Dumbledore struck the Resurrection Stone with the Sword of Gryffindor (which had acquired the qualities of basilisk venom) to destroy the portion of Voldemort's soul inside it, and yet the stone survived this perfectly fine with nothing more than a crack across its face to show where it was hit. Its original ability to recall the dead was even still perfectly usable despite this.

This would suggest that its durability is far and above the other Horcruxes, which in and of themselves cannot be destroyed by anything that doesn't render them damaged beyond magical repair, something that basilisk venom is notorious for doing. But the stone survived even that, and has the distinction of being the only inanimate object that was turned into a Horcrux, subjected to something that would destroy the soul fragment, and yet still remained perfectly usable for its original purpose. The same can't be said for the other inanimate Horcruxes (and Nagini), which were broken and mangled (and rendered unusable as objects) to destroy their respective soul fragments.

Of course, we can say that the sword is similarly durable as it was exposed to basilisk venom and wasn't destroyed, but it specifically has an innate trait that protects it from such. Namely, the fact that it can absorb the qualities of anything that strengthens it. The stone has no such protection (at least none we can discern or that was stated), so I'd argue that the stone is more resilient on the whole than the sword. Rowling did say in a tweet, though, that Dumbledore's magical skill likely played a role in maintaining the integrity of the stone when it was exposed to the basilisk venom, but I'd still argue that the stone is probably the object most resistant to destruction in the series, as far as that trait has been tested.

In the "Legend of the Deathly Hallows," the second brother wanted to humiliate Death by asking for an object to bring back the dead. Death gives him a pebble with that power. The second brother brings back his fiancée. She says that she shouldn't be back because it wasn't natural. He agrees and joins her by committing suicide.

When Harry used the stone, he saw his family and their friends. They say that they're proud of him and that he did his part. They even tell him that dying wasn't painful. They're urging him to die.

We know that the Peverall brothers were powerful and dark wizards. What if the resurrection stone was made to persuade the owner to commit suicide? They do it by bringing loved ones back and making them convince the owner.

The Gaunts weren't affected because they didn't seem to care for anyone. They thought they were too pure for other wizards and treated their family poorly. Dumbledore could've seen Ariana. When he was cursed, he could've saw her, forgiving him for her death. She could've convinced him that his purpose was done that Harry needed to defeat Voldemort. That's why he told Snape to stop finding a countercurse.

All these people died because the stone wasn't made to bring back the dead but convince the owner to die.

The trilogy of Halloween (1978) — Halloween II (1981) — and Halloween H20 (1998) is just a masterpiece.

Apart from a few nitpicks (Who's idea was it to design the mask in H20? And HOW does Michael have no scars from the hospital explosion at the end of H2?), there really is nothing to critique.

And the ending?????? I cannot put into words just how satisfying it is seeing Laurie finally get her revenge on her brother that terrorized her and made her life a living hell.

But instead of concluding the series —or at least this timeline— with a satisfactory ending, movie studios got greedy and we got the absolute mess that is Resurrection.

But ignoring that monstrosity of a movie, the H20 timeline stands out to me as the best in the series.

1. When you roll a natural 1 to hit with this sword, you may reroll the attack roll. (Common.)

2. The first time you hit with this sword, it does an additional 2d6 cold damage. This ability recharges when the sword is immersed in water for 1 round. (Common.)

3. When you miss a foe with this sword, it gains one charge and crackles for the next minute. When you hit, expend all its charges and add that many d4s of lightning damage. (Common.)

4. This bone-white sword never needs cleaning. When the sword slays a living creature with 1 Hit Die or more, its blade becomes black as night. The next time it hits it deals an extra 1d12 necrotic damage, then regains its white appearance. (Common.)

5. The first time you hit with this sword on any turn, you may immediately move 15 feet without spending movement nor provoking opportunity attacks. (Common.)

6. When a foe within your reach hits an ally with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to attack that foe. (Common.)

