anon · 5mo
//spoilers to arlechinno's sq, and vague to new wq.
your threads about arle and her quest are so interesting, thank u!! It made me realize how much it's feels like a set up - for the future, for her and hoth. yeah there is project stuza, aka project extreme coldness. very subtle writers. but after your threads it click in my head how much.
this quest reestablished hoth, and arle and hoth members, especially lyney. insecurities are insecurities but after that show father got her heir (re)solidified. like that's as horrific as it is fascinating. I wanna kiss her so bad. ik many people will see it as her defanging her/giving her a clean slate (I Remember Very Well takes after scara unfortunately) but also I lowkey loosing my mind that she admitted that there main difference between arle and her mother is formulation. and outside being totally different parental figure the only fundamental change she did is to make sure there are no more children like clervie. and it's only personal, actually personal stuff she's ever done connected to her past before this quest. that's insane to me
Also as much I loved this lore and that we got first peak on it bc of arlechinno's role I kinda think they revealed crimson moon dynasty too late? idk how to explain it properly. maybe I change my opinion later but ngl the fact that she's connected to khaenri'ah lowkey blinsided me. it's very interesting! the fact that hoth somehow was connected to crimson moon dynasty and the head now the direct descendant is neat for me. I just really didn't expected descendant from khaenri'ah and not just affected but its calamity some way.
Also as much I loved this lore and that we got first peak on it bc of arlechinno's role I kinda think they revealed crimson moon dynasty too late? idk how to explain it properly. maybe I change my opinion later but ngl the fact that she's connected to khaenri'ah lowkey blinsided me. it's very interesting! the fact that hoth somehow was connected to crimson moon dynasty and the head now the direct descendant is neat for me. Idk maybe i just really didn't expected for people calling "weird eyes? khaenri'ah" be right lmao. but already adjusting to it bc new angles it opens for her and hoth.Idt she fashioned hoth for some sort of plot to reestablished khaenri'ah don't get me wrong, i just think it gives her and hoth as both breaking and reinforcing the cycle in more ways than one. they realized this with remuria expansion and wq where to put it extremely simple main tragedy happened are people tried to break cycle of fate with extremely dubious methods and miserable failing. very subtle writers [2] pls keep cooking.
(idk how long or coherent thus turn out, so my apologies in advance. I just got very excited after your thoughts lol)
i think they revealed it a little late too... but it also feels coherent to make some repeating vivid ominous imagery a whole emblem of a fallen dynasty that makes its appearance less random throughout tevyat's history of doomed civilizations. i kept myself from talking about this because i read the book and i am confused as hell about multiple things, especially with the official channel's cutscene caption so obviously likening her to perinheri when 1) while it makes sense to believe only a child who wandered in would be made to perform the ritual, there is no such distinction made anywhere between children who wandered into the kingdom and the orphans of the kingdom, and the custom is described to be for all to be initiated into the house of the hearth 2) arlecchino has noble blood, balemoon bloodfire, which is also described as "cursed" making her thus clearly stated to be khaenri'ahn, while perinheri drifted into khaenri'ah. him not being khaenri'ahn is what makes him the survivor and able to reap the rewards of hleobrant's sowing (quest for angelica's love, possible metaphor for freedom) 3) the only thing perinheri and arlecchino can be confirmed to have in common is literally the sighting of a crimson moon. any other takeaways is lorecrafting for now and must be taken with a pinch of salt. it may be that the walk through the chimney and the traversing of fire of two worlds is an allegory for her being the crimson moon dynasty's sole survivor- crossing the netherworld and seeing the sun for the first time, in which case perinheri isn't the likening to arlecchino as an individual but that of every successive generation of her dynasty? even so it sounds like a stretch. there is so little we can confirm about the khaenri'ahn curse in the first place much less how it affects her personally. pre perinheri we could point at the cataclysm and say this is when the khaenri'ahns first fucked up but now that there are two different dynasties, the previous implied to be seeking revenge on the latter, a distinction between the two curses, one that affected pure-blooded khaenri'ahns (eclipse dynasty) imposed during the cataclysm and one that affected other khaenri'ahns differently, the latter existing long before the cataclysm for every resident of the kingdom who "forsook their god", it is safe to say we know absolutely nothing about how the crimson moon dynasty was cursed specifically
