#the Saint can’t forcibly ascend her either

[its-rat-time-babey]

“The Artificer’s campaign has little impact on the overall story” bitch I cannot stress how much of an impact the Artificer had on the entire world. You just need to pay attention to some things.

By the time of the Artificer, Scavengers are basically in the middle of a massive golden age. They have a Chieftain (with a mark of communication (maybe Five Pebbles gave them the mark and citizen ID drone and tried to use them for something but they rebelled and found Metropolis)) with armour made from Red Centipede Scales, they have a permanent home in metropolis above the rain, they figured out how to harvest electrical scrap and broken down Rarefaction Cells from the ruins of Looks To The Moon and pieces of Five Pebbles to make electric spears and Singularity Bombs, they even have specially trained Elite Scavengers, which did exist before in the time of the Spearmaster but it’s still worth bringing them up.

Overall, Scavengers are at a golden age of invention and life in general.

And then they anger the Artificer, who slaughters countless Scavengers, kills their Chieftain and drives them out of Metropolis, locking the gate behind them.

After that, a new Chieftain is never made, armour like the chieftain once wore is never made again, Scavengers suffer a massive population loss, they can’t enter Metropolis without a Citizen ID Drone and Elite Scavengers slowly disappear as the methods used to teach them and the knowledge of how to scavenge and create electric spears and singularity bombs is lost, with the last Elite Scavengers being seen in the Hunter’s campaign, which happens next in the timeline. In other words, the Artificer literally sent Scavengers into a dark age.

It takes until the time of the SAINT for Scavengers to show real signs of recovery, now appearing in larger numbers than before. And even THEN Scavengers never do anything like they did during the time of the Artificer. The Artificer plunged Scavengers into a dark age for countless years, and they STILL haven’t recovered.

And that’s not all. According to the wiki, Scavengers are afraid of Slugpups, most likely because they remember how the last time they killed one they were hit by the full force of an angry explosive lobbing goddess of destruction that slaughtered countless members of their kind. They are afraid of Slugpups in all campaigns, even the Saint’s. So even by the time of the Saint Scavengers know not to mess with Slugpups, presumably because the last time they did so is a legend among Scavengers by that point in time.

Hell, the Artificer’s existence even explains something about the Hunter. The reason that the Hunter starts with a negative reputation among Scavengers is because they look like the fucking Artificer. Scavengers look at the Hunter and see the goddess of vengeance and destruction that they’ve only ever heard of from stories.

Both of them have red fur and a scar on one eye, and will the time gap between campaigns, there’s a good chance that only a few Scavengers that saw the Artificer in person are even alive by that point in time (without even taking into account how the Artificer murdered so many Scavengers that it’s probably rare that a Scavenger saw them and lived to tell the tale), meaning that the Artificer is probably told about in Scavenger stories and her appearance would therefore differ, leaving the most obvious details like the scar on one eye and red fur.

#rain world #rain world downpour #rain world spoilers #the artificer #scavengers #also a sort of crack headcanon: #The Artificer can’t just not ascend #they can’t become an echo or forcibly ascend either #we never see an Artificer echo in campaigns past her time #(notable because things like whether or not the Hunter ascended affects the campaigns that happen afterwards) #so my headcanon as to why that is is that the Artificer is so angry #so violent #and so utterly bound to the cycle #that instead of getting fully caught between existence and nonexistence and becoming an echo #she tips ever so slightly towards existence and ends up fully coming back from the void fluid #or at least her consciousness does #her body is understandably vaporized by the void fluid so she ends up reincarnating like a creature that died of old age #the Saint can’t forcibly ascend her either #and if they could it would take an absurd amount of karma blasts to do so #she’s just so angry that she does the impossible and keeps clawing her way back to existence #‘rip and tear until it is done’

[cannivalisms]

ok im really curious to know… what is the setting of anno domini like? are there people god didn’t create, or any other people besides the saints? and also who’s the protagonist and what do they want? lmaoo sorry im just really curious abt this wip🙃

[does a little my-begging-paid-off-dance] yes yes yes okay so!

the crucial thing to note in anno domini is that god? is not the god we know, or that you’d think we know. it is a self accepted title for pretty much Some Woman with vast amounts of supernatural power who operates behind the scenes of the regular world as we know it. so yeah, there are many many people she hasn’t made - in fact, all of them. the six saints (or disciples, or angels, depending on who you ask) are the only ones she has.

their setting, likewise, is in the regular world - just in huge, as of yet unnamed house (probably something silly like eden) that borders this world and many many more. it sort of twists the boundaries of reality as we know it to accommodate it - so while it looks like pretty much just an abandoned factory on the wrong side of a suburban town, inside it feels never-endingly large. it also has wards in place so normal people automatically tend to steer around it, or struggle to remember it. much like howls moving castle, it can also open to various locations around the globe (though the one it’s most tangibly situated in itself is the abandoned factory somewhere in america).

the saints also have various relationships to their home, having been raised in it and for the most part never expected to leave it: peter is wholly devoted to god and thus never does, jude keeps claiming she will but always ends up barely making it out of the suburbs before returning, kirill has been forcibly kicked out a few times but has always managed to slip back and hide in various parts of it. as such, all of them have a very limited understanding of how the outside, regular world actually works - i have a wonderful scene planned at some point where peter gets confronted with her first elevator.

delilah and lewis are the only ones who have fully actually left it, and are currently living it up gambling and screwing their way through the big city 😭

past that though: protagonist.

meet parni bhakta: lesbian, newly 21, her parents’ favorite disappointment and seventh saint in the making.

i think you’ll find that this last point is the most significant as far as plot goes - parni is revolutionary in that, where all the other saints were created by god from nothing, parni is an existing person god will instead attempt to infuse with power and turn into a saint. yeah, she never really saw her life going this way either. and yeah, the other saints don’t all take too well to this.

i can’t quite go into her motivations yet, since i don’t. really know everything there is to know about her, but i’m of the belief so far that ascending to divinity is a pretty good one

#writeblr #original characters #anno domini #parni bhakta #ty so much for this!! if you have any more questions feel free to send them in >:)) #talking with the wind