What was it like after hours on old Etheirys?

[Selvokaz]

Was there no "rough" area of Etheirys? What did they do for fun back then? If I remember one instance from Amaurot correctly, some ancients would use creation magic to make monsters to play fight with ancient children.

They lived to improve their world, their star, by making sometimes horrid creatures they planned on releasing into the wild, some of whom they admitted could harm them.

I wonder if they had bars, and if they did, did they have bar fights? I know we see a rather heated debate between two friends in Amaurot but do you think people ever came to blows over their highly intellectual philosophizing?

Venat is one of the most well-trained fighters of her people, do you think they continued to create ever more powerful creatures solely for their brightest warriors had something to test themselves against least they get bored and start looking for any reason to attack each other?

[Yuella]

It's a boring, stagnant, hubris-filled civilization. The kind of civilizations that would fall to depression and nihilism if not for the sundering.

[Rannie]

Was there no "rough" area of Etheirys? What did they do for fun back then? If I remember one instance from Amaurot correctly, some ancients would use creation magic to make monsters to play fight with ancient children.

They lived to improve their world, their star, by making sometimes horrid creatures they planned on releasing into the wild, some of whom they admitted could harm them.

I wonder if they had bars, and if they did, did they have bar fights? I know we see a rather heated debate between two friends in Amaurot but do you think people ever came to blows over their highly intellectual philosophizing?

Venat is one of the most well-trained fighters of her people, do you think they continued to create ever more powerful creatures solely for their brightest warriors had something to test themselves against least they get bored and start looking for any reason to attack each other?

We don't know, all we have to go by is one place that is a recreation of the capital and another was a type of zoo/researchesque type of area far away from most civilizations. Oh and we do know they had villages and Grapes. But if alcohol was made it wasn't really stated.

[Iscah]

If I remember one instance from Amaurot correctly, some ancients would use creation magic to make monsters to play fight with ancient children.

It wasn't supposed to be a monster, it was supposed to be a toy. They were supposed to be presenting it for testing and approval but somehow decided it would be a good idea if the "child" asking questions at the Bureau might like to try it out first.

http://garlandtools.org/db/#quest/69128

[Cleretic]

It wasn't supposed to be a monster, it was supposed to be a toy. They were supposed to be presenting it for testing and approval but somehow decided it would be a good idea if the "child" asking questions at the Bureau might like to try it out first.

http://garlandtools.org/db/#quest/69128

Which still leads to a very weird, callous image of 'entertainment'. They see absolutely no issue whatsoever with giving something like that to a child.

Amaurot is horrifying.

[Iscah]

Which still leads to a very weird, callous image of 'entertainment'. They see absolutely no issue whatsoever with giving something like that to a child.

Well, from what they said when you describe what happened, they didn't expect it to behave that way in the first place.


Unless of course the whole thing is a booby trap designed by Emet as part of his recreated Amaurot rather than representing the original, hoping our goody-two-shoes sidequesting instincts will lead us to taking up the offer and getting swamped by playful jellyblobs before he ever has to deal with us himself.

[Rosenstrauch]

Unless of course the whole thing is a booby trap designed by Emet as part of his recreated Amaurot rather than representing the original, hoping our goody-two-shoes sidequesting instincts will lead us to taking up the offer and getting swamped by playful jellyblobs before he ever has to deal with us himself.

I know this is said in jest, but I think it's closer to the truth than "Wow, that man's such an arse he tried to foist murder machines on children!". The Amaurot we see in Shadowbringers is an elaborate stage. What appear to be flesh and blood Ancients are really just props playing out an illusion of life. And as a few characters in this stretch of the story note, any attempt to push these props out of their intended behavior accomplishes very little.

I believe this quest was there to highlight the necessity of Amaurot's bureaucratic methods and the dangers creation magic could pose even when used benignly, but also to showcase a moment of glamour failure by having one of the illusions Emet-Selch crafted push the boundaries of what he expected it to do.

[Iscah]

Alternate origin theory for Emet including the blobs in his recreation: a stray memory of Hyth telling him about a disastrous day at work where some scatterbrained fellow decided to try out his untested creations inside the building.

[YianKutku]

We don't know, all we have to go by is one place that is a recreation of the capital and another was a type of zoo/researchesque type of area far away from most civilizations.

We also have a literal dungeon for dangerous life-forms which looks like the architecture is intended to sap the morale of both the prisoners and the guards. Possibly it's supposed to be part of Elpis, but jurisdictionally it seems to be separate (under Lahabrea rather than the Chief Researcher of Elpis).

So there's allegedly some reason for keeping these dangerous life-forms around, and also the concept of incarceration (possibly including of unruly Ancients) is not alien to them. Maybe some form of drunk tank, if nothing else.

[Rannie]

We also have a literal dungeon for dangerous life-forms which looks like the architecture is intended to sap the morale of both the prisoners and the guards. Possibly it's supposed to be part of Elpis, but jurisdictionally it seems to be separate (under Lahabrea rather than the Chief Researcher of Elpis).

So there's allegedly some reason for keeping these dangerous life-forms around, and also the concept of incarceration (possibly including of unruly Ancients) is not alien to them. Maybe some form of drunk tank, if nothing else.

Lol look at me forgetting about that place I thought it was a part of elpis more below it though but still a part *shrugs*

Lol could also be why our past life was like meh to Themis because they had already "been there done that"