Anonymous Asked
Questionplease do seer of doom? please. Answer
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The Seer of Doom


Powers: CA

The Seer and the Mage are the passive-active pair of classes whose powers revolve around Knowing their Aspect. Where the Mage, as we have discussed many times before, is someone who uses their Knowledge of their Aspect to further their own powers (the way I described it sounds fairly malicious, but you must know that the Mage is meant to work that way), the Seer uses their Knowledge to benefit everyone, to prod others in the right directions, and the Seers we’ve seen in the past have done exactly that: Rose Lalonde, Seer of Light, telling her allies which way the meteor should go and for how long, Terezi Pyrope, Seer of Mind, giving John a list of tasks to complete to correct the timeline, hell, even Jade Harley as the inversion of the Witch of Space (Seer of Time) using the clouds to tell the future to point her friends in the right direction. Seers understand the ebb and flow of their Aspect, understand the way things move and interact in the grand scheme of things. They don’t alter anything themselves given their passivity, they simply rely on others to do their bidding, to follow their instructions, and become unwitting Mages in the process, minus the knowledge. Seers are the James Moriarty, the Sosuke Aizen, the Felix (from Tales from the Borderlands, to be entirely sure you’re getting the reference) of their sessions, the mastermind (hopefully without all the villainous connotations).
Doom is the Aspect of rules, of endings, both good and bad, and of singularity. A Seer of Doom would be able to see, much like a Seer of Light, what needs to be done for the path to extend to the “good end.” SBURB is, at its core, a game, and some of the best games we know are ones with multiple endings. Take Until Dawn, a game all about choice, Life, Doom’s antithesis. A Seer of Doom would be able to see everything they have coming, they would understand the point at which they can’t make a choice to save, and must make a choice to sacrifice. Where, say, a Seer of Life would see all the ways to save, how to undo sacrifice, the Seer of Doom would see the sacrifices that would have to be made. A Seer of Doom’s natural disposition may be somewhat pessimistic—they’re the lab rat in a maze who figured out that their life has been spent running into walls, undoing obstacles only to be put into an entirely new maze. But where knowledge is suffering, wisdom is peace, and the Seer may eventually get over the cloud cover to see the sunrise yet again, learning from their Aspect to accept sacrifice and endings as a natural fact of life, and where those rules can be a little stifling, they exist to keep us safe, and with their knowledge of sacrifice, and what might constitute as a balance (Law of Equivalent Exchange, anyone?), the Seer can save the people they need to and, most importantly, want to.


Weapons: TC

Well, this is my first time doing Seer weapons, I think.  And honestly, I’m kind of glad about that.  After all this time thinking about what all Seer weapons have in common, all that I could come up with was that they all at least originate as melee weapons.  Between Rose’s knitting needles and Terezi’s cane sword, they both seem to have little in common other than both being melee weapons (at the start, at least).  However, it is possible that a Seer’s weapons embody something that the wielder seems to lack, or lacked at some point.  Terezi’s cane symbolizes her blindness, while Rose’s knitting needles represent her former lack of a hobby, or to some extent a lack of a life in general.
Doom weapons are even worse than Seer weapons, as in actuality, all we know is that both Doom players, the Captors, in all likelihood used their powerful psionic abilities more than any strife specibus.  This was at least the case with Sollux, who used shurikens and a ninjakind/throwingstarkind strife specibus, but has never once been seen using it.  This leads me to believe that Doom players use some sort of innate ability in combat.  This could indeed be skillful use of a weapon, or psionic abilities, or even talking to the point that their opponent’s head hurts instead of fighting at all.
Putting these two facts together, the Seer of Doom’s weapon would likely be one of two possible things.  It could be a weapon that represents a gaping hole that has been present in their life that may or may not be supplemented by some other skill.  For instance, perhaps the Seer carries a weapon that they aren’t really good at using, and prefers to out-think, out-maneuver, or out-talk their opponent instead, or maybe they just carry a weapon while using some other skill to fight.  Another possibility would be that the Seer uses a weapon that they are uncannily skilled at using to make up for their lack in another area of their life.  In either case, providing specific examples of strife specibi that would fit into such a category would require more in-depth knowledge of what the Seer is like, and as such, I will leave such a task up to you, the reader.


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Okay, here’s a word list to help you come up with the land if you’re having trouble determining the Aspect words. With that said, let’s go.
Doom. It’s the Aspect of destruction, of sacrifice. Sollux is the only Doom player whose land we’ve seen before, The Land of Brains and Fire. Fire being a destructive force, it’s more than likely that that’s the Aspect word. But sadly, there’s not really that much we know about Doom players’ lands—we can guess that they are filled with destruction and that that’s the force that makes the world go ‘round, but there’s not too much we know for certain. We’re doing a bit of guesswork, really.
But uncertainties aside, what might a Seer of Doom’s quest be? Well, we’ve talked about how they can see the necessity of sacrifice, but, really, no one really wants to sacrifice things, wants to admit the existence of a no-win scenario. They need to learn how. They need to learn the poetics of Doom, the existence of the end. And so, they must see the end firsthand.
The Seer’s world is dying. No better way to put it, really. The world ends there, and the Seer knows it, they can see the signs, even if their consorts can’t. This, though, is a natural cycle for this world—for every end, there is a beginning, and the world comes back more verdant than ever. Their quest is to make sure that enough of their consorts survive to see that new beginning. The catch? Not everyone can.
The Seer has to choose who to let fall into the abyss for the good of the many. It’s painful. It hurts to have to let them go. But for the best end to be reached, they will have to be sacrificed. And the Seer has to bear the burden, and hope that the wisdom they receive will grant them the peace they so desperately need.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionHow do you believe a session with a knight of heart, seer of breath and mage of void (not all players in session) go and their relationship. PS. Your interpretations are astounding. Answer

Thank you very much.


Team Analysis: TC and CA

Knight of Heart, Seer of Breath, and Mage of Void

Alright. Since you have acknowledged these are not the only players in the session, we won’t talk about what you need. We’ll instead go right to work discussing what their roles are in any session at all together.
A Knight of Heart is a bit of a tricky player. On the one hand, they have the ability to weaponize their soul, whoever they are as a person, be this splitting into multiple versions of themselves to make an army of the aspects of their soul, or arming themselves with a weapon symbolically representing them. On the other, they’re probably trying to hide whoever they are in some way shape or form behind a mask. We’ve discussed this before with other Knights, but so you know, Knights have a bad habit of hiding who they are behind any one aspect of themselves they want to accentuate, Karkat’s anger, Dave’s coolness, Latula’s G4M3RG1RL persona, often as an attempt to make sure that their weaknesses don’t get found out. Karkat never wanted to let anyone know of his mutation, Dave of his feelings of being a coward and his abuse in childhood. So Knights have something they want to hide. And they need to stop. They may not need to open up completely to be capable of using their powers (their class, after all, is one of self-discovery and self-reliance, achieving their own full potential by their own power), but if they want to be able to help their teammates with their land quests, and with the session in general, then they need to learn to let go of their mask, at least in some small part. Find a teammate to confide in, perhaps? Either way, a Knight of Heart would prove a great and easy mediator between people in the session, and while not necessarily a leader (whether or not they are depends on whoever else may be in the session), certainly someone who can take care of the team. Also important: the presence of a Knight of Heart indicates that the session lacks either emotion (perhaps in the sense of everyone being as “cold” as Dirk) or a sense of self to provide distinction between players (as we suggested before with the earlier Knight of Heart post, perhaps the session is comprised largely of twins or triplets to physically denote this lack of self).
The Seer of Breath would be able to see what’s needed to free people from their connections to things, people, and places…to put it bluntly. There is a lot more to this Seer’s powers but I’m focusing on this aspect of it right now because while we’re on the subject of the Knight of Heart and the Seer of Breath together, I think this is probably the person most likely to help the Knight break down their mask! Their ability to see what it would take to free anyone from their connections by pushing them in the right directions to make their own sort of self-discoveries partners perfectly with the Knight’s need to do things themselves to figure out how to use their powers. The Seer would say things, little things, push them in the right direction to seek out their own freedom from needing to hide who they are. The most immediate comparison I can think of would be Cole from Dragon Age: Inquisition (forgive me, for I am likely to be making these references far too much for my own good). His desire and innate ability to sense pain and try to, in his words, “untangle it,” is very similar to the Seer’s ability to free people—this analogy I’m making would be even more accurate if this Seer uses their powers purely to help others, freeing people from toxic relationships, from obsession, from addiction. But the Seer can also use their powers for not-quite-so-good things, too—breaking apart perfectly healthy relationships for the sake of the team dynamic, breaking apart people from their coping mechanisms to make the session far easier, but the further and further they go to get rid of things, trying to shape their teammates, the more likely they are to invert—begin to free people from their external connections just to strengthen their devotion to the team, that’s not Seer of Breath territory—that’s a Witch of Blood. Breath players are likely to be leaders in their sessions because of their innate freedom. Nothing’s holding them back but themselves, and of the three here (you need at least three other players, the Time and Space and one last player to even things out), this is the person who’s most likely to be the leader. They can make the hard decisions, they just need to be careful to not meddle too much.
The Mage of Void, as we noted before, in the post we crafted about them, is someone who can see a lot. And for the Knight of Heart, that’s probably a bit too much. The Knight didn’t ask them to figure them out, to figure out their secret—it just happened, and now it seems to the Knight like they’re just holding it smugly over their head. Screw them and their stupid face, the Knight thinks, just waiting for the other ball to drop…in actuality, it’s nothing like that. The Mage has no intentions of using this information, or giving it to anyone. They just kind of don’t care. Not to say that they don’t understand the gravity of the Knight’s need to keep their mask on for the other members of the session, they just don’t care about their finding out the truth. For all intents and purposes, they invite the Knight, you can keep on pretending with me, too, act like it never happened. The Knight can’t bring themselves to, though. Something about doing so just feels wrong. In any case, we’ll talk more about them later. The Seer and the Mage get on well together. As the Mage and Seer come into their powers, they get closer, the Seer going to the Mage for information, secrets that impede on their ability to untangle the bonds keeping people around them stagnant. The Seer depends on the Mage for a lot, and the Mage in turn, trusts them. They help because they know the Seer won’t misuse their powers for stupid stuff, and the second they try to, the Mage pulls the plug. In a series of checks and balances to keep the team leader from screwing the session over, the Mage of Void is the first line of defenses. In hindsight, perhaps they’re a better leader?…Well, it doesn’t matter much. Without the other players, we can’t figure out too much.
Sadly, without the other members of the team listed, we can’t draw too many conclusions as to how this would go down, but you seem to have a neat little cell here. Be careful who you choose to put in with them.