7. After this sword has been heated in the heart of a forge for 24 hours, it deals an additional 1d6 fire damage the next three times it strikes a foe. Once you slay a fire elemental or red dragon with the sword, this improves to seven strikes. (Common.)

8. This sword deals an extra 1d2 poison damage. On a critical hit, the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. (Common.)

9. This sword can be thrown with a range of 60'/120'. You can use your bonus action to summon it to your hand from up to 120' away, it flies to you in a straight line (using your Strength score to attempt to bypass any obstacles in the way). (Common.)

10. Each this sword slays a living creature with 4 or more hit points, you gain 1d4 temporary hit points. (Common.)

11. When you roll a natural 7 to hit with this sword, it hits and crits. (Uncommon.)

12. When you attack and miss with this sword, the target takes thunder damage equal to your Strength bonus (minimum 1). You can choose to miss intentionally with it. (Uncommon.)

13. This sword deals an extra die of damage to [undead/fiends/giants/dragons]. (Uncommon.)

14. When an ally hits a foe within your reach, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

15. When a foe attacks you and misses, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

16. You can raise this sword to the heavens to cast call lightning once per day (DC 13). (Uncommon.)

17. When you hit with this sword, you may

The Destiny universe is a wild, wonderful, and terrifying mirror of our own. It’s personally my favorite because of how many locations and places of interest there are across the planets, moons, systems, parallel dimensions, and other regions of the universe. Some of these places are well known to us and some of them are not. I’ve compiled a list of potential locations of interest, some of these we have visited before, but still have elements that are unexplored, and some of them have never been seen before by players and only exist in the bounds of the Lore of the game. This took a lot of time and effort. Special thanks to Destinypedia and Ishtar Collective for being such great, reliable sources of information. Because of the sheer size of Destiny’s lore I’m sure I’ve missed some things, but I did the best I could. Enjoy!

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• Manhattan Nuclear Zone
  • The remains of New York City, destroyed by Nuclear weapons possibly during the Collapse. Apparently forbidden. At one point there was a Taken infestation, as well as a closed retrieval mission.
• Cocytus Station
  • The Golden Age station intended to breach realities, taken over by Crota and then, after his death, the Nine.
• Old Chicago
  • The swampy, ruined remains of the great midwestern city. Infested by Hive, perhaps Taken, and an unknown hostile intelligent entity associated with the Darkness that hunted and killed several guardians. Also where the Graviton Lance was found, implying there was possibly some kind of study of black-hole science undergone there, likely during the Golden Age.
• Hyperion
  • A moon of Saturn that communicated with Titan. May have been thrown off of orbit by the gravity waves emitted by the arrival of the Darkness. Possibly the site of the study of the Vex.
• Ganymede
  • The largest moon of Jupiter. There is apparently a significant vex presence there. Considering two moons of Jupiter were likely fully terraformed by the Traveler, and Ganymede is the largest non-planetary body in the solar system, it's possible it was terraformed.
• Volantis
  • The star system taken over by the Vex that Clovis Bray visited. The source of the Vex invasion of Europa.
• Appalachian Dead Zone
  • Next to nothing is known there, apart from a saying said by those living there, implying some kind of Post Collapse settlement - "Get out of here, stalker."

Introduction:

The knowledge that the Imperium of Man is backward and decaying is nothing new. However, I do not believe that anyone has provided an in-depth analysis of the institutions of the Imperium and why core aspects of those institutions contribute either to the prosperity of the Imperium or to its degradation. We will see that it will overwhelmingly be the latter. In this essay, I hope to fill in that gap in our knowledge using the theoretical framework of Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (from here on I will refer to them as DJ for brevity). For my sources, I will treat the Lexicanum as canon and will use it as my primary resource. I am also focusing on the Imperium as it exists in the 40,000 millenium, prior to the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman, as his reforms might make some of what I will describe inaccurate. Finally, I will rely on real-world examples to illustrate my ideas and will cite those accordingly. With the brief introduction out of the way, allow me to give a brief overview of DJ's theories.

