July 24, 2024 • 33 mins
Join us on the Frith Guild Podcast as we dissect the latest chapters of Shami Stovall’s epic fantasy series. 📚✨ In Chapters 26–30, we witness the arcanists’ first lessons on auras, Volke’s struggle to clear his mind, and the heart-pounding trials within the shifting maze. But that’s not all—riddles, transformations, and unexpected revelations await! Tune in for magical insights, character analysis, and a dash of humor. 🎙️🔍 #FrithChronicles #fantasypodcast
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Welcome all of you fellow Arcanists outthere to the Frith Guild Podcast where we
explore an amazing world full of mysticalcreatures and their partners.
Our hosts are Eric Smith and Scott Wharamand they'll be your guides along this
journey through plague and skyships.
So grab your Eldrin, strap on your swordsand get ready to defend the innocent from
evil.
Throughout this series, if you have notcaught up to the chapters being discussed
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today, we urge you to hit the pausebutton, grab your copy of this wonderful
book and catch up.
We'll be here when you get
After discovering the map to the kheperaLabyrinth in Theasin Venrover's office,
Adelgis suggests that the restorativemagic might be a better option to save
Volke from the arcane plague than hisfather.
Volke agrees, then, while waiting threeweeks for the grotto to open, spends that
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time attempting to master his eclipse auraunder the tutelage of Joze Blackwater.
Anything to stay busy and keep his mindfrom spiraling into depression.
After
It was Joze who taught Captain Delvin tomaster his hurricane aura.
But before you turn to our story, a pieceof advice from the series.
Step 12 on the Pillar of Ruma saysknowledge.
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Without it, we fear our surroundingswithout hope to understand.
So with that, let's get into chapters 26through 30 of Plague, Acranist
Welcome back to the Frith Guild podcast.
I'm your host Eric.
And today we'll be going over chapters 26through 30 of Plague Arcanist, fourth book
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in Shami Stovall's Frith Chroniclesseries.
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I hope you guys enjoyed the interview withJohn Stovall last week, and we're
definitely excited about having thattabletop game as well.
And with that, we'll get into chapter 26equalizer.
off, thoroughly enjoys almost anythingmagic.
And this is something I really like aboutJoze.
He's, it doesn't matter what the magic is.
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It's magic.
Moonbeam actually goes as far as sayingthat their fathers are very similar.
And I know he means this as a
But considering how much everyone hatesTheasin I don't know that it comes off as
one.
Right.
Like you want to, you want to think thatthis is a good thing.
hopefully, hopefully that's what Moonbeamis intending.
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takes everybody as far as Fain indulgenceand vogue out into the desert and gives
them their first lesson on auras.
Joze describes creating an aura likefilling a
which is the Arcanist with water, which istheir magic until it overflows.
Volke is extremely excited to learn aboutthis new magic as Zelfree really wouldn't
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entertain the possibility of, or thethought of teaching him how to create an
aura.
And one of the reasons that Zelfree ishesitant is that they mentioned that it is
possible to create an aura incorrectly andessentially just drain magic
you the caster.
it is something that is, is dangerous ifdone incorrectly and also trying to do it
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in the heat of battle can be verydifficult.
And I think we got an example of that backin Colosseum Arcanist with, I want to say
Nero, but it's not Nero.
gosh.
It's not Nero.
I can't remember his name for the wayit's.
The name you guys are trying to think ofis Lucian.
Lucian
he tries to create an aura and I think wesee that he doesn't do it correctly.
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So obviously there's a right and a wrongway to do this.
We want to obviously want to learn thecorrect way properly.
The first thing Joze says they have to dois they have to start by emptying their
minds and Volke is like, my gosh, this isgoing to be easy.
Too easy.
And he sits there and tries to clear hismind and he does not do a very good job of
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this.
And anybody that has watched the HarryPotter or knows Harry Potter.
When Harry's trying to learn legitimacy,he cannot clear his mind or his emotions.
Fain ends up giving Moonbeam his coatbecause Moonbeam is like shivering and
freezing.
I just wondering because Fain can giveEric Augment Moonbeam's ability to be cold
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resistant.
Why didn't he just give him augmentation?
Just not as cute, you know?
just give someone your coat, keep them alittle warm.
Dwaaawww.
You got a good point there.
So this whole time, Moonbeam is sittingthere trying to clear his mind and Volke
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is just, he's the prime example of like,tell somebody to not think of a pink
elephant, instantly thinks of a pinkelephant.
But then he's just like, I'm going tothink about literally everything I can
possibly think about right now.
Moonbeam is just like, Volke, stop.
I'm trying to clear my mind, which meansyou need to clear your mind because I can
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hear your mind and not being clear.
I have no idea how he is supposed toachieve this.
Like when you can hear other people'sthoughts, how do you clear out your own
mind?
Exactly.
Like I almost feel like Adelgis needs towait.
I can only imagine he has to be able to atsome point, maybe later on when he's a
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stronger Arcanist with
with the Etherial Whelk Magic that hecould probably shut the mind reading off
at will.
So he's not constantly hearing everybodyaround him.
And if he can't like, my gosh, I wouldwant to be recluse.
I don't, I could not handle that all mylife.
It's too much honesty that I don't reallywant to encounter in a day to day life.
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Like I don't want to hear all the thingsthat people don't share with the world.
Right.
don't, I think anybody needs to know mostof that stuff anyways.
We see that the three of them are workingon this for about a week now and Volke
isn't seeing any improvement, but Fain ofall the three of them is actually able to
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clear his thoughts.
And I don't know if this is a Fain justbeing like, Volke, you can't do it.
Well, I can.
The student has become the master.
They come back to the airship andeverybody is pretty much like waiting for
Volke
Moonbeam and Fain to get back on the ship.
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And even the surgeon is standing outsideof their room, their store room where
they're sleeping in the quarters and she'sgot a plate full of food and Volke's like,
nah, man, I'm good.
I can't stomach any more of this.
I'd rather spend money that mom gave me toget fresh food out in the market in New
Nora because it's just disgusting.
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Granted Wraith has had no issue with thiswhatsoever, but again,
I can only imagine what their food tastedlike.