Relationships: CA and TC

Knight of Heart, Seer of Breath, and Mage of Void

Knight of Heart <> Seer of Breath: This relationship needs to be this level of strong friendship for anything to get anywhere on the Knight’s part of understanding their powers. Anything less that this level of trust and respect and it might not work. But beyond it needing to be this, their titles actually lend themselves to it pretty well. Passive-active groupings work pretty well together, one pursuing what the other points out in their sitting on the sidelines. A Seer of Breath would be able to learn how to remove bonds and the Knight of Heart would be able to create emotional ones. They would bond over their differences, recognizing the other’s strengths for the advantage they are, and would likely learn to compensate for each other, the Knight moving where the Seer cannot, and the Seer knowing what the Knight doesn’t. Their cooperation makes or breaks the game.
Knight of Heart <3< Mage of Void: Now what I described before, the relationship between the Knight and the Mage, it’s a bit one-sided. The Knight has all these feelings of anger towards the Mage because of this sudden unmasking, but the Mage just doesn’t really feel this great, undying need to use this knowledge, this dirt on the Knight for anything at all, no desire to humiliate or expose them. There are two ways this could go from here, and really it depends on how much of the Knight’s dependence on the mask the Seer manages to dismantle. Either a lot of the mask comes off and the Knight mellows out, this relationship would dissolve into simple and unpassionate professionalism, or the mask still manages to stick around, and so does the Knight’s animosity towards his teammate.
Seer of Breath <> Mage of Void: We talked about this before—a healthy respect and trust between them? Their methods of teamwork? Their ability to control each other (and not in a malicious way, more that they’ll stop each other from being stupid)? That’s a moiralliegance if ever I’ve seen one. It just needs to stay that way. Too passionate in either positive or negative directions and we have them trying to control each other or being far too lenient, neither of which is really any good. Okay, good? Good.

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Anonymous Asked
QuestionI have a weird question, that doesn't follow the usual format of "hey what is up with the god tier _________ of __________." So what do you think would happen to a session with two (or more) different pages. Seeing as how they equip their teammates with their aspect, would one cancel out the other and what about the other page. Just curious on your thoughts on my overthinking. :) Answer

TC: Nah, bro.  If there were a group with multiple Pages who all managed to realize their true potential, then they would all be able to equip their comrades with their Aspects.  Kinda overpowered, right?  Probably why sessions of the sort are as rare as they are.

CA: Not to mention, there’s a reason why Knights are nearly impossible to see in the same session without either, A, a huge amount of players, or B, some sort of Scratch Deus Ex Machina sort of thing going on: Knights are easily the most powerful class out of the game. If two Pages were to be fully realized and layer their abilities on top of a character with another god tier, the dual (or maybe triple, if they layer them on someone already a Knight) Knights would be gamebreakers! The closest comparison I can think of would be when someone puts in a ton of mods in a game that layer superpower after superpower onto the player character. The game sort of breaks after a while with too much to process, and that might happen with SBURB (as a sort of consequence), so the game put it in that Pages wouldn’t be able to double-Knight.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionLord of Rage? Answer

Anonymous said:  What would the powers, land, anf weapons of a Lord of Rage entail?

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Powers: CA

The Lord and the Muse are the active-passive pair that are described as the Master classes. In embodying their Aspect, these classes are the ultimate description of activity and passivity in regards to god tiers and their Aspect, and as such suffer no risk of inversion. And where Muses can be considered the great creators, Lords are the great destroyers, the ultimate forces which lay waste to all in their way and forever will, as per their decision in regards to the Choice indicates.
Rage is the Aspect which stands opposite to that of Hope. Where Hope stands for happiness, for faith and power granted through some external source, Rage stands for anger, despair, and internal power, as often denoted by Rage players having a berserker switch of sorts. Rage is a dangerous Aspect, and unlike Hope, is dangerous in all the wrong ways to players allied to a Rage player. A lot of tabs have to be kept on a Rage player to keep them from going berserk and killing all who stand in their way, and as such, a Lord of Rage (a tier that is hypothesized to only appear in one- or two-player sessions (and, let’s face it, a Lord of Rage would be surrounded by naturally weaker god tiers even if they were in a session with other players)) would be a destroyer by all known factors, and they would potentially be even harder to stop than even Lord English himself (so aren’t we glad Caliborn wasn’t a Rage player?).
That being said, a Lord is believed to have all the powers of Mages, Witches, Maids, Princes, Knights, and Thieves of their Aspect, and these powers come in all at once, intertwining and truly allowing the Lord to come into their role as the embodiment of their Aspect.
As a Mage of Rage, the Lord of Rage would know what it would take to bring out the pure, raw power of anger, not only theirs, but others’ as well. They would take that energy and use it to further their own ends. They would know how to force despair onto their enemies, making them feel as though it would be impossible to beat them, making it impossible purely by their own lack of belief in their abilities. As a Mage, the Lord would already be able to take out a sizeable chunk of their enemies, purely by the virtue of Knowing.
So when it comes to Manipulating, the Lord would be all the better equipped. As a Witch of Rage, the Lord would be able to exchange Rage between given parties, and would be able to change what makes someone angry, afraid, despaired, make even the slightest sign of the end send them over the edge. The Lord of Rage would be able to essentially give someone any sort of phobia, be able to give them anger management issues, a ton of problems that would cause them a ton of problems.
As a Maid of Rage, the Lord would be able to create for anger, fear, despair, and would grant them incredible strength through invoking a berserker rage. The Maid of Rage could create inexplicably strong despair in their enemy’s leaders, destroying their enemy’s faith in them, keeping them from working in the way they ought to,
As a Prince, they would be able to destroy great things, armies, empires, entire concepts like religion or revolution using that berserker Rage, a frightening concept. On the flip side of the Prince’s powers, comes the Lord’s abilities to destroy Rage, possibly the only ability of the Lord’s that ISN’T outright belligerent or offensive. Quite the opposite, in fact, as a Lord of Rage might be able to use this to HELP allies, destroying their fears or despair. Or they could get rid of their opponent’s strength or anger towards them, defending themselves in potentially the best way.
As a Knight of Rage, the Lord of Rage could effectively use their berserker mode, put it on and take it off like one would a coat or a belt with a holster. Rather than simply having to wait until the Rage runs its course, which could be potentially quite dangerous depending on what they’re doing and who they’re with, they could simply make it the most efficient weapon they have by being able to turn it on and off like a light. They could potentially even learn to do the same with all the portions of their Aspect, remove their despair like a ring, fling away their fear like a flannel, make themselves the ultimate machine of destruction they were always destined to be by removing a lot of what makes them human…or troll…or maybe cherub, I don’t know.
And of course, as a Thief of Rage, the Lord would be able to steal their opponent’s anger and strength to power themselves and their berserker mode up. Conversely, they COULD help their allies by stealing their despair and/or fear, but a Lord of Rage who has entirely come into their role will not be caught DEAD in a supporting spot like that. I mean, that’s kind of the point of their role, to be destructive and loud and do whatever they want.
The Lord of Rage will be found on the front lines of whatever fight they’re involved in, and you can practically guarantee that whatever side they’re on, even if they’re not on a side of a war, it will win. They’re not a Lord of Hope, changing the tide of a battle they join in on, as a Lord of Rage doesn’t join in that late in the game—whatever battle they’re a part of, most likely, they’ve had at least some small part in starting it. Their mere presence often indicates that some battle is on the ledge, about to start, and it would take a Muse of Hope to stop them—a Muse most likely that will not be around to stop them in their chain of destruction.


Weapons: TC

Well, well, well.  Quite the pickle here.  Not only a Lord, but a Lord of Rage, no less.  This will be a challenge.
There exist a terrifyingly small number of examples for the weapons of both Rage players and for Lords, but I will do my best to tell you what I can.  First off, Lords, as I have stated earlier, tend to be the type to use larger, more ostentatious weapons, like Caliborn’s gaudy and flamboyant automatic rifle.  These weapons tend to be pretty powerful, but their looks give away exactly how strong they are, as opposed to the weapons of a Muse, which tend to be deceptively more powerful than their small package would lead you to believe.  Furthermore, the Lords tend to wield a larger counterpart of their Muse’s weapon.  However, if there is no Muse, then this will not be a problem, leaving any large, ostentatious weapon as fair game for your Lord to potentially use.
As for Rage players and their weapons, there also seems to be only one example, this being the clubs used by Gamzee and Kurloz.  This does not mean that all Rage players are juggalos, however.  Unless you want them to be, in which case you are simply reinforcing the stereotype.  From what I gather, Rage players use melee weapons more often than not, which makes sense, seeing as Rage is the aspect of overwhelming physical strength.  Furthermore, I might even go so far as to infer that Rage players use weapons that tend to indicate that which they believe in above all else.  Kurloz and Gamzee held their faith in higher regard than anything else, and as such, they used weapons that were typical of their juggalo cult.  If your Lord believes in, say, a certain religion, then they may use a weapon that symbolizes their religion for them.  If they are an atheist, and believe in science, then they may use a tesla coil, or something electric and flashy.  If they believe solely in the strength of their own body, then they might use a sword, or an axe. (But not a knife.  Knives are a more muse-y weapon.)
As such, here are the specibi that house the gaudier melee weapons.  The one that best suits your Lord is up to you, and what they believe in.