DJ's theories seek to explain how nations achieve sustainable development. They conceptualize two axes that determine the ability of a nation to have sustainable development: the centralized-uncentralized axis and the extractive-inclusive axis:

• Extractive institutions are those that seek to exclude large portions of society from power and income for the benefit of an elite whereas inclusive institutions allow all parts of society to take part in economic and political activity. One can imagine a slave plantation as an extractive entity and a society of small landowning farmers as an inclusive entity. [1]
• Centralized entities are those that can bring to bear concentrated power to enact their will. Modern states are centralized entities, with a powerful tax agency to collect revenues, a strong military that no other entity within that state can rival, and powerful law enforcement that establishes a common set of rules within that state. A decentralized entity would be something akin to feudal England, where subsidiary lords have great autonomy and powerful armies that can match those of the monarch. [1]

DJ believe that for sustainable prosperity to occur, a society must have centralized, inclusive institutions. Centralization is required to provide a safe, organized playing field by which creative destruction might occur through inclusive institutions. Creative destruction refers to how new technologies replace old technologi

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“People often point to Ru’udamo’o’s Purge and like to claim he exposed all the atrocities of the Lanaktallan have been brought to the light. They conveniently ignore that all he did was target those responsible for the war with humanity. We spent the past hundred million years treating the sapients of the galaxy as little more than intelligent livestock. There are countless secrets that time and the Executors have buried deeply; and the billions of Council loyalists hoping to bide their time until they can resurrect it would prefer to die than to allow our ancient crimes to be brought to the light. But, we’re the Curators of the Free Herd and what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light - whatever the cost.” - u/Manifest_Author, from "Sins of Empires"

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"I was surprised at how the Confederacy took it all in stride, every horrible thing that the Council had done for a hundred million years, and worked with us to reverse the damage rather than publicly, to use a metaphor, burning everyone involved at the stake in the public square. How their diplomats did not even blink when I brought them evidence of the crimes and how I had burned those crimes and those who committed them from the face of the universe.

"Then I researched the Terran's history.

"I understood, reading about what happened during the Iron Stars Cluster War, what happened before the Great Glassing, what happened during the Clownface Nebula War, the monstrous things that the Terrans had done to themselves and each other, that they were understanding because they had been willing to do it to themselves.

"It was there, I understood, that the Terran's capacity for empathy and compassion was the opposite side of the coin from their savagery and cruelty." excerpt from Standing in the Darkness, by Anonymous, Telkan Press, 14 PH.

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"There was an entire civil war inside of the Terran species for the future of the galaxy.

"And we all had no idea that, for a moment, the fate of the entire galaxy depended on a handful of people." excerpt from I Have Ridden the Hasselhoff, General Sma'akamo'o.

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The second wave was moving around the wreckage that the Joan and Vuxten had made out of the first wave. As far a

I'm confused how people use a resurrection orb. In all the games that I bring it I never seem to get any value out of it and would almost always just take something else for the points I feel. I see it being used in 2 ways: either CCB or Overlord.

Seems like the resurrection orb has most synergy with warriors due to their reroll 1. An overlord on foot following around a 20 man warrior blob seems terribly inefficient to me though. Paying 130 points to guard 260 of warriors and maybe get value out of a resurrection assuming they survive. Why not just take an additional 10 warriors or a technomancer/ghost ark if you want to heal warriors every turn?

With the CCB it is a similar problem. You stick an orb meant for supporting warriors on a fast moving platform. If you are sticking behind warriors then those points you payed for the additional movement of the barge are wasted. So maybe use a CCB with wraiths to move up together down the board? Feels like again that a technomancer would be more reliable.

Is the only use specifically an overlord on foot with a resurrection orb and the veil of darkness? I haven't used this before but from my experience is the only thing I can see kind of working.