They've become garbage disposals.
So we fast forward two more weeks andVolke is further away from clearing his
mind and his thoughts than he was before.
And he goes to see his dad and he askedJoze about his mother, Aarona And I didn't
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stutter when I said that as trying to,Aarona
Right for all those that are aware of thekey and peel skit of Aaron So I'm sorry,
Shami It's Joze did give Volke a reallynice quote that I actually really was
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surprised when I read it.
Joze says memories are to cherish not todwell on.
You need to treat them as gifts and not assomething to return to.
Again, just these little tidbits ofinformation, little, little things and
sayings that Volke can go by.
I'm sure he could probably make this intoa pillar step if he really wanted to.
feels like a pillar step.
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Just say gives Volke a pretty BA birthdaypresent because it is getting close to
Volke's 17th birthday.
And remember he was only 15 when he bondedwith Luther, but he was of age at 15.
Here we are two years later and all ofthis has happened already.
He's fought.
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He's fought the Dread Pirate Callisto.
He's fought in the tournament.
Now he's fighting for his life at 17 yearsold.
Like how crazy is this?
So, Joze gives Volke a present to kind oftop off and make up for lost birthdays.
He gives Volke a flintlock pistol thatonly requires bullets.
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It does not require powder and it does notrequire anything else other than just the
bullets.
This is just
an American coming of age gift.
you're almost a man, here's your gun.
Did not everybody get a 12 gauge at their12th birthday?
So, Volke is examining this pistol and henotices that there is a name engraved onto
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it and it is named Equalizer.
This is a trinket.
Along with this gun or this pistol, Volkeactually gets an additional gift which are
bullets in order to fire the pistol.
But these bullets are very special becausethey actually have Manticore Venom in with
a lead shot.
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So if he shoots and hits something,anything magical is going to stop for just
a few seconds.
But a few seconds is a very long time in afight.
On the final day that Volke is waiting, hecould not sleep.
And they finally, they wake up and theyget ready to go into the maze.
that brings us to chapter 27, which
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into the maze.
Devlin kicks things off and pulls up hisroc aura, which creates a sandstorm and is
driving the whole town of New Norra backinside.
The group does have a trinket with themthat causes the winds to avoid them, so
they have this little bottle of protectionthat they can use to make their way into
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the town and then venture down into thegrotto.
Once they get their Vethica
says that she essentially wants to gothrough the maze on her own first because
that way she will have completed the trialof worth and there's no questioning
whether she's truly deserving of bonding.
So she's going to go ahead and then thegroup is going to follow behind her and
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complete the trial and the challenges ontheir own as well.
Just making sure they don't interfere withher.
love that Moonbeam is kind of like, hey,look, do not touch anything.
So touch nothing except for the lamp.
Very, very specific instructions.
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Once they get into the maze, it doesbranch into seven paths and they do appear
kind of this constant sound of the mazeactually shifting.
So this really reminded me of the mazerunner where every day the maze is
shifting a little bit and they're tryingto map their way and make it through the
maze, you know, in time and following thecorrect path for that
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I love that you thought of that because assoon as, as soon as you said that, was
like, my gosh, this is the maze runner.
feels like it is someone's soul fromsomeone there.
I'm sure there's, there's been no otherlabyrinth throughout history.
Just, just those two series.
Right.
Fain actually brings up as they're goingthrough it that he wants to try it with no
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magic.
essentially without using any special.
arcanist abilities just to see would theybe able to pass it because why would we
want to make things too easy to do this?
I know it seems like something you don'twant to make unnecessarily hard like,
know, people get injured through thistrial.
Like we're just going to put ourselvesthrough that extra ordeal.
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They are lucky because Adelgis is able tokeep tabs on Vethica So he can pretty much
tell once she's completed a trial andmoved on to the next room.
So they're able to, as soon as shecompletes something, go into that jinger
and attempt it on their own.
And the first trial they come through isjumping over the spiked pit.
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And there's kind of a little platform inthe middle that she can step on and for
making the final jump.
And one thing that Adelgis does bring upis that the trials are meant to be both
mental and physical representing theduality of the khepera
for every trial they go through, thereshould be a way to achieve it physically,
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as well as kind of a mental path that youcould take as well to get past it.
When they go and actually kind of take thefirst look at this platform in the middle,
they notice that it falls as soon as it'stouched.
So as soon as something lands on it, itfalls away and kind of disappears into the
void.
I would imagine staying there thinking,crap, cause I know think Karna went first
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and it fell into the pit.
Like, wait a minute, but, how
How did Vethica cross?
Like, my gosh, like there's really, thisis only one, like a one shot thing.
Yeah.
You get, you get one, one chance at it.
And one of the cool things about it, youknow, we see Karna go first.
We see that the kind of gone to the roombefore.
khepera had this power of restoration andthat impacts the mazes as well.
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So pretty much anything in the maze thatis, you know, destroyed or impacted in any
way will return
its initial state after a period of time.
So very cool way that they're able to gothrough these challenges right after
Vetica and still have the full challengeto go through.
So the group ends up going and they kindof are all jumping across and finally they
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get to the Adelgis and he says, there'sgotta be a mental way to figure this out
and finds the tiniest little ledge thatgoes across the sidewall and inches his
way across.
So they get across and they're talking andFelicity is brought out of the light.
know, Adelgis wants her to be able to seeeverything too, since they're doing this
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as mortals.
And Felicity just sitting there likestroking his hair or playing with his
hair.
It's a weird image, just this little likefloating seashell just, you know, rubbing
along.
I wonder if he's just like, stop, stop it.
Mom, stop playing with my hair.
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And this leads us into chapter 28, riddlesand traps.
Karna had to say it shouldn't be thathard.
And of course, the next room they go intois a riddle.
And granted, Vethica does take a whilewith this riddle.
I think it's a solid 10 minutes that theywaited for Vethica to get it.
And as they're out waiting, Fain commentson Karna's attire, which is basically
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leggings and
wrap around her bathing suit area.
She wore this specific outfit because shedoesn't know what she needs to transform
into.
So she transforms into Fain And Fain isreally, really uncomfortable at this.
