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The Primal Blood
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The Warband covers the lore of the Primal Blood, the weekly lore article, and briefly GenCon!
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Intro
Introduction and Overview
00:00:07
Garrett
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Into the Malediction. I am Garrett, a.k.a. Admiral Tater, and I'm joined by my co-hosts, Alan and Nick.
00:00:21
m3rcier
Hey everybody, it's Alan or Mercer.
00:00:23
Nick
Hey, what's up guys? This is Nick, AKA Fetty315 in the discords.
00:00:29
Garrett
And today, going have another episode on a faction deep
Creation and Nature of Primal Blood Creatures
00:00:34
Garrett
dive. And it's going to be on the Primal Blood, which is my favorite faction, and the one with Thunder Steps. But ah we also got another short story drop that we're going talk about.
00:00:47
Garrett
um Not totally, because i we want you guys to read it, of course. And you can find those if you're subscribed. And they send an email right now. i think that's the best way to get to it, is to the email link.
00:00:58
Garrett
But today's short story... It's called the Chimera Makers of Paxos. So, uh, the primal blood are really messed up.
00:01:11
Garrett
Uh, they've got a lot of problems, which we're going to go into here. Uh, but today's story was about how these, uh, weird monsters, uh, Uh, so we, earlier we had talked about in the malediction, how a lot of weird monsters were created out of that.
00:01:29
Garrett
Well, these monsters are created. over in the area the Proud Blood lives in Silesia, the Paxos area. And essentially what happens here is the shamans i collect ah flesh, blood, teeth, all kinds of stuff and ah we're kind of spoiling a little bit of what we're to talk about later here but essentially they take the blood of this giant that's in Paxos that we'll talk about and they can craft ah creatures however they don't really have the proper skills to do this for real so like this the creature has no sentience basically and
00:02:17
Garrett
because they also live in this like awful area and are feeding off Yimri's magic that is like full of agony, ah they're creating some pretty terrible things. So essentially they craft just ugly looking things, like in the game, like taric beasts and things, and they're bonded to the shaman.
00:02:41
Garrett
And so ah what happens eventually is the shaman are not immortal. So eventually they die either from natural causes or usually death because of of the way the primal blood work.
00:02:55
Garrett
They, ah the bond is broken and these chimeras run off into the woods and like breed with other chimeras and create even more messed up looking creatures.
Historical Context of Primal Blood Society
00:03:06
Garrett
So it's pretty interesting story. Definitely read it. It'll be much more interesting after we talk about how the ah primal blood system works in general and so that's that and now we're gonna uh follow it from that into the actual primal blood lore
00:03:24
Garrett
and we're gonna start with uh how we got here so essentially guys guys it's time for you guys to take over here i'm gonna throw it i'm gonna throw it to alan um the big part of this is Avakra, Avakra, I'm going to say it like that, is the the basically the the founder of of Primal Blood. She's one of the everlasting.
00:03:49
Garrett
And why is Avakra important, Alan? Swing us back to where we wait we left off in the big lore.
00:03:58
m3rcier
So Vakra is one of the 13. I would say probably one of the more important ones also since she blinded Ymiris to what was actually happening. Probably would have been possible without her.
00:04:11
m3rcier
But afterwards, she fled the lands that we know of where the game setting is to the far north of the Pal Expanse. ah All of the first children that followed her when she left They eventually all renamed themselves the Orican, and where they settled is called Ori, but it's not on the map, so we can't see it.
00:04:34
m3rcier
And then over time, she decided that she didn't like what what they did, and she was going to undo it. She was going to free Amiris, so she came back with an Orican army.
00:04:45
m3rcier
a But on her way back... you know, it's an army, so they have to stop in camp and whatnot. The triumvirate sent an assassin and had her killed before the army could actually get to Oster.
00:05:02
m3rcier
Or what was it called? Nick, what was it called before we renamed it to Oster?
00:05:07
Garrett
Uh, Olym.
00:05:09
m3rcier
Olam.
00:05:09
Garrett
City Olym.
00:05:09
m3rcier
Okay, before they before the army you could get to Olam, they had Avakr killed. And then they bound her to her heart, which is the heart of Avakr. And then when they did that, the army, leaderless now, still tried to accomplish her mission, but was defeated and then enslaved by the Triumph.
00:05:29
m3rcier
And her her heart is the vestige that the Primal Blood uses for pretty much everything they do.
00:05:29
Garrett
Yes.
00:05:34
m3rcier
It's where they get their magic from. It's how they do their flesh shaping. It's essentially, for all intents and purposes, it is their god right now.
Rebellion and Settlement in Paxos
00:05:45
Garrett
Yes. ah So yeah, so they go into Olum and they they get defeated and become slaves.
00:05:46
m3rcier
It's fine.
00:05:52
Garrett
ah And so we were talking about this before the podcast started, but we're like thinking about the different races and these guys are like the orcs, the orcs of Silesia. um Yes, so that's how we got there. And so this is before, right, the great ah malediction is formed, right, from the the damaging of the thorn and all that.
00:06:15
Garrett
But so this this happens, this goes on. um They're living there. Her heart is still in Olam or Oster. It's not Oster yet, it's like it's Olam still, right? And then after this, the malediction happens.
00:06:30
Garrett
And Nick, what ah so what happens after you know the great battle happens, everything is destroyed, ah what happens to these slaves and the heart?
00:06:43
Nick
Yeah. So, you know, we got a really rough time here, right? ah The, the, or the Orkin, yeah, the Orkin, I mean, I think they spend, it's not really specifically mentioned, I think, but they're probably there for hundreds of years.
00:06:48
Garrett
Rough time. Slavery.
00:06:56
Nick
um We eventually see a leader rise out of the people. And this leader's name was Akna.
00:07:04
Nick
Now he was able to like commune with Avakra's heart and you know, it it whispered to him, it spoke to him, kind of similar to what we got with Sigrith, right?
00:07:15
Nick
With the the legacy, but he was able to commune with the heart and it gave him like this purpose, this kind of sense of direction. And so the Orican people were able to rebel against the Asterian paradox.
00:07:30
Nick
And you know, we don't have all the details. It's, it's, rather brief, but they effectively steal the heart and break out. um And they they flee back to the Paxos, the land where they originally landed, coming back to Silesia.
Formation and Fracturing of Primal Blood Clans
00:07:47
Nick
And ah they gather at Avakra's dusk, which is the city or the, at least the location where Avakra was assassinated. And he actually plants her heart into like the body of a giant.
00:08:01
Nick
um So I'm guessing this must be after the giants were like imprisoned. I know we talked about those few weeks ago on the, what
00:08:12
Nick
do they call it? Ever bleeding, ever bleeding giants, I think.
00:08:14
Garrett
Yeah.
00:08:15
Nick
Yep. And so um he plants her heart into the body. And so the heart that it's, it's always continuously bleeding and beating ah into the body of a giant that's perpetually alive, always like replenishing and regenerating.
00:08:30
Nick
And that kind of forms the foundation. They grow a giant tree that bears the fruit, that like sustains all the, prompt like the original Prama-Blood people. And it becomes kind of like the center of their so their society.
00:08:43
Nick
ah Akna was a great leader. ah He teaches, you know, all of of of Akra's teachings and the wisdom that was kind of imparted onto him. And he leads the people and they form like this society, but he is just a regular person. And so eventually he does grow old and die.