A few years back, I tried and failed to read Swedenborg. The idea of a non-LDS prophet figure doesn't trouble my world-view, so I couldn't summon the energy to comb through this writings (which are difficult) to find the similarities.

But now, I'm curious again. I don't trust bullet point summaries produced by the exmormon-sphere.

Is anyone aware of a source that identifies the parallels, but also includes the actual words from Swedenborg's writing from which the parallel is being drawn?

The best I could find is this:

https://craigwmiller.tripod.com/interest.htm

Which now has me fascinated enough I'd like to see a more extensive examination of the subject matter.

How do we know Jesus rose from the dead. This video addressed 5 reasons skeptics give for rejecting the resurrection and the proofs for Jesus' resurrection. https://youtu.be/vlgybxVlGSI

The Fruit of the Garden

In the Matrix movies, whenever Neo eats something, big changes follow. I think this is a holdover from Alice in Wonderland. The prime example is the iconic red pill vs. blue pill scene, but there are more. In the first film, the Oracle gives him a cookie. What does it do? In the second film, the Oracle gives him a piece of candy. It looks like the red pill. What the hell does that mean? All we know is that the Oracle loves candy.

In The Matrix Resurrections, Neo eats and drinks a lot. In classic Matrix fashion, these scenes often involve two people sitting down and talking. This happens inside the Matrix several times, but the weird thing is that it also happens in the so-called "real world", with Niobe. She gives him some orange juice and tells him some stuff which he immediately believes to be true. She then brings him to a place called "the Garden" where she and the machines are growing fruit, which Neo also eats. I feel like I've heard this story somewhere... oh yeah. The Bible.

Niobe seems a lot like the Oracle, giving Neo food, telling him what to believe. She also seems like the Analyst, giving Neo convenient narratives to define his world. That's just another Matrix. It's also worth mentioning that butterflies show up around both Niobe and the Analyst. Morpho is a common genus of butterfly, and morpho is also the root word of Morpheus, meaning to fashion, shape, or mold.

What was in the strawberry? Or the coffee? I never bought into the "Matrix within a Matrix" idea for the sequels, but in this film there may actually be evidence for it. In other words: does Neo ever actually wake up?

This post will contain spoilers based on existing information in the game, the Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies, and new stuff from 2.4. My sources will be linked at the end of the post.

To save myself the headache, given the amount of Christian and Gnostic movements, I'll be focusing on the Christian Bible, the Manichaean Gnostic movement, and the Valentinian Gnostic movement, all of which I believe hold a lot of parallels to the history and story of Teyvat. Note that I am not an expert on any of these subjects, though I have been raised in a predominantly Catholic country and as a consequence, have had to sit through numerous classes of Christian Theology throughout my schooling. Please let me know if I get certain details wrong.

Edit: Added more spacing between sections for readability.

Christian Theology and Valentinian Gnosticism

To all ye Christians/Catholics out there, you can skip the next paragraph (but maybe not the bullet points).

The main scripture of Christianity is the Christian Bible, which is an anthology of texts that describe the religion's dogmas, the journey/relationship humanity has with God, and different accounts of what is believed to be historical events. The Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments.

• The Old Testament includes the creation myth, how God guided the Israelites, and the books of wisdom. All of it has pretty heavy reminders of God's anger and the consequences of turning away from him.
• The New Testament introduces Jesus and his teachings. God here is presented as benevolent and kind, with his son, Jesus, bringing light and salvation to humanity. Jesus is pacifistic, non-judgmental, and pure, serving as a prophet to his Father.

Now, the problem that happens a lot when one examines Biblical text is that it's often difficult to reconcile the God described in the Old Testament (righteous, vengeful, warmongering) with the God of the New Testament (benevolent, forgiving, pacifistic).

And so, branches of Gnosticism arose from this paradox. How could an all-good and all-loving God do and allow such evils? Simple. You declare that he is neither of those things. He is the Demiurge, a false God that leads humanity away from enlightenment. This is why the early Christians denounced Gnosticism as heresy.