  • Artkind: Oh, you’re one of THOSE people.
  • Axekind: Just don’t go swinging at any gold rings.
  • Bladekind: *Starts playing One-Winged Angel from FFVII*
  • Bookkind: This book doesn’t have any answers!
  • Chainkind: How very… infamous of you.
  • Chainsawkind: Like chainkind.  Only more… saw-y.
  • Clubkind: Sup, my juggalo brother?
  • Explosivekind: Nothing flashier than that, amirite?
  • Flagkind: I claim your face in the name of AMERICA!
  • Footwearkind: Oh.  My.  God.  Where did you get those shoes?
  • Glovekind: Perfect for taking off and slapping people with!
  • Hammerkind: Stop… Wait a minute.  Fill my cup, pour some liquor in it.
  • Lancekind: Ha, I bet you thought I was gonna say hammer time on that last one, didn’t you?
  • Polearmkind: No, no… dude… get that pole out of your arm… that’s not what that is… why would you do that???
  • Sciencekind: Thomas Dolby be damned.
  • Scythekind: Seasons don’t fear the reaper.  But they will.


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Lord and Muses are unique titles, and, therefore, have unique lands. The thing about the two Master classes is that they only essentially need their lands for one thing and one thing only: to have a platform for themselves and their denizens in order to allow them to make the Choice. But the problem comes in when they have to play in sessions with other people. I mean, hypothetically this is possible. They would need a member of the opposite Master class in the session with them, or, at the very least, in a session that appears with theirs that interacts with theirs, but they should be able to be in a session with other players. As such, what would their land be like in a session with other players? Well, TC’s and my personal theory is that it is a land reflecting their Aspect to the T. And it’s reflected in all the wrong ways. Wars span this planet amongst the consorts, and where there aren’t wars, there’s despair.
There is technically no quest. That doesn’t mean the Lord doesn’t take one on for themselves.
They believe their quest is to stop this war. And they do. They end up destroying the world, piece by piece. First they destroy the warmongers. Then the footsoldiers. Then whenever a fight spawns, the Lord destroys the town it took place in. They come around to believing that this world of theirs is better off gone. Purged. That is their quest, setting up the world by destroying it for the Muse that inhabits it next.
When the Lord of Rage makes the Choice to destroy forever, they do it for the sake of ending all wars by ending them before they start, inadvertently starting the wars they desire to avoid, to end. It’s a tragic end, one only a Muse of Hope could stop. And not only does the Lord, but all creation hopes they do.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionWhat weapons would a rogue of space have? Answer

Anonymous said: Could you do the Rogue of Space?

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Powers: CA

The Rogue and the Thief are the passive-active pair for the Stealing class. Where Thieves are believed to be predominantly female, Rogues don’t have that thing going for them (and it’s not like we would have changed the pronouns regarding the player anyway, so screw that). The difference between the two is that the results of Thieves’ stealing is a self-boon, whereas the results of a Rogue’s stealing is a boon for every member of their team. The best example we’ve got of this is Roxy, the Rogue of Void, stealing the nothingness of a certain space to create the Matriorb for her friend Kanaya and for the good of all trollkind.
So, Rogue of Space, what can they do? Well, to start out, one of the first powers I can think of would be stealing the size or speed of one or more enemies to hand out amongst their friends. Make a team of giants against an army of ants (fun fact: that is actually what a group of ants is called), or, rather, ant-sized opponents, or have your friends running circles around the Black King. The powers of a Rogue of Space also include stealing position. If an enemy stands where your allies want to be, you can essentially force the two to swap positions. Fun stuff. It might also be possible that a Rogue of Space would be able to outright steal an enemy’s existence, their birth, another piece of what Space is, given how it’s connected to the Genesis Frog. Simply take that and put it somewhere else, perhaps birthing alternate versions of a desired object somewhere out in Paradox Space, perhaps achieving a miracle like turning water into wine right in their hands. NOTE THAT this would be very difficult for even the best Rogue of Space to accomplish (similar to how Roxy had to actually learn to use a fair deal of Void-y shit before she could un-nothing the Matriorb), and it would likely be much more trouble than it’s actually worth, because it could potentially alter so much more than one can fathom without the aid of a Mind player (preferably a Seer, but a Page could probably give the Rogue enough Mind power necessary to figure things out). This gets terribly close to Time and Mind territory, though, so if a Rogue is to attempt it, the best thing to do would be to consult with their Time and/or Mind players before even attempting it.
Something that’s worth noting about Rogues as individuals rather than just their abilities or roles would definitely be their connection to their Aspect: pre-session, they’re always full of it. Nepeta with her shipping walls (Heart), Rufioh with the ability to fly (Breath), Roxy with her slurred speech and typos (Void). But after the game starts, due to either being too busy to think of maintaining their prior habits, or another players’ intervention (violent or otherwise), that reflection’s over with (I tend to theorize that if Rogues don’t actually reach god tier before their session ends, like Nepeta, they go back to their old habit, like Nepeta with her new shipping walls on the meteor, but I have little proof to back this for sure). So this would mean that our Rogue of Space would exhibit themes related to Space, such as creativity or birth. This Rogue could be a writer, a painter, a singer, a musician,or maybe a gardener of some sort. But once the session starts, they likely stop creating, probably because they’d be too busy to continue. But that creativity stays with them, shaped them as a person, and they may very well return to it in the end.


Weapons: TC

Spacey-wacey.  Ok.
Well, Rogues, as I have stated in at least one previous post, tend to use weapons designed for killing.  Roxy uses a sniper rifle, a weapon used for quiet assassinations from a distance, Nepeta used claws which she used for hunting, and what is hunting if not killing for survival, and Rufioh used a lance, which is used for killing for the sake of competition.  As for the Space bit, this would indicate a pattern of guns, transforming objects, or transforming guns.  As such, the following seem to be the most likely strife specibi.

  • Automatickind: Well, I guess it’s greased lightningggggg.
  • Flamethrowerkind: For when you want to be dangerous, dangerous, like a fire in a nursing home.
  • Launcherkind: From Portal guns to Spud guns, this strife specibus is kinda versatile.
  • Pistolkind: Perfect for those dudely white magnums all around the house.
  • Riflekind: Now this is a gun.
  • Shotgunkind: What’s this passenger side car seat doing in here?

Just remember, these are only the most likely suspects.  If your character or yourself has no great love of guns, anything traditionally considered a weapon will suffice.  The transformation thing can be decided by you.


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Alright, this is actually kind of funny, but for once, we don’t have to do our usual disclaimer! This is our first Space-playing request! Wow.
Okay. So there have been three Space players in all four sessions of Homestuck, two of whose lands we have seen, that would be Jade’s, as the Witch of Space, and Kanaya’s, the Sylph of Space. Of the two, there isn’t actually much in the way of connection. The Land of Frost and Frogs and the The Land of Rays and Frogs were actually surprisingly different, for lands belonging to characters whose tiers were the same Aspect. And I guess it’s because they didn’t actually need to be. The quest for all Space players is predefined, anyway, and there are a ton of details that you can decide for yourself as a Space player: climate, lighting, what sort of animals are on the planets (like, the small ones, like John’s fireflies and Jade’s hummingbirds), practically everything! Just keep in mind that there are two things that a Space player’s land needs: some form of water around the land (Jade’s snow, Kanaya’s ocean), and a volcano, which is, presumably the Forge.
The quest of the Space player is the most important quest of all. Even if all others succeed in their quests, even if the Black King is defeated, if this quest fails, it doesn’t matter: for without the Genesis Frog being formed, there is no universe for the players to arrive in on the other side of that door. Presumably, though, there is a secondary quest for the Space player—I mean, come on, if it was as easy as simply birthing a universe in a frog, you KNOW that there would be a lot more problems for the session in general to face. If you want one specifically formed for a Rogue of Space, something that helps them understand their abilities, it would probably be corralling the frogs. Let’s say…the Rogue’s world is covered in forests, brush so dense that it’s nigh impossible for the Rogue to find the frogs necessary to finish their true quest. The Rogue would have to steal a section of that forest in order to provide a space for the frogs. See what I did there? Stealing Space to give Space. It’ll be much simpler to find the frogs necessary now that so many of them are in one place.