00:09:02
Nick
And that leads to kind of the fracturing that we see where the Primal Blood breaks into these kits that they're that they're called, the many different like clans of of sorts. And they all have a different interpretation of the teachings and you know whether or not should they follow a Vakra or is a Vakra maybe leading them away or leading them astray. ah So you know they all kind of fracture away and start fighting with each other. And that's how we get to where we're at now.
00:09:29
Garrett
Yeah, um so so this giant thing. So Paxos is really interesting because it's like malediction outside of the malediction. It sounds almost equally as dangerous, um but I guess at least it's stable ground.
Societal Structure and Survival in Paxos
00:09:42
Garrett
It's also interesting, there's a like we talked about the giant, it's really weird there's a giant there too. And like if you look at the lore book, there's a picture of it where the tree is growing out of it. The giant was massive.
00:09:54
Garrett
ah like Titan size, huge. um So I don't know, it'd be interesting if we found out more of like why that giant was dead all the way over there, right?
00:10:05
Garrett
um Because it seems in ah to be in a different spot than the giants over in the churning sea, right? Or in the malediction. um Now the biggest thing, right, is in this heart and everything,
00:10:21
Garrett
because it's connected to the All-Mother and it's connected to Yimris and Avakra, all that stuff is like full of just a bunch of bad emotions, pain, suffering.
00:10:36
Garrett
And so everything coming out of this tree is just tainted by that.
00:10:43
Garrett
So they they mean well, but they can't ever truly mean well because, you know, it's it it's it's everything's tainted by the
00:10:54
Garrett
all the bad stuff that's been happening for millennia at this point, basically soaking through that tree in Avakra's heart. um Okay, so this tree is pretty wild. And then, Nick, you were talking about the kits, which is a really weird word to say.
00:11:11
Garrett
So there's two casts. Jason, or Jason, Alan. Jason's on the brain. Alan, tell us about the two casts.
00:11:22
m3rcier
Yeah, so, I mean, I probably want to say, is it really a cast system if there's only two? But that's what it's called. It's split into two groups. You have your berserkers and your shamans.
00:11:34
m3rcier
One follows the takra of stone and the other takra of spirit. So essentially, if you really wanted to boil it down to the root, you have your fighters and you have your casters.
00:11:49
m3rcier
But much more flavorful than just... simply boiled down that much. We'll see. get one
00:11:56
m3rcier
And then there are cast leaders. And you have to forgive me, this is the faction I'm the least familiar with. You have your core Takra and then your Ur Takra, which really feels like they took that from a like the Ur Didact from a Halo, but some Halo inspiration there.
00:12:13
Garrett
ah It's pretty good call out actually.
00:12:16
m3rcier
ah Right. and I think if we had to, and Nick, you you may know this more, I would say like right now you're your who is your spirit leader, is probably Ingor.
00:12:32
m3rcier
And then Kortakra is going to be Thunder Steps. With Thunder Steps definitely having probably like 98% control over the entire faction.
00:12:44
Nick
Yeah, I want to say, I think Ingor's, even his own, like, lore section, I think, mentions Ertakra.
00:12:44
m3rcier
They don't tend to
00:12:50
Garrett
Yeah.
00:12:52
Nick
But yeah, so, yeah, exactly.
00:12:52
m3rcier
He was getting prepped to be the overall leader, but Thunder Steps came out of the malediction and kind of wrecked face.
00:12:53
Nick
Yeah,
00:12:59
Nick
he's, he's, Thunder Ceps is too strong.
Culture and Strategic Position of Primal Blood
00:13:01
Nick
He's too, he's too much.
00:13:02
Garrett
Yeah, especially in a society ruled completely by strength, right? Nobody can challenge him inside the Paxos. and everything submits to him.
00:13:13
Garrett
So it makes, you know, I guess that's why they're able to organize and lead expeditions into the Malediction, right? Because of his influence. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure this, it would be untenable.
00:13:22
m3rcier
This
00:13:27
Garrett
There'd be nothing organized happening.
00:13:29
Nick
Yeah. And that's, and that's why I think, you know, the, the kids naturally kind of break into that. you You need, you know, you can be the strongest in the world, but if you don't have direction or any kind of forward planning, what, what can you really accomplish?
00:13:43
Nick
um And so, yeah, like,
00:13:44
m3rcier
is creating chaos.
00:13:46
Nick
He's creating chaos. So I think, I think, you know, the, the system of the, the Kortakra and Ertakra both, but you know, supposedly work together to lead their kith. So you have the strong of body and the strong of mind kind of making all the decisions.
00:14:00
Garrett
And then, so okay, so we got our two casts. So the Berserker casts, really simple, right? They're the warriors. So they've got to grow their ranks You got to prove yourself. So they have this thing called the trial of stone.
00:14:12
Garrett
And the trial of stone is where you have to go out and kill something bigger. This is pretty classic you know warrior culture. and so But having the Paxos right next, Paxos forest right next is ah really convenient because it's full of, ah like we discussed in that short story above, chimeras that were turned into different beasts.
00:14:35
Garrett
And so you can, you know, venture into the forest or I guess challenge somebody else in the tribe, uh, and take your place as, uh, somebody in the, uh, the kit or the, uh, I'm not sure what their different villages are called.
00:14:51
Garrett
Um, but so that's pretty cool. But then the shaman cast are much more, intricate and messed up, very messed up.
00:15:03
Garrett
Uh, so we've got this so we've talked about this last week this giant the giants of the maledictions aren't dead right and so this giant outside here is also not dead uh and so it's got this nice uh tree growing out of it with the vakar's heart and the shamans are able to harvest uh the blood and flesh and skin uh from this ever healing giant and use that to do things.
00:15:30
Garrett
Nick, what what are what are they doing with this with this flesh and gore?
00:15:35
Nick
Well, I'm glad you asked, Garrett, because it sure is a... it's a wild ride. ah so So all of Avakra's blood is still pouring from this this this um renewed flesh.
00:15:47
Nick
And the shamans of the primal blood will take her blood and mix it with the soil of Paxoth, which is is the flesh of Amiris, right? The goddess.
00:16:00
Nick
And they're able to make what they call it primordial clay.
00:16:03
Nick
And this like substance is described to be stronger than a stone, but lighter than steel. And they're able to make their weapons, their armors, like all sorts of tools and everything from this.
00:16:18
Nick
And so it's really an interesting way to give a very like barbaric society, a like a super, super material basically. Cause you know, we, we can, we can look at, you know, you can look at your fantasy,
00:16:32
Nick
um you know, lore all over the place. But, you know, wed we see very clear, like, technological advantages to, like, going from things like leather and hide to, like, steel and chain. So there's always going a significant advantage to actually using metalworking.
00:16:49
Nick
And so in the world of Silesia, you have all, you know, between the um the Order and the Legion of the Fallen, all of this technology. um You know, the Conclave is backing all of this research and technology and development into weaponry with Liastrum.
00:17:06
Nick
So how did the Prabhupada even stand a chance? Well, it's because they have like primordial super, like metal.
00:17:15
Garrett
Yeah, they're still using like the original magic of Yemers, except completely... ah d What's the word i'm looking for?
00:17:26
Garrett
Corrupted, I guess. So it's like it's the most pure, potent magic possible. So I guess that's why they're able to um still use it.
