u/The_Vikachu

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Each Nation has their own test. Kuruk’s airbending companion had to steal the airbender relics in order to perform the Air Nation’a test (having every child born on the day of the Avatar’s death pick a previous Avatar’s toys among thousands of them) but IIRC Kyoshi was pulled away by her parents after picking a correct one so no one passed.

The Earth Nation test essentially triangulates the Avatar’s general position slowly, but because Kyoshi’s family was always on the run (and using a Sky Bison) this failed as well.

One of the things I like that the books do is make it very clear that outside of the Air Nomads, the Nations have a contentious relationship are constantly in conflict without the Avatar. Not because the Avatar is a symbol or a diplomat but because the Avatar state is akin to a nuclear deterrent. Jianzhu could have asked the Fire or Water nations, but in his mind that would just lead to them knowing they could run amok without an Avatar to stop them (especially if the Fifth Nation, a group of pirates from all nations who were feared raiders, found out an avatar wasn’t found). In the absence of the Avatar, Kuruk’s companions have been straight up committing war crimes to keep whatever peace they can so honestly they may have deluded themselves a bit when they found Yun.

Yun’s precision control over earth was good enough that he could earthend dust or mud in an imitation of airbending and waterbending so his teachers convinced themselves that he was simply so “loved” by earthbending that it interfered with his other elements (to the point that Jianzhu literally made him wear spikes on his sandals at one point to try severing his connection to earth).

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IIRC, there’s four so far.

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To clarify, the world revolves around the manipulation of story tropes. Usually, resurrection is only in the domain of Good and angels (while Evil gets necromancy, with the Squire in the above having gotten close enough to dying to puppet her own almost-corpse).

However, despite working for the “evil empire” Squire is able to mash together the tropes of “orphan princess ascends to queen by pulling a sword out of a stone to save her fallen kingdom” (she is not a princess, but as squire she is heir to the black knight, who is de facto a king) to reframe herself as the hero of that story. The angels are supposed to grant the rightful wielder a boon and with that much narrative backing she can’t anticlimactically die on the spot so she cons a resurrection out of them instead.

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It’s three or four SCP wiki entries the author wrote that have been re-edited with SCP references removed and tied together IIRC

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It does earthbound enemies though, which prevents them from using movement abilities. Makes her a lot stronger at defending teammates against divers.

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My head canon is that in his mind, halving the population would prove to be so effective that each world would voluntarily cull half of their population once it reached those levels again.

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If you specifically want to troll archaludon hard, you can use Malamar to skill swap its contrary onto it.

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Grounding = pulls airborne enemies to the ground and stops them from flying Earthbound = can’t use movement abilities

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I’m a doctor. It sounds like the neurologist thought you had idiopathic intracranial hypertension based on the description. It’s most often seen in overweight females of childbearing age and weight loss of even 5-10% often leads to remission of IIH which, charitably, may have been what they were trying to say.

That being said, it’s a diagnosis of exclusion and if the opening pressure was normal then they definitely should have abandoned that trail of thought instead of perseverating on it for no reason.

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He can steal your buffs when he is recuperating in his egg

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Honestly, imho Mask of Fealty is the only Stasis Hunter build that isn’t better off as Prismatic instead.

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Depending on who you ask, it’s either 7-10 or 8-10

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If you can stack CDR (especially with Shrink Engine), knockups with Trundle E give undodgeable cruelty procs.

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I think they’re waiting to see if they get the anvil augment

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Against a lot of teams it can be hell to initiate with him, but honestly just the fact that Rammus can sit on your own carry and taunt divers if needed makes him decent enough

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This is a common misconception for a lot of doctors. Most of the time, unless you have a previous EKG to compare it to, what you are seeing is a normal variant rather than a pathological Q wave

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IIRC, didn’t Rothfuss imply in an interview that it was based off a real world society whose diet included a natural contraceptive?

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Imagine a family that only knows about cute puppies and knows nothing about wolves.

If they meet a family that hunts and kills wolves and claims they do it in self defense, your first reaction is not going to be that the puppies probably deserved it. It’s going to be that if something as cute and innocent as a puppy is being driven to violence then there is a reason behind it. Obviously that family is lying. Maybe the puppies were abused by them or the family poisoned their environment to the point that they were corrupted.

Now imagine instead of puppies that these are your gods and guardian angels. You won’t just trust people that call them evil at face value

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Khepri’s Sting + Third Iteration is pretty fun. Though tbh I prefer it on prismatic.

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I finished it today!

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STRQ is supposed to be “stark” (as in “stark white”)

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I got the attrition orbs/tremor roll I’ve been chasing yesterday and decided to build around it a bit with 4 piece techsec and chromatic fire on prismatic warlock. Though honestly you don’t even need the exotic: 4 techsec and the artifact perks are really all you need.

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You can also try that now with a filaments class item (empowering rift gives devour) and replace the devour aspect with hellion.

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No you’re correct

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The latter