Fodder for the Canon: Ask your lore questions here

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Question: Does Arachnos exist in Praetorian Earth?
Answer: I’m going to use this question to rain check on all Praetorian questions for right now. I’m compiling them all into a big Canon Fodder update for posting closer to the release of the Going Rogue expansion.

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Still, I would like to know Lady Grey's first name... Every time I ask her, she sends me on crazy missions. Usually it's easier to get that first name than the phone number, but this girl is just all backwards.

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All that is planned fails. All that is born dies.
All that is built crumbles. This will always be true.

But memories remain, And that is beautiful.

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I want to know more about High-Roller's new life (even if you have to make it up.) Who was "Mr. Simmons"? What crazy antics could their protégé get into?

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Why don't YOU make it up? To the AE! *cues Batman music*


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I did. I was just wondering if I could get an official ruling on it lol

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What color hair does Lord Recluse sport under that helmet of his?

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Per Hero 1 when I asked him during the creation of my INCARNATE video... Stefan Richter's hair is dark.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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What were the powers of Madame Danger (i.e. Maria Jenkins) when she was an active superhero?

Also, Darkvine (Ross Coldwell)?

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Global name: @k26dp

Wait, what are Ghost Falcons' powers and back story!? o.o!

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Still, I would like to know Lady Grey's first name... Every time I ask her, she sends me on crazy missions. Usually it's easier to get that first name than the phone number, but this girl is just all backwards.

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Per Issue #19 of the Top Cow comics (and Manticore actually WROTE said issue), Lady Grey's first name is Elizabeth.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Just where is the Freedom Phalanx's headquarters? The current one, I mean. The old one was in Boomtown before the Rikti War, I know. Their current HQ is nowhere to be seen in the game.

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Why does Lord Recluse have a gun, holstered on his hip? It shows up in several places; both of the statues of him in Grandville, on his character model, and even in some of the pre-release City of Villains art. The fact that it shows up in so many places, says to me that it is a detail important enough not to be over looked.

Edit: Side note; it's on his left side. Is Recluse a lefty?


I'd also like to reiterate my initial question, of what happened to Apex? He's my favorite signature Hero in this universe, and I'd like to think he's still fighting the good fight somewhere.

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Member of the Justice Hundredfold, and Operation Unlimited Justice.

Her Imperial Majesty's Archaeologist of Achievements, Accolades, Exploration and History

How do the Carnies "work"? Are they all slaved to Vanessa Devore's/Giovanna Scaldi's personality like drones or psychic puppets, individuals with a mind link to Vanessa, or something else entirely?

On the same vein, what exactly is Vanessa/Giovanni doing with the "souls" she powers herself with? Does she draw her energy from inducting a new member and siphoning some of their "essence", or by ripping it out whole and consuming it? Is that what the blue flash is when the carnies fall? Also, is it just my imagination, or is the spectral figure within the flash a skeleton with boobs? Inquiring minds want to know.

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My story arcs: #2370- Noah Reborn, #18672- The Clockwork War, #31490- Easy Money

Sartre once said, "Hell is other people." What does that make an MMO?

I have a couple questions pertaining to The Order of the Four Winds.

We know that it's the origin of both Scirocco's and Ice Mistral's powers. Each earning them by stealing and receiving the mantles of the Sirocco and the Mistral winds respectively. It's also the origin of Borea's and Levantera's powers, receiving them from the mantles of the Bora and the Levanter winds respectively. Thus ends our knowledge as far as I can find.

Here are my questions: Are these the only four mantles? If not, is there a mantle for each of the significant Mediterranean winds? Or is just for the winds for the 4 Cardinal and 4 Ordinal directions? And if this is the case how did Borea end up in there? The Bora wind, while significant isn't a Cardinal or Ordinal wind.

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The Bora wind, while significant isn't a Cardinal or Ordinal wind.

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Boreas, on the other hand, was apparently the Greek god of the north wind.

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The Players' Guide to the Cities

Good call, I hadn't thought of that. But the question still stands.

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Reichsman, Statesman, Tyrant:
Given that all three are variants of the same person, same event, same powersets (roughly), this is an excellent evolution versus environment lore to examine.

Given that Statesman turned good because of his wife, Recluse turned bad because of his sister marrying States, what is the state of Reichsman's significant other or lack of on his choice with the 5th column and helping take America for the Axis?

I mean, is the Reichsman Statesman without a love?

How would Tyrant and Reichsman get along? (I am assuming not well due to how they differ in regards to how they lead their versions of the Phalanx)

Reichsman, Recluse-Primal, Ms. Liberty-Primal: catalyst for redemption in that mix, anywhere?

