Episode 310 of the Letters Page: Creative Process: Other Scions of OblivAeon

Maybe Sever had some friends.

Seems like I missed Sever and the one that Antimox fought in their initial rundown. I hope they remember them by the end of the episode.

Sever got mentioned multiple times in the episode. I don’t recall the other one you are talking about offhand so I don’t know if they got mentioned or not.

Yup, I missed when they initially said Sever.

The one that was… made of a bunch of animal parts and Antimox took it apart piece by piece.

I remember this discussion, but can’t find the reference in WT’s notes. My Google-foo might be failing me, though…

I’ve never heard of Quik Trip, and yet I know instinctively to spell its name without a c.

Rainek Kel’Voss??? Spoilers!!!

But isn’t Faultless already a “dead god”? I mean, he was a singular entity, but I’m pretty sure Adam literally used that phrase to describe him.

Do we as fans desire unintentional Writers’ Rooms in our Creative Processes? Because it sounds like bonus to me.

Tentacle math, the most NSFW brand of mathematics.

Sagaiadoth? The Truth Behind All Lies? Fuck yes, that coalesced into a hit!

Grimm hero deck confirmed for DE.

Rambler hero deck confirmed for DE.

Sogaeiudoth, sure, that’s definitely what I meant

Yeah, I think I want Writer’s Rooms for all of these.

Boy, I sure do remember the dire wolf, yessir indeedly-do I do!

#NotAllScions

Oooh, please make this a hammerhead shark, we need more of those!

LAZER RYDERZ REFERENCE That’s so much better than I could have imagined! And he’s a hammerhead, huzzah!

Oh boy, a new audio effect, that’s always fun.

Ah yes, Joseph King’s unknown latent power, to not be killed by falling pianos.

Chrysoprase is cool, good geology pun.

Hmm, was KNYFE’s reality one of the ones that got a number during their reality-numbering phase?

Nixious is more of a pile than a blorp, if you ask me.

Who is Power Creep?

Villain from the Guise Book. Space Alien that absorbs energy to get bigger.

Matter more than energy. Starts small (in a bag in Guise’s refrigerator) and gets bigger and smarter (or at least less mindless) the more it eats. Also last of the Vrektins and former “guest” at the Enclave of the Endlings until the Terminarch somehow misplaced them. Has minion, lieutenant and full villain forms in the RPG, which is (I think) unique.

Nice that this episode kinda serves as a teaser of DE heroes during OblivAeon.

I figured they might make one of the Princes of Aeternus into a scion, though no details on which one or what happens to them. My bets are on either Greed (most likely to accept power from OblivAeon) or Sloth (most likely to agree with OblivAeon’s mission).

I think it’ll be Gluttony’s Prince, if only because I have his showdown with Guise in my head and that seems like the sort of thing that would motivate me to destroy everything.

I don’t think I’m ever going to think of Frenzy as not this guy:

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Found it! Episode 300, Villains during OblivAeon (Justice Comics #738). Its name was Macro.

my thought for the Prince of AEternus that joins OblivAeon is that it takes a masked form and is never called by the name it used before so basically Darkstrife and Painstake don’t know who it was until they meet the other 6 in the Sentinel Comics timeline.

That would be tough, as the Princes all have such distinct appearances that a mask wouldn’t really do much.

Is there one Æternus for the Multiverse though, or infinite Æternæ spread among the realities? Because if it’s the latter you just borrow an unfamiliar prince that’s not from the prime universe.

I can’t keep it straight on counts of Voids, pocket dimensions, and so on…

We do know there are multiple, just because we have heard of Inversiverse Aeternus.

There’s one Realm in each universe. Discord, Æternus, Gray, Void, Host, etc. Ur-space exists outside all universes. That’s it. xxt’Hulissh is funky because it’s caught sticking halfway through the sandwich bag, and it’s both a Realm and a Singular Entity, but it’s the only exception.

I thought there was only one Void…

https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Podcasts/Episode_29

Every reality has its own The Void, but all The Voids are the same (as in, they always operate the same) - the Void is intrinsically linked to physical reality (each to its own physical reality).

I took a break from my chronological listen through of the original podcast episodes from 8 years ago, and listened to this one from a mere 6 months ago, because the topic was something I couldn’t risk having never listened to in case this archive someday disappears.

I have a lot of thoughts, but some of them may require spoilering once I figure out how to do a proper job of that, so I’m just going to say a couple quick off-the-dome things for now, and likely revisit this topic again well before I return to it being the latest one on my list.

When they started talking about a Scion for Ra and Fanatic to lose to, I immediately metaphorically shouted at the proverbial screen, “It’s Apophis!” They’d already vetoed the Beast of Revelations, and would presumably refuse Apophis for the same reason, but I don’t care, I like this idea. I’m specifically thinking of the version of Apophis from the movie “Gods of Egypt”, where that version of Ra tows the Sun above Egypt every day and battles the serpent of dark chaos which is, itself, the night (the battle doesn’t take 6-12 hours, but it’s a movie so it couldn’t anyway). That’s an astonishingly good monster design, and the idea that Ra once battled that creature and destroyed it, only for OblivAeon to resurrect it as an even more obscene and horrific beast, would have been super cool to me. I also had various Host-related ideas that they didn’t touch on.

What they did instead wasn’t a bad idea overall IMO, but I hated the name they chose (especially since Christopher spelled it out as starting with an S-O-G, when hearing the name pronounced instantly made me assume it was just S-G). They didn’t pick a vision for how it looked, and I have a really cool idea, but as per the “no homebrew” rule for the forum, I’ll avoid mentioning it at least for now; I’m unlikely to forget it, which is my big worry about anything I don’t post here.

Speaking of names being spelled “wrong” IMO, I mostly like the name Frenzy for the time shark, but I think it needs to be spelled Phrenzy, just so the name isn’t something mundane that any villainous mook might have used. On this one I again have ideas about how it should look, but this time I think it’s a sufficiently obvious notion that I doubt any problem could arise from my sharing it: rather than a full sized shark (at least at first), I envisioned it as simply a disembodied piece of skeletal shark jaws, which manifests into reality as an open maw full of time-ocean stuff, then bites closed and obliterates a chunk of space and time from existence. A simple example of how this works might be to have a chain of six islands, and this manifestation is spotted occurring, and after that there are only five islands and nobody ever remembers a sixth one existing, without the distances among them being any different. There are other possibilities I can envision, but this seems like the most obviously “correct” one.

Bjornson I have absolutely nothing to say either for or against; they did a good job on that one and I have nothing to add or change.

The letters page had a lot of fun jokes, and I don’t know whether that’s typical of this late period or if this one was exceptionally good. We’ll find out when I’ve chewed my way through the intervening 250ish episodes.