00:17:35
Nick
Yeah. It's hard to read Primal Blood lore and not feel like a great sympathy for um for all of them, for the people who live there, the people who who really feel the connection to the All-Mother and are kind of forced into this world without her.
00:17:53
Garrett
Yeah, because they still feel connected to her, ah but only in the worst way possible.
00:17:58
Nick
Yeah.
00:18:00
Garrett
But I guess they don't have to give up their soul, so it's kind of nice compared to the order.
00:18:06
Nick
Yeah, you could say that.
00:18:07
Garrett
um What am I...
00:18:08
Nick
Maybe light? that right? Is that something you can just do?
00:18:12
m3rcier
They still give up their body, though.
00:18:15
Garrett
ah Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can you can like you can slap some more Primordial Clay on your body and... ah adjust yourself a little bit.
00:18:23
Nick
is that right is that something you can just do
00:18:23
Garrett
um is With the help of a shaman. One of my favorite things at the beginning of the Primal Blood thing is it talks about the Conclave cataloging it's creatures in the Paxos and they just like give up because there's so much just weird crap running around.
00:18:41
Garrett
And I just like to imagine, I don't you know that meme of the cat who's like looking over the fence. He's like, what what are they doing over there? It's like how I imagine the the Conclave looking at Paxos. Like, what?
00:18:52
Garrett
What are you why
Lore and Conflicts with Other Factions
00:18:53
Garrett
you doing this? What are you doing over there?
00:18:55
m3rcier
I mean, from ah from a ah military standpoint, having the Paxos full of just whatever, if you look at the map, they have the mountains that come down along the coast, so they're protected by those.
00:18:56
Garrett
Just,
00:19:07
m3rcier
The only way you can get to them is to go through that forest, which is full of weaponized animals, essentially. Like, it's it sounds strategic, strategy.
00:19:17
Garrett
Yeah, it's ah and there's even ah an order city there, New Ostrath, on the Golden Road, which we haven't really talked about, ah which is like a trading trade I'm assuming.
00:19:26
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:19:30
Garrett
And I think that's probably where Auric Evenhand got raided by the primals.
00:19:32
Nick
We're gonna Yeah, or Yep.
00:19:37
Garrett
um Yeah, so it's like you can't invade it because you're fighting just absolute chaos. in the forest and then all the actual settlements are deep except for even a hollow heart grove is in the middle of the forest so uh but they do have a really long uh travel route to get to the malediction if you look at this map they don't have a clean uh path to it so that's kind of interesting i wonder if we'll get some stories about
00:20:09
Garrett
how they logistically move uh thunder steps in them back and forth
00:20:15
Nick
I imagine something.
00:20:15
Garrett
because they Because they have to use the, like, they physically have to go back to this giant on the coast to make things.
00:20:23
Nick
Yeah, imagine Thundercepts just takes a straight line.
00:20:23
Garrett
All right.
00:20:27
Garrett
Yeah, um I'm sure, you're like, he he just he just walks.
00:20:28
Nick
Just.
00:20:30
Garrett
But, like, if you're looking at it, like, logistically, like, you know, the Legion i can just go there. I'm guessing Thunder Steps isn't paying his monthly teleportation subscription to the Conclave.
00:20:41
Garrett
ah
00:20:43
m3rcier
Why not?
00:20:43
Garrett
But also, like they gotta make everything for that giant on the coast, which is pretty funny.
00:20:44
m3rcier
ahlthough
00:20:47
m3rcier
I mean, they they don't have any settlements near the Beast Gate, which I assume is theirs. but It's not really colored theirs, but going to assume that.
00:20:52
Nick
Yes. Yep.
00:20:54
Garrett
Yeah.
00:20:58
Nick
It's kind of reddish if you look at it.
00:20:58
m3rcier
You know, this the Conclave have, yeah, the Conclave have the Storm Gate, and then they settlement right near it.
00:20:59
Nick
Zoom in.
00:21:04
m3rcier
The Throne Gate, you know, Spirit Gate, all of them gates that are owned by other factions are kind of like direct access. The Prime will have probably just as far as the order to go to get to their gate to get in.
00:21:17
m3rcier
so kind of weird.
00:21:18
Garrett
Yeah. Oh, I didn't see this on that map. They also have settlements in the south in that forest, in the ash a ash roots.
00:21:23
m3rcier
Yeah, in the Legion's areas.
00:21:27
Garrett
Oh, that is cool. um
00:21:28
Nick
What's going on down there?
00:21:29
Garrett
like yeah That hasn't told us more stories.
00:21:33
m3rcier
New types of forest monsters.
00:21:33
Nick
Yeah. Oh, I'd love to see.
00:21:33
Garrett
Let's get to work. Let's get to work, authors.
00:21:39
Nick
That's where Ingor hangs out. ah
00:21:41
Garrett
Away from Thunder Steps.
00:21:42
Nick
yeah ah Yeah. I'd love to see some demographics for this world because we have a lot of cities that are just kind of
00:21:48
m3rcier
Thank
00:21:49
Nick
on the map that we don't really have any information about. I'd love to see like the size of some of these cities. I feel like Astaris is probably like millions of people. And then you have like Evacris Dusk, it might be like 10,000 people or something.
00:22:05
Nick
I feel like the Primal Blood is much more fractured, much more dispersed and they probably don't.
00:22:09
Garrett
yeah it's got to be more like a hunter-gatherer situation
00:22:13
Nick
Yeah. So like these settlements that we see on the map are like, gathering points, like watering watering hole kind of situations where it's like, this is just a safe place that people come and and bed down.
00:22:23
Nick
Because like, you know, they're not creating industry. They're not... ah
00:22:26
Garrett
no there's no economy in paxos i'm guessing um uh unlike everybody else um Okay, so the next thing with them,
00:22:37
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:22:42
Garrett
we've discussed how, you know, where they come from, how they got there. We talked about, you know, how they're using this ever bleeding giant to make all of their stuff.
00:22:54
Garrett
So like they're really limited by the number of shamans they have that can craft things. And also all their special projects of creating beasts. So ah gameplay-wise, though, that's a great way to justify continuously introducing new, weird creatures for the ah primal factions to use.
00:23:17
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:23:19
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:23:19
m3rcier
We have the, the and I don't know if it's a keyword or whatnot, but ah now you have some units that are like Seeker and then Human or like a Star is not, he's a Human.
00:23:34
m3rcier
Within the Primal, we have units that are Shifters. So they can shift between, we're assuming different forms, but my take on it would be Like in lore, you defeat somebody, they consume the flesh of the defeated to take on their traits, so they just shift over time.
00:23:53
Garrett
Yes. Oh, the other thing that that the Oregon can do is when they eat their prey or whatever they kill, ah they absorb traits of that prey.
00:24:06
Nick
Yep. Yeah, you are what you eat, man.
00:24:10
Garrett
ah Literally. um
00:24:11
m3rcier
Not really.
00:24:12
Garrett
So that's kind of cool because I guess they can have a self-creating problem there too because they could create something messed up, release it in the forest, they eat that thing they released,
00:24:25
Garrett
But also, like what happens if you eat a Conclave Wizard? Do you gain intelligence? Or is it just like primal traits?
00:24:35
Nick
Uh,
Existential Questions and Internal Debates
00:24:36
Nick
that's an interesting one. You might have gained like Liastrum like resistance or something.
00:24:41
Garrett
Yeah, I wonder how that all works.