Edit:
This has been bugging me for a while, but Sister Airlia, is she different from Ghost Widow? Just the Cimerorian version? Or is there a further connection between the two (ancestor/same person/etc)?

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Explorer: 93%. Achiever: 40%. Socializer: 40%. Killer 33%.
Current Heroes and Villains (altitis holding at 50 currents)
To all the devs, past, present, (and may there be) future: /salute
To NCSoft: Understand that you reap what you plant, and you cannot gain what you throw away.

Speaking of Reich...is there a reason his Fist of..whatever is Negative instead of Regular Energy like his Counterpart, and while I am thinking of it why doesn't Tyrant have it at all?

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I think Serafina must be relater to Azuria. Either that, or magic makes people dumb in CoHworld.

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You know, come to think of it, there's a Newspaper mission where a villain has to retrieve a horror novelist from a magically-powered group that thinks his works of fiction are based on fact. And then there's a Police Radio mission where a hero goes to rescue the owner of a shop that carries old tomes and other weird things from a magically-oriented villain group, only to find that he's been freaking out his captors by babbling vague things about unseen horrors and cosmic geometry(which is particularly odd if it's the Circle of Thorns who kidnapped him).

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Formerly known as Stormy_D

This one's been bugging me for a while...

Is there a Geneva Convention in CoH World? I ask because of one glaring item that has bothered me since I've dealt with it...

Flamethrowers.

Flamethrowers are illegal under the Geneva Convention. It doesn't bother me when, say, the Council or the Sky Raiders are using them. It's what they do, they're bad guys.

However... When Longbow, a law-abiding and law-enforcing entity, starts using them, it sets my teeth on edge.

If there isn't a Geneva Convention in CoH-world, possibly due to the fact that super-powered beings who can spit fire breath are an almost regular occurrence, then I suppose I could live more easily with this issue. However, if there is one, then why wouldn't flamethrowers be included under the "no cruel weapons" portion? If they ARE, then why is Longbow using flamethrowers is they're supposed to follow and uphold the law?

It's irksome. It gives the Villains/Rogues ground to stand on when they justify themselves that the Heroes/"Vigilantes" are two-faced sycophants.

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My Stories

Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.

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This one's been bugging me for a while...

Is there a Geneva Convention in CoH World? I ask because of one glaring item that has bothered me since I've dealt with it...

Flamethrowers.

Flamethrowers are illegal under the Geneva Convention. It doesn't bother me when, say, the Council or the Sky Raiders are using them. It's what they do, they're bad guys.

However... When Longbow, a law-abiding and law-enforcing entity, starts using them, it sets my teeth on edge.

If there isn't a Geneva Convention in CoH-world, possibly due to the fact that super-powered beings who can spit fire breath are an almost regular occurrence, then I suppose I could live more easily with this issue. However, if there is one, then why wouldn't flamethrowers be included under the "no cruel weapons" portion? If they ARE, then why is Longbow using flamethrowers is they're supposed to follow and uphold the law?

It's irksome. It gives the Villains/Rogues ground to stand on when they justify themselves that the Heroes/"Vigilantes" are two-faced sycophants.

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I might be mistaken, but the prohibition on incendiary weapons applies only to their use on non-combatant civilians and only applies to military targets when they are located near a concentration of civilians. Individual combatants and any military equipment barring medical and funerary equipment would be fair game.

Editted to add link to the specific document: Linky

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Author of There's Something in the Water (Arc # 60327)

Not only was that genuine frontier jibberish...

Courtesy: Preventing unnecessary homicides for over 4000 years.

Your villain is not a "military" target, since the Rogue Isles aren't at war with anyone. That in and of itself makes the Longbow presence everywhere in CoV except Nerva suspect, if not flat-out illegal. Furthermore, the mayhem maps are full of civilians. Longbow still use their flamethrowers with abandon. The fact that said civilians happen to be invincible is irrelevant, they shouldn't even be bringing flamethrowers to that kind of confrontation.

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Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper

Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World

Thanks, PKDauntless. Thank you, too, Eva.

I suppose if the Longbow Flamethrower troops only appeared in, say, Longbow bases, I could live with this. However, as Eva mentioned, they're EVERYWHERE. Seems suspect.

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My Stories

Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.

The whole Ms. Liberty/Longbow issue has always been iffy to me.

Plays a very heavy part in the background of one of my wife's characters. Almost makes me want to put that arc back up in AE.