QuestionWould it be possible for you to do a land/land quest for an heir of void? Thanks! Answer
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Land and Quest: TC and CA

Welp, as per usual, we can’t give you the name of the land, because then everyone would use it and that would be sad, we want everyone to have their own awesome lands! So here’s a word list to help you get going if you can’t think of anything. With that done, let’s get started.
Despite the presence of three Void players across all four seen sessions, we actually know surprisingly little about what Void lands look like. We have only seen one land, Equius’, which could be used to help generalize about all Void lands, and that’s because we’ve only seen two of the three lands, and of the two, one’s an irregular session. But we at least have Equius’, and that’s good enough. Equius’ land was The Land of Caves and Silence. This was an empty-looking land that looked like it was perpetually nighttime, or, we assume it is given how little we’ve seen of it. Silence is a lack of sound, and the “lacking” part makes it the Aspect word, and I think it’s possible that Caves might be the aesthetic word, as one would think that they are a permanent structure, leaving Silence to be the quest word, but given how little time that was spent in the Land of Caves and Silence, even in Paradox Space, we’re not entirely sure. We can imagine that Void lands would have a direct contrast to Light lands as for the light that’s on it, and where Light lands look like they’re at various stages of the daytime, Void lands would be in darkness naturally, with no sun nor moon to light up the sky or the ground below.
So, with that said, and Heir of Void’s quest would be one that helped them learn from Void, learn to trust the nothingness and hope it will guide you to your correct answer. And Heir doesn’t necessary need to understand their Aspect, simply trust that it has their best interests at heart. They can literally only learn from nothing in this land, because that’s sort of how the relationship between the Heir and Void would be.
There is a place, that the groups of consorts who wonder the Heir’s home, recognize as, in some way, sacred. It is supposedly a place of purely great nothingness, a place where consorts go to be purified, to have their sins removed, or something. You don’t quite believe that. But, hey, whatever floats their boat—you just wanna know what’s in there. You enter that place, and within, you find ruins, and at its center, a tablet, detailing some sort of puzzle. That specific detail is up to you. But the Heir attempts to solve it, and, after a frustrating time spent mulling it over, they fail. The ground along the ruins rumbles, and you’re afraid that the place will come down around you if you stay for much longer. You run for the entrance, back out into the dark of your world, before you slow, taking a few slow steps. You frown. Your heart is racing. Why? Why were you running? You turn back towards the entrance to a place that the consorts described as sacred, air in it still and placid. Huh. Wonder what’s in there?
The Heir of Void will have no knowledge of prior attempts of solving the puzzle when they go about doing that. On succeeding, not only will they remember every attempt they made, but will also get to meet their denizen, learn from a prime source of Void.
So, learning from nothing, wouldn’t that just mean that you can’t progress? No, it doesn’t. It just means that you lack the power of foresight that, say, an Heir of Light might have. Where an Heir of Light’s quest is to remember, to know, an Heir of Void’s quest is to learn that they can’t learn. To accept it. To keep pushing forward anyway. I’d describe an Heir as easily the most tenacious class there is, and in a way, that’s correct. How their Aspect raises them helps solidify this part of them. You know how John’s quest as an Heir of Breath seems a little impossible without the aid of Breath in the first place? It’s not like the Aspect would have simply let him die. And the nothingness that sweeps over both the Heir and whatever mistakes the Heir may have made earlier is meant to teach. Void, as we mentioned before, is old, it’s patient. It’s hoping that, throughout the Heir’s time with their quest they might learn to reflect that as well.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionCan you do a Mage of Void please? Answer

Anonymous said:  please please please plEASEEE do a mage of void!!

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Powers: CA

The Mage and the Seer are the active-passive pair of classes that make up the Knowing classes. And where a Seer might spread their knowledge amongst their teammates for them to do with as they wish, a Mage would use this knowledge for themselves. Sure, they might share what they find, but their major concern is how they can find out more, learn to use their Aspect’s rules to their advantage, play the system, predict—no, know what will happen and learn how to use the rules of their Aspect to alter what might happen, to trap their enemies in it, to aid their allies with it, and to altogether simply have the system that is their Aspect work for them. After all, the first step to winning the game is to know the rules.
The Mage of Void is a funny little oxymoron of a god tier. The Mage is a Knowing class, and yet Void is the Aspect of knowing nothing at all. Truly, the only difference between a successful Mage of Void and a Mage of Void spurned by their Aspect is a capital letter (knowing Nothing vs. knowing nothing). In any case, a Mage of Void is, by their nature, a fairly….unnerving character, to say the least. They know a lot of secrets, and they have eyes that seem to stare into your soul. But there is a reason why they know all those secrets and that’s because they are deserving of the trust they have been given. And of all the Mages, a Mage of Void is the least likely to screw up with their Aspect, and it’s not entirely by the Mage’s virtue, either. Void is an old Aspect, patient and hard to track, and once the Mage of Void learns to use the system of Void, those traits will lend themselves to them. The Void will accept the Mage as one of its own, letting them learn to make themselves invisible, intangible. They will be able to erase knowledge, to obscure what they want or need to. They will be able to learn how to read destruction, remnants of what once was to know what happened to it. Their skills in this won’t be quite so good as, say, a Mage of Doom, but they will have an impressive grasp of it for someone not related to the Doom Aspect in the first place. What’s more, though, is that a very skilled Mage of Void might even know how to speak with the old gods in the Furthest Ring. A Mage of Void would be able to speak with those ancient ones, garner advice from them, their patrons. They would know how to use that language of the Void to obscure themselves  and perhaps others, should they feel like it. But a Mage of Void must be careful—while Void is patient and understanding, it is not an Aspect which forgives easily. To break Void would prove a hard backlash to recover from.
The Mage of Void, with their intrinsic knowledge of how to become one with the nothingness inherent in everything would likely serve their team best as a spy of sorts. They would be incredible at hiding and sneaking around enemies, and a sneak attack dealt by a Mage of Void would be hard to see coming, if possible at all.


Weapons: TC

Magey weapons.  And Voidy weapons.  Cool.
Well, Void players tend to use weapons designed to be used silently, or use weapons that are as close as possible to using nothing at all.  For instance, Roxy’s rifle, which could be silenced, Horuss’s bow, which tend not to make an abundance of noise, and Equius’s bare hands, which are literally nothing.
As for Mages, they tend to use an item that both plays to their strengths and suit them as an individual.  Now, I know what you’re thinking.  But TC, don’t all players use weapons that play to their strengths?  And my answer is that that doesn’t always happen as often as you would think.  I mean, look at John.  When he first started, he couldn’t even lift a hammer.  Equius kept trying in vain to use a bow, and Vriska used dice despite having abysmal luck at the start of the session.  Not even the trolls, who are raised to fight, all used weapons that they were familiar with.  While most of them do, admittedly, Mages use weapons that they not only already know how to use, but that shows who they are as individuals.  For example, Sollux used his psionic powers, an ability that was almost entirely specific to him and his caste on the hemospectrum, which he had possessed all his life and could wield to deadly effect.  Meulin used claws, which not only were a weapon which she (assumedly) could use to kill wild beasts with, but that showed her catlike graces and her affinity for felines.
Put these things together and you get a weapon that can kill silently that the Mage can use well and shows the strengths of the Mage.  I will give some possible suggestions.

  • Boomerangkind: Aaaaaaand it’s back.
  • Bowkind: It’s Hawkeye, not Hawkguy.
  • Fankind: Time to pull off some Mulan type shit.
  • Footwearkind: You’re lightning on your feet.  And that’s what they don’t see.
  • Knifekind: Roll sneak attack damage.
  • Ninjakind: Ninja Art!  Bad Internet Connection!
  • Pistolkind: Snake?  Snake?  SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE?!
  • Wirekind: Your jobs now include answering the door, cleaning up the estate, and taking out the trash.


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Okay, disclaimer time: If you can’t think of a good word, we suggest this here word list made by thepageofhopes.
With that said, of the three Void players we have seen in canon, Equius Zahhak, the Heir of Void, Roxy Lalonde, the Rogue of Void, and Horuss Zahhak, the Page of Void, we have only seen two’s lands (Roxy’s and Equius’), but, of course, given how one is a member of a Void session, one that is inherently different to other sessions (read: regular ones), we can only use one, Equius’, the Land of Caves and Silence. This was an empty-looking land that, in an obvious (and, I imagine, intentional) contrast to Light lands, looked like it was perpetually night. Silence is a lack of sound, and the “lacking” part makes it the Aspect word, and I think it’s possible that Caves might be the aesthetic word, as one would think that they are a permanent structure, leaving Silence to be the quest word, but given how little time that was spent in the Land of Caves and Silence, even in Paradox Space, there isn’t much we know about the land. We can imagine that Void lands would have a direct contrast to Light lands as for the light that’s on it, and where Light lands look like they’re at various stages of the daytime, Void lands would be in darkness.
So, with that general idea in mind, what specifically would a Mage of Void be doing as a quest? They have to learn to use that knack of theirs in regards to knowing and keeping secrets and learning to master Knowing an indecipherable Aspect such as Void. So what would lend itself to that?
….Look, I don’t want to let TC say noir world, but noir world.
You know those old, kind of over-the-top but undeniably classy detective films? Well, think a little bit like that (except hopefully not so silly). Something got stolen, an artifact of particular importance to the land’s consorts, and with a bit of sleuthing on either the consorts’ or Mage’s part, they know it was one of the consorts who stole it. This artifact would probably have historical connotations, providing information to the consorts of their civilization’s past, but really as long as it provides some sort of information to the consorts at all, it should be good. It’s the Mage’s quest to traverse this land of secrets and betrayal (gods, so melodramatic) to find out who took this artifact, why, and to return it to its rightful place. I give you bonus points if the artifact as the consorts knew it in its description was just an outer shell, and the Mage finds it in its true form, that’s some damn good detective work.

QuestionThief of hope and lord of hope powers please. (Your blog is so cool.) Answer

Aw, thank you.