I have to say, I would definitely beuncomfortable as well.
But he specifically mentions that, youknow, it's uncomfortable because it
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reminds him of his brother and, you know,he's missing his brother when he sees it.
Not to mention she's like feeling hisbody.
while she's hidden, buddy.
We'll leave that to decide.
That would also be uncomfortable as well.
Well, and how much we know that she likesVolke, I wonder if she's ever turned into
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Volke.
Like, she probably has that curiosity.
She has to.
Like, I would if I were her.
Right.
I get curiosity.
We
Vethica gets the answer to the riddlethat's in the next room and Adelgis says
we can go in with the riddle.
I'm going to read out the riddle and Iwant to see who all can get it.
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If you can comment on Facebook, on theFacebook page at Frith Guild podcast,
please comment the answer.
If you can get it, don't cheat please.
And if you don't remember it, please don'tgo back and look in the book.
So I'm going to read it out a couple oftimes just so that everybody gets it.
So the riddle
I'm only seen when your eyes are closed.
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I'm fun, frightening, never composed.
I'm only seen when your eyes are closed.
I'm fun, frightening, never composed.
And this is something that is veryimpressive is Volke gets it almost
immediately.
Vethica is standing on the other side ofthis wrought iron gate where the riddle is
put on.
I imagine she's like, really?
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It took me 10 minutes and you got it likethat.
Like, wow, thanks.
The next room is a room full of tiles andVethica goes through it within 60 seconds.
Fain steps on a tile twice and all thesedarts start coming out of the walls and
it's definitely a lead up.
You can hear that they're going to come.
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And of course, Volke being the protectorcovers up Karna from getting hit by the
darts.
While Luthair is just standing there, youknow, just letting all the darts hit off
of him.
Like it's nothing.
I'm Armory.
This is his day.
My time to shine.
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And it reminds me of this parody ofSkyrim.
And it's like trying to figure out the,one of the puzzles there.
If you don't do it right and you put theclaw on, you get hit by darts.
That's pretty much what it is.
you get higher level, just, the dartsbounce off of you.
Volke is very, very particular aboutcleaning his darts off though.
They got stuck in his arm.
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He made sure all of the blood was cleanedoff of them before he released them.
They actually ended up going back in thewall and kind of resetting.
Basically the way to solve this room wasto not touch the same colored tile twice.
There are three colors.
There's white, there's black, and there'ssandstone.
As long as you don't touch three of thoseat one time, consecutively.
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Then you can get all the way acrosswithout having to sprint like Karna or
Vethica did.
Volke is starting to panic in the nextroom and Moonbeam can feel Volke's agony
and reminds him that he needs to startcalming down more and that this isn't
normal for Volke.
And again, we're starting, we're seeingmore and more of this, the plague creeping
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in and affecting him emotionally.
So the last room in this trial they haveto do is another Riddle
And as soon as the door closes, slams thefloors split apart in the middle.
They slant downward and Volke shadow stepsimmediately because he doesn't know what's
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going on.
He grabs somebody in particular that Iknow that, you know, now this, this
reiterates the fact that we know who he'sgoing to save in a fire and it was Karna.
He's always protecting her.
feel
Moonbeam and Fain would be kind of jealousright now because they're like, my gosh,
we're not his favorite anymore.
I would be.
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You've been by his side for how long andhe's pitching you for some girl.
Exactly.
Yeah.
You got it.
Got to stay strong, man.
Remember your day once.
So again, with the riddle that they have,and we actually have two riddles in this,
we're going to ask that you comment onFacebook with the answers to this.
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If you can guess
Again, don't cheat, go back in the book.
If you remember, if you can figure it out,put it on Facebook and tell us the answer.
First riddle is a house for the uselessforever prone, many familiar faces yet
always alone.
And the whole time this is these riddlesare going on.
They're slowly being filled up with water.
So, you know, not just sitting there niceand calmly.
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Like they have a time limit here.
No pressure.
No, pressure at all.
Why?
Why bother?
Almost to the end, you know, it getseasier towards the end, right?
Usually.
So the second riddle, as soon as the firstone is answered, the second riddle comes
out.
Well, has its strength measured in desire.
It provides light in moments most dire andunfulfilled wish taking you higher.
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Again, whoever designed these riddles,like they're two sentences, three
sentences.
That's not a riddle.
Really, it's short.
It's tough.
After they solve both these riddles andeverything is all hunky -dory again, the
door opens to the room where the kheperasare being held.
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Moonbeam can hear Vethica's thoughts andknow that the kheperas are not happy on
the other side of that door.
It does bring us to Chapter 29, which isthe Sands of Life and Soul.
As they're preparing to go into the room,Luthair says that he wants to merge.
Volke says he would rather just talk.
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So he's going to try and reason his way,you know, with the khepera and see if they
can figure out what's going on.
When they get into the room, there's fivekhepera there and they're sitting on five
different pillars and kind of the headkhepera is named Gamal.
And he thinks that Vethica is lying.
And especially when Volke comes into theroom, they think that Volke actually
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worked for the one who's been killingthem.
because he's been tainted.
they're seem to be familiar with theplague in some sort.
And whatever's been harassing them hasalso been involved with the plague.
Gamal then goes on to attack them.
So he's blasting light around.
Volke is shadow stepping with, withVethica trying to get away from it.
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Vethica ends up throwing her dagger.
Volke loads up the equalizer and is kindof at this point doubting Joze's advice.
Joze said, you know, it does not needanything else but the bullets.
Volke's wondering if it's going to work,he ends up loading one of the bullets and
ends up threatening the younger kheperas.
So hold the gun to the head and says, youknow, if anything happens, I'm going to
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kill off the babies.
He does not shoot them, thankfully.
He ends up shooting them all in a way tosort of end the battle quickly.
He draws retribution.
And as soon as he does, all the youngkheperas
are gasping, they seem to sense the powerand retribution that only the plague
ridden could feel before.
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Volke harnesses all of his plague riddenenergy and slices through Gamal and the
sword cuts clean in half with noresistance.
After this, and for real for a second,that should give you some kind of insight
of what the sword can do.