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I think everyone can agree that Ms. Liberty went off the deep end a LONG while ago. Even Ghost Widow and Kalinda comment on how she's more "holier-than-thou" than other heroes. Plus from what I saw of her in the comics she seems to think a bit too highly of herself and her right to enforce "justice".

I can very easily see something going on with her in Going Rogue where she might become some sort of grey area alignment , because her heart really is in the right place, she just takes the approach of "It's alright to curbstomp a three-year-old if he backtalks".

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However... When Longbow, a law-abiding and law-enforcing entity, starts using them, it sets my teeth on edge.

If there isn't a Geneva Convention in CoH-world, possibly due to the fact that super-powered beings who can spit fire breath are an almost regular occurrence, then I suppose I could live more easily with this issue. However, if there is one, then why wouldn't flamethrowers be included under the "no cruel weapons" portion? If they ARE, then why is Longbow using flamethrowers is they're supposed to follow and uphold the law?

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Even if it's OK thanks to supervillains and whatnot - they use them on decidedly non-powered individuals. The Skulls have... what, bone daddies? The Hellions, their Damned. Everyone else is really just a gang member. The Warriors, as well...

It's a bit of overkill.

(Wish I could find this bit I wrote from the POV of a Rogue Isles reporter "visiting" (and turning things, a bit, in) Paragon.

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Your villain is not a "military" target, since the Rogue Isles aren't at war with anyone. That in and of itself makes the Longbow presence everywhere in CoV except Nerva suspect, if not flat-out illegal. Furthermore, the mayhem maps are full of civilians. Longbow still use their flamethrowers with abandon. The fact that said civilians happen to be invincible is irrelevant, they shouldn't even be bringing flamethrowers to that kind of confrontation.

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Considering the average villain in CoX is better armed and armored than the average combat vehicle or assault squad, the rules might be a little different. Keep in mind that the conventions as we know them were not written to account for the presence of superpowered beings or the sorts of paramilitary agencies that might spring up to combat them. I don't want to twist the original question or put words into the OP's mouth, but I might suggest another, broader question.

What is the legal status -- lawbreaker, enemy combatant, etc. -- of the average superpowered villain and what level of force, deadly or otherwise, are the United States law enforcement agencies and/or military authorized to deploy? Also, same question except pertaining to the United Nations, Interpol, and other international law-enforcement agencies.

Oh, and a big several from me: Is Lord Recluse's government a member of the United Nations and/or a treaty signator of the Geneva Conventions? Is his government recognized by the UN or the USA? Do the Rogue Islands have any allies, open or secret?

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Author of There's Something in the Water (Arc # 60327)

Not only was that genuine frontier jibberish...

Courtesy: Preventing unnecessary homicides for over 4000 years.

So I hit 50 blue-side and made a Kheldian a while ago, and there's one thing that keeps bothering me:

When a human bonds with a Kheldian or Nictus, does their skin colour change, or are masks just a trend among Peacebringers and Warshades?

It just keeps bothering me because there's hints towards both sides of the argument.

For starters, there's not much point to a mask when it shows all your facial features (yeah, yeah, I know, even glasses work for Superman), and the identities of lots of Peacebringers and Warshades, or at least the signature ones, are more or less public knowledge, anyway. Plus, why would the Awakened Unit of the PPD hide their identities? They're not an undercover unit, after all, so why would they wear masks when the other PPD officers don't?

On the other hand, Sunstorm's and Moonfire's costumes' colours match with their mask/skin colour, and I just kinda doubt they stand around half-naked in public. Then there's also Romulus, the one in the present, that doesn't wear a mask/has normal skin colour.

It's a pretty minor detail, I suppose, but it's been bugging me ever since I made my Peacebringer because I have no idea whether she should have normal-coloured or light blue skin.

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Even if it's OK thanks to supervillains and whatnot - they use them on decidedly non-powered individuals. The Skulls have... what, bone daddies? The Hellions, their Damned. Everyone else is really just a gang member. The Warriors, as well...

All members of these groups are superhuman. Skulls have resistance to dark attacks. Hellions are resistant to fire and vulnerable to cold. Members of all three are stronger and tougher than any normal human. The PPD is out buying armor suits that probably cost tens or hundreds of thousands per unit just to have a chance at fighting Paragon's gangs because if you shoot a Skull (or gods forbid, a Troll) you'll only make him mad.

This IMO is one of the game's big failures -- it should be absolutely clear that anything you fight over Underling rank has bona fide superhuman powers. The devs were going the right way with low-level Outcasts and Trolls in the original version of the Hollows but got shouted down.

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