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Thief of Hope

Powers: TC

TC here.  Since Thieves of Hope are one of my main areas of expertise, if you don’t mind, I think I’ll be the one pulling the strings.  The Thief class is the active Steal class, and as such, takes their aspect and hoards it all for themselves.  However, to balance this ability, they start out with a deficit in their aspect.  As such, a Thief of Hope would most likely start out as a horribly pessimistic individual who would go around being a constant downer all the time, constantly explaining to everyone in full detail every reason why their session is doomed to fail.  However, as time passes, and they use their power more, they will receive allllllll the Hope in their session, and become an incredibly optimistic, and maybe even arrogant individual who is surrounded by a group of downers.
While this may not sound too impressive in terms of a combat, or even a support, standpoint, rest assured that a Thief of Hope can pull off some shit that is equally as gamebreaking as anything that, say, a Thief of Light could conjure up.  Don’t believe me?  Well, then picture this.  Imagine the Thief never even having to lift a finger to win a fight due to the enemy surrendering right then and there due to them believing that they cannot possibly win.  Imagine the Black King kneeling at the Thief’s feet, submitting to their immense power that may or may not even exist.  Furthermore, at higher levels, imagine the possible uses for all of that stockpiled Hope?  You remember all of the crazy things that Jake pulled off with the powers of Hope?  While the Thief may not be able to do something quite so impressive, they will definitely come close.  The Thief can manage pretty much anything they set their mind to with the powers of determination and will alone.  By a sheer refusal to give up, the Thief of Hope can do extraordinary things.  They may perhaps be able to even crawl their way over to the alpha timeline from a doomed one simply through means of being too tenacious to give up!  That is the sort of thing that a Thief of Hope would be capable of.

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Lord of Hope

Powers: CA

The Lord and the Muse are the active-passive pair for the Master classes, Embodying their Aspect to the fullest without a chance of inversion by virtue of its ultimate power. These two classes, while the most powerful, are very rare and as such there’s very little we know about them as outsiders, and as such, TC and I can only go off personal theory when we believe that Lords have the powers of Mages, Witches, Maids, Princes, Knights, and Thieves of their Aspect all at once. The utter mastery of their Aspect leaves no room for inversion, no room for doubt, only conquering and ultimate power, even before the Lord makes the Choice.
A Lord of Hope would be a god, and I do not exaggerate when I say this. Combining easily the most powerful Aspect with one of the most powerful classes does this. They would be able to create widespread faith in them and then harvest that energy to wreak utter destruction on whatever inspires their wrath and they would know how to do it in just the right way to spin it to obtain yet more faith to use. They would prove a powerful deity indeed, not to mention a powerful enemy.
As a Mage of Hope, they would know how to inspire the faith that fuels the rest of their abilities, would know how to act like a deity for whatever people they are attempting to act as a deity for. Whether they need to smite all sinners in their sight, whether they need to forgive and prove ever-merciful. A Lord of Hope would be an incredible actor—they would have to be, after all, to efficiently garner the fuel for the rest of their powers.
As a Witch of Hope, the Lord would be able to alter the placement of existing faith, dumping it all into themselves, or, to make it easier to increase the faith they could use for their own power, as a Witch, a Lord could manipulate what it would require for them to inspire faith while they masquerade as whatever deity is the most popular or easy or useful. They could alter what people remember of their god, potentially making it so they only barely have to change their outward persona to fit the deity they were playing as.
As a Maid of Hope, the Lord would, of course, be able to directly create faith in themselves, and create the pure energy of their Aspect to use in battle to defend themselves or attack, but more than that, where the Maid of Hope would be able to create illusory objects of faith, symbols of hope, the Lord might actually be able to physically manifest them. More importantly, this pure energy they could create could perform impossible tasks right in front of everyone! The Lord of Hope, using the Maid of Hope’s powers, could easily pull off miracles with barely a second glance to the people watching, those who faith they are creating.
As a Prince of Hope, we finally have an outright offensive use for the Hope they’ve been stockpiling. With the pure white power of Hope, the Lord could destroy anything standing in their way. Eridan, even while perhaps not the best Prince, certainly proved good at destroying with Hope when he destroyed the Matriorb, thereby destroying the Hope of a new Mother Grub birthed on the meteor. Speaking of destroying Hope, the Lord would be absolute boss at that. Any pesky worshippers of another god desperately clinging to their faith? What faith? Army coming to destroy you, confident in their leaders and themselves? What confidence? Their powers as a Prince are often such a game changer that they can stop a battle before it even starts.
As a Knight of Hope, the Lord would have yet another offensive use for the stockpiled Hope. By arming themselves with Hope, the Lord could simultaneously really REALLY believe in themselves and their abilities, be able to shoot lasers of pure Hope and surround themselves with an aura of that same energy, and shape and wield a weapon constructed out of condensed energy. This weapon would likely be the same sort of weapon as their current strife specibus, but might reflect the weapon they most desire out of those they have seen fitting into their specibus.
And, finally, as a Thief of Hope, as TC earlier stated, the Lord would once again be able to stop a battle before it starts, and would use the Hope they stole to fuel one of their other, more destructive abilities, such as the Prince’s. And you can bet that if a fully recognized Lord of Hope figured out they were in a doomed timeline, they would be the first to hightail it out of there, blasting a hole through paradox space to get to a safer spot—causing a shit ton of trouble for all residents in that timeline, too, no doubt.
The Lord of Hope, as all Lords, have their place in battle on the front lines. This Lord’s appearance often indicates a change in the tides of the battle for better or for worse, be it the underdogs winning, an even fight turning into an outright massacre, or neither side winning with all the forces on either side dying. A Lord of Hope is likely a popular character, friendly while holding strong faith in whatever they believe in, and a quick thinker. But under no circumstances should a Lord of Hope be let into a leadership role in a session with more than two players. It will undoubtedly end in ruin if they are allowed to lead. A Lord of Hope would make the choice thinking they are all the god they are cracked up to be, and will destroy anything and everything for the sake of the world they believe to be perfection.

Anonymous Asked
Questionhow would a team made up of a witch of hope, maid of heart, page of life, seer of space, and mage of time do (sorry the list is so long) Answer

It’s okay. Trust me when I say, that list is not long.

Team Analysis: TC and CA

Witch of Hope, Maid of Heart, Page of Life, Seer of Space, and Mage of Time


Well, congratulations, you passed the first main point, having a Space and a Time player. They are both required for a session to be anywhere near possible to succeed, so that’s down. You now have a chance of succeeding!
A possible problem however, that I saw with this team, is the fact that it has an uneven number of players. For a balanced session, an even number would be necessary, and it would be helpful to balance out the number of active and passive players. So the passive player we suggest to even out your session at six players would be a Sylph of Rage.
The Witch of Hope would be your main brawler. Lasers, a manipulation of faith, and an abrasive personality to match after the session starts, this is the character on your team who is going to be fighting the absolute most. But this faith you would place in them on the battlefield does not mean that they are anything even vaguely near leadership material. They do not know how to rally their teammates, they are more likely to enrage them and maybe never even know it. But on the battlefield, you cannot deny they are the most useful member of your team there. They have Hope to manipulate, to train freely. They would be not only be an object of faith for you in combat, but also an object of faith for whoever they would care to be, allocating the powerful energy of their Aspect as freely as they want. But under no circumstances should the remainder of this team place any faith in this character as a leader. Second-in-command? Yeah, sure, they’d probably have a pretty good hand in passing on orders and motivating their comrades and the like, but do NOT let this character be a leader.
The Maid of Heart, however, do allow to be a leader. This is a character in touch with the emotions of their comrades, at least slightly capable in battle by virtue of sheer numbers (making copies of yourself, who knew that splinters could be so useful?), and, while a tad manipulative and not entirely ethical, would be able to create emotions in their allies to defuse any given situation, even without using their god tier powers outright. The Maid would have a finger on the pulse of their team, would be able to keep a short leash on the enthusiastic-but-abrasive Witch, would provide words of encouragement to the Page as they struggle their way up to their god tier, and would have the sense to leave the Seer and the Mage alone to work by themselves—the Maid would find out that, by the fairly enigmatic virtue of their Aspects, the Seer and the Mage would prefer to work as a slightly separate unit. The Sylph and the Maid would likely serve as the two grounding forces of this team, one understanding the forces which would serve to undermine the team (Rage) the other understanding everyone’s emotions and selves. The Maid and the Sylph would likely prove to be close friends by the end of the session, if not already by the start, given how they would be so keen to confide in each other their fears and thoughts (Sylphs often prove a good listener given the intrinsic healing nature to their roles, and if you add that to the emotional nature of the Maid’s Aspect, these two would be each other’s best confidants and advisors—and I will add that it certainly helps these two are the active-passive pair of their classes). The Maid needs to be careful to not abuse their power, either as a leader or in their god tier form, but I believe their understanding of the gravity of their roles and the friend and adviser they will have in the Sylph will help.
Pages often start as the most passive of people, and in this session, the Page of Life will prove no different. Likely a very meek person, the Page of Life is all about choices, decisions to make in life. The Page, pre-session, might have been a person with a wide variety of opportunities before them, but was sort of overwhelmed by the amount of them, the fear that they might make the wrong choice, accordingly. Now, in-session, they’re sort of pigeonholed in a role, and it’s frustrating to them, to suddenly be void of all these choices and to be only offered now the one. To be honest, though, I can’t blame them for being frustrated, but they do only have one role. The Page of Life is an incredibly powerful healing class. They would potentially be the best cleric of all time, equipping their teammates with the incredible healing power of Life. It’s an amazing role to have, and a well-trained Page of Life could even bring a dead teammate back to life. But to achieve this role, they would need the aid of their comrades. The Seer of Space would tell them just how important, how necessary this role is, and how they alone would be able to fulfill it in their session. The Maid of Heart would try to aid them in accepting their role, help them be motivated to fill it. The Witch of Hope would also probably prove a source of motivation themselves, although this might be more of a, “Ha, ha, I’m better than you,” sort of deal. In any case, if this Page’s other teammates support them, they should prove quite the capable healer.
The Seer of Space would be the central tactician of the team, given the nature of their classpect, and would rely on their teammate’s trust to better get them through their session—luckily, though, one already does trust them. The Mage of Time and Seer of Space should take to each other like a duck to water, if they haven’t before the session. So when they need something, the Seer of Space will be undoubtedly be the one to find it, to comb through all of paradox space, but the Mage of Time will likely be the one to get it. The Seer will also likely put a bit of a leash on their Mage, given how they would have some knowledge of how bad it would  be if Time itself were to try and bite the session in the butt (the Page needs it to get even the vaguest understanding of their abilities, the Seer needs it for the frog, etc.), but other than that, they give the Mage full reign over their powers, as the Seer would be among the first to know that, to survive this session, they need a Time player who knows Time like the back of their hand. The Seer would serve as another advisor to the Maid, knowing the where of all things they might need, and would provide a more logical side to the Maid, in comparison to their more emotional self. Given their intrinsic knowledge of birth inherent of Space, they will likely not need as much coaching in the making of their frog from their denizen than anyone else. The Seer of Space will also put a leash on the Witch of Hope, a sort of unattached persona directing the Witch towards what they might need and what they might need to do. To the Page of Life, though, the Seer acts a tad more emotional, more parental, as it were, encouraging them to fulfill their role as no one else could. The Seer of Space would be the first to discover the Quest Beds, and also likely the first to figure out how to use them, and to suggest the use of them to all they and the Mage believe would need to use them.
Speaking of the Mage, they and the Seer would work best as an independent unit, for the most part. Without a Knight to work with, the Seer would depend most on the Time player for help in completing their world’s quest, but beyond even that, the two would be pushing each other’s limits, helping each other reach the highest point of their powers. Sure, they’d be helping the other members of the team, but their main concern would be each other—especially with the Mage. We’ve touched on this once or twice before with one or two other posts concerning a Mage of Time, but Mages of Time have a tendency to separate themselves from the rest of their team. While not quite true in regards to the Seer of Space, they would certainly avoid involving themselves with the other players in order to fulfill their own goals. Hell, if the Mage and the Seer develop their abilities well enough, it’s more than likely they might even be able to outright unravel the mysteries of SBURB in addition to realizing their own quests.
The reason why TC and I suggested the addition of a Sylph of Rage would be because, in addition to being a grounding force to the team and a good vent an adviser to the Maid of Heart, we noted you don’t have much in the way of combat power. Sure, you have that Witch of Hope, but until the Maid of Heart goes legitimate god tier, that Witch is all you’ve got. But the Sylph of Rage, with their ability to create Rage in others would essentially allow them the ability to give their teammates incredible power wrapped in the form of a berserker mode of sorts. In addition to that, the Sylph would be able to provide some sort of healing power with their ability to heal using Rage. While certainly….unusual in the way it sounds, the Sylph will be an incredible ally while the Page learns, the Maid leads, and the Witch fights.
So all in all, we think this team should be quite capable of taking the game on. They have a sound emotional base, a curious Space/Time duo, and a healer with a lot of potential. Just keep an eye on the Witch before the final fight, and you should be fine.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionBello could you please do a Page of Void write up thingy? Answer
Anonymous said: Can you do a write up for page of void please??? love your blog!!

