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At the time, I had not yet figured out the way I would get at the Energy Orb, but his own paranoia led to the removal of the Orb through one of his own agents, followed by the animation of the Gnommish city that ultimately led to the Orb being placed in an easy position to be stolen.

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I am the Avatar. I am the power of the Water Lord, concentrated so densely in one Plane that I gained a mind of my own, unless, similarly to what happens to the current Tongue of Fire, the Water Lord takes control.

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“The other was 3000 years ago and ended in a Reset of the universe. We try to forget <> it.”

1. No, I don’t think they were possessed. The Lords only come in at immediate peril; if everyone who was able to stop whatever crisis failed, then they would come in. Also, that Voidstar made the mistake of trusting the Stranger suggests that he remained himself, rather than being possessed.

2. I don’t know. It’s quite possible, if the Lords wanted to make things more personal, but it’d be unnecessary. I kind of think that the Lords and the Avatars convened and decided to give the Orbs as a joint decision. (So it wasn’t just the Avatars’ idea that they did autonomously, or the Lords’ idea that they ordered be done.)

3. No. They are directly possessed by the Fire Lord. Their job is to give a mortal perspective to things. However, they are not supposed to be actually full-on possessed by the Elemental Lord. That’s why the Avatar exists; if the Elemental Lord wants to interact as fully Divine, it can through possession. In a standard Tongue-type arrangement, the Mortal and Divine create a joint personality; only the failed ones have the Elemental Lord actually take control.


Neso makes a point of saying the current Tongue. Salt is full-on possessed; when the Fire Lord takes control, all control is taken. Nothing of Salt’s consciousness remains during possession. When the Fire Lord takes control for meetings such as between Akriloth, Fiamme, and Salt (Possessed), he uses Fiamme as herself for her own personality. It’s kind of a reversal of how it should be. (But Fiamme likes to give her own opinion, so I guess it works out for at least one of the group.)

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The hero of the Final 13th wasn't whom you expected, no? You still thought Ember would do something epic.

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Blade of Awe was gong to be used, fused with the Minor Orbs, to cut the heartstrings of SMUDD, weakening him. But I really struggled with that, because it was too Marty Stu-ish. I also wasn't expecting to be quite so taken with Fluffy, but I think his character is more tragic than the game gave him credit for.

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The unhappy childhood of the Prince, further made unhappy by a romance that could have been and the dramatic fall from power at the hands of his beloved’s father.

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So was a nice man in red armor, and another nice man wearing a crown.

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He touched me, and I saw a vision of him as an adult, sun sparkling off of his white scales, lounging beneath a large oak tree in the center of a meadow.

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Not really, Fluffy was the one I expected to save the day as that happened in the game.