet than he was letting on, and that he knew that Wrath might have been necessary for him to finish his quest.
For a Sylph of Hope’s quest, though, I would not recommend shooting a bunch of angels with a broom gun, or shooting anything really. See, the Sylph’s quest is to learn to create Hope and faith, rather than destroy it (even if Eridan was technically only destroying a sort of symbol of faith in the angels), so I would recommend a quest that takes an inherently different route. To learn to create Hope, I would recommend a land that has a deity of some sort that they worship and a fair amount of problems. This deity can be a god, a goddess, some sort of animal- hell, it could even be the Sylph themselves (provided these consorts seem unable to recognize them) or maybe their denizen. The Sylph’s job is to provide some sort of faith back into them, I suppose. If you read my Bard of Mind post, you’ll recall something like that in their quest, too. Their job was to make their consorts understand that some sort of disaster was going to have them accept the Bard as some sort of prophet or fortuneteller. The Sylph’s job would be, in a way, similar, but rather than have the object of their faith be the Sylph, they would renew faith in whatever that deity of their consorts is. They would have to, one at a time, solve this group of consorts’ problems and then blame their deity for the solution. They would slowly renew the consorts’ faith in their god, and also solve a lot of problems in their world as well. Faith is a powerful motivator. Eventually, given enough support courtesy of their deity, the consorts would try to make things better themselves.

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