Aw, well, thank you.

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Powers: CA

The Page and the Knight are the passive-active pair, Exploiting their Aspect by turning it into a weapon. But where the Knight keeps the sword they have been given by their Aspect, the Page hands it out, makes themselves an army of the Knights their swords create. Similarly, where the Knight reaches their full potential as an army by themselves, the Page learns what they can from their teammates and allies, reaching their full potential far slower than the speedy lone-wolf Knight. Jake English, as the Page of Hope, equipped thought-Dirk with his beliefs that the manifestation of his knowledge of Dirk existed, and he was essentially just wished into existence by those beliefs, having received Aranea’s gift of his full potential. And while Pages’ abilities take a while to come into effect, due to their full potential being a long road to reach the end of, at least they don’t have to deal with the pesky side effect of their session lacking their Aspect.
So, Page of Void, turns other people into Knights of Void.
…What, are you surprised I jumped right into that power? Well, that’s because there isn’t really much that the Page can do besides. Horuss Zahhak, too, was a Page of Void, and what did he give to his teammates? Nothing. Any Page of Void would simply be able to give their teammates nothing…actually, I take that back. A well-trained Page of Void might be able to do worse than that. A well-trained Page of Void would be able to obscure their allies’ information, memories they want (or need) to forget.
Don’t worry, though, the Page’s other ability more than makes up for it. You see, by making their allies Knights of Void, the Page has essentially ensured the success of their session. I’m not sure if you’ve read our team analysis of a Knight of Void, but in the case you haven’t, let me tell you, Knights of Void are one of the parts of a perfect session because their mere presence means that everything that needs to be in the session is there. And yes, this does apply to Pages, too, once they reach their full potential. Knights of Void are armies, construction crews, basically anything, able to call out anything they need from the nothingness, and able to show up wherever they may be needed. The weaponization of Void would likely allow this Knight the ability to teleport into and out of existence wherever they need to be, or, at the very least, turn invisible. Just imagine what, say, three of them together would be able to accomplish!
As a final note, it’s worth saying that a Page of Void might be a bit of a secret-keeper, given how Pages tend to accept their Aspect wholeheartedly as a matter of who they are (e.g., Jake, as the Page of Hope, believing most, if not everything, that he gets told, as a measure of his tremendous faith), and this might be something that the Page needs to work on to reach their full potential, opening up to their teammates about their secrets. Not all, but, at the very least, some.


Weapons: TC

Pages and Void.  Well, as I have previously stated at least once, Void players opt towards quieter ways to kill things and Pages use more traditional weapons.  For instance, Horuss Zahhak, the canon Page of Void, used a bow and arrows to fight.  The other Pages are Tavros, who used a lance, and Jake, who uses his pistols.  Other Void players are Equius, who uses his bare hands (literally nothing), and Roxy, with her sniper rifle.  As such, a Page of Void would use a strife specibus designed to fight and kill quietly.  The following would suffice.

  • Bowkind: For those who want to be majestic hoofbeasts.
  • Dartkind: Because that one scene from the fourth Indiana Jones movie was total bs.
  • Knifekind: So I said it’s knife to meet y… WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’VE ALREADY DONE THAT JOKE?!
  • Ninjakind: Weeb no Jutsu!
  • Pillowkind: The poor man’s silencer.  Can’t murder a man without it.
  • Pistolkind: Oh, right, the gun.  Almost forgot.
  • Riflekind: Looks like you brought a gun to a knife fight.  Just had to one up everybody, didn’t you?


Land and Quest: TC and CA

You see this here word list? The one thepageofhopes made? Yeah, you can use it if you can’t think of a good Void word.
Alright. Of the three Void players we have seen in canon, Equius Zahhak, the Heir of Void, Roxy Lalonde, the Rogue of Void, and Horuss Zahhak, the Page of Void, we have only seen two’s lands (Roxy’s and Equius’), but, of course, given how one is a member of a Void session, one that is inherently different to other sessions (read: regular ones), we can only use one, Equius’, the Land of Caves and Silence. This was an empty-looking land that, in an obvious (and, I imagine, intentional) contrast to Light lands, looked like it was perpetually night. Silence is a lack of sound, and the “lacking” part makes it the Aspect word, and I think it’s possible that Caves might be the aesthetic word, as one would think that they are a permanent structure, leaving Silence to be the quest word, but given how little time that was spent in the Land of Caves and Silence, even in Paradox Space, there isn’t much we know about the land. We can imagine that Void lands would have a direct contrast to Light lands as for the light that’s on it, and where Light lands look like they’re at various stages of the daytime, Void lands would be in darkness.
So, with that aesthetic knowledge done, what would the Page of Void’s quest be?
I mean, they’ve got to have a quest, right?
….Yeah, I’m officially labeling the Page of Void as the most useless class until they reach their full potential.
I know, I know, I’m being mean, but really, and I am being quite literal here, the Page of Void has nothing to do.
Their land has consorts, sure, but they’re pretty damn content with what little happens in their darkness-filled land. Their Denizen is not causing any trouble, no monster’s rampaging, no slaves need to be freed, no tablet needs to be destroyed, no war needs to be stopped…nothing.
I know, you’re all like, “What the hell is this bullshit?!”
I was like that, too. But then I started actually trying explaining it to myself (note to self: muttering to yourself in public generally garners a few odd looks), and it makes sense.
The Page’s natural ability to give people Void (read: nothing) is the only thing they could do without actually dying on their quest bed, and even then, they would only be able to make them forget. They have nothing to do besides not screwing shit over, and that’s because their only gift to give other people (with their powers, I mean, not like, intellectually or creatively) is nothing.
Their quest is nothing…but at the same time, it’s far more challenging than one might think. Because with nothing to do, what else is there but for them to learn to overcome their own boundaries. Their quest is to learn to reach their full potential. Their quest is to learn their powers, to learn themselves…and to maybe stop holding so tightly on to all of those secrets.

QuestionHey guys! My friend gave me a link to your blog, and I saw that you explain and look into god tiers! So, I'll keep it brief. Can you guys do a Slyph of Heart? I was wondering what the land, weapons, and etc. would be! Thanks! Answer

TC, you hear that? People are recommending our blog. We’re cool now!
By the way, sorry this took so long.