They have a really tough exoskeleton.
Yeah.
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And he just sliced with no resistance.
again, words mean things.
Like that's how crazy, crazy awesome thissword is.
And even the kheperas that are left, theother four kheperas that are there, like,
my gosh, he carries a weapon made from theend of times.
What is that supposed to mean?
It's haunting.
Whenever he imbued with it is, is verypowerful.
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As soon as they're skirmish and Volke doesfeel appalled with himself,
downwritten, he realized he kind of rushedinto things and kind of angrily killed
Gamal.
Adelgis does comfort him, kind of with thefact that, hey, khepera do get restored
after they die, so you didn't fully killone off.
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It's going to kind of reincarnate as ayounger version.
One of the other khepera there, Akhet doesoffer to bond with Bethica.
And then they do notice that Gamal, whenhe died, changed into two pillars of sand.
Um, so you have a tan sand that comesthrough and then, you know, white sand
that comes through and the khepera saythat a man has actually has been coming in
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and stealing that sand away from them.
And that once that sand is stolen and ifthat sand is used in any way at that
point, the khepera can't actually recover.
chapter 30, plague hunting, Volke realizesthat the two sands that he has that he
stole from Theasin's office.
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is essentially what is the khepera and hetakes the sands out, releases it onto the
ground to allow the another khepera toreform and it reforms immediately.
What a monster that Theasin is.
The pink sand is a lot more significant Isee because it's, you know, it heals the
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soul.
It worked for Adelgis and we love thatAdelgis got better, but to the cost that
he literally
Murdered this kheperas that will never beable to come back again in order to bring
Adelgis back again.
It's a tragedy in itself.
And we're glad that Adelgis is okay, butwe remember that he used the tan sand just
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to heal a Adelgis after the surgery formoving the abyssal leech.
Just because he didn't want to want towait around to let it heal or find
somebody to have it heal for him.
So Theasin has
known, not only known, but has beenkilling these khepera and to use on his
own this whole time.
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he even, it comes to light that he's theone that tampered with the maids just so
that he exclusively has access to them.
And to give some perspective, we only havesix khepera left out of the 112 original
khepera that they started with.
So just the sheer amount of khepera thathe has killed.
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And it's completely almost driven extinctbecause of this.
we know that they are, they are actuallybeing killed.
From what I interpret it is once thekheperas dies and somebody uses its sand,
the pillar that it was on collapses anddisintegrates essentially.
Mystical creatures are able to feel themagic or the power coming from the sword
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that Volke has and essentially the bonesthat he had found.
So could be because the kheperas can feelit as well.
Luthair can feel it, but no other Arcanuscan except for Vethica because Volke
essentially passes the sword around justto see who can feel it.
Who can lift the Thor's Hammer?
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Same handing over Mjolnir, know?
Yeah.
I don't know.
this a second bonding thing or is thisbecause of the plague?
Well, guess one nevermind.
Vethica wasn't second bonded.
So yeah, this must have been just thecorrupted by the plague that can feel the
power from these bones.
Totally didn't realize that by the way,I'm sorry.
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They realized that if they leave thesebaby kheperas in the Grotto Labyrinth that
Theasin will probably be back and willprobably go steal some more of their sand.
So what they decide is that they're goingto take off with all of the baby Pokemon
and allow Adelgis Invoke basically
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take them with them to turn to the FrithGuild that way at least somebody can
monitor that they're going to be safe.
Adelgis and Volke kind of hang back for aminute to have a quick chat even though
the maze moves every hour.
So, you know, they should probably be outof there.
Plus again, we have Captain Devlin keepingthis hurricane aura up so that they can
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get in and out of the labyrinth withoutbeing
Adelgis realizes that the khepera magicwill actually not have any effect or
anything, will not do anything for Volke.
And the reasoning he has behind this isessentially she's too newly bonded.
He was hoping that there would be eitheran older khepera or some sort of artifact
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that they could use, but given howeverybody struggles with their magic once
they're newly bonded, she's not going tobe able to learn the restorative magic in
time to
And this is one of those very hard to,hard to grasp, hard to swallow pills of
this.
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This one thing that we waited three weeksfor, we decided to not go after Theasin
and it unfortunately is not going to playout for Volke how they wanted it to.
Adelgis does say that he was kind ofhoping that there was, would be some kind
of like artifact or something of thatsimilar sort
would be helpful for Volke, butunfortunately it's just Theasin being
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Theasin going after all of the kheperasNow we talked about the Labyrinth feeling
a lot like Maze Runner and before youmentioned that, I was actually thinking
about it as the beneath the well sectionin Majora's Mask as far as the way the
layout is and everything, but I would sayMaze Runner definitely fits a lot better
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how everything moves around and that kindof thing.
So I just see it as creepy and got givethose data at the entrances of the doors
and you got to give them fish or somethinglike crazy like that.
Offerings to praise the gods.
He just doesn't get a mirror shield at theend of it.
I mean, the kheperas do pretty much evokesunlight.
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So there's that.
So as if there wasn't enough to bethinking about as they're exiting the
Grotto Labyrinth, none other than Jevilhappens to be strolling by with his new
trinket that detects plague -riddenthings.
And of course, it is going off on hiswrist and Jevil realizes that Volke is
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plague -ridden.
Now typically with the bounty, they wouldkill plague -ridden arcanists and then
bring them back to collect in on thisbounty,
Jevil has a serious bone to pick withZelfree and I couldn't imagine why.
the heck?
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Did Zelfree like embarrass you in front ofa lady or like, I don't even know.
Like what did he do to you?
He wants to, he really wants to provehimself that he's better than Zelfree.
He essentially, Jevil essentially wants tocatch Volke, take him alive so that he can
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lure Master Zelfree to Jevil so that Jevilcan fight Zelfree and make a chain out of
him with his name on it.
Which we all know wouldn't happen.
Like why, what is so, why are you soadamant about Zelfree?
Did Zelfree insult your mother's cow?
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just thinks he's cute or something.
And with that, end this week's episode.
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them much opportunity to take a lookfirst.