00:24:42
m3rcier
so pregnant I would say i don't know if the Conclave mages have the luxury dream of being killed in the Neaton. I believe they're probably going to be captured and then made into a primal totem.
00:24:58
Garrett
Ooh, that's a good point. i like that. Oh yeah, Chelsea about Primal Totems. What's up for that, Alan? You seem to know.
00:25:05
m3rcier
I know. Well, I know from what I've read. So the totems, not the units that are on the board, those are you know units for the game, but in lore, the totems are what the shamans make. And then as they have to protect those totems, and then eventually the totems will ah shift, change, the everything that's put onto the totem becomes a new chimera.
00:25:29
m3rcier
That's how the shamans create the new creatures is with a ritual that includes the totem they build, and then those chimeras are the new creatures. So like the Territ Beast, they started out as a totem with a bunch of stuff on it, and it became what they are now.
00:25:48
m3rcier
But I think that' that's going further into that short story. Probably don't want to delve too far into that. People need to go read it.
00:25:57
Garrett
Yes, yes, yes, yes. ah Okay, so now we need motivation.
00:26:02
m3rcier
So, let me...
00:26:03
Garrett
um All right, so that they exist.
00:26:05
Nick
Wake up the goddess.
00:26:07
Garrett
Yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah that's that's basically what they're doing, right?
00:26:11
Nick
There we go. we did it.
00:26:12
Garrett
That's why we're going to the malediction is to straight up only one goal, wake up, Yemri, and like, doesn't matter what the consequences are, right?
00:26:22
Garrett
um Wake it up, destroy the world, whatever she wants to do, but free her from her suffering. Because they're all feeling the suffering constantly. So they're in tune with the pain.
00:26:35
Garrett
And so I guess ah maybe in their twisted heads, if they can wake up Yimri, maybe their pain goes away. i don't even know if they care, actually. Rhett.
00:26:44
m3rcier
You would because they're all going to get wiped out. So you're wiped out, there's no pain.
00:26:47
Garrett
right
00:26:50
Nick
We obviously don't know what, you know, would truly, truly happen, but I know Avakra believed that Ymiris would be ah merciful to her, like, loyal followers. And so, like, if she would be freed, maybe that would be, like, maybe the chosen, you know, primal would be spared from the cleansing.
00:27:10
Garrett
Maybe. Do you think Ivakra would be pleased with the ah current status of the Oregon?
00:27:21
Nick
That's hard to say.
00:27:22
Garrett
ah
00:27:22
Nick
um
00:27:23
Garrett
Did she see this coming?
00:27:23
Nick
Well, yeah, lot a lot of what we get, you know, the what we pick up from the lore primer is that, you know, some of the kids follow Avakra's teachings and some of them say that Avakra was um leading them down the wrong path and shouldn't be trusted and that her, like, her zeal and her passion for restoring the All-Mother was...
00:27:45
Nick
um you know what is a bad thing and like all they they they're the basically the ones saying like hey guys like if we if we actually free amiris she's going to purge the world like are we sure we that's what we want
00:27:58
Garrett
Yeah, like the ones that are a little bit more lucid and want to continue maybe running there their tribe or village or whatever.
00:28:07
Nick
yeah but these are all people who come from the same same place they have the same connection same blood bloodlines and everything so it's like who is more a right
00:28:07
Garrett
um
00:28:15
Garrett
Yeah. And it comes back, because we're going to do deep dives on all the secrets, but like Thunder Steps is not an Orokin, right? So he comes out and is...
00:28:27
Garrett
comes and takes over their whole society.
00:28:32
Garrett
And I think I said this earlier when we were doing the malediction deep dive, ah but is he, you know, straight from Yimri? Where does he come from? Because he's sentient.
00:28:44
Garrett
Like, so he had to be created by the All-Mother, right? um His, I mean, he's still kind of a mystery, his whole existence and why he went and took over the primal blood.
00:28:58
Garrett
Because his whole goal is to go into malediction and wake her up.
00:29:03
Nick
Yeah, but even that, like, you know, even that's ambiguous. We don't know what he's thinking.
00:29:07
Garrett
Right.
00:29:08
Nick
We just know he's he's being pulled.
00:29:08
m3rcier
but He does.
00:29:09
Nick
Yeah.
00:29:11
m3rcier
He does what his legacy says, which typically means step one, charge. Step two, beat something up.
00:29:19
Garrett
Cleave.
00:29:20
m3rcier
And then step three is see step one.
00:29:20
Garrett
um
00:29:23
Garrett
Yeah.
00:29:23
Nick
is Is something in front of me? Is it a live attack? Is is it still alive? Ask why.
Historical Challenges and Evolution
00:29:31
m3rcier
One thing i would like to I would like to deep dive, and I think we we've talked about this before, too.
00:29:32
Nick
Yeah.
00:29:37
m3rcier
Like, I'd like to know the name and some of the details and just more info on the assassin that killed Avakra. Just like, you know, we want to know the information on the assassin that killed Oster.
00:29:50
m3rcier
Like, these guys, poor gals, kind of shaped the world and we know nothing about them.
00:29:58
Garrett
Yeah, the fallout from both those assassinations. Much more, much worse for Paxos. Not as bad for the Conclave, but... Or the Order.
00:30:13
m3rcier
mean after his death day we did get the malediction so i think it was pretty bad for the people in the order that were still in that city
00:30:18
Garrett
Yeah, it was, but at least they get to live in Asteris now.
00:30:20
m3rcier
if
00:30:25
Garrett
and not feeding off ah an ever-bleeding giant. ah
00:30:31
Nick
Yeah, it makes you kind of realize, you know, if the Orican had been still enslaved at the time of the fall, then but there wouldn't even be any of them left.
00:30:38
Garrett
Right. Because I wouldn't have been able to escape. so
00:30:42
Nick
There's been in the malediction. Yeah.
00:30:45
Garrett
ah wonder if ah the order...
00:30:47
m3rcier
Mm-hmm.
00:30:47
Garrett
what it wonder if they part of their... goals are to re-enslave the Orican. Because
00:30:56
Nick
You know, it when you kind of look at
00:30:57
Garrett
they can't use their the kings are souls, but they could use their labor.
00:31:01
Nick
Right. But you you look at like their their entire like purpose almost is to reclaim like everything that used to be the Everlasting. So, I mean, in a sense, they either will, but you know, they see all the other factions and all the free peoples too, is you either like, you either choose to join our side or you like, you will be crushed beneath our feet.
00:31:24
Nick
Like there's no other option. And I don't think the Primal Blood are going to be the kind of people that just, Take option A.
00:31:33
Garrett
yeah um i was looking back so they actually have to recover avakra's heart um at some point because they need that to power the thorn i just i just thought of that so they do have to recover that um at some point in this story
00:31:47
Nick
Oh, because it's one of the vestiges. Okay. That would make the tracks. Yeah.
00:31:56
Garrett
They're going to use the tools they pull out of malediction to go into Paxos and recover that heart. Cause and once they get that heart, that will also completely take away any of the Orca's power to make stuff.
00:32:08
Garrett
So that's probably like the, one of the most important things they have to do actually. Interesting.
00:32:14
Nick
Yeah, that really, like, yeah, the more we the more we talk it, the more we dive into it. The Order and the Primal Blood are really, like, complete, like, natural enemies. They they have completely opposite aligned goals.
00:32:29
Garrett
Yes.