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The Sylph and the Maid are the passive-active pair for the Creation classes. As their name suggests, these two classes create their Aspect for and others and for themselves, as their name suggests. While both of these classes are hypothesized to be made exclusively for females, who can even take anything the canon says seriously anymore?
…Us. The answer is us. We take the canon way too seriously.
But who says male Maids and Sylphs can’t exist anyway, huh?
Anyway, Sylphs, in addition to their creating their Aspect for others, have a second hypothesized power, and that is to heal using their Aspect or just heal their Aspect directly. Kanaya tried to heal Space of the troll species’ absence…I mean, that didn’t really work (*cough*Eridanmesseditup*cough*), but it’s the thought that counts!
Anyway, the Sylph of Heart would be able to create Heart for others. Heart has three main interpretations: soul, emotions, and self, all three intertwinable, and easily confusable at that, but make for surprisingly distinct powers. Let’s look at creating emotions for others.
You know those times. Someone’s going on and on and on about something you just don’t care about. You can’t tell them that, though, they’d think you’re a jerk. So you’re forced to listen while pretending to care. The Sylph of Heart would have the perfect empathetic response, though. They would be able to create emotions that others want them to feel to know just what it expected. They’re amazing listeners, and what’s better is they can be great mediators, too. If two people are in an argument, they would be able to show exactly what the other person was feeling by creating similar emotions in both parties. The Sylph of Heart could stop a war before it started by creating just the right emotions to make people not want to fight…although, this would exclude the creation of apathy, as that would simply be the destruction of other emotions, more the Prince or Bard of Heart’s schtick.
As for creating soul for others, this is something quite similar to the Maid of Heart’s ability, except where the Maid would only make clones of themselves, the Sylph would make clones of others. These clones would strike precisely where it would hurt deepest, the soul. Great for taking in an enemy, or, you know, potentially an ally, alive.
As such, the Sylph of Heart would take a mostly pacifistic route in battle. This in no way means they are not a force to be reckoned with, as Sylphs in general tend to buff their allies, but they also tend to kick people’s asses with the weapons they have (*cough*cuttingEridaninhalf*cough*). Have fun.


Weapons: TC

Sylph of Heart weapons are straightforward.  Seeing as I have already covered the weapon patterns for both heroes of Heart and Sylphs more times than I can count, I’m sure that most of you might already be acquainted with their weapon patterns.  The weapons of a Sylph tend to be capable of transforming from something everyday and unassuming into something deadly, like Kanaya’s lipstick chainsaw.  The weapons of Heart players tend to be oriented towards cutting, like Dirk’s sword and Nepeta and Meulin’s claws.  Put these patterns together, and you’ll get something unassuming that can transform into something that can cut a bitch.  While the unassuming form is up to you, I recommend the following as the more combat-ready weapons.

  • Axekind: Look at that choice axe.
  • Bladekind: Zack Fair called.  He wants his buster sword back.
  • Chainsaw: Yes, I know every weapon I described above is in this list.
  • Clawkind: Are you the first X-Man?  Ah, forget it, that joke’s ahead of your time.
  • Knifekind: Oh, no!  You found my weakness!  Small knives!
  • Scythekind: Why not harvest some wheat after reaping your foes?
  • Sicklekind: Day 54- The capitalist pigs suspect nothing.


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Alright, so, this is the spot where we usually put a word list made by thepageofhopes in case you get stuck on your land’s Aspect word. We did that. Let’s go.
So far, we’ve seen the lands of two Heart players, Dirk Strider, the Prince, and Nepeta Leijon, the Rogue, but of those two, we can probably only use one as an example, as Dirk’s session is a Void session, which leads to some automatic differences between his world and the world of a Heart player in a normal session. For example, his entire world is covered in a noble gas, and is filled with dead, skeletal consorts…or maybe those are just monsters?
In any case, the unfortunate fact is that we are now limited to only using one land, the Land of Little Cubes and Tea. Nepeta’s land is an oddity in its nomenclature, given how it is made of an extra word. While this was presumably done only on Hussie’s part to make the abbreviation for the land LOLCAT, this is an interesting thing and I felt need to make a note of it.
In any case, Nepeta’s land is rather easy to deconstruct and decipher. The “Little Cubes,” part is likely a reference to the little cubes forming staircases and such all along the land, looking suspiciously like sugar cubes. This is likely the Aspect word. Heart lands tend to be sweet and soft, and these “Little Cubes” are most likely made of sugar. The “Tea,” part is quite obviously a reference to the teapots sitting on top of the mountains on the land. We aren’t entirely certain which is the quest and which is the aesthetic word given how little time there was spent focusing on the characters in the Land of Little Cubes and Tea, but that’s as much as we can learn from the name and brief glances we have gotten of the land.
As a side note, if none of the words in thepageofhopes’ list appeal to you or they don’t seem to fit the land you had pictured for your character (if you thought of a quest beforehand), it is possible that the Aspect word for a Heart land is meant to sort of reflect the nature of the player. Nepeta, despite having her underlying metal-as-all-hell nature, was a sweet, adorable individual, a personality that made her easy to like, and as such, her land reflected that. Dirk didn’t have an Aspect word, but his land reflected him, as it was a very interesting land with great levels of depth to it, like Dirk.
Okay, with that description out of the way, what would the Sylph of Heart do for their quest? Their job is to stop a war among their consorts, one for resources and land, one that would kill so many. This war was prophesied, so people feel compelled to have it go through, but without thinking of the consequences. Of the people.
Your job is to stop it as the Sylph of Heart. Mediate. Show the two sides the people they would be harming. You show them what it is they’re destroying, make them feel the need to not do it. Replace their apathy with something far greater.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionWitch of Light? (Also, your interpretations of god tiers are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING I CAN'T EVEN AHHhhHHhHaaH <333 *Intense hug of happiness*) Answer

You would not even begin to believe how happy this made us to read.

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The Witch and the Heir are the active-passive pair for the classes known as the Manipulators. Where an Heir would be shaped by their Aspect, the Witch would instead be the manipulator— like a parent molds their child into a fitting young disciple to learn to do something that they enjoy, the Witch manipulates their Aspect to conform to them. This might not be so obvious at first: it may be possible that Witches have a tendency to deviate from their responsibilities by inverting. Jade guided her friends around pre-session like a true Seer of Time, and she’s the only Witch we have really seen in action for the most part, although Damara’s actions could be counted as Seeing in her seeking out that which she could do to mess up as many timelines as possible and still end up scratching the Alpha timeline and its session. She inverted with the great shock of learning about her matesprit cheating on her. Obviously cheating is a bad idea.
But, relationship status aside, what would the Witch of Light be able to do? Well, as we mentioned in the Page of Light post (which is how we assume you found us), the Witch of Light would have powers very, VERY similar to the Marvel superhero, the Scarlet Witch. What Scarlet Witch is able to do is manipulate probability. This could mean that whatever the odds were of something happening, the Witch of Light would be able to change those. If there was literally no chance that their team would be able to get out of a battle alive, a very (VERY) powerful Witch of Light would be able to change that with little to no work. The Aspect of Light is something they could teach to do what they want. This could create a few problems if the Witch isn’t careful. First off, if the Witch of Light were to teach Light to create bad things, Light would never stop making bad things. The Witch wants to win a battle? Well, if they taught Light to only do bad things, to mess with their teammates and their enemies, then Light would likely make it so the Witch would be the only surviving member of their team after the fact. And then, on the flip side, even if our dear Witch of Light taught Light to follow orders specifically, they would have to learn to control for everything, every sort of variability. They could rework the rules of Light, change them, but there is always going to be a cost, even if they can’t quite manage to see it. Hopefully, this Witch has a good Time player to help them out, otherwise things could end up very strange very quick.
Knowledge, too, a Witch of Light could manipulate, although, knowledge is a bit tricky. It is black and white, and not transmutable between shades of grey, which is what the Witch excels at. The Witch of Light couldn’t give people information, or create it in their minds, as those two belong to the Page and the Sylph. They wouldn’t be able to destroy it, either, as that is more a Bard of Light’s area of expertise. What they could do though, is manipulate whether or not people think the information they have is true or not. It’s a bit of a stretch, but trust in information will alter whether people keep it or forget it, and that is the shades of grey Witches thrive in as far as rules.
As for Light in its more literal sense, the Witch of Light would be able to manipulate it, too. They would have to use an existing light source, but they could make light stretch further, bounce off things that aren’t mirrors like a mirror, change the rules as they see fit. Again, things happen, but at least light isn’t really something that’s quite so monumental as luck.
In any case, a well-trained, well-taught Witch of Light should place themselves on the front lines, causing as much havoc for their enemy as possible, making sure they slip on as many banana peels as possible, while their teammates are able to pull off marvelous feats of accuracy, strength, and endurance. They could, to the enemy, make their teammates fight like an army, and gods know how useful that would be.


Weapons: TC

Well, well, well.  What have we here?  Witch of Light, huh?  Ooh, I’m really scared!  Okay, Nightmare Before Christmas references aside, a Witch of Light would simply be a witch in the traditional sense of the word in terms of what weapon she would use.  Similarly to their actual god tier abilities, Witches tend to throw patterns and rules for weapons out the window, so it would be up to their aspect to provide a decent template in terms of a weapon.  Heroes of Light tend to use weapons with extraordinary magical properties, such as Vriska’s dice and Rose’s needles.  When all is said and done, the only thing that we can say for sure about a Witch of Light’s weapon is that it would be some sort of magical… thing.  The following would suffice.

  • Ballkind: Bluh bluh.  Huge witch.  (Specifically crystal balls.)
  • Batonkind: Nice try, Mickey Mouse.  I don’t see any dancing brooms!
  • Broomkind: Oh… s**t.
  • Cardkind: The cards, the cards, the cards will tell.  Your past and your present and your future as well.
  • Staffkind: Nice staff.  Compensating for something?
  • Wandkind: Expelliarmus???  Seriously??? You know better spells than that!