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After discovering the map to the kheperaLabyrinth in Theasin Venrover's office,
Adelgis suggests that the restorativemagic might be a better option to save
Volke from the arcane plague than hisfather.
Volke agrees, then, while waiting threeweeks for the grotto to open, spends that
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time attempting to master his eclipse auraunder the tutelage of Joze Blackwater.
Anything to stay busy and keep his mindfrom spiraling into depression.
After
It was Joze who taught Captain Delvin tomaster his hurricane aura.
But before you turn to our story, a pieceof advice from the series.
Step 12 on the Pillar of Ruma saysknowledge.
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Without it, we fear our surroundingswithout hope to understand.
So with that, let's get into chapters 26through 30 of Plague, Acranist
Welcome back to the Frith Guild podcast.
I'm your host Eric.
And today we'll be going over chapters 26through 30 of Plague Arcanist, fourth book
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And with that, we'll get into chapter 26equalizer.
off, thoroughly enjoys almost anythingmagic.
And this is something I really like aboutJoze.
He's, it doesn't matter what the magic is.
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It's magic.
Moonbeam actually goes as far as sayingthat their fathers are very similar.
And I know he means this as a
But considering how much everyone hatesTheasin I don't know that it comes off as
one.
Right.
Like you want to, you want to think thatthis is a good thing.
hopefully, hopefully that's what Moonbeamis intending.
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takes everybody as far as Fain indulgenceand vogue out into the desert and gives
them their first lesson on auras.
Joze describes creating an aura likefilling a
which is the Arcanist with water, which istheir magic until it overflows.
Volke is extremely excited to learn aboutthis new magic as Zelfree really wouldn't
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entertain the possibility of, or thethought of teaching him how to create an
aura.
And one of the reasons that Zelfree ishesitant is that they mentioned that it is
possible to create an aura incorrectly andessentially just drain magic
you the caster.
it is something that is, is dangerous ifdone incorrectly and also trying to do it
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in the heat of battle can be verydifficult.
And I think we got an example of that backin Colosseum Arcanist with, I want to say
Nero, but it's not Nero.
gosh.
It's not Nero.
I can't remember his name for the wayit's.
The name you guys are trying to think ofis Lucian.
Lucian
he tries to create an aura and I think wesee that he doesn't do it correctly.
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So obviously there's a right and a wrongway to do this.
We want to obviously want to learn thecorrect way properly.
The first thing Joze says they have to dois they have to start by emptying their
minds and Volke is like, my gosh, this isgoing to be easy.
Too easy.
And he sits there and tries to clear hismind and he does not do a very good job of
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this.
And anybody that has watched the HarryPotter or knows Harry Potter.
When Harry's trying to learn legitimacy,he cannot clear his mind or his emotions.
Fain ends up giving Moonbeam his coatbecause Moonbeam is like shivering and
freezing.
I just wondering because Fain can giveEric Augment Moonbeam's ability to be cold
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resistant.
Why didn't he just give him augmentation?
Just not as cute, you know?
just give someone your coat, keep them alittle warm.
Dwaaawww.
You got a good point there.
So this whole time, Moonbeam is sittingthere trying to clear his mind and Volke
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is just, he's the prime example of like,tell somebody to not think of a pink
elephant, instantly thinks of a pinkelephant.
But then he's just like, I'm going tothink about literally everything I can
possibly think about right now.
Moonbeam is just like, Volke, stop.
I'm trying to clear my mind, which meansyou need to clear your mind because I can
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hear your mind and not being clear.
I have no idea how he is supposed toachieve this.
Like when you can hear other people'sthoughts, how do you clear out your own
mind?
Exactly.
Like I almost feel like Adelgis needs towait.
I can only imagine he has to be able to atsome point, maybe later on when he's a
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stronger Arcanist with
with the Etherial Whelk Magic that hecould probably shut the mind reading off
at will.
So he's not constantly hearing everybodyaround him.
And if he can't like, my gosh, I wouldwant to be recluse.
I don't, I could not handle that all mylife.
It's too much honesty that I don't reallywant to encounter in a day to day life.
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Like I don't want to hear all the thingsthat people don't share with the world.
Right.
don't, I think anybody needs to know mostof that stuff anyways.
We see that the three of them are workingon this for about a week now and Volke
isn't seeing any improvement, but Fain ofall the three of them is actually able to
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clear his thoughts.
And I don't know if this is a Fain justbeing like, Volke, you can't do it.
Well, I can.
The student has become the master.
They come back to the airship andeverybody is pretty much like waiting for
Volke
Moonbeam and Fain to get back on the ship.
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And even the surgeon is standing outsideof their room, their store room where
they're sleeping in the quarters and she'sgot a plate full of food and Volke's like,
nah, man, I'm good.
I can't stomach any more of this.
I'd rather spend money that mom gave me toget fresh food out in the market in New
Nora because it's just disgusting.
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Granted Wraith has had no issue with thiswhatsoever, but again,
I can only imagine what their food tastedlike.
They've become garbage disposals.
So we fast forward two more weeks andVolke is further away from clearing his
mind and his thoughts than he was before.
And he goes to see his dad and he askedJoze about his mother, Aarona And I didn't
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stutter when I said that as trying to,Aarona
Right for all those that are aware of thekey and peel skit of Aaron So I'm sorry,
Shami It's Joze did give Volke a reallynice quote that I actually really was
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surprised when I read it.
Joze says memories are to cherish not todwell on.
You need to treat them as gifts and not assomething to return to.
Again, just these little tidbits ofinformation, little, little things and
sayings that Volke can go by.
I'm sure he could probably make this intoa pillar step if he really wanted to.
feels like a pillar step.
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Just say gives Volke a pretty BA birthdaypresent because it is getting close to
Volke's 17th birthday.
And remember he was only 15 when he bondedwith Luther, but he was of age at 15.
Here we are two years later and all ofthis has happened already.
He's fought.
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He's fought the Dread Pirate Callisto.
He's fought in the tournament.
Now he's fighting for his life at 17 yearsold.
Like how crazy is this?
So, Joze gives Volke a present to kind oftop off and make up for lost birthdays.
He gives Volke a flintlock pistol thatonly requires bullets.
