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Er, not quite.

Cole struck a deal that if he could shape humanity into a peaceful ideal society then Hamidon would spare them. Hence the mind control, the strict laws, etc to try to keep the populace placated.

The war started because Praetoria came into contact with Primal Earth, full of humans warring with each other in thousands of varieties, threatening Cole's lil utopia, because if Hamidon became aware that there were -other- humans out of control then it would still subsume Praetoria. Cole's solution was therefore to subjugate and sterilize primal earth to protect Praetoria.

The primals, of course, just see an evil tyrant and his wicked lieutenants gaining power for themselves and keeping a populace under their heel and a band of freedom fighters trying to fight for freedom and liberty etc etc.

And in the process of dismantling Cole's empire we come upon the deal with Hamidon and pretty much completely break it. So Cole is now out of the way but any survivors (at the least, the people of First Ward, and it's possible there are some other tiny pockets of humanity left, if not some survivors in Praetoria city) are in danger from the Devouring Earth.

Fixed that for you.


And yah. Praetorian characters would still be stuck to praetorian only zones + Pocket D, regardless of whether or not the new portals let us jump between there and primal.

I think they're just hoping to make some of the more 'out there' zones more accessible instead of the single entry way so many have.

it's been hinted at repeatedly that Praetorian Hamidon is still a major threat. Cutting the head off Cole's empire has always been the goal but it's been acknowledged there'll be consequences.

To be fair he said repeatedly he was a new player and he was participating just to show things off, not actually trying to join in on everything, like showing us what the hospital did (even if that didn't exactly work).

Yeah we know Anti-Matter is still alive, at the end of the MoM trial you can speak with Metronome and he expresses regret that we didn't kill him.

You're under the assumption that they had anyone else more experienced in the game. He may have been the most familiar with it out of the group.

I will agree though it was pretty bad about the audio, that should've been something they set up and worked on prior to the event to make sure it worked.

Shadowhunter's presence was replaced with a mission where you travel to a DE infested forest and consecrate the bones of Shadowhunter's victims so he can't use them to return. But it implies that this method is just to put him on hold rather than end him in totality.

The latter.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of that got incorporated in future revamps, but yeah, for the most part things stay pretty static. And we know that there are other zones they're looking at revamping first

yeah but that would quickly become a very cheap gimmick. And that's only for the 1 phase of the trial. It would get very tired and very repetitive very quickly if they keep coming up with ways of turning off our powers.

Then again they already introduced the 'orestes' field in DA. Might set it up so that we could keep the powers but nullified the level shifts. Sort of like an incarnate exemplaring.

I can stop bullets with my mind.

Yes. it makes perfect sense.

True they have a tendency to decimate it frequently.

Personal Anecdote is not the same as empirical fact.

I think it's more correct to say that Praetoria City is destroyed. There are still the massive underground network tunnels and possible bunkers for the civilians. We just don't know enough details to say anything with finality.

No. You can still start a praetorian character. That stuff happens in the 1-20 range, iTrials in the 50 range. They're chronologically separate. You just know what's going to happen in the future when you start one is all.