However, some branches of Gnosticism have beliefs that align with Christianity—Valentinian Gnosticism being a prominent example.

• Unlike other branches of Gnosticism, Valentinian Gnost

Suppose that some miracle M occurs. (1) Simply from the fact that M is a supernatural event with no plausible naturalistic explanation, it does not follow that M was caused by God. (2) Moreover, even if M was caused by God, it does not follow that any religious claim made in connection with M is true.

That (1) is true is easy to see. On most accounts, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good. Yet no miracle obviously requires these properties. Why, for example, must an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being have performed the miracles of the Exodus, raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead, or authored an inimitable Qur’an? How do you know that God did these things and not some other invisible agent? Even if you do not view God as omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good—say, if you are an open theist if you accept theistic finitism—the problem still remains: How do you know that God did these things and not some other invisible agent?

That (2) is true is also easy to see. Even if you could show, for example, that only God could have raised Jesus from the dead, how does that prove that Christianity is true? What if God did such a thing merely in order to test people (as in Deuteronomy 13:1–3)?

Against both (1) and (2), a theist might argue that if God allowed an invisible agent to perform a false miracle, or if God performed a miracle in service of a false religion, God would be guilty of a "massive deception," and a perfectly good God would not do this (see for example Swinburne 2003: 63–64). If this is true, and we have good reasons for supposing that there is a perfectly good God, then this means that there would not be false miracles. However, if we suppose that God might already have good reasons for causing or allowing great evils to exist in the world (as a theist surely must do), then, plausibly, God might have good reasons for deceiving people or at least for allowing them to be deceived through false miracles. If there are invisible agents, like demons, with free will, then perhaps God might permit deception by demons in the interest of preserving their free will. This latter point is made by the deist author Thomas Chubb (1741: 19). The theist must offer a symmetry breaker to show why God can have morally permitting reasons in other cases of evil, but not morally permitting reasons to cause or allow false miracles.

Now, a theist might also make the following objection: Even if miracles do not entail *necessar

Alright so my last, completely unrelated post making a prediction for Tanjiro vs Jonathan was removed without any warning, which really sucks as I had just made a significant edit in Jonathan's scaling which heavily affected my overall verdict.

As much as I'd like to argue with the mods, I can see that the post may have been in violation of Rule 4 of the sub, which I get. My bad then.

So with all this in mind I'd like to say that: This is not a post revolving around the MU/episode idea of Vegeta vs Thor. This is an analysis of two Death Battle returnees, Thor & Vegeta, who just so happen to be analyzed in one post and is not part of the prediction series I started with Tanjiro vs Jonathan. The intention behind this post is to simply make an analysis on Vegeta, a confirmed returnee for season 9, and provide an update on Thor, who has changed significantly since his last appearance on Death Battle which would make for a very different analysis of the character if he were to hypothetically return to the show either today or relatively soon.

All that clear? Good. I would also like to add that I'll be formatting this analysis of the two differently from how I usually do it. Anyone familiar with my post defending DIO and the Tanjiro vs Jonathan one linked above know that normally I compare two characters in a category (typically physicals followed by abilities & equipment) rather than doing a full analysis on one and then the other. However since I am not comparing either Thor or Vegeta to each other, I will be doing a full analysis on one character, followed by a full analysis on the other, with absolutely no comparison between the two. If you wish to know how I think the two compare, just ask me in the comments.

And without any further delay, we start with Prince Vegeta:

...and by that I mean we're starting with the Dragon Ball universe size, Beerus/Broly scaling, and multipliers in that order.

Now ever since Goku Black vs Reverse Flash I've personally had an issue with most of the arguments of how Uni Dragon Ball is portrayed, namely using the Observable Universe as a base for Dragon Ball's universe size. Objectively speaking we know for fact that our irl Observable Universe is not the universe's actual limit in size based on a whole number of different models of the universe.