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It does not require powder and it does notrequire anything else other than just the
bullets.
This is just
an American coming of age gift.
you're almost a man, here's your gun.
Did not everybody get a 12 gauge at their12th birthday?
So, Volke is examining this pistol and henotices that there is a name engraved onto
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it and it is named Equalizer.
This is a trinket.
Along with this gun or this pistol, Volkeactually gets an additional gift which are
bullets in order to fire the pistol.
But these bullets are very special becausethey actually have Manticore Venom in with
a lead shot.
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So if he shoots and hits something,anything magical is going to stop for just
a few seconds.
But a few seconds is a very long time in afight.
On the final day that Volke is waiting, hecould not sleep.
And they finally, they wake up and theyget ready to go into the maze.
that brings us to chapter 27, which
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into the maze.
Devlin kicks things off and pulls up hisroc aura, which creates a sandstorm and is
driving the whole town of New Norra backinside.
The group does have a trinket with themthat causes the winds to avoid them, so
they have this little bottle of protectionthat they can use to make their way into
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the town and then venture down into thegrotto.
Once they get their Vethica
says that she essentially wants to gothrough the maze on her own first because
that way she will have completed the trialof worth and there's no questioning
whether she's truly deserving of bonding.
So she's going to go ahead and then thegroup is going to follow behind her and
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complete the trial and the challenges ontheir own as well.
Just making sure they don't interfere withher.
love that Moonbeam is kind of like, hey,look, do not touch anything.
So touch nothing except for the lamp.
Very, very specific instructions.
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Once they get into the maze, it doesbranch into seven paths and they do appear
kind of this constant sound of the mazeactually shifting.
So this really reminded me of the mazerunner where every day the maze is
shifting a little bit and they're tryingto map their way and make it through the
maze, you know, in time and following thecorrect path for that
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I love that you thought of that because assoon as, as soon as you said that, was
like, my gosh, this is the maze runner.
feels like it is someone's soul fromsomeone there.
I'm sure there's, there's been no otherlabyrinth throughout history.
Just, just those two series.
Right.
Fain actually brings up as they're goingthrough it that he wants to try it with no
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magic.
essentially without using any special.
arcanist abilities just to see would theybe able to pass it because why would we
want to make things too easy to do this?
I know it seems like something you don'twant to make unnecessarily hard like,
know, people get injured through thistrial.
Like we're just going to put ourselvesthrough that extra ordeal.
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They are lucky because Adelgis is able tokeep tabs on Vethica So he can pretty much
tell once she's completed a trial andmoved on to the next room.
So they're able to, as soon as shecompletes something, go into that jinger
and attempt it on their own.
And the first trial they come through isjumping over the spiked pit.
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And there's kind of a little platform inthe middle that she can step on and for
making the final jump.
And one thing that Adelgis does bring upis that the trials are meant to be both
mental and physical representing theduality of the khepera
for every trial they go through, thereshould be a way to achieve it physically,
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as well as kind of a mental path that youcould take as well to get past it.
When they go and actually kind of take thefirst look at this platform in the middle,
they notice that it falls as soon as it'stouched.
So as soon as something lands on it, itfalls away and kind of disappears into the
void.
I would imagine staying there thinking,crap, cause I know think Karna went first
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and it fell into the pit.
Like, wait a minute, but, how
How did Vethica cross?
Like, my gosh, like there's really, thisis only one, like a one shot thing.
Yeah.
You get, you get one, one chance at it.
And one of the cool things about it, youknow, we see Karna go first.
We see that the kind of gone to the roombefore.
khepera had this power of restoration andthat impacts the mazes as well.
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So pretty much anything in the maze thatis, you know, destroyed or impacted in any
way will return
its initial state after a period of time.
So very cool way that they're able to gothrough these challenges right after
Vetica and still have the full challengeto go through.
So the group ends up going and they kindof are all jumping across and finally they
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get to the Adelgis and he says, there'sgotta be a mental way to figure this out
and finds the tiniest little ledge thatgoes across the sidewall and inches his
way across.
So they get across and they're talking andFelicity is brought out of the light.
know, Adelgis wants her to be able to seeeverything too, since they're doing this
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as mortals.
And Felicity just sitting there likestroking his hair or playing with his
hair.
It's a weird image, just this little likefloating seashell just, you know, rubbing
along.
I wonder if he's just like, stop, stop it.
Mom, stop playing with my hair.
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And this leads us into chapter 28, riddlesand traps.
Karna had to say it shouldn't be thathard.
And of course, the next room they go intois a riddle.
And granted, Vethica does take a whilewith this riddle.
I think it's a solid 10 minutes that theywaited for Vethica to get it.
And as they're out waiting, Fain commentson Karna's attire, which is basically
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leggings and
wrap around her bathing suit area.
She wore this specific outfit because shedoesn't know what she needs to transform
into.
So she transforms into Fain And Fain isreally, really uncomfortable at this.
I have to say, I would definitely beuncomfortable as well.
But he specifically mentions that, youknow, it's uncomfortable because it
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reminds him of his brother and, you know,he's missing his brother when he sees it.
Not to mention she's like feeling hisbody.
while she's hidden, buddy.
We'll leave that to decide.
That would also be uncomfortable as well.
Well, and how much we know that she likesVolke, I wonder if she's ever turned into
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Volke.
Like, she probably has that curiosity.
She has to.
Like, I would if I were her.
Right.
I get curiosity.
We
Vethica gets the answer to the riddlethat's in the next room and Adelgis says
we can go in with the riddle.
I'm going to read out the riddle and Iwant to see who all can get it.
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If you can comment on Facebook, on theFacebook page at Frith Guild podcast,
please comment the answer.
If you can get it, don't cheat please.
And if you don't remember it, please don'tgo back and look in the book.
So I'm going to read it out a couple oftimes just so that everybody gets it.
So the riddle
I'm only seen when your eyes are closed.
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I'm fun, frightening, never composed.
I'm only seen when your eyes are closed.
I'm fun, frightening, never composed.
And this is something that is veryimpressive is Volke gets it almost
immediately.
Vethica is standing on the other side ofthis wrought iron gate where the riddle is
put on.
