Loregasm 2013

[eabrace]

I was always under the impression that villainy was less a team activity than heroism. :)

There's no 'I' in "hero".

"Villain", however...

[blackjak]

I mainly played blueside, but my redside characters felt odd when teaming. I even ran an arrows defender redside and needed the teamups! He was a bounty hunter so it didn't feel too odd. My other villains were a possessed teenager (who would have teamed more if I would have played her more) and a character that I (for some misguided reason) decided would be completely mute and only use emotes to communicate ingame. That didn't help with teams at all.  :-\

[JaguarX]

Just re-read that part ... that certainly explains a lot, like why it seemed impossible to earn any zone event rewards redside, at least on Guardian. I always thought that most villain players were just uninterested, whereas it was a lot easier to get heroes together for a zone event.

Tangent here, but as much as I loved the concept and mechanics behind zone events, the fact that it required a "critical mass" of participating characters to get the full rewards bothered me. Would've been nice if they had a mechanic to adjust for the general population likely to participate.

Yeah, there didnt seem to be many villains players hanging around, especially on the likes of Victory server. If I wanted an accolade that required a team to get in all or portion of it, had to go to hero side, switch to virtue, and get the hero side equivalent, switch back to villians go back to Victory to have it on a Victory server character.

[Xnarl]

So, if Lady Grey is a Battailion mole. and Mender Tesseract is an important redeemed Battailion agent...
Is Tesseract Grey's future?

[Little David]

So, if Lady Grey is a Battailion mole. and Mender Tesseract is an important redeemed Battailion agent...
Is Tesseract Grey's future?

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Welp, we've got something to ask for Loregasm 2014!

[JKPhage]

I wish I had noticed this earlier so I could have submitted my own question. Of course, it wouldn't have dawned on me by that point so kind of moot I suppose. Since we have a slight bit of speculation going here: Whilst exploring the Antimatter personal story map (Underground tunnels infested by Hamidon and apparently intended to house an encounter with the Avatar of Hamidon) I noticed a section of the tunnel that looked like teeth/a mouth and suddenly had this moment of clarity. I'd always taken note of the fact that all of playable Praetoria pre-First/Night Ward was situated on a man-made island and populated by artificial plant-life, and seeing that mouth-like opening made me wonder: Is it possible that, being the Incarnate of Earth (or whatever he was incarnate of), Praetorian Hamidon was THE EARTH ITSELF? Slightly crazy notion, I know, but keep in mind, Praetorian Hami was unbelievably/immeasurably powerful, to the point that it was never contained but merely convinced to give humanity a very small chance to live after what I can only assume was pleading on the part of the most powerful metahuman on the planet. *Shrug* Just a thought I had and figured I'd toss out for the lore-minded among us since we're on the topic. :)

[Zombie Hustler]

Can't believe I forgot to check back in on the answers until now. Very interesting, although perhaps not quite as informative as the previous Lore installment.

All of this info on Lady Grey as a deep cover agent of the Battalion is curious, though. I find myself going back and trying to think if there were any hints of it beforehand; the only thing I can think of is that whole scene between Lady Grey and Nemesis during Serpent Drummer's arc takes on a whole new depth in light of this revelation.

[saipaman]

It's not surprising there are fewer revelations this time around.  After all, memories fade and at some point, all that can be said, has been said.

[srmalloy]

And I'm kicking myself for having spaced on the question I'd had for some time... The Kronos Titan looks like a scaled-up Zeus Titan; since the Zeus Titans are the result of two Hercules Titans combining, are the 'giant monster' Kronos Titans the result of two 'monster' Titans combining (i.e., two Ouranos Titans combine to make a Kronos Titan)? And if so, would we ever see the 'component' Titans in-game?

[General Idiot]

Should've been a trial or taskforce boss at some point. Like the Siege/Nightstar fight in the BAF, but instead of them reviving if you don't kill them at the same time, they combine into something bigger and meaner.