Now obviously God Himself will not be present during the day of Judgement, he would be way too overpowered. Instead, I have taken angelic feats from the major Abrahamic religions. The Angels in all their monstrous glory shall battle the universe's finest.

For those of you who don't know, the angels start the day of Judgement by this horn which will kill everything on the earth. I am going to assume the horn is just really loud. Then the dead will rise in the form of ghosts who can throw around physical objects. Then some supernatural entities shall appear like the flying thing that Muhammad (P.B.U.H) rode to the heavens. Then the angels shall appear. There's not enough info about Jinns so I don't know where they all fit into all this. I guess they face the same fate as most mortals.

The powers of the angels include but are not limited to: teleportation, enhanced intellect, fore sight,

• Enhanced chrono kinesis - Using the power of Heaven, angels are able to enhance their ability to travel through time if they own the ability. They cannot, however, kill people who are required to face them on the Day of Judgement.
• Healing - Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously.
• Resurrection- Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject.
• Smiting- Angels can emit Goku level laser beams from the palm of their hands to obliterate cities. However, it takes days for them to do so and reality tends to break when they start charging, like fish start flying into sand.
• Looking like Cthulhu- No, that is not an exaggeration. I don't know where we got the idea that angels look beautiful, they are like the definition of cosmic horror. One angel is literally just a pile of eyes stretching out in every possible direction. They can drive people mad almost instantly.
• Enhanced strength- Gabriel asked Mohammad if he could crush a village using 2 mountains. Wouldn't even have taken him a minute
• Elemental Manipulation- Michael apparently controls gravity, the weather and stops rogue planets from crashing on Earth. He will continue to do so even when the day of Judgement is over, for some unknown reason so we are going to exclude Michael from the equation.
• Telepathy- Why am I even surprised, they can communicate in dreams and take physical forms in the shape of men. There's always 2 angel on your shoulders, jud

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Waking up in this dream, I don't know how I got here. I can't remember. But none the less here I am, a man adrift and no way to read the stars to where these currents might take me.

The central narrative is collective history as is known. But, even then, this belief is predicated upon more basic assumptions of life. The degree to which what can be said about another remains forever in a realm of faith. Even our senses can't be trusted as they are only perceived.

Because of this, what can be said is that to whatever degree the choice may be considerable, it remains based upon a faith. A faith according to what, though?

The highest ideal which inspires faith may be to simply avoid pain and so manifests as a compliant, unquestioning nature. In the case of wisdom, beauty, or tradition, decisions are in support of their manifestation and expansion in perception.

The core tenet of collective history and science more generally is in faith of a constant, consistent, objective reality. The heart of reality itself a permanent similarity or Absolute Truth, whose attributes are static, symmetrical, solipsistic. Those ideals; wisdom, beauty, and tradition are applying some of these attributes of Truth often in order to fully prioritze the order of their perception in momentary awareness and further to valuate a hierachy of life's perceptions.

Thus what is sought after and what is most safe and real a mooring for the senses is what is most perceived. Much behavior should now become apparent. Attachments to the steady, stable retreats from blinding lucid perception of Truth. Averting eyes in stable perception of a pale reflection of Truth. An idol to an idol.

This worship of something lesser than Truth as more valuable, it dominates increasingly more of the passive perception, the acceptance of it as stable and real. It becomes indifferent, it becomes what one is. In that way, it is upheld as the highest ideal of wisdom, beauty, and tradition.

Now, the trick that has just been played is the quiet positioning of language which has framed a narrative as a wandering soul looking to find certainty in order to live life accordingly with some permanent overarching ideal, even if that meant real anarchy or chaos as the "realest" truth.

No, instead *we are Truth* becoming aware of itself and so framing the narrative of perception itself, actively or passively. It's not the shallow social identity that is the problem, but the insistence of it which natur

This long theory is explaining how I view the story of Genshin Impact. It is based on both the Pale Princess and The Byakuyakoku Collection.