I imagine she's like, really?
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It took me 10 minutes and you got it likethat.
Like, wow, thanks.
The next room is a room full of tiles andVethica goes through it within 60 seconds.
Fain steps on a tile twice and all thesedarts start coming out of the walls and
it's definitely a lead up.
You can hear that they're going to come.
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And of course, Volke being the protectorcovers up Karna from getting hit by the
darts.
While Luthair is just standing there, youknow, just letting all the darts hit off
of him.
Like it's nothing.
I'm Armory.
This is his day.
My time to shine.
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And it reminds me of this parody ofSkyrim.
And it's like trying to figure out the,one of the puzzles there.
If you don't do it right and you put theclaw on, you get hit by darts.
That's pretty much what it is.
you get higher level, just, the dartsbounce off of you.
Volke is very, very particular aboutcleaning his darts off though.
They got stuck in his arm.
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He made sure all of the blood was cleanedoff of them before he released them.
They actually ended up going back in thewall and kind of resetting.
Basically the way to solve this room wasto not touch the same colored tile twice.
There are three colors.
There's white, there's black, and there'ssandstone.
As long as you don't touch three of thoseat one time, consecutively.
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Then you can get all the way acrosswithout having to sprint like Karna or
Vethica did.
Volke is starting to panic in the nextroom and Moonbeam can feel Volke's agony
and reminds him that he needs to startcalming down more and that this isn't
normal for Volke.
And again, we're starting, we're seeingmore and more of this, the plague creeping
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in and affecting him emotionally.
So the last room in this trial they haveto do is another Riddle
And as soon as the door closes, slams thefloors split apart in the middle.
They slant downward and Volke shadow stepsimmediately because he doesn't know what's
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going on.
He grabs somebody in particular that Iknow that, you know, now this, this
reiterates the fact that we know who he'sgoing to save in a fire and it was Karna.
He's always protecting her.
feel
Moonbeam and Fain would be kind of jealousright now because they're like, my gosh,
we're not his favorite anymore.
I would be.
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You've been by his side for how long andhe's pitching you for some girl.
Exactly.
Yeah.
You got it.
Got to stay strong, man.
Remember your day once.
So again, with the riddle that they have,and we actually have two riddles in this,
we're going to ask that you comment onFacebook with the answers to this.
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If you can guess
Again, don't cheat, go back in the book.
If you remember, if you can figure it out,put it on Facebook and tell us the answer.
First riddle is a house for the uselessforever prone, many familiar faces yet
always alone.
And the whole time this is these riddlesare going on.
They're slowly being filled up with water.
So, you know, not just sitting there niceand calmly.
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Like they have a time limit here.
No pressure.
No, pressure at all.
Why?
Why bother?
Almost to the end, you know, it getseasier towards the end, right?
Usually.
So the second riddle, as soon as the firstone is answered, the second riddle comes
out.
Well, has its strength measured in desire.
It provides light in moments most dire andunfulfilled wish taking you higher.
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Again, whoever designed these riddles,like they're two sentences, three
sentences.
That's not a riddle.
Really, it's short.
It's tough.
After they solve both these riddles andeverything is all hunky -dory again, the
door opens to the room where the kheperasare being held.
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Moonbeam can hear Vethica's thoughts andknow that the kheperas are not happy on
the other side of that door.
It does bring us to Chapter 29, which isthe Sands of Life and Soul.
As they're preparing to go into the room,Luthair says that he wants to merge.
Volke says he would rather just talk.
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So he's going to try and reason his way,you know, with the khepera and see if they
can figure out what's going on.
When they get into the room, there's fivekhepera there and they're sitting on five
different pillars and kind of the headkhepera is named Gamal.
And he thinks that Vethica is lying.
And especially when Volke comes into theroom, they think that Volke actually
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worked for the one who's been killingthem.
because he's been tainted.
they're seem to be familiar with theplague in some sort.
And whatever's been harassing them hasalso been involved with the plague.
Gamal then goes on to attack them.
So he's blasting light around.
Volke is shadow stepping with, withVethica trying to get away from it.
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Vethica ends up throwing her dagger.
Volke loads up the equalizer and is kindof at this point doubting Joze's advice.
Joze said, you know, it does not needanything else but the bullets.
Volke's wondering if it's going to work,he ends up loading one of the bullets and
ends up threatening the younger kheperas.
So hold the gun to the head and says, youknow, if anything happens, I'm going to
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kill off the babies.
He does not shoot them, thankfully.
He ends up shooting them all in a way tosort of end the battle quickly.
He draws retribution.
And as soon as he does, all the youngkheperas
are gasping, they seem to sense the powerand retribution that only the plague
ridden could feel before.
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Volke harnesses all of his plague riddenenergy and slices through Gamal and the
sword cuts clean in half with noresistance.
After this, and for real for a second,that should give you some kind of insight
of what the sword can do.
They have a really tough exoskeleton.
Yeah.
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And he just sliced with no resistance.
again, words mean things.
Like that's how crazy, crazy awesome thissword is.
And even the kheperas that are left, theother four kheperas that are there, like,
my gosh, he carries a weapon made from theend of times.
What is that supposed to mean?
It's haunting.
Whenever he imbued with it is, is verypowerful.
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As soon as they're skirmish and Volke doesfeel appalled with himself,
downwritten, he realized he kind of rushedinto things and kind of angrily killed
Gamal.
Adelgis does comfort him, kind of with thefact that, hey, khepera do get restored
after they die, so you didn't fully killone off.
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It's going to kind of reincarnate as ayounger version.
One of the other khepera there, Akhet doesoffer to bond with Bethica.
And then they do notice that Gamal, whenhe died, changed into two pillars of sand.
Um, so you have a tan sand that comesthrough and then, you know, white sand
that comes through and the khepera saythat a man has actually has been coming in
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and stealing that sand away from them.
And that once that sand is stolen and ifthat sand is used in any way at that
point, the khepera can't actually recover.
chapter 30, plague hunting, Volke realizesthat the two sands that he has that he
stole from Theasin's office.