00:32:31
Nick
One will not be able to exist while the other while the other persists.
00:32:35
Garrett
No, there's no way they got to take out that. They got to take the heart out. ah and I'm trying to think of that right. One of the the seven rights or whatever. um
00:32:46
Nick
probably be honor who would be the oh recovering all the relics and stuff yeah
00:32:48
Garrett
The clarity, the clarity, right of clarity. Because they. If they've got it written down, they've got to know, they've got to go back and grab this thing because it is extremely important as part of the the power source for that thorn.
00:33:06
Nick
man
00:33:07
Garrett
Man.
00:33:07
m3rcier
I mean, they, so they they know where, what, three other ones are.
00:33:07
Garrett
i
00:33:09
m3rcier
They know where the heart is. They know where the oracle is for the conclave. I don't remember what the vestige, the legion Jews is called right now, but they know where are those three are.
00:33:21
m3rcier
And they know where the wall of Galdron is, so they know four. Problem is, is all the everlasting that we don't know anything about. We don't know if they're still alive. We don't know if they're vestiges.
00:33:33
m3rcier
don't anything about them, so Yeah, they got to get the heart, but probably worried about some of these other ones before they get the heart.
Caste System and Leadership Dynamics
00:33:42
m3rcier
That one's kind of hard to get to.
00:33:42
Garrett
Yeah. it's They're all going to be extremely hard. I have no idea how on earth they would ever even get to the Conclave.
00:33:53
Garrett
That would be an amphibious assault.
00:33:53
Nick
Conquita doesn't want you there.
00:33:53
m3rcier
Giants.
00:33:54
Nick
How do you how do you get there?
00:33:57
Nick
it's
00:33:58
m3rcier
You use the Giants. They can just walk through the water, pick up Olak off of his tower, and throw him in the water again.
00:34:01
Garrett
Oh, you know what?
00:34:04
Garrett
maybe ah Maybe that will be a ah long-term thing in this bringing giants back. Yeah.
00:34:10
Nick
Maybe. Yeah, really it really puts in perspective, like none of these factions are really able to achieve what they're trying to achieve at in the current state, the way things are.
00:34:24
Garrett
Yeah, I think the only people who can maybe are... don't... Is the Primal? um If they can somehow finish destroying that Thorn, they could possibly achieve something.
00:34:37
Nick
Yeah, it's going to be crazy.
00:34:38
m3rcier
And if they can get in there and get to it.
00:34:40
Garrett
Right. That would be a pretty cool future terrain piece. Is like fighting on the Thorn itself, maybe.
00:34:50
Garrett
But um think I think we have.
00:34:50
m3rcier
We at the end of end of the primal blood there.
00:34:52
Nick
Yeah, so.
00:34:53
Garrett
it's It's funny because we were looking at Conclave, and the Conclave has like twice as much interweaving lore to talk about. lot more a lot more politics and structure.
00:35:06
Garrett
ah Primal is pretty pretty pretty simple outside of their just absolute depravity of creating things.
00:35:12
Nick
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we get, we it gives us a little more time. We can go over some, some units and spells.
00:35:20
Garrett
Yes.
00:35:20
m3rcier
Yeah, I mean, do we see you also see if you if you want to leave comments until so they think about certain things we can pose a few questions to the audience also.
00:35:33
Nick
Yeah. um I think one question I'd love to see, we let's get, let's get a poll going. Um, Who wants to be in the Takara of stone? Who wants to be in the Takara of spirit?
00:35:46
Nick
Where do you guys see yourselves?
00:35:50
Garrett
Oh, man.
00:35:50
m3rcier
which Which side?
00:35:50
Garrett
ah
00:35:52
m3rcier
I'm going to take the stone and hope that I'm dead before they yeah hope that i'm dead before they mine my
00:35:56
Garrett
Just hope for the best, huh? I'm going spirit and hope don't die. Or hope I don't... I don't know. and hope i don't die or hope i don't i don't know
00:36:13
m3rcier
call it total
00:36:13
Garrett
I don't know, if there's really, listen, there's no good options here. i don't wanna fight the things and I don't wanna harvest the flesh from the the giant.
00:36:22
Nick
See, I'm going spirit as well, but that's because you know I'm not a big guy, right? I enjoy working out from time to time, but I just don't think I'm cut out for the berserker life.
00:36:37
Garrett
Yeah, because, oh, that's other thing.
00:36:38
m3rcier
eight
00:36:38
Garrett
You don't have to be an Orkin to, like, join the Primal. You can just, like, roll up and say, all right, I'm doing this trial. And they're like, You're either in or you're out.
00:36:49
m3rcier
You have to be big because remember you you eat and you become what you consume.
00:36:54
Nick
You get big.
00:36:54
m3rcier
So if you're not, if you're not big now, you just need to beat something and you can grow a little bit bigger by eating it.
00:36:55
Nick
yeah
00:36:55
Garrett
Man, that's... Man, you guys...
00:37:02
Garrett
ah Step one. That's a hard step one.
00:37:05
Nick
as i step Step one kills something bigger than you.
00:37:06
m3rcier
excellent doesn't have to be that much bigger than you. you can do it gradually.
00:37:11
Nick
Gradually.
00:37:14
m3rcier
I'm damn sure not walking up with thunder steps and being like you and me and then I'm going to eat you to become you because I'm pretty sure he's going to step on me and walk off.
00:37:25
m3rcier
So yeah, for the audience members, leave a comment on which one of the two cast you would join.
00:37:34
Nick
Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to see I'd like to see split.
00:37:39
Nick
All right. You guys want to start covering some, some, uh, yes, I got this.
00:37:39
m3rcier
Now we can get to some of these cards.
00:37:43
Nick
I got my list pulled up here. Probably has some amazing artwork.
00:37:51
Garrett
They do. ah
00:37:52
Nick
If you really, if you want like the goriest cards from this game,
00:37:58
m3rcier
Oh, their terrains also, well, it's, none of the terrains faction locked, it's faction themed, but their faction, the primal faction terrain, Flush Gardens is probably the most gory, grotesque one of the four.
00:38:14
Garrett
yeah they Yeah, they love their bathing and blood situation. I want to talk about the... So they they have like a dragon, the Blood Feast Raptor. That thing's pretty cool. um We don't know if that was a Chimera or where it came from, him I think. We don't know yet if it did ah come from the Malediction.
00:38:31
Garrett
But that is a pretty sweet giant flying unit. It also has Dire 3, which is a pretty amazing stat. Dire, of course, in the game is like when an enemy they're engaged with activates, you suffer for three automatic damage.
00:38:47
Garrett
which is pretty, pretty good. um
00:38:49
Nick
yeah Especially if you get something in the and the flesh gardens.
00:38:53
Garrett
Yes.
00:38:54
Garrett
Just stacking, stacking stats.
00:38:54
Nick
Hmm.
00:38:56
Garrett
I mean, all their stuff is so good. um Blood Frenzy Berserkers are amazing.
00:39:00
m3rcier
and not
00:39:02
Garrett
They're so fast. So many of their units are just crazy fast.
00:39:08
Garrett
and So I like to
Gameplay Mechanics for Primal Blood
00:39:09
Garrett
pair them with the Asterian Pathways and just make them move like 20 inches.
00:39:15
Nick
Yeah, I definitely feel like...
00:39:16
m3rcier
So
00:39:18
Nick
Oh, you go ahead, Alan.