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Alright, a Light land. TC and I will once again tell you that if you can’t seem to find a good Aspect word for your land, then thepageofhopes has a nifty word list to help you out. Ready? Let’s do this.
There have been three Light players shown in all of Homestuck: Rose Lalonde, the Seer of Light, Vriska Serket the Thief of Light, and Aranea Serket the Sylph of Light. Of those three we have only seen two of their lands, but thankfully, those two have played in (arguably) normal sessions, and therefore those lands can be used as examples. Rose’s land as a Light player, being the easier of the two to dissect, will be the first one we do. The Land of Light and Rain was Rose’s land, and where Light is obviously the Aspect word, the quest and aesthetic word is Rain. Rose’s job on LOLAR was to learn to play the rain, but we don’t know to what end given how Rose never actually completed her quest in the Alpha timeline.
The other planet, Vriska’s, was the Land of Maps and Treasure. The sky of her land is covered by glowing compasses and landforms, exuding the image of an old map, which gives us the impression that Maps is the aesthetic word. This leaves the word Treasure to be the Aspect word of Vriska’s land. And given how we never saw much of that world in the first place, there isn’t much data we have been given as far as what the quest for Vriska’s world was. Or much about her world in general, really.
So of the two Light lands, the patterns that can be drawn between the two worlds are that they are relatively bright, and while the decorations between the two worlds vary, one thing I’ve noticed is that it looks like the sun is always in some degree of out-ness. In Rose’s world, it looked like it was at noon, but in Vriska’s it was at sunset, perhaps a symbol, of sorts.
So with that image in mind of our land, what can we do? Well, the Witch’s power to manipulate Light as luck is something that’s generally unlocked more at the actual god tier stages of god tier-ness, so manipulating luck is kind of out. But light, well, that’s another story.
There is a set of ruins just beyond where our Witch’s consorts live. This ruins is left by a civilization just about overly-fond of puzzles and had a knowledge of a powerful being set to arrive…well, when was it you entered the game?
Yes, okay, I couldn’t hide it, this powerful being is you, the Witch of Light. You are absolutely fucking awesome.
Not like anyone else can recognize you, though. It’s not like you have that awesome costume on, and those cool striped socks.
But that’s okay, because this Oracle person, someone who knew you’d be coming, set up a puzzle for you to solve. They locked away a treasure, a book of records of the past, and the only way to open it is a horribly complex puzzle involving light and mirrors and the Sun to open this huge-ass stone door depicting you dressed in a fancy costume using light to open the door, and I don’t really know. It’s a matter of figuring out when and how, and, if you’re lucky, getting it on the first try.
Hopefully you’re lucky. It may never be night here, but it still takes a while for the Sun to get back into its proper place.
A Time player would be very useful for helping with this task. Just a little hint. Now, get that book and get it back to your consorts.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionIf you have enough Time, could you please do the Maid of Hope, that is, if you both aren't too busy. Thanks anyway! Answer
Anonymous said to fancygodtierpowers:
Um, if you aren’t too busy, then could you please do Maid of Hope. That is, if you don’t mind. Thanks!

No problem.

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The Maid and the Sylph are the active-passive pair for the Creating classes, both of which hypothesized to be female-exclusive classes, but in a webcomic where a giant snake-like denizen looks like phallic imagery to a green girl, anything goes. Where the Sylph creates their Aspect in relation to others, Maids use their Aspect to give themselves, such as giving themselves more Time in a certain red-blooded troll’s case. Maids are made to freely create their Aspect for whatever reason they deem fit, but fortunately, most of them have the sense to not do this too much.
Hope is potentially the most potent of all Aspects. It is the Aspect of belief, of faith, of optimism, of energy. It is as powerful as its wielder, and the Maid of Hope’s ability to create Hope freely is very, VERY powerful. Beyond simply fostering other’s faith in them, the Maid would be able to foster belief in whatever they viewed as worth having faith in. They could inspire faith in their team’s ability to succeed, to defeat the Black King, or in each team member’s abilities to complete their own individual quests. They could inspire faith in just about anything, really, all it needs is for the Maid to believe in it, too, for it to work. The Maid might even possibly be capable of creating that which there is Hope placed in….That was worded very awkwardly, let me try to explain again: the Maid could create whatever gods or forces people believe in at the time. Illusory? Most likely. More bark than bite? Most definitely. But not entirely powerless. I mean, if you saw whatever or whomever you placed a shit-ton of faith in fighting against you on the battlefield, you’d probably want to give up, or, at the very least, stop fighting until you figure out why they’re there. The Maid of Hope in general would be able to create whatever is needed to make faith once they have completely come about understanding their powers. If to win a battle, their friends thought they needed an army, a fully-fledged Maid of Hope could create that army.
Furthermore, the Maid of Hope would be able to create Hope as pure energy. This could potentially make them a very destructive force, despite their nature as a Creating class, as this energy could basically take any form the Maid wanted: a force field, a laser beam, a shield, a sword, a light source, a spirit bomb, whatever. Anything the Maid of Hope wants that energy to form, it’ll form, and (hopefully) complete its purpose.
The Maid of Hope would be very helpful on the front lines of battle. Their ability to create weapons from the pure energy of their Aspect means they will never be unarmed, even if they should happen to lose their own weapon, and their ability to pump up their allies and confuse their enemies with their own hopes and objects of faith make them a force to be reckoned with, and that’s not even counting their weapons.


Weapons: TC

Well, for once… the Maid part of the title doesn’t really matter, since the Hope part is quite specific.  All Hope players revealed thus far have wielded a gun of some sort, with Eridan and Cronus wielding Ahab’s Crosshairs and Jake wielding his dual pistols.  Whereas usually the Maid wields a weapon pertaining to their interests, that would be restricted now to helping you decide the sort of gun that you/your character would use.  Here are the types of gun specibi available.

  • Automatickind: Shoot enough bullets until you hit something.  That’s the American way!
  • Flamethrowerkind: Now, when Captain America gets here, what we’ll do is use these flamethrower hands to trap him in a fence of fire.
  • Laserkind: For all of you people who have ever wanted a Death Star.
  • Pistolkind: Shoot to thrill…
  • Riflekind: Play to kill
  • Shotgunkind: No, this is not what calling shotgun means!


Land and Quest: TC and CA

Here’s a word list to help you if you’re having trouble in coming up with a good Aspect word for your Hope land. Disclaimer over. Let’s talk about lands.
Well, we had talked about this before, but sadly, we 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.
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.
So: the Maid’s quest obviously wouldn’t be quite as destructive as the Prince of Hope’s, and not quite as impersonal as the Sylph of Hope’s, either, as the Maid’s powers themselves aren’t quite as impersonal, either. The Maid of Hope’s land would have consorts who have themselves two things: a deity they love quite dearly (or perhaps multiple deities, they can look however you want- hell, one of them could even be the Maid, provided the consorts seem unable to recognize their similarities) and quite a large problem. A huge monster running rampant in their land, a disaster like a fire or a flood, or some sort of famine that has a solution the Maid can understand and begin to implement, anything, really. These consorts have no way of helping themselves from this calamity, save for the lot of effort they just can’t seem to muster for some reason. It’s probably hopeless anyway, right (I’m not subtle at dropping hints).
The Maid’s quest is to restore Hope to the land by blessing it as some sort of figure of Hope. Take Christianity (gods know no one else will): the deity is God, the messiah is Jesus, and the  celestial heralds are angels. The Maid could be either (one of) the deity(ies) returned to the planet to solve their problem, the messiah, or some other sort of important figure, like an angel. The Maid will help the consorts solve their problem by creating Hope for them as their religious figure, and by being such a figure of power, the Maid can therefore help them solve all their own problems (although, admittedly, the larger one might need the Maid themselves to intervene). How does one go about motivating these consorts who have been lazily relying on their deities for generations? I don’t know. Impart some Uncle Iroh-esque proverbs on them, make them ingest some caffeine, just make sure they can do it without you in the end. As far as Hope can bring you, no one can manage on it alone.

Anonymous Asked
QuestionWhat strife specubus would an heir of breath have??? Answer
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Weapons: TC

Well, I guess this one’s all on me, then.  The Heir of Breath, as you most likely know, is the God Tier title possessed by John Egbert, whose strife specibus of choice is Hammerkind.  While this definitely is a wonderful example for an Heir of Breath’s strife specibus, it most certainly is not the only option available.  The pattern for the Heir weapons is quite simple.  As the Heir class “inherits” their aspect in a sense, wielding it to protect themselves, this is true of their weapons as well.  They practically inherit their aspect to use as a weapon for self-defense.  The best example of this can be found in Equius Zahhak, the Heir of Void, who fought with his bare hands, literally wielding nothing.  The other Heir whose weapon is known to us is John.  An Heir’s weapons, if not a total visual representation of the Heir’s aspect, at the very least follows the pattern set by the other weapons wielded by players of the aspect.
Heroes of Breath tend to use mid-range weapons with a reach, like John’s hammer and Tavros’s and Rufioh’s lances.  These weapons also tend to have the capability of being thrown, allowing throwing knives and other weapons of the sort to fit into this pattern as well.
Putting these two together, fitting weapons for an Heir of Breath are as follows:

  • Whipkind: If a problem comes along, well… you know what to do.
  • Aerosolkind: Nothing quite signifies Breath quite like a faceful of… whatever you’re spraying them with.
  • Axekind: Completely useless against rings, I’m afraid.
  • Boomerangkind: First lesson of speaking Australian: Foster’s=beer
  • Cardkind: Is THIS your card?
  • Fankind: Perfect for dealing with traitors and scoundrels.
  • Flagkind: Remember, it’s fifty points if you hit a drum major, and nothing if you hit another color guard member.
  • Hammerkind: Because nothing beats the classics.
  • Knifekind: I only threw the first one so you’d turn around.
  • Soundkind: We just did a sound check, and the acoustics in here are a-MA-zing!