I thought they gained the status from collecting enough data to 'evolve' (for lack of better word...upgrade themselves maybe?).
Trying to figure out how this happened. Did she express a desire to be 'healed' in Taylor's presence?
Wildbow canon, IIRC
Which spell is that?
I nearly choked on the rice cracker I was eating when I read this lol
I thought they were made/converted by the Deathlords, or is it partly column A part column B? If it was the Neverborn (and they were conscious enough to plan and design the change), why can't they create new Keter souls wholesale?
Some of the Sins of Death which generate Resonance can be broken even when following their principle (pre-emptively attacking Creatures of Death is the one I am thinking of), and the Neverborn can directly add Resonance for shits and giggles...but that usually requires acquiring their direct attention. Also tying back in to above question and if Tay is likewise drawing power from Yu-Shan/Malfeas (or more specifically, her Shard is)
Same way Tay did; its not guaranteed death, and can also just be guaranteed screw up to an important task rather than life-threatening.
Really curious if she actually is, and if so, what that means for Taylor
Starmetal Tattoos? Can she convert wp into motes?
Really reminding me of Raksha undergoing Calcification
Incest pairing...I see you are a man of culture *insert meme pic*
First part, canon Eidolon...definitely possible for him to do so subconsciously if Zion's comment was true and thus Eidolon was petty enough to wake up Behemoth for a challenge, and rather than stop from the horror of his actions, his subconscious keeps waking up more, and if one falls, he replaces it.
It is pretty certain that Eidolon's shard was controlling the Endbringers. I see that as his shard being an evil genie on the backend though, I don't think Eidolon could directly control the Endbringers if he tried to get a power for it.
We saw him do stuff pretty consciously in the last chapter.
Does anybody actually read this story?
Trainwrecks are entertaining and Nazis are always good at being trainwrecks
Legend doesn't know about Contessa.
Because despite some rough spots of dramatically stupid behavior, Taylor is internally consistent as a character, and the author has an imagination to keep the plot moving forward with interesting events and doesn't get bogged down with irrelevant trivia.
True. It's pretty common for him to know in fanon though, because it's just so pointless that they hid her from him that people forget.
They do pretend to him that they unfortunately can't take down the Nine and other things around those lines, which wouldn't really work if he knew about Path to Victory. Presumably he doesn't know about Clairvoyant either.
One of the best parts is that it doesn't get bogged down with the 'how will they perceive me' bullshit that most Wormfics struggle with. Identity compromised? Make a new one. Found out by group X or person Y? They disappear from the story as Taylor ignores them. Defiant/Armsmaster is her most consistent adversary, as he just hasn't died yet.
I think(and this is just my opinion, and my preference in stories, and other people's opinions may differ, and that's totally valid too) but the problem with SI's or other type of stories which use formats like gamer or celestial forge or cyoa power manipulation, or tinkering, is that the authors frequently get bogged down in 'what i'm building' or 'what i'm making' or 'what powers i'm constructing, how they work, how i can effectively leverage them', etc, and they do chapter after chapter, which is 90% of this stuff, and the plot goes absolutely nowhere, and they've lost me in the first few chapters.
I think battleforge dances around all those pitfalls very gracefully.
No, that's not an opinion, that's a fact. It's the danger of any kind of leveling/power growth/tech improvement fic. There's a bit of interesting stuff at the start where the MC will be learning what the system is and what it lets them improve. That honeymoon phase is meant to be left behind and real life resumes, with a plus one.