00:39:20
m3rcier
so Garrett did his favorite unit and ignoring the seekers. So favorite favorite unit, okay. You can't pick the Raptor.
00:39:29
Nick
I can't pick the Raptor. Oh, darn. What am I going to choose? ah Might be a little controversial, but I wanted to pick one of the dual faction units.
00:39:39
Nick
And I think my favorite unit, it's probably, my it's probably one of my favorite units this entire game.
00:39:40
m3rcier
All right.
00:39:44
Nick
And it's the curse host bore from, from in Gore.
00:39:47
Garrett
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:49
Nick
Um, it also has dire one, uh, so when some, but it's a two, it's a two echo cost beast.
00:39:51
Garrett
Yes.
00:39:56
Garrett
That's the best part. The two Echo.
00:39:58
Nick
Yeah. And it's got eight, uh, eight movement and six health, but when it dies it, uh, everything within three inches suffers three damage.
00:40:09
Nick
and so uh
00:40:09
Garrett
Yeah, and you can stack four of these in your deck.
00:40:09
m3rcier
Corpse explosion built in.
00:40:12
Garrett
It's so good.
00:40:14
Nick
it's it's i mean ingor is like probably one of my favorite uh decks right now is uh just the the the exploding pigs it's too it's too much you corpse exploit you throw it up you charge somebody with it and maybe you get a hit do three damage and then you corpse explosion it and then you do three more damage and three more damage And so like, just with a two cost card and I guess three cars three cost spell, you can do like nine damage to somebody in like one turn.
00:40:45
Garrett
yeah it's so good it's also really funny um just like on purpose like i try and damage it uh if i'm playing if i've got that blood thing going i'll like land on the blood so i can specifically take damage before i get over there i'm like now this thing's dying for sure uh what about you nick all right alan what's your favorite primal ish unit
00:41:07
m3rcier
Primal-ish unit. I very much enjoy Leona right now. So I'm going to go with the Farsight Ambusher. Because pinpoint Pinpoint is a solid ability for a ranged unit.
00:41:15
Garrett
Oh, yeah.
00:41:15
Nick
Okay.
00:41:21
m3rcier
It's got Ambush. And if I turn Spellstrike on, it's doing, what, five damage if it hits against someone that's Refreshed. And it's got range 12, so good luck hiding and from it.
00:41:34
Garrett
And then spells. Nick knows this. My... my The only that my favorite spell of the game is seize the initiative.
00:41:39
Nick
I know it's coming. them
00:41:42
m3rcier
I hate that spell.
00:41:43
Garrett
I absolutely love playing in this spell. um It's just every the glee in my voice every time they're about to activate. I said, no, you're not.
00:41:56
Garrett
Slap this card down and then activate.
00:41:58
Nick
I hate it. ah hate it.
00:41:59
Garrett
So it's so funny.
00:42:00
Nick
I try every time.
00:42:01
m3rcier
It's like strategic advisor from Armada.
00:42:01
Nick
i'm Every time I bid against him.
00:42:03
Garrett
They're like, do you want to bid? I'm like, nah. Nah, I don't want to bid. It's fine. Don't worry about it. You can bid if you need it.
00:42:10
Nick
Oh, you have initiative? I'm making a bid. He goes, now you can have it. I'm like, ugh.
00:42:15
Garrett
yeah You know it's coming.
00:42:18
Nick
Because at that at that point, yeah, you can't do anything to stop it. You just go, okay, here it comes. And then, it's easy initiative.
00:42:23
Garrett
It's so funny.
00:42:25
Nick
Oh, there it is. The next turn.
00:42:25
Garrett
oh
00:42:26
Nick
Next turn. I'm a bid. He goes, yeah, you can have it.
00:42:29
Garrett
oh I got both on my deck at the same time.
00:42:32
m3rcier
I'm
00:42:34
Garrett
Oh my gosh. ah what about What about you, Nick? What's your favorite spell?
00:42:38
Nick
Oh, man. ah Oh, that's s that's kind of actually actually a lot more tricky than I thought I was going to be looking at all these.
00:42:44
Garrett
Yeah, there's there's a few. Because there's other ones I like too, like Nature's Wrath.
00:42:48
Nick
I don't even want to talk about Cataclysm Blast. That's just fun. It's just a fun explosion card. But I think favorite spell... I think i think my favorite spell is going to be Unstoppable Rush.
00:43:01
Nick
I'll tell you why.
00:43:05
Nick
It's a channel spell for four. it lets you An ally performs an action or uses an ability to cost of two action points. It's hilarious. it's It's so incredible. like There's so much flexibility what this can do.
00:43:18
Nick
Because you can activate ah unit, have it do something, have it go somewhere, do something. Then you activate your next unit, and then pick that first guy up and have him do an additional other thing. I mean, you have like Thunder Steps, Charge, and like maybe he kills something on his Charge. And then you just activate your freaking Tarok Beast or your Primal Totem.
00:43:40
Nick
And then you can stop a rush and you just go, hey, Thunder Steps is going to Charge again.
00:43:44
Garrett
Yes. Yes.
00:43:45
Nick
it's There's so much versatility for this spell.
00:43:49
Nick
And again, I like it in In-Gore a lot because it's a channel that you can top deck. And as you can to spend the four for it, um like it's always useful.
00:44:02
Nick
You can always top deck and stop a rush and be like, I'm going to find something to do with this because and it doesn't it doesn't exhaust them. So it's not like, you know, there's there's never a bad opportunity to just be able to take two free actions or an action that is two AP, you know what I mean?
00:44:13
Garrett
Right.
00:44:19
m3rcier
and charge charge and stuff will discharge yep
00:44:20
Nick
charge charge yep charge it's almost i mean hey this is one of the only ways that you auric uh his reforge ability is kind like i still again i hate to say let's use reforged with my unique spell card but
00:44:35
Garrett
All right.
00:44:37
Garrett
What about you, Alan?
00:44:38
m3rcier
i'm gonna go ahead and still my uh my favorite spell
00:44:38
Garrett
What's your ah favorite spell?
00:44:43
m3rcier
and this is from playing Lyanna again, is Cataclysmic Blast because that spell has won me two games because I chained it with another spell turn on Spellstrike, was able to kill a unit to trigger Lyanna's first part of her legacy and then cast Cataclysmic Blast for cheaper and nuke the rest of my opponent's army to either drop a Relic or just clear him off the board.
00:45:10
m3rcier
purely because it has served me so well in so many Atlanta games.
00:45:16
Garrett
Yeah, I love that one. I recently played a game on TTS where I got hit by another really good spell, which is the Retribution. i It's crazy good. it It's the one that's like, you hit somebody, they play this spell, and they hit you back with the same damage.
00:45:33
Garrett
And i they hit they I hit somebody with Thunder Steps, and they hit me back with Retribution, and then were able to play Cataclysmic Blast ah after with their unit. And I was like, all right, well, GG's.
00:45:46
Garrett
the that's like it's like 14 damage all at once so well done but
00:45:54
m3rcier
That's a crazy thing about Primal. If you you can time things right and manage to sequence it, you can do some crazy burst damage.
00:46:04
Nick
yeah Yeah, definitely. Primal Bud is where we get all of our burn spells. I mean, there's a couple of and other other decks, too. um But, like, these are the spells that that hit.