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is essentially what is the khepera and hetakes the sands out, releases it onto the
ground to allow the another khepera toreform and it reforms immediately.
What a monster that Theasin is.
The pink sand is a lot more significant Isee because it's, you know, it heals the
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soul.
It worked for Adelgis and we love thatAdelgis got better, but to the cost that
he literally
Murdered this kheperas that will never beable to come back again in order to bring
Adelgis back again.
It's a tragedy in itself.
And we're glad that Adelgis is okay, butwe remember that he used the tan sand just
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to heal a Adelgis after the surgery formoving the abyssal leech.
Just because he didn't want to want towait around to let it heal or find
somebody to have it heal for him.
So Theasin has
known, not only known, but has beenkilling these khepera and to use on his
own this whole time.
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he even, it comes to light that he's theone that tampered with the maids just so
that he exclusively has access to them.
And to give some perspective, we only havesix khepera left out of the 112 original
khepera that they started with.
So just the sheer amount of khepera thathe has killed.
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And it's completely almost driven extinctbecause of this.
we know that they are, they are actuallybeing killed.
From what I interpret it is once thekheperas dies and somebody uses its sand,
the pillar that it was on collapses anddisintegrates essentially.
Mystical creatures are able to feel themagic or the power coming from the sword
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that Volke has and essentially the bonesthat he had found.
So could be because the kheperas can feelit as well.
Luthair can feel it, but no other Arcanuscan except for Vethica because Volke
essentially passes the sword around justto see who can feel it.
Who can lift the Thor's Hammer?
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Same handing over Mjolnir, know?
Yeah.
I don't know.
this a second bonding thing or is thisbecause of the plague?
Well, guess one nevermind.
Vethica wasn't second bonded.
So yeah, this must have been just thecorrupted by the plague that can feel the
power from these bones.
Totally didn't realize that by the way,I'm sorry.
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They realized that if they leave thesebaby kheperas in the Grotto Labyrinth that
Theasin will probably be back and willprobably go steal some more of their sand.
So what they decide is that they're goingto take off with all of the baby Pokemon
and allow Adelgis Invoke basically
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take them with them to turn to the FrithGuild that way at least somebody can
monitor that they're going to be safe.
Adelgis and Volke kind of hang back for aminute to have a quick chat even though
the maze moves every hour.
So, you know, they should probably be outof there.
Plus again, we have Captain Devlin keepingthis hurricane aura up so that they can
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get in and out of the labyrinth withoutbeing
Adelgis realizes that the khepera magicwill actually not have any effect or
anything, will not do anything for Volke.
And the reasoning he has behind this isessentially she's too newly bonded.
He was hoping that there would be eitheran older khepera or some sort of artifact
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that they could use, but given howeverybody struggles with their magic once
they're newly bonded, she's not going tobe able to learn the restorative magic in
time to
And this is one of those very hard to,hard to grasp, hard to swallow pills of
this.
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This one thing that we waited three weeksfor, we decided to not go after Theasin
and it unfortunately is not going to playout for Volke how they wanted it to.
Adelgis does say that he was kind ofhoping that there was, would be some kind
of like artifact or something of thatsimilar sort
would be helpful for Volke, butunfortunately it's just Theasin being
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Theasin going after all of the kheperasNow we talked about the Labyrinth feeling
a lot like Maze Runner and before youmentioned that, I was actually thinking
about it as the beneath the well sectionin Majora's Mask as far as the way the
layout is and everything, but I would sayMaze Runner definitely fits a lot better
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how everything moves around and that kindof thing.
So I just see it as creepy and got givethose data at the entrances of the doors
and you got to give them fish or somethinglike crazy like that.
Offerings to praise the gods.
He just doesn't get a mirror shield at theend of it.
I mean, the kheperas do pretty much evokesunlight.
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So there's that.
So as if there wasn't enough to bethinking about as they're exiting the
Grotto Labyrinth, none other than Jevilhappens to be strolling by with his new
trinket that detects plague -riddenthings.
And of course, it is going off on hiswrist and Jevil realizes that Volke is
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plague -ridden.
Now typically with the bounty, they wouldkill plague -ridden arcanists and then
bring them back to collect in on thisbounty,
Jevil has a serious bone to pick withZelfree and I couldn't imagine why.
the heck?
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Did Zelfree like embarrass you in front ofa lady or like, I don't even know.
Like what did he do to you?
He wants to, he really wants to provehimself that he's better than Zelfree.
He essentially, Jevil essentially wants tocatch Volke, take him alive so that he can
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lure Master Zelfree to Jevil so that Jevilcan fight Zelfree and make a chain out of
him with his name on it.
Which we all know wouldn't happen.
Like why, what is so, why are you soadamant about Zelfree?
Did Zelfree insult your mother's cow?
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just thinks he's cute or something.
And with that, end this week's episode.
As far as the bestiary section goes,again, we are still waiting for
confirmation that the bestiary is out tothose Kickstarter hands that, and give
them much opportunity to take a lookfirst.
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So we're still waiting on that.
Once we get that, we'll do some updatedbestiary sections with, mystical creatures
we've already seen.
Eric Scott and I want to thank everyonefor listening today.
We post a new episode every Wednesdaymorning at 11 Eastern, 10 Central and 8
Pacific Standard Time.
We are on all podcasting platforms and arealso on YouTube as well for video.
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After the additional episode airs, we postchapter by chapter videos every day in a
smaller, easier to digest format.
We do want to give a special shout out tothe final member of our team, Dan
Mackeson, one of the admins for the FrithChronicles Wiki.
link listed below and doing his best tokeep everything running smoothly behind
the scenes.
If you want to reach out to us, you couldemail us at frithguildpod at gmail .com or
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on Facebook or any other social media bysearching for Frith Guild Podcast.
Just to remind everybody, we have links toeverything in the description below on
both the podcast and YouTube.
Scott, do you have anything else you wantto add this week?
Just a plug for live streams coming up.
Table's happy.
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that will be coming up.
So we'll have that posted, I believe, theend of this book.
And so that way, if you don't get a chanceto sit in the livestream, you will be able
to see it later on.
All right.
Thanks, everybody, and see you next week.
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