There are already lot of theories about this recently. This one is presenting the story of Genshin by decomposing it into 4 main eras.

TL;DR (there is another more complex TL;DR at the end)

• Ouroboros is the real enemy in Genshin Impact
• There is another floating island, the sun itself, outside the False Sky
• Teyvat is between 2 seas of clouds: the Dark Sea and the False Sky
• Paimon is Istaroth and is also the Pale Princess
• Humans are Hilichurls who absorbed light
• Phanes is a liar, he’s one of the pygmies
• The Unknow God and the Abyss Order ruler are siblings

Sources:

The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (complete through datamining) (PPSP)

Moonlit Bamboo Forest (MBF)

Heart’s Desire: Sapphire (HDS)

Records of Jueyun: Mountain Spirits (RJMS)

A Drunkard’s Tale (ADT)

Dragonspine murals (DM)

Tsurumi murals (TM)

The Byakuyakoku Collection (TBC)

Battle Pass Cutscene (BPC)

Passage of Clouds and Stars (PCS)

Youtube Video: We Will Be Reunited (YV:WWBR)

Youtube Video: Teyvat Chapter Storyline (YV:TCS)

Opening Cutscene (OC)

The Prophecy For Dainsleif (PFD)

Murals of Dragonspine (top) and Tsurumi (bottom)

I make a lot of unexplained connections at the beginning. Some of those connections will make sense later, by reading the complete theory.

ERA N°1 – ABYSS ERA

The Abyss and the Night Mother Ouroboros

The first era of Genshin Impact was only composed of the Abyss, a desol

The Destiny universe is a wild, wonderful, and terrifying mirror of our own. It’s personally my favorite because of how many locations and places of interest there are across the planets, moons, systems, parallel dimensions, and other regions of the universe. Some of these places are well known to us and some of them are not. I’ve compiled a list of potential locations of interest, some of these we have visited before, but still have elements that are unexplored, and some of them have never been seen before by players and only exist in the bounds of the Lore of the game. This took a lot of time and effort. Special thanks to Destinypedia and Ishtar Collective for being such great, reliable sources of information. Because of the sheer size of Destiny’s lore I’m sure I’ve missed some things, but I did the best I could. Enjoy!

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• Manhattan Nuclear Zone
  • The remains of New York City, destroyed by Nuclear weapons possibly during the Collapse. Apparently forbidden. At one point there was a Taken infestation, as well as a closed retrieval mission.
• Cocytus Station
  • The Golden Age station intended to breach realities, taken over by Crota and then, after his death, the Nine.
• Old Chicago
  • The swampy, ruined remains of the great midwestern city. Infested by Hive, perhaps Taken, and an unknown hostile intelligent entity associated with the Darkness that hunted and killed several guardians. Also where the Graviton Lance was found, implying there was possibly some kind of study of black-hole science undergone there, likely during the Golden Age.
• Hyperion
  • A moon of Saturn that communicated with Titan. May have been thrown off of orbit by the gravity waves emitted by the arrival of the Darkness. Possibly the site of the study of the Vex.
• Ganymede
  • The largest moon of Jupiter. There is apparently a significant vex presence there. Considering two moons of Jupiter were likely fully terraformed by the Traveler, and Ganymede is the largest non-planetary body in the solar system, it's possible it was terraformed.
• Volantis
  • The star system taken over by the Vex that Clovis Bray visited. The source of the Vex invasion of Europa.
• Appalachian Dead Zone
  • Next to nothing is known there, apart from a saying said by those living there, implying some kind of Post Collapse settlement - "Get out of here, stalker."

1. When you roll a natural 1 to hit with this sword, you may reroll the attack roll. (Common.)

2. The first time you hit with this sword, it does an additional 2d6 cold damage. This ability recharges when the sword is immersed in water for 1 round. (Common.)