00:46:16
Garrett
another one oh yeah they have a adrenaline rushes there uh each faction has one of these where it's like what's an ally performing action that costs one ap those are always really good uh but yeah
00:46:16
m3rcier
right. Done with... ah
00:46:26
m3rcier
That was kind of a staple card for them because, you know, it lets them attack again. Who doesn't, in the primal, doesn't like to attack again?
00:46:32
Garrett
yep and another unique card they have is the consume carcass uh it's two points i i love this one because uh it's a channel spell but it gains uh swift if a a card enters a discard pile, either your unit or your your opponent's unit.
00:46:50
Garrett
And you can banish a unit card from any discard pile, and one of your allies recovers 3 health. It's a 2-point quick way to get back health, because there's not a ton of ways for Primal to heal, so you need to have Consumed Carcass in your deck to keep some units from dying that you don't want to die.
00:47:10
Nick
Yeah, it really, and it definitely, it really synergizes a lot with the, well, one, using the Flesh Gardens, but two, the Berserk status. and yeah There's several units that have Berserk, which I can only think of two off the top my head right now. But, ah
00:47:25
Garrett
Yeah, no, there's, there's quite a few. Yes.
00:47:27
Nick
and then, ah so but, you know, you you want to play in that danger zone of being at half health, but then also not dying. So, you know, getting that emergency heal right before you're about to get blasted.
00:47:40
Nick
Or even just, I mean, even as a channel spell, just playing it, like getting your berserk attacking twice, getting your damage, and then at the end of the activation healing three. And just be like, okay, now he's now he's safe for another turn.
00:47:51
Garrett
yes
00:47:57
Garrett
But awesome. um And the last thing before we we probably should get to events, so we can wrap it up, but ah the primal totems they have are really cool. They can forward deploy them, and then you can deploy units off of it that are in even if the totem is engaged, a which is very, very useful to get just more units on the board for more destruction.
00:48:17
Garrett
But anyways, ah
00:48:18
Nick
Yeah. It's also one of the only sources of prey that the primal have.
00:48:22
Garrett
yes.
00:48:22
Nick
So it's one of your only echo generation. Ingor's got a whole other thing going on with that. But for like thunder steps and everything, it's a lot harder to get echo.
00:48:28
Garrett
Right.
00:48:31
Garrett
Yeah. um
00:48:32
Nick
Speaking speaking of thunder steps and
Key Seekers and Abilities
00:48:34
Nick
ingor, we do need to cover seekers before we...
00:48:38
Nick
You want to talk about a couple
00:48:38
Garrett
Oh, yeah, we did do that for Order, didn't we?
00:48:39
m3rcier
We
00:48:40
Garrett
We did. ah Okay.
00:48:44
m3rcier
just briefly covered on them.
00:48:46
Garrett
Yeah. ah We covered Auric last time, so I'll say Auric is still being mentioned again, our boy with the Forge. um He is Order and Primal Mixed, and so he's the whole item generation guy. And I think he's the seer that won the last TTS monthly tournament, which is pretty cool.
00:49:08
Garrett
Obviously, he was being controlled by a very skilled player. I think Pat won, is that right?
00:49:13
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:49:14
Garrett
So Ork Evenhand. ah The next guy we got, tell us about Ingor some more, Nick.
00:49:23
Nick
Oh, Ingor's so cool. He's like the coolest guy in this game.
00:49:27
Garrett
like
00:49:27
Nick
So Ingor the Spirit Bound is our Primal Blood and Legion of the Fallen dual seeker. He is... and He's an Orokin. He's one of the only a few Orokin... He's the only Orokin seeker we have.
00:49:44
Nick
and a But he was kind of like... i don't know i don't know if he was necessarily like a runt of the litter, but I think he was... small compared to like you know everybody else and so he was never really seen as like a challenger for the traditional primal blood like leadership and ah so he set out to kind of prove everything wrong he went into like the takaro spirit he became a shaman and uh i guess they didn't really explain it if you know we we have talked about the
00:50:19
Nick
um core takra and the ur takra being like co-leaders uh but for whatever reason i guess that wasn't good enough ingor still felt the need to challenge thunder steps and his like rule uh but he got absolutely absolutely bodied uh by our big big t-steps and so uh ingor actually fled into the malediction and performed a ritual uh where he basically bound like spirits of the legion the fallen and like kind of coalesced himself with these like fallen spirits.
00:50:55
Nick
And so now he's just like this host, not in the same way that Grieza is like a spirit, but Ingor is like a host for these voices and other like death, you know, um or deathless kind of voices.
00:51:11
Nick
And he he comes back and is just kind of, ready to lead and be a more of a spiritual guide and not necessarily a strong a strength um strong guide but his uh legacy the fg of chaos um in within the game this is what makes ingor so fun to play is uh the way it works is you will
00:51:37
Nick
whenever a unit enters your discard pile or is defeated and enters your discard pile, ah you flip the top card of your deck. If it's a spell card, you may play it, otherwise you discard it. And then the second part of this is whenever you discard a card for any reason, you gain two Echo.
00:51:55
Nick
And so you can kind of fuel your your Echo generation, but you also get to pop off channel spells kind of just randomly. typically you're you losing units on your opponent's turn, and so that allows you to really do some crazy interruptions with things like I said, Unstoppable Rush or Adrenaline Rush, where you are getting to take an action on your opponent's turn because they killed one of your units, and it can completely change the game. It can completely swing ah one way or the other.
00:52:24
Nick
ah So because of that, I try to build Ingor without Swift Spells because the timing on Swift Spells is too specific to really work well with the top deck.
00:52:25
m3rcier
ah so Yeah, one thing about that ah legacy that I hate because, you know, I don't play in Gore.
00:52:39
m3rcier
If you have enforced balance and you play enforced balance against in Gore. They get a lot of play against somebody that had 10 cards in their hand and they had to discard them all.
00:52:46
Nick
Yep.
00:52:47
Garrett
Yep, two per.
00:52:51
m3rcier
And was like, yeah. And i was like, wait a minute, you get 20 Echo now. this is I mean, they don't have cards, so it's hard for them to use the Echo, but they can pretty much summon whatever they want next deployment or anything like that.
00:53:02
m3rcier
So it was rough.
00:53:05
Nick
Yeah.
00:53:08
Nick
Yeah. It's, um it's, it's been a lot of fun. That's again, that's why i like the boars. yeah thing you know heat Because he has fallen, you get things like flesh rippers and other things like that that kind of want to die.
00:53:20
Nick
it's It's brutal. It's brutal when you can see Ingor kind of stampede. um The issue can be the momentum. if you If he doesn't get a strong like mass moving, then it's just too slow. And then the the slowly losing your units is never good when you're already down.
00:53:42
Nick
What about you, Alan? ah You want to talk about our next seeker?
00:53:45
Garrett
The meatball.
00:53:47
m3rcier
Yeah, so Lyanna, Karmormok, whichever one you want to call it, because it's kind of a unique seeker in that you can play the legacy as your seeker or you can play the seeker as your seeker from a mechanic standpoint.
00:54:05
m3rcier
So Lyanna was a Conclave Mage that got of a little bit too cocky and has essentially poisoned herself with Leigh Eyestrom.
00:54:16
m3rcier
And her fix was to make a dill deal with the devil. A deal with a primal shaman who encased her in Karmarmok, which was a primal construct.
00:54:29
m3rcier
Fully with the intention of her losing her mind. And then, you know, he had seeker-empowered construct. But Lyanna was too willful for that, so she retained control.
