Ep. #164: Deadfire Megabosses

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week's episode I dive into the very shallow waters of "megaboss lore". It's a weird episode to do, because there's really not a lot about the bosses themselves that we can know, but there's some fun, goofy, and/or interesting lore surrounding the megabosses. Such as the existence of a group of people known as "The Deadfire Visitors Preservation Society"[email protected]/worldofeora

[MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PILLARS OF ETERNITY I & II (especially II)]The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week we are looking at the ending of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire to discuss the implications of what the different endings can mean for the world, at large. This episode is largely speculative, but pulls from ideas and known lore to draw these speculations. This episode is also the result of a fan request. If you would like a particular topic covered, let me know by giving an email.This week I also played Doki-Doki Literature Club and bring that up at the episode's [email protected]/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.What was the gobbledeegook in the episode title? Ayn Seekt through ah? Well, not far off. This week's episode has to do with "closed adra networks" #IYKYK, and what implications we can draw from [email protected]/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week's episode is all about DRUIDS. Those lovable scamps in the woods that are all about "being one with nature", and also turning into a bear to maul you to death. Druids are very fun to play in Pillars. Sadly we don't see a lot of archetypal druid stuff in Avowed from the player's perspective, but the lore is still there. This topic came from a fan [email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week I do an overview of the currencies seen in Pillars of Eternity I & II. In the process we talk a bit about each of the cultures that these moneys come from, and a bit about just how currency/money works, in general. There's a lot of cool things about IRL money history that can be seen in what Obsidian put together for us in the Eoran [email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week, with the kickoff of the 2.0 update for Avowed, I started a brand new save file and found myself some of the unique quaterstaves in the game. Then I got to wondering - "why might there magical staves in Avowed and not in Pillars of Eternity" (from a lore perspective). So I put my thinking hat on, worked through some of the lore and actually came to realize some interesting things about how magical items might work in [email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week's (delayed) episode was *supposed* to be about the Barbarian class and their rich history, etc etc. However it turned into a look at how emotions can affect the soul, and what that means for the world at large. This episode is more of a "questions rather than answers" kind of episode, but fret not - there is still some lore that we can sink our teeth [email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week's episode is a deep dive into one particular order of Monks within the world of Eora. Monks in this world use pain as a way to embolden their soul to perform the superhuman feats you see in the game; and in the lore, some monks have interesting approaches to how they utilize that pain to achieve "enlightenment"[email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week's episode focuses on Quarterstaves and Rods, both are weapons we see in the Pillars of Eternity games. I'm focusing on them because the next weapon to be updated into Avowed in February is apparently a quarterstaff, but also might be related to magic. So to cover both bases I'm talking about both today.This episode features lore found in two unique weapons, and a bit of a dive into the Concelhaut spell "Parasitic Staff"[email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora

The World of Eora is a news & lore podcast about the fantasy setting created by Obsidian Entertainment for their cRPG series, Pillars of Eternity, and their action RPG: Avowed.This week is an unorthodox episode. I don't discuss a lore topic so much as I discuss a form of roleplaying in video games that I've enjoyed since I was a youth. At the time I didn't have a name for it, but as I grew I began calling it "algorithmic roleplaying", which some have asked me about. So I made this episode to outline how it works (for me), and maybe it'll inspire you to try your own as [email protected]@worldofeorako-fi.com/worldofeora