3. When you miss a foe with this sword, it gains one charge and crackles for the next minute. When you hit, expend all its charges and add that many d4s of lightning damage. (Common.)

4. This bone-white sword never needs cleaning. When the sword slays a living creature with 1 Hit Die or more, its blade becomes black as night. The next time it hits it deals an extra 1d12 necrotic damage, then regains its white appearance. (Common.)

5. The first time you hit with this sword on any turn, you may immediately move 15 feet without spending movement nor provoking opportunity attacks. (Common.)

6. When a foe within your reach hits an ally with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to attack that foe. (Common.)

7. After this sword has been heated in the heart of a forge for 24 hours, it deals an additional 1d6 fire damage the next three times it strikes a foe. Once you slay a fire elemental or red dragon with the sword, this improves to seven strikes. (Common.)

8. This sword deals an extra 1d2 poison damage. On a critical hit, the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. (Common.)

9. This sword can be thrown with a range of 60'/120'. You can use your bonus action to summon it to your hand from up to 120' away, it flies to you in a straight line (using your Strength score to attempt to bypass any obstacles in the way). (Common.)

10. Each this sword slays a living creature with 4 or more hit points, you gain 1d4 temporary hit points. (Common.)

11. When you roll a natural 7 to hit with this sword, it hits and crits. (Uncommon.)

12. When you attack and miss with this sword, the target takes thunder damage equal to your Strength bonus (minimum 1). You can choose to miss intentionally with it. (Uncommon.)

13. This sword deals an extra die of damage to [undead/fiends/giants/dragons]. (Uncommon.)

14. When an ally hits a foe within your reach, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

15. When a foe attacks you and misses, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

16. You can raise this sword to the heavens to cast call lightning once per day (DC 13). (Uncommon.)

17. When you hit with this sword, you may

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1. When you roll a natural 1 to hit with this sword, you may reroll the attack roll. (Common.)

2. The first time you hit with this sword, it does an additional 2d6 cold damage. This ability recharges when the sword is immersed in water for 1 round. (Common.)

3. When you miss a foe with this sword, it gains one charge and crackles for the next minute. When you hit, expend all its charges and add that many d4s of lightning damage. (Common.)

4. This bone-white sword never needs cleaning. When the sword slays a living creature with 1 Hit Die or more, its blade becomes black as night. The next time it hits it deals an extra 1d12 necrotic damage, then regains its white appearance. (Common.)

5. The first time you hit with this sword on any turn, you may immediately move 15 feet without spending movement nor provoking opportunity attacks. (Common.)

6. When a foe within your reach hits an ally with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to attack that foe. (Common.)

7. After this sword has been heated in the heart of a forge for 24 hours, it deals an additional 1d6 fire damage the next three times it strikes a foe. Once you slay a fire elemental or red dragon with the sword, this improves to seven strikes. (Common.)

8. This sword deals an extra 1d2 poison damage. On a critical hit, the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. (Common.)

9. This sword can be thrown with a range of 60'/120'. You can use your bonus action to summon it to your hand from up to 120' away, it flies to you in a straight line (using your Strength score to attempt to bypass any obstacles in the way). (Common.)

10. Each this sword slays a living creature with 4 or more hit points, you gain 1d4 temporary hit points. (Common.)

11. When you roll a natural 7 to hit with this sword, it hits and crits. (Uncommon.)

12. When you attack and miss with this sword, the target takes thunder damage equal to your Strength bonus (minimum 1). You can choose to miss intentionally with it. (Uncommon.)

13. This sword deals an extra die of damage to [undead/fiends/giants/dragons]. (Uncommon.)

14. When an ally hits a foe within your reach, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

15. When a foe attacks you and misses, you may use your reaction to attack that foe with this sword. (Uncommon.)

16. You can raise this sword to the heavens to cast call lightning once per day (DC 13). (Uncommon.)

17. When you hit with this sword, you may