00:54:43
m3rcier
The we will her real quick. I had her pulled up and then I closed it.
00:54:50
m3rcier
The thermal walk is the actual secret card in the game. It's got shielded to and then mystic reverberation. yeah want to say it it's it's a glass cannon.
00:55:01
m3rcier
I'm not super great with keeping it on the board. But Leanna's legacy is knowing to cast a spell.
00:55:07
Nick
you
00:55:09
m3rcier
every unit that's under her control then gains Spellstrike. So that's how I play too. Not the greatest at it, but it feeds into her lore of she produces Leighstrom. She's one of the only sources that can produce it.
00:55:25
m3rcier
Hence the reason it is poisoning her. But fun card, one of the two new seekers. So if you bought into it during the launch period, you got the ah alternate terrain, which would have been the Conclave Primal Fusion for flush gardens.
00:55:47
Nick
It's pretty sick.
00:55:50
Garrett
And then, ah
00:55:50
m3rcier
And it's actually what I'm printing right now. I'm wrapping up the large piece of that terrain, and then I got to start printing the medium.
00:55:59
Garrett
yes, I need to burn more terrain for more demos. um All right, now, last guy here is, of course, the one the only Thunder Steps.
00:56:09
Garrett
So his whole thing, right, is is he's got charge bonus. So when one of the units in his deck charges. a you get plus two damage and knock back five, ah which is great. If you want to push somebody off a relic out of heal range or something, it's useful, useful tact. And then also Relentless Surge, which is really good. It's where you can discard a card to move a unit three inches.
00:56:35
Garrett
i The only downside is it's at the beginning of a unit's activation. So, but it's a good way to line up ah a potential charge that wasn't possible before. so Burn a car, move unit three inches, and then they might be able to charge. But anyways, Thunder Steps, you know, he came from the malediction, as we keep saying.
00:56:56
Garrett
ah He speaks a strange language that the the some of the shaman um claim to understand, but they could just be, you know, full of crap and interpreting it wrong.
00:57:08
Garrett
But they say he's the voice of Ymiris, the all-mother. And... yeah he came out and he's got the his legacy, which is the storm's eye.
00:57:20
Garrett
And it is embedded into his skull. And he at all times feels the constant pain of this thing, penetrating whatever eyeball or eyes he had where it is right now.
00:57:36
Garrett
And so it just causes him to just be in raged at all points all the time. and His only goal is warfare.
00:57:48
Garrett
So pretty simple guy, pretty simple guy. And, he came in and obviously the rule the berserkers is whoever, whoever wins, uh, and the combat is the leader and he is the strongest guy by a mile.
00:58:04
Garrett
And he is one of one of his species. Uh, so again, we don't know if he's, uh, created by, Yemris herself or.
00:58:15
Garrett
where he exactly he came from, but we'll find out eventually, I'm sure. That's Thunder Steps.
00:58:19
Nick
I like to think of him as kind of like maybe like a half-giant or some kind of giant-descended
00:58:26
Garrett
ah That's a good point. um I would like to see...
00:58:30
Garrett
So the tusk thing is interesting, because a lot of... I wonder if his tusks were on him before, because a lot of the units in Prime will have tusks, and maybe he drew those from touching the...
00:58:43
Garrett
Bleeding Giant and the Shaman grew those for him or something.
00:58:46
Nick
At first I thought it was like a headpiece he was wearing, but like when you actually get the Lord Primer art like zoomed in, it really is just like, he's just got a big hairy head. Yeah.
00:58:56
Garrett
Yes, it looks uncomfortable.
00:58:57
Nick
Yeah. yeah
00:59:01
Garrett
Which explains his anger.
00:59:04
m3rcier
I mean, having a big rock jammed into your eye also is fairly uncomfortable probably.
00:59:10
Garrett
Right. It also looks like it's strapped in there a little bit, so maybe he could take the straps off. i don't know. But anyways, ah we're running long here, going to switch it over to Alan and tell us about upcoming events.
00:59:15
Nick
yeah
00:59:22
m3rcier
Yeah.
Community Engagement and Events
00:59:22
m3rcier
So we have the June trials of the Everlasting still ongoing right now. August 1st, we have the Lone Star Open in Dallas, which I will be the TO for.
00:59:35
m3rcier
August 29th and 30th, we have Tacticon in Denver, Colorado. And as of today, when we're recording this, Gen Con registration is opened for the 2v2 tournament on Friday, July 31st. There are total of 16 seats.
00:59:55
m3rcier
So I believe that means eight teams, but that may mean 16. And, you know, it's one ticket for two people. Not sure how that works. And then the 1v1 tournament on Saturday will be on August 1st. It has a total of 32 seats.
01:00:11
m3rcier
I will not be there. i believe both of you will be or either one of you playing in either one of the tournaments.
01:00:17
Garrett
Yeah, I actually got tickets for both.
01:00:20
m3rcier
Nice.
01:00:20
Nick
I haven't ah committed to it yet, but I'm actually going to be at Gen Con as well. I'll be running the Learn to Play on Saturday. So if any of you any any guys out there, I was going to say to the audience, you know if you guys are out in Gen Con this year, come by and see me.
01:00:32
m3rcier
you are
01:00:42
m3rcier
and then also try to beat Garrett with his thunder steps in the tournament. Because I have no doubt that's who he's going be playing.
01:00:47
Garrett
Maybe I won't run Thunder Steps. You don't know anything.
01:00:50
m3rcier
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We we know. We know.
01:00:52
Nick
I've never seen you play anything else, Garrett.
01:00:52
m3rcier
You're to running it.
01:00:55
Garrett
That's true. Oh, well, listen.
01:00:56
Nick
yeah
01:00:57
Garrett
I played Ingwer. All right, it was fun.
01:01:02
m3rcier
Even for demos, UKGE in Birmingham, ah United Kingdom on May 29th to May 31st. Again, George Mann, one of the lore team, will be there.
01:01:16
m3rcier
On June 13th, I'll be running a demo at Copperhead Brewery in Houston. And then on May 30th, we'll have a demo at Bedberger Tabletop in Bedberg, Germany.
01:01:30
m3rcier
So if you're a Herald out there or if you're just a listener that is not a Herald but running events, one, could be a Herald. And two, either email in or catch me on Discord
Conclusion and Invitation for Feedback
01:01:42
m3rcier
and send me your events if you want us to give you a shout out.
01:01:47
m3rcier
What's all the events?
01:01:49
Garrett
ah Fantastic.
01:01:50
Nick
All right.
01:01:50
Garrett
Well, gentlemen, thanks.
01:01:50
Nick
All right.
01:01:51
m3rcier
Oh, I did have one. I'm going have a link in the show things for
01:01:52
Garrett
Oh, oh.
01:01:59
m3rcier
we have a vote for the June event on what format do we wanna run 1v1, 2v2, 2v1? if you have a chance, try and vote in that so we can see how we're gonna run the ah the June online event.
01:02:15
Garrett
Understood. Okay. Well, gentlemen. Thanks again for another fun lore episode. And again, please, audience, if you can, leave us a review, leave us questions.
01:02:26
Garrett
Any sort of interaction would be amazing. I'm Garrett signing off.
01:02:32
m3rcier
I'll see y'all later.
01:02:32
Nick
All right. Yeah. yeah Everybody take care.